MiddleFingerMom epitomized DU's Lounge…

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13. Only if we can have a nude of him over the bar.

Jim was certainly one of the main things that kept me coming back to DU, even when other things drove me away. Every now and then he'd get bent about how we didn't respond to his posts, even started a couple of battles over his irritation. Even he and I got into one fierce pissing match. But dammit, he was too funny to stay mad at for any length of time, and he and I both knew his curmudgeonly side was actually made of absolute goo.

Well I remember when he got himself tombstoned, so upset that something he'd meant one way had been misunderstood that he went all "Top 'o the World, Ma!" on Skinner. Never, NEVER have I seen so many people rally around and beg to have someone reinstated. It just went to show the whole, complicated, fascinating, delightful man and what a wild horse of feeling we all rode along with him. If I'd had a big brother...a naked, hairy, angelic big brother...it would have been Jim.

MFM was a piece of performance art that Jim was brilliant at creating, and that, like a naked Santa Claus, brought out the desire in all of us to keep the tale being told. That old body may have given in and taken him away from us, but I think the legend will, and should, live on.

The MFM Lounge it is, and always will be for me. Travel easy, Jim. We'll take it from here.