Thanks so much to everybody in the Lounge and I am so sorry.

[Miles Archer]

403. R.I.P. Jim...

...just spotted this. What a sad piece of news.

Before I go any further, I want too clarify something that many of you already know...I am here under the screen name "Miles Archer" because my computer died in October and I lost everything, including User IDs and Passwords. I couldn't request a password reset because I didn't remember which email address I'd used to sign up. But before the crash, I was DUer Amerigo Vespucci, so MFM and I had a long history of give-and-take here.

When I think of Jim, the first thing that usually comes to mind is the glee he would express when I'd post some horrendously inappropriate graphic, telling me he'd "stolen" it for future use.

We didn't communicate much outside of the Lounge, but we did exchange a few PMs. He was always torn between positing for his own enjoyment and posting for response and recognition. I'd encourage him to just do his thing and tell him about posts of my own that...in my opinion...were dripping with genius and totally lacking in responses.

We all know the ups and downs of his health in the last few years...more than any one person should go through. He's at rest now, pulling down his pants in that great corner bar in the sky. He accomplished what many of us attempt and few of us achieve...he was an original, through and through, to the end. I am convinced that he would want nothing other than unrestrained merriment in his memory, no sadness, no morose thoughts...so join me in partying for Jim.