Wow!

[Andrew B Marvick <abm4@cunixa.cc.columbia.EDU>]

IED has just gone through the last ten days' Love-Hounds Digests,
and is feeling pretty good.  It seems his record for carrying on the
longest, most mindlessly vituperative and ad hominem arguments over
the phosphor thoroughfares of Love-Hounds has been categorically
beaten! IED feels positively giddy from the lifting of that onerous
reputation from his shoulders. 

IED must admit (as, for the record, he has done on several previous
occasions) that "IED" is, indeed, just a randomly chosen sequence of
letters.  That does not mean, however, that they haven't acquired
the function of an anagram over time...

To the Love-Hounds expecting to catch Kate Bush in a live performance
in Europe this summer: IED hates to dash your hopes, but...

Thanks to Uli et al. for the information about IED's recent
interview-LP purchase.  Very kind.  

Finally, quite apart from whether "Happy" or "Tori" or any other of
these persons is making valuable art or not, there really can be no
question at all (among reasonable people) that at least these two
musicians owe an IMMENSE debt to the example of Kate Bush. Anyone who
maintains otherwise is deluding him/herself--including the artists
themselves.

-- Andrew Marvick (IED)