Camille -- That is a disgusting and revolting and sad development in your land, truly. But you still have Peter Carey, right? We have the literary lions ... uh ... Brett Easton Ellis and ... uh ... Jerry Springer. I can feel myself growing stupider by the nanosecond. I'm drowning in trash! I wish we had a dingo or 3 million to steal some of this white trash. Don't they, like ... thin out the carrion or something? (By the by, and to wit, we have our own fascists: the religious right. What a wanker collective they turned out to be.) rick