I am peforming a quick inventory on old HBO commenters I miss who haven't crossed over to the neo-golden age post-modern cyberlarity of the new HBO. Here is my list (and it isn't rank ordered):

1. Stickman - He is the calm quiet in the center of this textual maelstrom. His peaceful vegetarian ways provides a much needed antidote to the meat chomping hate buffet too many of us gorge our swinish selves at here. Stickman is a must have! (Now present & accounted for)

2. Kage Mann - I know, I know. I miss his simplistic musings on things. He is the yang to my overheated verbosity. Plus, he makes me chuckle every time he types “Helen DeGeneres” or many of his other quite amusing misspellings. I've even grown used to his non-standard spacing technique and consider it nearly a free verse prosaic structure of interest.

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3. Truly! She is the hot ball of fired up energy of Silver Valley rowdy hippiedom. She rocks this dump. Her old man is cool too but he wasn't commenting much on the old blog. Plus, there is nothing more delicious than the rare but sweetly embarrassing public chastisements and dressing downs between Truly and her journo kiddo Sam.

4. Green Lib - He's been gone awhile but his late night possibly rye or grape or barley-fueled eruptions are legendary here. He can push DFO's buttons with an anti-Christian screed faster than the speed of receptive language synaptic sparking. Green Lib makes it all work because he's very intelligent and informed. He brings it. He just sometimes brings it behind a locomotive howling down a mountain pass track with fried brakes.

5. Binkyboy - He's like me in some ways but even meaner. Although I've changed, I must note. His aggro in your face put downs and dismissive argument techniques are like back alley slugfests or .50 caliber sniper rifle pick offs using much too large of ammo for the target. We will never truly sing Kumbaya here as long as Binkyboy posts and that is absolutely perfect if you ask me.

6. Sue - Liberal Hillary supporter who has an impressive knowledge of the issues and a wonderfully acerbic dry put down styles in arguments. I have seen her absolutely level Larry Spencer with her scathing return fire.

7. Larry Spencer - What can I say that hasn't been said in a million nasty ways already? I actually get a big kick out of Larry even if the image of him gathering pieces of tree roots from highway construction sites is a bit over the top. But over the top shark jumping is Larry's gig. Nobody's better. Plus, he's deathly afraid of our Arch-Druid. No mistletoe lost between those two.

8. North Idaho Ho - I enjoyed her (I'm assuming a her, who knows in the internest) archaic old insult contests with me, except she/he tended to make up the rules as we went along. A worthy verbal foe.

9. All the ones I've forgotten - but I love you anyway so hurry back. If I've forgotten you it's not cuz I've forgotten you it's cuz I'm only on my second cup of java and I'm tired of typing and this thing is already a bit of a bloggosaurus writhing and moaning in its Labrea tar pit of sticky over-hot early morning mental meanderings.

DFO: Sgt. Christie and Duane Rasmussen are also MIA. Can you think of others who are? You might want to give them a call and help them get back online and mebbe post an avatar.

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