The SSMB banishment is in the past and Lowell takes it with good humor. Unfortunately, there was an attempt to blackball him here some years ago and I admit to being sorely tempted to go along. Since then, the argumentum ad hominem, the needling, and the "pose" have been toned down to the point of self-caricature. Altho occasionally digressive, his best posts are entertaining and his worst innocuous. Took me a while to discover his better self and my better self may have improved a bit while so doing.

"flatliner" jack