There is a matter of grave importance which I feel compelled to clear up. Everyone who has posted memoirs of RinkWorks Convention 2000 has thus far given a muddled report as to what exactly it was that I read during the Poetry Reading session.

F'r heaven sakes, fellow conventioneers, it was the lyrics to Michael Jackson's immortal "Wanna Be Startin' Something" !!!!!

And here I thought everyone was laughing because they recognized the song as well as the silliness of treating its lyrics ("you're a vegetable, you're a vegetable.....") as high verse. Duh. [Bangs forehead] They were just laughing at what appeared to be random goofiness from yours truly, blissfully unaware of the pop-culture reference.

Next time I'll shoot for something less low-brow, I guess. Something more within the brow range of the literate people who proudly bear the label "RinkyDink". :-)

Iss "picking his brows up off the floor" achar