Well, yeah, but more than that I'm fed up with the contentious tone of too many discussions that I let myself get sucked into with stubborn, half-smart clowns in pointless, futile attempts to school them, which too often ended up making me come off like a high-minded pretentious asshole. So, in fact, I kind of got fed up with my own persona over there, I'm afraid. I do have mixed feelings about it. Lots of good people and groups I will miss--and lots of stuff I've contributed, too.

But I think I over-extended myself on A|N--there had come to be a little too much of me on that site (for too many hateful lurkers to glom onto), and I didn't feel I had the patience or the time to thin it all out, so I went and committed A|N suicide. Too bad.

I don't mind the afterlife, but I regret the violence. Basically, I have a novel I have got to finish, and I blew half the weekend on a stupid discussion about the meaning of "faith," when I don't even fucking care. So it was as much me on the site as the tone of things. If I ever go back, I'll have to be a more distant presence, I think.