I can honestly say that I spent more time at lunch today deciding what kind of sandwich to eat than I've ever spent contemplating your marriage.

But if I skimmed your very, very long post correctly, you're happily married and have a step-son and a daughter. If so, congratulations and all the best to the Sondersteders.


I think Paul said she wasn't a mail-order bride, she's a Filipina gal he crushed on who worked at his casino -- but she was unhappily married to some idiot, so he tried dating her sister instead -- except her sister was engaged to some guy back home in Asia -- then the first gal finally left her husband -- now Paul is married to her and they have two kids.

Cliff's Notes version.

I'm relieved to learn that Paul did not name his daughter after a character from a comic book or Star Wars.

So Ivan, did you know all of that story?

Oh, Paul ... !

Waaait a minute, there may have been some sort of offering made in the form of a branding ceremony.

Does the child have any tattoos? Perhaps of some copyrighted Superman or Batman image?

As a matter of fact, yes, Paul had one of his original Byrne commissions tattooed on the poor girl's back during her Byrne-tism ceremony.

If JB ever gets wind of it, he'll order Paul to dispose of the child. That's John Byrne's Batman, goddamnit!

Did he remember to poke air holes in the mylar?

And risk her mint condition after he had her graded and slabbed? Are you crazy?!

First you think that I'm saying all people are fools because I say you're a fool, proving your narcissism.

Now you think you speak for the "casual observer" as though you were one or had even spoken to one.

Are you delusional or dishonest when you do this, or is this just another symptom of your narcissism?

I'd say that it doesn't matter as nothing you say seems to have either import or validity.

The effect I expect to have is to keep your anger level flowing, thus causing you to post in a way that exposes you as less than intelligent and emotionally immature. It lets anyone reading your posts know just what type of person you are and they can adjust accordingly.

One might wonder what effect (it's the word you probably meant to use) you think that you're having by continuing your virulent posting, but then again one might not care at all having written you off as an unhealthy person who can't relate well to anyone who upsets you.

No apologies necessary. You said what you felt, I responded, and no damage was done. Did you really feel that more needed to be said, enough so that you felt a need to apologize to me?