Reconquest: 2006

So this thing of ours is up, up and away in about a month. It's fitting that Athens starts us off since that's where the 87 meltdown occurred. Before the invective comes flying in about our mercenary behaviour while claiming to be not "back together", one would be wise to remember what F. Scott Fitzgerald had to say in his brilliant essay "The Crack-Up"... namely, that "the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time." Indeed, it is this denial of the present that allows us to shave in the morning without scrutiny, happy to soon be off on a roadie's holiday while raking in the shekels with both hands. Oh, the wonder of a reckless youth...