From:        White Wolf, ranma@tendo-dojo.ranma.net

Mainly, I wanted to know why Ranma, Mousse, Shampoo, Akane, Kodachi, & 
Kuno would be working together!  And why not Ukyo too?

That was a bit unusual, yes. 

Otherwise, you have captured the feel of a Callahan's, but it is *not* 
Callahan's.  It is clearly a different kind of place, with a different 
crowd, with their own style.  Bi-weekly fights, a band instead of 
individual players, all of them young, and...  they may not all have 
their own story.  Spider has always been a favorite of mine, and this is 
a worthy tribute to him.

In addition to Callahan's, it reminded me of Steven Brust's book _Cowboy 
Feng's Space Bar and Grill_ -- though _Cowboy Feng's_ is a much darker 
book.

It's sad (for me, anyway) to see Callahan's go in the direction it has; 
it seems to have lost a fair amount of the sentiment that made it 
special, and replaced it with less-than-stellar bawdy humor.



Travis Butler
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