(This is an advertisement, but I hope you will find it
entertaining.--its author)

Here's what the critics are saying about my upcoming Ranma 1/2
fanfiction, "Who is Frustrating the Great Chefs of Europe:"

"Anyone who says it's more fun than a barrel of monkeys has
overestimated the fun that can be had from a barrel of monkeys.
Everything that is fun at all is more fun than a barrel of monkeys."
		-- Boston Globe

"I don't read anything that doesn't have Ranko and Kaneda in it."
		-- Deep Blue

"It's changed my life! Now I can breathe, breathe, breathe!"
		-- Susan Powter

"More enjoyable than looking at Bill Clinton's genitalia."
		--  Paula Jones

"A passionate poststructuralist exploration of the fan-fiction as
signifier-bearing postcolonial postmodernism."
		-- J. Hillis Miller

"Deep characterization. I like to watch them fight."
		-- the man from Constable's _The Haywain_

"Not just another 'Akane learns to cook' story, but a fulfilling
religious experience."
		--  J. Jonah Jameson

"Soon images of the 'Great Chefs of Europe' will be on every cereal box
in Japan. This story is big... big... big... "
		-- Tim Burton, director of the upcoming "Ryoga Scissorhands"

"I'd like it better if I didn't get my head shaved in chapter four."
		-- Soun Tendo


This story is now at the halfway mark, or maybe a little past there. I
hope you will make plans to read it when it appears. My prereaders have
been nice to me so far. I will do my best not to disappoint.

Best wishes all,

DRM 
-- 
My signature file, attending all mails:

Neither titles nor eloquence do we require, he said, nor an insidious
tongue
nor familiarity with saffron myths on painted scrolls, but patience to
disengage difficulties until matters disclose their essence without
opposition, because the most subtle understanding outweighs mountains.
          -- from Evan S. Connell, _The Alchymist's Journal_