I would like to say though that if I could edit the Conference down to a four panel "best of" for DVD release each year, most of the people who talk shit about it -- many of whom discuss the same topics here and with similar satire and extrapolation -- would actually truly enjoy it. Can I blame you for not wanting to endure the exponential nerd explosions of the "Progressive Rock Politics" panel we endured, or the forty minute meditations on two notes in an Eagles song (presented a couple years back0? No, not at all. But for me, I view those like factoring in a dickhead bouncer, a club full of hostile rubes, overpriced and water-downed drinks, and too short or too long sets at a show I otherwise don't regret attending one bit -- wouldn't have missed for the world, in fact.