#introduction I’m newly arrived from Birdland and thrilled at the fresh universe of Mastodon. I’m curblessed with wide curiosity about the history of the American South (especially race relations), American baseball history, US culture of the 1960s into the 70s, sabermetrics, Retrosheet, board and dice games, View-Master, Daredevil and Doctor Strange, birds and birdwatching, Faulkner and Modiano, and Columbo. . .