So let me get this straight...your problem is that I have moments
when I'm cheerful, and polite...and moments when, fatigued by 20 hour days,
I sometimes get a little sharper than I might like. Okay, I'm human. So
what?

Your other problem, at the center of this, is that I don't behave the
way YOU think I should behave. Once again...so what? I don't HAVE to
fit your definition. I didn't fight all these years to find my own voice,
and become my own person, and produce my own show, only to worry about
whether I fit Rob's picture of a perfect person. I'm sorry, but I have
substantially more interesting things to worry about.

You use the word "sophmoric" a lot. I could just as easily turn
that around. I could sit and dissect your messages, what I think you are
by your language choice, approach, and similar subjects. But you state,
"You don't know how I (Rob) am, where I came from, or my background; I'd
also rather not bring it up." Curious how you seem to feel that YOU are
off-limits to speculation, but others aren't...even though we're both
on the nets.

This discussion, absent your unsubstantiated allegations, is rather
pointless. I am who I am, I behave the way I behave. You don't like it.
I don't like your behavior or your tendency to stick your nose in my
psyche and engage in some long-distance dime-store psychoanalysis, for
which you are neither qualified nor welcome.

That's showbiz.

jms