Way to go, nfredman! While I know Jim Burton's been around long enough to know the whole long poser forum saga (you could almost call it a trilogy), for those who have not, rest assured that Legume is making a few rhetorical points with the Pony. I don't know him personally, but have read enough of his posts and seen enough of his work over the years to know that he's not sweating the comments...he's probably enjoying them immensely. I don't know if Legume is Warhol, but he may be Cristo! Or Malkovich (you know, the puppeteering Malkovich). Or just plain Dada. And all of the Pony pieces that I have seen, pro and con, have tended to crack me up. And at the end of a workday, there are far worse things in the world.