otherwise known as sheila the great...

Last week, Sheila told me she was planning to write a deliberately pretentious review of The Gates mainly to take the piss out of some of the people vehemently pooh-poohing the display. I became giddy at the prospect and gave her a few suggestions. She then opened up the floor to her entire readership and what unfurled was a magnificent tapestry of italicized Latin-based words, multi-syllabic adjectives, tongue-twisting terms and the usual artsy-fartsy verbal suspects. 'Twas a thing of beauty.

Sheila cobbled all of the words, phrases and paragraphs together and created an essay rife with sentences that bend, twist and turn and ultimately -- and deliberately -- lead to series of brain-teasing cul de sacs. Sheila, the piece -- and you -- are pure genius. Go read it!