Your first line is on-topic, everything else is not. So yeah, everything else I would say needs to be taken to the Sandbox.
I'd just like to say, to any mods that are listening, that I'd like to see much more of this attitude taken when it comes to the moderation.
There's a whole subforum for political bickering, personal bickering, and other such things which have lost their connection to the Beach Boys. Please, be much quicker to move things there. It'll improve the atmosphere of the board no end.
And if anyone complains that "moving posts to a section of the forum where they're NOT ACTUALLY OFF-TOPIC" is offensive and tantamount to censorship -- the lady doth take offense too much, methinks.
Cheers,
Jon Blum