I only became aware of this today from reading a thread he was posting in. I understand Skipmagic replaced Coldfire and that was announced. Did I miss something? :smack:
Check the geological record. I think he bowed out sometime in 2003.
This is the drink talking: But my experience of manhattan was that he had some very right-wing views and maybe the board could do without a mod with strong opinions.
I am often wrong about these things.
Yep, you’re wrong. No one on staff ever gave me crap about my political opinions. I just got too busy to keep up with the forum to the extent I thought it deserved and retired. It was in August of 2003. Here’s the relevant thread.
Oh. And it’s manhattan, dammit! manhattan! 
He just changed it to manhattEn to throw you off!
He lasted a lot longer as a mod than I did, and I don’t think I have a controvertial bone in my body (or if I do, it’s one of those little ones in the inner ear). Take it from me: The job is exhausting, and expands to fill every available minute. Plus, for most of his time as a moderator, he was the only guy on duty in GQ. We have what, four now? I can’t blame him for retiring.
Not to start anything, Lobsang, but that’s a lousy thing to say.
And I think this is a good place to call it a day.
your humble TubaDiva