I love when you get more descriptive; 
You're reasonably new here, madam, and so you probably aren't aware.
On one lazy summer Sunday afternoon in 2006, when we were all still at our old home, I was casually scanning through campfires posted that day on democraticunderground.
I grew up without television, which was no deprivation, considering I can't hear anyway. I did however grow up in a house with a private library larger than some public libraries in medium-sized towns. I'm not talking paperback books piled in boxes in a basement; I'm talking floor-to-ceiling built-in bookshelves, slipcased books, that sort of thing.
For me, in my imagination, words are "paints" that make "pictures," vivid images.
So.....I was wandering around that site, looking for nothing in particular, when I suddenly came upon a thread in which the DUmmies were discussing impeachment of Richard Cheney, then vice-president. There were lots of DUmmies there, but the only one I distinctively recall was Raven, the mother of the Bostonian Drunkard.
It was weird.
I felt as if an explorer lost in a jungle who'd crashed through some bushes and come upon a clearing, where there were primtives sitting around a campfire in a circle, passing around their individual voodoo dolls of Richard Cheney, grunting and snorting at the handiwork of each one.
The primitives themelves were grotesquely ugly, what with their body-mutilations, tattoos, and decorations, wild rabid eyes, nearly naked, spitting and drooling, and able to speak only in monosyllables. It wasn't all love-and-peace though; once in a while a primitive would get upset, and rising up, wiggle-waggle his armpits at the others in angry indignation, and then perform a frenzied dance around the campfire.
It was an awesome scene, and I copied-and-pasted the thread for our old home.
And thus was born "Skins's island"--a remote, isolated, dark, forbidding, place far away from all contact with other humanity, out of touch with all that is in the real world.
It meshed in well with my life-long fascination with anthropology and sociology.
