Last night Kasim held a birthday chat with his fans in the Yahoo Kasim Sulton 2 chatroom. Kasim stayed for about an hour. Beside the "Happy Birthday"s and the (now usual) talk about food, the main points were (in order of discussion):

• "The older you get, the harder it is to lie about your age"!
• Kasim spent most of his birthday "on a ladder" fixing Christmas lights. It was about 2 foot short so he had to buy some more but when he got them home he discovered that they were blue and not white!
• Kasim said that the name of Meat Loaf's new album is "Couldn't Have Said It Better" (there were rumors going around that it was either going to be called that or "I Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself"
• Todd Rundgren sings background vocals on the title track
• Kasim confirmed that the album will be released on Polydor in Germany (Europe) but that Meat does not currently have a US record label
• The EMI Kasim posters were posted on Friday - he has about 6 left now
• To date, nobody has yet posted the correct number that Set Me Free reached in the charts
• Quid Pro Quo is now available also on Orchard.com (possibly he meant TheOrchard.com as Orchard.com appears to be a book only store)
• Kasim's mailing list now has well over 1,000 names on it
• Kasim has been asked to play at a private party in Indianapolis in April with both him and Todd Rundgren performing
• Kasim has been singing lead vocals on a couple of tracks on "some guy" from New York's CD which will be out in February ("it's very Beatleish")
• As his former webmistress quit, he now has some professional web people working for him
• Kasim no longer has his Steinberger Bass guitar