Saturday, September 17, 2011

RENT




Just saw the Off-Broadway revival...kind of wish I was around to see the original production. Of course, as one reviewer already pointed out, it was already a relic the first time around. Nowadays the only artists living in the Lower East Side are trust fund babies...starving musicians, actresses and dancers have to find someplace more affordable to duffer for their art...

Monday, September 12, 2011

Brave new world...

For independent writers. Digital self-publishing has blown down the gates at least according to The Economist. Now anyone with a story to tell and the moxie to put it out there can (hopefully) make a few bucks...

Just wish they hadn't referred to it a "dross." such an ok'd media mindset...




Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Irene'd

Well, I'm back, as Sam Gamgee at the end of LOTR...though in my case the cause of absence was not the departure of the elves from Middle Earth, but the drenching of Hurricane Irene and the subsequent loss of power...plenty to say but still a but to waterlogged to say it...bloody weather...