Archives for March 19, 2012

If you go on a stage and say that you personally saw something, and the show in which you make this claim is not clearly identified in some meaningful way as “fiction” or “fictionalized,” then you’d better have seen it–especially if you tell your audiences that they need to take action based on what you claim to have seen.
Otherwise, you’re a liar.

Things have been more than a little bit crazy around here, as you’ll have guessed if you’ve read my latest blog entries (and you don’t know the half of it!). Hence I find myself with nothing to say this morning, a condition that may persist throughout the week.
I will, as always, dish up all the regular postings: daily almanac entries, art-related videos on Monday and Wednesday, the usual theater-related stuff, and our new weekly feature, “Lookback,” which will henceforth appear on Tuesdays. You won’t want for reasons to keep coming back.
Till whenever.

Gary Burton plays an unaccompanied solo version of Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Chega de Saudade” in Copenhagen in 1968:

(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)

I shall have more to say when I am dead.
Edwin Arlington Robinson, “John Brown”