In case of my sudden mysterious death and/or disappearance department: I awoke this morning to a "verrry interresting" email from the Church of $cientology's front group CCHR about my Farmer article (the CCHR owns the site that has the most flagrant disinformation about Farmer out there). They are nicely (at least at this point) requesting "all documentation" behind my article so that they can "update their records." I think not.
But if I disappear, you will know that Xenu and his (its?) acolytes are behind it.
Macchus: the Oregonian had a very interesting interview this morning with Jack Klugman's son, who lives in a Portland suburb and has written a play that Jack will be doing. He is also editing Jack's book about Tony Randall.
Laura Nyro department: I love Laura, too. One of my fondest memories from my lounge piano days was one night when a woman had been listening to me quite intently and I asked her if she had any requests. She said, "Well a good friend of mine just died this week. I used to go to summer camp with her and she later became quite famous, but I bet you've never heard of her and don't know any of her songs." Well I knew instantly she was talking about Miss Laura, and told her so, which amazed her, and I then launched into a long medley of lesser-known Nyro masterpieces like "Captain St. Lucifer" and "Blackpatch." The woman was in tears (hopefully in a good way, not because of my playing, LOL). It touched me very deeply.
