Well, I stayed at the Halloween do at Mystery & Imagination Book Store for a couple of hours. There were several people reading. It amazes me how some people are really poor readers of their own books. You'd think they would at least rehearse the passages that they intend to read aloud and practice doing it with some sort of flair and panache.
DRPogue, have you ever been to a poetry reading? They're held quite frequently at Barnes & Noble, and most poets who flawlessly juggle words can barely spit them out over a podium.
Good morning, all! Well, I'm nearly ready for my weeek away. Unless I can find a nice internet cafe or the hotel has accessible computers, I shall be quite E&T until next Saturday. Time will tell.
Today, we finish up the orchestra parts for the number I let slide by, I will try to finish a choral arrangement for my publisher, and I have to pack.
DRJose, guilt won out yesterday, and I went to the NYPL Theatre Collection to investigate David Montgomery and Fred Stone, THE LADY OF THE SLIPPER, and other ephemera. No movie after all! Perhaps on my free days in Chicago . . .