Well, well, well...look what the cat dragged in... ME! I've been more than errant and truant - I've been truant and errant, but my life is finally settling down and I'm back down to a regular 50 hour week now, so I finally have some free time to pop in and say hi!
I got an email from BK the other day and really just wanted to stop in and congratulate him on Kritzerland: The Label and wish him the best of luck with the new venture. I think its great you're back in the recording game and look forward to the two new discs.
I also wanted to check in on my friends from Arizona to make sure no one has been consumed by the fires. I may not visit much, but I do think about you guys and worry.
What else? I don't know, really. I just did a reading of a new show (THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK) at the end of May. We're possibly doing it again at the end of the summer. Perhaps you read about us on Playbill.com. Or not.
And F.Y.I., tobacco snuff is made by selecting tobacco leaf (and also sometimes tobacco stalk, as in e.g. Irish High Dry Toast) and disintegrating it into a coarse powder. It is next ground in a manual or mechanical mill, and then sieved. Various essential oils may then be added for flavouring, after which it is stored in airtight containers to allow the flavour to permeate uniformly. (
http://www.snuffbox.org.uk)
The term "up to snuff" originally referred to somebody who was sharp, not easily fooled. This may have come from the idea of snuff being itself a sharp preparation, but perhaps because it was mainly taken by men of adult years and some affluence (it was expensive) who would be able to appreciate the quality of snuff and distinguish between examples of different value. The evidence isn’t there to be sure about its exact origin, though an early form of the phrase was up to snuff and a pinch above it, which at least confirms it did indeed relate to tobacco. (
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-upt1.htm)
And now, back to work.
