Tuesday, May 7, 2002

Back page boy, uptown girl

BACK-PAGE BOY: With the latest chapter, A Soap Opera, Dispatches From The BradLands returns to print publication this month, fulfilling my lifelong dream of becoming the back-page columnist of a magazine, appearing in Outlook, a new, local nightclub ad delivery system entertainment publication.

UPTOWN GIRL: My buddy Reno, whose show Rebel Without a Pause I got to see at LaMama when I was in New York in January, has moved to The Zipper, and is getting great notices. Go see her if you have the opportunity!

SPEAKING OF: The fates are conspiring to keep me out of New York, first hurling obstacles which nixed plans for a Manhattan Memorial Day and now making it impossible for me to visit the weekend following. I should probably give up on trying to combine work and pleasure and just plan a hedonistic getaway weekend of theatre, dining and whatnot. Maybe sometime after I finish the first round of Sondheimapalooza, I'll scoot up to NYC.

Sunday, September 13, 1998

September 13, 1998

If only just for today, The BradLands is a safe space on the Internet, free of discussion regarding Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Kenneth Starr or even hometown favorite Mark McGuire. I can't take anymore. Can you?

I saw Clay Walker in concert at Six Flags last night, maybe the most fun I've had at a show all year, despite the sucky comp seats I was assigned and the fact the show started 35 minutes late. This kid is gonna be better and bigger (in the fame sense) than Garth maybe someday really soon.

<SITENEWS> As a consequence of my crazy schedule, The BradLands hasn't seen much except perhaps weekly refreshing lo these many months. The infrequent summer entries have been moved to the archives (see BradLands Backwash below). I'm trying to do better. Really I am.

I've also adjusted the parameters so that any links you select from this newspage will open in a separate window on your browser for (I think) more convenient surfing.</SITENEWS>

Reminder: St. Louis International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival continues through Thursday at the Tivoli Theatre. COCA welcomes comedian Reno and her film Reno Finds Her Mom today at 5 p.m.

For now, short takes on a few links of interest I've been accumulating...

How long do we, collectively, spend waiting for web pages to load? [New York Times]

<DIGRESS>For various reasons, a significant slowdown in web and general Internet response times was predicted for last Friday. I didn't notice any untoward pauses; did the network strain actually materialize?</DIGRESS>

A nice review of the new Sondheim biography that, IMHO, is a surprisingly sterile treatment that goes pretty far but often not far enough. [Washington Post]

Now here's a sport you don't see on ESPN! Hey kids, let's all go squirrel fishing this weekend (now with RealVideo)!

What?!?! Orlando is still standing? Hmmm...I guess it's OK for gay people to visit DisneyWorld after all. Robert Kirby gives the right-wing a ribbing. [Salt Lake Tribune]

"Idea moguls" sounds like something you'd want to avoid while skiing your id, but it's also the headline on this look at the young turks behind the TV scenes these days. ("Skiing the id?" Jeez, I'm tired.) [Forbes]