Landmarks aplenty

This is my 11th post, and as I set up the thing to show 10 recent posts, this is my first bumping of a post off the main page. Hooray for blogging!

This post also features the first picture from my brand new Canon PowerShot A520. It's a picture of one of several Marks. If my Dad had photoshop I would have cropped out the stain on his jacket. In Mark's defense, it was barely visible without the camera's flash.

This Mark was visiting our mutual boyhood home of Niskayuna from Chicago, Illinois, where he has become far more successful than I expected. He is joining the Actors Equity union to stage manage an open-ended run of a major musical in Chicago whose name escapes me at present. He will be proposing marriage to his long time girlfriend later in the week. And, best of all, he is editing the book for a new musical about the administration of Warren G. Harding. I shit you not. It's three hours and they want to cut that in half.

He promised to email me some rough versions of the songs, which he is very positive aboot. I told him that if they were any good I would use the blog to promote the show to my twenty readers, none of whom live in Chicago.

So, I was reading a friend's livejournal and had strong feelings when I read about myself in there. It made me think, then, about the potential for pissing people off through not mentioning them in my blog, and I think I'm going to try and shy away from describing what I do with friends, because it's just be a pain in the ass trying to get u'urybody in there and make sure they feel like, you know, whatever, they are getting as much love from me as they warrent. I couldn't pass up the Mark thing, though, because the new musical about the administration of Warren G. Harding was too good. I think it's called The Teapot Scandals of 1923. Stay tuned.