Don't Cry for Me

I'm going to see Evita this afternoon. I've lived and or gone to school in Akron for almost a decade, but I think this is the first time I'll be going to EJ Thomas for anything other than a high school graduation (a lot of Akron public schools use it for commencement). I need to get over to the art museum sometime soon, too. They have weird hours and whenever I want to go, they're closed.

When I was a kid, my mom had a CD of Andrew Lloyd Weber's greatest hits. I used to know the whole thing by heart. But I've never seen any of his shows.

Sometimes, Varley talks about living in NYC and going to shows on Broadway. I can't imagine living a life where going to Broadway doesn't involve plane tickets and lots of planning. Have you read Varley's books? I loved A Company of Three but haven't read the others yet. I hear she's going to be signing The Cure at AWP.

I started The Road this morning. It reads like a giant prose poem, which, in my opinion, is a really, really good thing. I'm only about 20 pages in, though, so I'll reserve judgement for later.

Jason Bredle's Standing in Line for the Beast pretty much rocks. Everyone talks about how funny it is, but when I finished, I was sad and lonely. Okay, so I'm pretty much always sad and lonely, but what I'm trying to say is that it wasn't as silly as some make it seem. In her foreward, Barbara Hamby says, "These long loopy poems make you laugh out loud and then crumple your heart like a Dixie cup." That's what I'm trying to say.

There was something in that foreward that bugged me a little, though. Hamby wrote: "[These poems] do not come from ... a breathless world where people are just too sensitive or confused or mired in their childhood for words." I can't help feeling like she was talking about my ms, which is sensitive, and confused, and mired in childhood. I guess i won't be entering any contests Ms. Hamby is judging.

PS - The 10 day forecast has already changed. Next weekend will be warmer than it is now, but not 50.