i’m glad you dont worry too much about the crap on the beehive. it is amusing to see the bullshit fly and people list their credits to justify their opinions, but all of this blogging is happening because people no longer sit in bars or at home and get drunk with their friends and loved ones. that was when we used to talk, bitch, gripe, glorify, castigate shows we’d seen. i hope you have enjoyed the run and hope to get there saturday night. i have heard really nice things from people who are not just my friends. even my snooty friend who’s the fresno state music prof loved it and he went the night of the fucking country concert. was it his love for shakespeare or his hatred of c/w? hard to say. in any case, thanks for your work and energy and good karma. break a leg in SF. late.

That said, however, I’m not a fan of the confessional rehearsal blogs. The difference between being candid and being confessional is simply the level of self-indulgence of the writer. A candid writer will be up front and speak plainly about the issues involved, but will also try to be constructive in their candor. The confessional writer tends to use the public blog as an emotional outlet and winds up being, yes, bad PR!

But all in all, as far as that discussion is concerned at the Beehive, I go with the old maxim “there’s no such thing as bad press”. If people are talking about WSF, it means that we’re establishing an institutional base in the community.

And that’s a good thing.