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OGIC: Prelude to more posting

November 4, 2004 by Terry Teachout

Things have changed in my life this week, and I’ve been a bit slow to devise new routines for myself. Of course, in many ways this has been a less-than-routine week for all of us. But today is the day I embrace normalcy again, even if I have to make up “normal” as I go along. In short: more (real) posting soon! Very soon! In the meantime, a couple of salient points:


– I no longer have an up-to-the-minute computer with a high-speed connection regularly at my disposal. While I work on making my home computer a meaner, leaner machine, I’m going to be especially slow answering email. I seem to need a system update to be able reliably to access ALN‘s web-based email. Patience, please.


– Turns out that one of my favorite dishes, Jambalaya, is easy and quite fun to make! I adapted this recipe according to what I had in the house: two ribs of celery and a jalapeno pepper, all finely diced, in place of the parsley. Also: no cloves in my jambalaya, thank you very much. Results: delicious.


We will shortly return you to your regular arts blogging.

TT: Almanac

November 4, 2004 by Terry Teachout

“He was a dangerous man–a convinced man.”


Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes

OGIC: You can change your life

November 4, 2004 by Terry Teachout

Yes, New Yorkers, I’m looking at you. Erin McKeown, providing the soundtrack to my life since October 2004, performs this Saturday at Irving Plaza with The Waifs, and tickets are still available. How lucky can you get?

OGIC: Communication breakdown

November 4, 2004 by Terry Teachout

Justine Larbalestier cuts right to the way I am feeling this week in a lovely essayette. An excerpt:

I’m all for different perspectives, different ways of living, of seeing the world. One of the glories of being in other places is seeing how varied the world is. I’m so relieved Buenos Aires isn’t exactly like Sydney. That there are places where people don’t know who Elvis is. Spending time in the US I am thrilled every time I discover pop cultural memories the yankees have that I don’t. Growing up in Australia I always thought I knew all about the USA, I could name all the states, knew a tonne about its music and movies and literature, but I didn’t, not even close. I still don’t really know this country, I probably never will. That makes me happy.


But the gulfs. All those Bob Evans people and Baristas people living in the same towns, same cities, sometimes shopping in the same stores, or going to the same churches, who can’t talk to each other, or if they do, can’t make any sense of what the other says. Whose different worlds are so completely incompatible there’s no room for each other in them. That makes me sad.

Read this musing, too. Oh, just go ahead and bookmark her already!


(Thanks to lovely CAAF for the link. A girl with a 4-letter acronym can’t be wrong.)

TT: With apologies to David Ives

November 4, 2004 by Terry Teachout

1. No, not even slightly.


2. Mostly by grunting.


3. Yes, out of a can, acccompanied today by peanut butter and jelly and a pint of warm tap water.


4. The Godfather, Bad Day at Black Rock, and several episodes of What’s My Line? Next up is Pushing Tin.


5. Not a one–I’m too tired to hold them up in bed.


6. Like I swallowed a small sausage that got stuck halfway down.


7. Trust me, you don’t want to know.


8. Tomorrow, I hope, but don’t count on it.

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Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]

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This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]

About My Plays and Opera Libretti

Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, 2014, after 18 previews and 136 performances. That production was directed … [Read More...]

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Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on “Three on the Aisle,” a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]

About My Books

My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]

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To read all three installments of "The Long Goodbye," a multi-part posting about the experience of watching a parent die, go here. … [Read More...]

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