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Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City

OGIC: Meme in, meme out

May 8, 2006 by Terry Teachout

Having been tagged, I hasten to fulfill my obligation:


I am writing this in longhand.

I want Steve Yzerman to put off retiring.

I wish I were ice-skating NOW.

I hate drivers on cell phones.

I love northern Michigan (Michigancentrically, “up north”).

I miss the Clinch Park bears.

I fear speaking in front of an audience.

I hear a train, distantly.

I wonder what will happen on House next week. (In the first-season reruns on USA; do not send spoliers and nobody will get hurt.)

I regret not taking up ice-skating sooner.

I am not a credible liar.

I dance with Baryshnikov in my daydreams.

I sing at full volume when alone in the car or the kitchen.

I cry after double-overtime sudden-death playoff games that end badly.

I am not always conscious of how old I’ve gotten.

I make with my hands ice cream! Most recently, oatmeal ice cream (no raisins for me, thanks).

I write in longhand when practical, which is seldom.

I confuse being nice with giving undue encouragement sometimes. (Don’t worry, I don’t mean you. You I like.)

I need strong coffee every morning, iced during summer.

I should return my moldering Netflix discs and stop ordering movies that are good for me.

I start innumerable blog posts I never finish.

I finish basic skating lessons in two weeks and start looking for hockey lessons.

I tag Mr. Quiet Bubble and Ms. Bookish Gardener.

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Terry Teachout

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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About “About Last Night”

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...]

About My Podcast

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...]

The Long Goodbye

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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