I’m fortunate that my background always included lots of contact with people from the top and bottom of the social scale. I was always told that people’s hearts are usually pretty much the same across classes, and my experience matched the advice.

Five years of physical labor made me very impatient with artists who present “blue collar” workers as different in kind. Seems as if they are always noble savages, helpless victims of the man, spunky scrappers who want to cross the barriers and move up, or brutes. Funny how easily artists fall into stereotyping, isn’t it?

And the new picture is lovely, it gives a powerful impression of several qualities all at once.

I envy your photogeneity.

I must have done something horrid to Louis Daguerre in a previous life, because his invention is taking a terrible revenge upon me. Often, people think my pictures are actually of someone else.

Maybe a high-mileage cousin, that explains the resemblance.

Note from the Wicked Witch of Publishing (TM): Thanks for checking in with your mom, Ted, you hunka hunka of burning feline hatred. And don’t forget to thank best-selling author Tom Clavin (Halsey’s Typhoon and The Last Stand of Fox Company: The True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat) for keeping your bowl filled and letting you out to terrorize the neighborhood at night while I am away.

Note from The Wicked Witch of Publishing (TM): Savage Press publishes “authors of merit telling stories of significance.”

Note from the Wicked Witch of Publishing (TM): I’m thrilled to hear from Michael Allen again. He is AKA Grumpy Old Bookman of Wiltshire, England. His blog from 2005 to 2007 was a must-read for authors and publishers. The Guardian ranked Grumpy Old Bookman as one of the top 10 literary blogs in 2005. GREAT information can be found at the blog. Michael Allen is also an author and publisher. Just one of his books is Survival of Rats in the Slush Pile.

Never liked Neil LaButte.

See Project Shaw for amazing theater about intelligent people trying to make the world a better place, usually hysterically funny, always with fantastic actors. Only $20 a ticket. Just search for ProjectShaw.

Elizabeth

Did see Desire Under The Elms with Brian Dennehy. Extremely intense. I do like O’Neil, but I really needed something light. Show is extremely provocative as well as sexy.

Note from The Wicked Witch of Publishing (TM): You liked the O’Neil play? Watch for my posting next week.

Note from the Wicked Witch of Publishing (TM): Bridget is a first-time novelist located in the UK.

The theatre doesn’t thrill me like it once did. Maybe I’m just too old, and the playwrights too young I’ll be in the 212 in July, but I’m spending the time at Thrillerfest and books!

Note from the Wicked Witch of Publishing (TM): Thanks for dropping by again, Bonnie. Maybe I’ll checkout Thrillerfest if I’m in the city.

As to the play, I’ll have to take your word for it; I’m not likely to get to New York anytime soon, and my local community theatre group is planning “The Sunshine Boys” for the fall openings season.

Note from The Wicked Witch of Publishing (TM): Dave Newton has a very interesting Web site dedicated to helping people over the age of 50 reinvent themselves if they want to. Check out his Web Site: 3rd Acts.