Forgive my protracted silence. I cleared out of New York two days after the blackout, sans laptop and cell phone, and spent a week on Isle au Haut, Maine, where I did some highly uncharacteristic things (HIKING!! SITTING IN AN ADIRONDACK CHAIR AND DOING NOTHING!!!) whose art-related implications I will be exploring next week on the Leisure & Arts page of the Wall Street Journal. (Definition of a writer: a conduit between experience and prose.)
Now that I’m back in town, though, I’m back in business as usual.–I revved up my arts blog yesterday and started churning out words-for-profit this morning–but I did manage to take in a movie last night, Kevin Costner’s Open Range. I’m reviewing it for my column in Crisis Magazine, so I mustn’t be too forthcoming with my opinions (which were somewhat mixed but basically quite favorable). Still, I’m wondering if any of you saw it, and if you did, what you thought of it.
Any takers? Is anyone there? Is everyone still on vacation? I wish I were still on vacation….