At the show at Hugh’s Room I met Moses Znaimer and he offered me a show at the Zoomer Radio theatre studio sometime. I thought that pretty cool! I actually saw the room last September when Lily Frost interviewed me about the Two Pianos No Rodeo show with Mike Boguski and then gave my manager Jennifer North and I a tour of the Zoomer building afterwards. Nice space. Nice grand piano, which already improves my opinion of almost any building. Then, I wrote to Jack at ECW Press. I suggested this could make a nice launch event for the new book. His reply was a detailed list of all the things people in publishing must do first before dreams become corporeality. Publicists, timelines, procedures, strategies, forms of adult supervision. Seemed I was called into the principal\u2019s office for attempting enthusiasm without authorization. Moses must be in his mid-80s now. Not everyone gets to go this long. By the time you\u2019re in your 50s you increasingly become aware how many people quietly exit the stage. Friends, musicians, teachers, enemies, eccentrics, old crushes, entire scenes. By The Way Cafe closed last month. Shakespeare begins sounding less literary and more like field reporting. The older you get, the more his metaphors read like minutes taken from the AGM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"