Your Celebrity Birthday for 11/14/09

Happy birthday to Leopold Mozart, who was born 290 years ago today. Mozart was a renowned composer, conductor, teacher and violinist. Unfortunately, he was also the father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and so all other accomplishments are now meaningless and inconsequential.

Mind the Gap (or, How I Spent my Web-Log’s Hiatus)

As anyone with a cursory knowledge of the Gregorian calendar can probably figure out, it has been roughly two-and-a-half months since I’ve last updated this volume. It is inexcusable for someone, even someone with as many fascinating side projects as myself, to neglect a responsibility like the one I have to my many devoted readers. Therefore, I feel some explanation is in order and so offer this list of some of the things I've been up to that kept me from writing here.

• Working on my adaptation of the musical Annie into a slightly different musical, also called “Annie."
• Hiking the entire distance of Sherman’s march to the sea, followed by my less than successful capture of the city of Savannah, Georgia.
• Composing palindromatic entries for my other web-log, Backwords.
• Backing up the files on my computer by hand-transcribing their contents, bit by bit, onto sheets of paper.
• Developing strategies to profit by monetizing this web-log or, barring that, somebody else's.
• Fielding the substantial quantities of mail asking why I had stopped updating.