To Blog or Not to Blog

A friend was at the house yesterday. In the course of conversation, anytime I said something I thought was funny or upsetting he would say, "Do not put that on your blog." It happened enough times I eventually asked if he thought there was a content problem with my blog. He said "You should not be allowed to blog about a show you're in sooner than a week after the event".

I'm pretty sure he was kidding. But it is after all MY blog. It is free and no one is under any obligation to read it. I don't have any sponsors, no advertising, no agenda, I'm just writing what is on my mind. In fact, in the heading you will find a disclaimer as to the condition of that mind. It says: Journalized rants and ramblings from a fragmented ventriloqual mind.
I mostly try to be funny. The funny rule is, If you can't think of something funny, think of something that irritates you and it will probably turn into something funny.

I know when I read back over something days later there are times I step out of bounds and the comedy/ pissed off line gets blurred. The rants about the "evil twins of the London production" could have been soft pedaled. One of those rants ended up being published in Playbill which was certainly not the intended medium. That caused me to scale back a lot and in some ways I'm not sure that was a good thing.

Perhaps there were some harsh words when I commented on the Dunham vs Dummy lawsuit. I took down that post after a heated phone conversation with Dunham. He didn't change the way I feel and, if asked, I will reassert my opinion that the entire lawsuit is an egotistical waste of effort. That being said, I probably could have been more eloquent at the time.

I pinned my friend down to the phrase in the particular blog that seemed to be most recently upsetting.

This is it:
Normally I fly first class/business for anything over a couple of hours. But this is "the theatre" we are talking about and actors are supposed to sacrifice for the love of the stage so the budget is definitely coach.

There was no intent in this paragraph to be insulting nor degrading to "the theater" nor any person running a theatre.... Dr. H. It was intended to point out that having become spoiled to the excess of Corporate Entertaining, my traveling habits have adjusted accordingly. The fact is, the budget for a theatre isn't the same budget as it is for the annual meeting for Mircrosoft. And actors do sacrifice, gladly in most cases, to lessor demands if they love doing theatre. No one loves doing theatre more than me and if anyone assumed I was bitching about theatre, or anyone who runs one, in that blog - well, they are wrong. I was blogging about trying to sketch a pen and ink drawing in the coach sized seat of an airplane. Something irritating that I hoped would become funny. You be the judge.

So there you have it. If you are reading my blog and getting upset... I don't know what to say. You are free to leave a comment.. I read them all.

As you were,
Jay