I rented Leprechaun 4: In Space. On VHS.

I usually whoop it up a bit on St. Patrick's Day, as many of my friends will attest. Last year it was on a Monday and we had some people over, drank the Guinness, sipped the Jameson, and sampled my friend's mom's Irish Soda Bread, made with love and shipped all the way from suburban Chicago. This year I gave up drinking for Lent so I went to the video store and rented Leprechaun 4. In Space. On VHS. As luck would have it, Leprechaun 3 was on the Sci-Fi Channel, so I watched that first. Leprechaun 3 takes place in Las Vegas,and while it's terrible, it's infitely superior to Leprechaun 4: In Space. On VHS. I don't plan on seeing Leprechaun 5 or 6, which take place in the Hood. Oh, and once in the early 90's, I worked on a low budget film called Hideous Puppets. While the film was never released (or even completed, that I know of) I was told that one of the sets was salvaged from the wreckage of Leprechaun 2.

The New York Times is Stalking Me

At left is a photo I took of Leonard Cohen and his backup singers from my orchestra seat at the Beacon Theatre. (Cell phone pic taken due to dead batteries in digital camera) Not surprisingly, the New York Times was also on hand to cover this historic concert:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/arts/music/21cohe.html?scp=1&sq=Leonard%20Cohen%20
Beacon%20theatre&st=cse





Here's another cell phone pic that I took the following weekend while attending the 12th Annual Fisher Poets Gathering in Astoria, OR. This event features exactly what its title suggests, fishermen and women, who are also poets, gather in various venues around Astoria to read their poetry. This is a one of a kind event that I highhly recommend taking in if you get the chance. But you better hurry. Since they apparently have nothing better to do than to follow me around, the New York Times decided to write an article about the Fisher Poets, too:


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/us/04poets.html?scp=1&sq=Fisher%20Poets%20Gathering&st=cse

So you'll probably be seeing quite a few more people at the Fisher Poets' Gathering next year. This is all to the good, because Astoria is a cool town, and the Fisher Poets event does much to stimulate the local economy. But let the record reflect that the Times doesn't mention the clam fritters.