Banning Picasso at the Lapin Agile, part 12...the pond gets bigger

Friday after work Beth and I met some friends downtown for happy hour. While we were catching up in the bar, my cell phone rang. It was a woman from Entertainment Weekly asking for an interview. I told her that I was in a bar consuming alchohol, "Just like in my play," I said. "Don't report that," I quickly added laughing. We chatted for ten or fifteen minutes. At the end of the inteview, the woman (can't remember her name) said she'd she was putting something up on their online edition and that she'd call me back "if the story gets bigger." I remember wondering what that could possibly mean.

I went back to my table and reported out to my friends. It was good for a laugh. Nobody here takes celebrity too seriously. We wondered though about how this reporter got my cell number. I finally realized that it was probably Steve Martin's publicist with whom I've had some communications over the funding the play. I mean that's part of a publicist's job description I guess, to get his client's name out there.

Then later at home I came across an email from a parent of a cast member who informed me that she had posted a link to my blog on one of her favorite political blogs.

If you're one of my few regular visitors to Free Hand you may have noticed an uptick in the comments section. When I checked the traffic on my site I discovered that yesterday and today were roughly ten times the normal amount. The scale of this thing is very small by big time standards; nevertheless, for me it has been a fascinating process of serendipitous developments. I suppose that's the sort of thing that the current media environment is good at facilitating.

Almost everything that has come my way so far has been very positive, even uplifting. Still, it's a bit strange.
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