First of all, this article . Read it. It's about theatre, but it's good for everyone in the arts to be reminded that they can work at their own pace, and that it's okay to try big and fail.

In other news, I read Garrison Keillor's Homegrown Democrat towards the end of the recent presidential election, and I came away from it not liking Keillor as much as I did. He wrote Homegrown Democrat in an attempt to get people to vote for John Kerry instead of George Bush, and more generally to extol the...