Since I had to work two Saturdays at my day job in October, I decided to give myself a three-day weekend, hence my radio silence on Monday. (Not that it really matters; this space has pretty much been solely a What James Has Been Doing On His Nights Off forum.)

The cast of "Beowulf, Krygor 9 & the Unicorn" and I had an absolute blast at Sunday night's Revamped show, and it seems as though the audience enjoyed themselves as well. Many thanks to Qui, Abby, Robert and the rest of the Vampire Cowboys gang for inviting us to participate in this.

Also, many thanks are in order to everyone who came out to the Ranch on Sunday night.

Photos should be up soon.

This week, we here at Nosedive Central are prepping to send out our end-of-year fundraising letter, so we can attempt our ambitious 2008 goals (stage my superhero-ey play Colorful World and remount The Adventures of Nervous-Boy in a foreign country) on top of rehearsing A Very Nosedive Christmas Carol, which goes up this December at the Horse Trade Red Room. I'll offer more details on the show very soon.

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I'm not 100% sure when 1,000-plus-word entries will return to Jamespeak; maybe not until 2008, to be perfectly honest. I realize that in immersing myself in damn near constant playwriting, producing and rehearsing until the end of the year, blogging has landed firmly on the back burner.

I'm not saying this is good or bad, right or wrong, or that I'm sick of blogging. I'm just saying that I've had to focus a substantial amount of time and energy to (among other things) writing and rehearsing Pinkie and haven't had a great deal of time to delve into the subjects I like delving into with the blog (self-producing, reviews, the membrane-thin divide between High Art and lowbrow trash, Katharine McPhee).

Will this change? Most likely. But it's going to take a little while. Have patience, young Padawans.

Jerkin' y'all around,

James "Uncle Randy" Comtois