About time.

At last.

ASAP; email me for details. Yes, I will pay you.

OK, the consumer can’t be king all the time. Still, I’m definitely happy to report that today I started editing at PRINT magazine, and I’m delighted to be working with the smart, civilized, and scintillating people there. If you haven’t read the magazine but have any interest at all in how things look, or what they say, or how things look when they say them, or what they say when you’re looking at them, pick up a copy today—you’ll be well rewarded for it, and dazzled besides.

Much going on, in life and blog. Details TK, very soon. Watch this spot!

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(That’s the one, above center. It’ll stay still for another day or two, then scoot down to make room for exciting announcements. If you see more than one spot, you may need some of those antistatic screen-wipey things.)

This is a humble reminder that I’m walking (twelve miles, a lovely tour of the city) this Sunday in the MS Walk for Team Biddy, the spirited gang of two dozen that represents the countless friends of the Lascivious Biddies and their superfabulous (and always glamorous) guitarist, Amanda Monaco, who was diagnosed with the disease last year. Please give anything you can (that’s a link to my personal page; the forms are safe, the gifts are tax-deductible)—it means a lot to me, but it means a whole lot more to everyone with MS we’re walking for. Thanks a million!

Photo: C.C. Chapman
Update: Wow, was that a chilly, rainy, wet-footed walk! (There were six of us left in the end; click on C.C.’s name above for a picture of the whole initial crew, which was still dry at that point.) But the walkers’ spirits were still admirably high. It’s not too late to chip in something, so thanks in advance, and huge thanks to everyone who’s contributed so far!

Update update: It’s not too late to donate; you can still use the online form till June 23 and kick in something for MS research and a cure, donated in my name (you even get to be on an Honor Roll—your name in lights!). Thanks again so much to all of you good people who’ve given something. It really helps!

This just in about a poet and pianist I admire a whole lot, benefiting a press I admire a lot too:

Oni Buchanan is giving a recital in New York!

Wednesday March 29, 8 pm
Christ & St. Stephen’s Church, 120 W. 69th St.

It’s a benefit recital for Alice James Books, the small independent poetry press with impeccable taste in publishing the finest contemporary poetry Earth’s crust has to offer.

On the program:

Rzewski, Four Pieces, no. 4
Bach, Prelude and Fugue in C# major, WTC Bk 1
Nancarrow, Blues
Beethoven, Sonata no. 7 in D major, Op. 10 no. 3
Chopin, Sonata no. 3 in B minor, Op. 58

We’ll take donations at the door; we’re suggesting $15, for mere mortals, $30 for Heroes, and $50+ for superheroes.

You’re my new hero. Thank you!

Or as the girls would say, Thinkss.

Update: My thanks to Horowitz became a letter to the editor. God I hope people stop talking like this!

but the Sydney-based seller, however A++++ he may be, clearly didn’t do enough advance publicity, since his item, a limited-edition “Knob at Night” button, sold for just 50 p. If the Pilkington hordes get hold of this, I predict the bidding war will be fierce for the seller’s other items—an “I Could Eat A Knob At Night” t-shirt (ends March 10), the already famous Karl clock (ends April 3), the above heartfelt button (ends March 10), and, my favorite and the first time I’ve seen it, a t-shirt that says “A Knob A Day Keeps Gervais Away.” That ends March 10 as well. You can also Buy It Now. As Ricky would say, sarcastically-sincerely, Brilliant.