I try to read the most seatmate fear-inducing book as possible on flights.

I was reading a book in which the New Madrid fault goes off (what's the proper word for that??) and there's all kinds of madness and people die and shit. That was kinda freaky, as I was heading towards the midwest...

For some reason, prior to the Death!Plague! books, every airplane book featured a plane crash as the central theme. Or, you know...genocide.

"Hi! Can I sit here? Would you like to discuss Armenia? "

Okay, that's a very weird coincidence. In fact, the only reason I got it was because my brother is an infectious disease specialist and he's doing some work with the staff at Vector, flying off to Siberia every few months. It's world-saving sort of stuff and I'm extremely chuffed. So he said I needed to read Biohazard and while I'm glad I did, I'm also very unnerved by it.

Thanks, Robin. So the Literary Manager is also the dramaturg?

Betsy--Well, sometimes. you can be one without being the other, but due to how small and broke most theaters are these days, most places only have one--or none for that matter. You might like this site: [link]

I should become one of these; I could do it, I'd love it, and "dramaturg" is really fun to say!

So a dramaturg is like an editor, but for plays? Cool.

Man, now I want to be a dramaturg when I grow up.

because my brother is an infectious disease specialist and he's doing some work with the staff at Vector, flying off to Siberia every few months. It's world-saving sort of stuff and I'm extremely chuffed.

Well, yeah! It is a strange coincidence.

Richard Price has a big Buffy and Angel shout-out in his latest, "Samaritan"(You know that means he watches, too, because people that don't don't know Angel.) I don't know why I bring that up, except to say "We're everywhere," or something.