TN is being a good girl and putting her nose to the grindstone, shoulder to the wheel, back to the...well, you know what I mean. Yes, I'm writing the Novel in earnest: I still have 120,000 words to go, and time ever dwindles. So, with due caution, I point to my excuse in the sidebar: expect a little less here for the next few months, until I get my brain back.

In the meantime, let me point you to New York, where the bloggers are having a fine dingdong on the subject of tragedy. George Hunka at Superfluities got the ball rolling with some stirring polemic, prompting objections from Isaac Butler and Matt Freeman. And TONY's theatre editor David Cote stirs the pot still further with some disingenuous polemic of his own. Well, I think he's being disingenuous: this man likes Romeo Castellucci, after all.

UPDATE: Serial TN commenter Theatre Queen stylishly debuts in the blogosphere with Tears for a Tiara and a fascinating first post on, yes, tragedy.