Greetings. I’m writing from the men’s dressing room backstage at Playhouse on the Square, and I am dead. Not physically, or emotionally, but theatrically. Alas, as the Prince of Cats I manage, every Thursday to Sunday until April 19th, to massively redirect the lives of history’s most famous young lovers. Nasty piece of work me, and for that, I get to be dead for, what is in our production, all of Act 2.

I spend this time in a number of different ways. Today I read several pages of Slash’s “autobiography.” The first 51 pages have been monstrously boring. Slash’s ghost writer embellishing rather uninteresting stories of his childhood and his early-age epiphanies that turned him into the Slash that we all know. Boring. Get to the tours and whores. I don’t care that you rode a BMX and stole a lot of shit.

The second thing I attempted was to watch Toy Soldiers. I love this movie, but I don’t have time to watch all of it, so I stopped.

The third thing I did today was create this blog. And now I must put on my pants and go and bow a dead man’s bow.

Be seeing you,

Rory

Shiitake Mushroom Pasta

Very pleased to have got to the little pre-farmer’s market drop-off today. Picked up some lovely shiitake mushrooms, sweet red onions, a couple of varieties of baby lettuce, mustard spinach, and half a dozen eggs. Shopping doesn’t get better than this! I love the excitement of buying fresh stuff straight from the farmer’s, and I’m subsequently consumed by the potential it tempts upon my culinary imagination.

Well, today was this: Shiitake mushroom, sweet onion, garlic, sage and thyme cream sauce with spaghetti and grated parmesan.

It turned out very light and incredibly fresh, a testament to the ingredients more than to the chef.