The Cheap Seats

Can it really be ten years ago today that I went on tour as Young Elvis Costello for the Off-Broadway production of Our Culture Doesn't Care About Alexander Hamilton Yet? Of course, it folded fairly quickly after the Declan McManus lawsuit came in, but still, those might have been two of the greatest weeks of my entire Pump It Up life.

(see, the big joke is that both the guitar and amp are made of cardboard, part of a Halloween costume that I gleefully brought home from Target for my daughter and, after taking one look, burst into tears and refused to wear. It's cool, we did the princess thing instead.)

(The second item you learn as a dad, after the velcro diaper tab, is how not to be overly crushed by the degree to which they are evolutionarily wired to disdain all you hold artistically dear. Also, plenty of other stuff you don't even care about.)