You Want To Go Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Still not feeling at the top of my game.  Yesterday saw some improvement, but this morning brought a definite retrenchment of the persistent bug.

Made my first visit to The Canoe Club, a sort of local version of NYC's venerableThe Lambs Club, which, according to one of its founders, is intended to be a multi-disciplinary arts networking space, where artists can get together, sample each others work, generate collaborative projects, and just generally hang out and have a good time.

Molly and I spent a couple hours there after our theatre staff meeting last night, chatting with colleagues, getting a brief tour, gluing together make-shift coffee-filter chandelliers, and playing a couple rounds of Apples To Apples.

The space itself definitely has lots of potential, and the people working on it seem to have a pretty good handle on what they want it to be - plus, with so many creative types involved, it's bound to wind up looking totally swank (the donated Starbucks furniture notwithstanding), and could end up being a real boon to the larger arts community.

I'm seriously considering joining up.