Via the estimable Clive Davis, there’s a link by which non-subscribers might be able to read the full text of my piece, “What Dylan Is Not,” which appears in the Oct 2nd edition of the Weekly Standard. Don’t tell Rupert. (You’d still have to buy the magazine to see the picture, which is one of Bob from an August gig in Rhode Island, not to mention reading the other great articles.)

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The Twyla Tharp / Bob Dylan musical, The Times They Are A-Changin’,
began its preview run at Broadway’s Brooks-Atkinson theater yesterday. I very much plan on seeing it, but due to ticket prices and my own financial realities I can’t plan on seeing it more than once — and that will likely be sometime after the official opening (all going well) on October 26th. To all concerned, RWB says, “Break a leg.”

By the way, I just noticed that Nick Hornby’s novel “High Fidelity” — already made into a film a couple of years ago — is now going to be a musical as well. Now that’s strange.

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Anousheh Ansari continues her sojourn on the International Space Station (previously: $20,000,000 and a dream). She is keeping a blog where you can read about life without gravity, in very close quarters. Happy stuff like this:

Most veteran cosmonauts speak English and most veteran astronauts speak Russian. The funny thing I have observed sometimes is when a cosmonaut asks a question in English, his astronaut counterpart will answer in Russian. This is what I call mutual respect! If only we had more people practice it on Earth, we would have a much more peaceful place to live.

More peaceful, probably — though awfully confusing, too. Still, it makes sense, when people are trying to be sensitive to one another (as you’d better be when you’re crammed together in a tin can in space). You want to make it as easy as possible for your colleague to understand what you are saying. So, better to speak carefully in his language than to speak quickly in your own and possibly cause misunderstandings. If they tried running the U.N. that way, of-course, things would grind to a complete halt.

Hmm, sounds like a good idea.

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