Reader Chip Haynes passed along this link to an article on the various "Tolkien's Eleventy-First Birthday" celebrations that are being planned in the Hollywood area: Happy eleventy-first birthday, Mr. Tolkien. The article makes me nostalgic for other reasons totally unrelated to Middle Earth business: on my one and only trip to Los Angeles in 1998 I went to the Cat and Fiddle, and the Hollywood Athletic Club is the place where I saw Bauhaus play its very first show ever after reuniting for its tour of that year. I recall being more impressed with the city of Los Angeles than appalled, but after all I lived in Miami, an equally, if not more so, appalling town.
More babbling after I have finished my coffee.
Posted by Andrea Harris at January 3, 2003 11:59 AM