PLOJ XXXIII was a success, though – as always – very different from what I expected. We had gotten a huge article in the Washington Times which I had semi-hoped would result in a lot of new faces.
I did then get a bunch of emails about the article, but I don’t think any of those emails translated into exciting new, warm bodies.
But that’s all separate from the actual PLOJ. We DID have exciting new warm bodies – they just came from where they were SUPPOSED to come from – i.e. slowly spreading word of mouth!
It was the first PLOJ in forever that I actually taped – Brennan set up some mics and we just let the recorder run all night. I’m going through the recordings now. A lot of good stuff.
In any case, despite the new faces, kind of a small PLOJ, which was fine – a little more intimate. The only really negative side was that we had lots of PLAYERS but few writers, which means there was a lot more dead space, trying to sort of figure what was going to happen next, than usual.
We ended pretty early, tired and sleepy and a little moody, depressed, I cleared out of there by about 2 in the morning and went back to my mom’s house to collapse and slow
ly totally fail to actually fall asleep.
Jason and Heather dancing to “the Stray Cat Strut” at the College Perk at PLOJ XXXIII.
