Evidently, the Power's Out ...

Haven't spoken to Lea, yet. I only know the power's out from the grad students upstairs, who let me know on Facebook. As I understand it, the construction on our street hit something, and the power will be out until 11 p.m. Blech. Anyone know if "So You Think You Can Dance" is on Charter On Demand? Tonight's the night the local girl auditions, and I wanted to catch that.

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Usual bits and pieces around. My "American Idol" Autopsy is up on Telegram.com today.  Pop Culture Notebook is kicking along. Radius has been slow the past few days, as I've been swamped, but there are great bits up there, including a "Next Files" from G. Murray Thomas and the late Larry Schulz; our signature feature with Brendan Constantine, Steve Ramirez and Samuel Rees;  and a poem by Asad Zaidi, transalted from Hindi by Bharatbhooshan Tiwari. As always, more soon. As soon as I find five more minutes ...