Speaking of “Send In The Clowns,” I was just at the Harvard Coop and saw a magazine called “The Sondheim Review” which is a quarterly review “dedicated to musical theater’s foremost composer and lyricist”.

Niche publishing has officially jumped the shark. Maybe even Western culture. I mean, I like me a good Sweeny Todd as much as— nay, more than— the next guy. But can’t we come up with something better to fill our color glossy quarterlies? Is there really a market for this?

Of course, then again, to shake the willies that this gave me, I spent a solid quarter hour trying unsuccessflly to find the pictures of Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock’s wedding (is she now Pamela Anderson Rock?) that the cover of People magazine promised me.

Starting to feel like Ignatius J. Reilly, I moved on to Heeb magazine (”The New Jew Review”). It just kills me, though the fact that it kills me makes me feel even more like an interloper, what with the whole not-actually-being-jewish-despite-the-hebrew-origins-of-the-name thing.

My annual work group outing to Fenway Park was last night, and, man, that had to be one of the top 3 baseball games I’ve been to in my life.

I have seen the crowd at Fenway pretty revved up, but never that revved up. From the seventh inning on, it was really just deafening.

Kyle Snyder actually deserves a heck of a lot of credit for pitching a really good half game (he was supposed to start before it was clear that David Wells was coming back). Wells’ performance was a bit of a disappointment, though not a surprising disappointment.

But, of course, when it’s the bottom of the 9th, the Sox are down by two, two men on, and David Ortiz steps up to the plate, I’m thinking, no way. He can’t do it again. The crowd was just chanting M! V! P! M! V! P! And he does it! It just seemed totally unreal that something so astonishing happens all the time. The crowd was just totally pumped up, and nobody seemed ready to leave the park until they saw him say a few words to Tina Cervasio that got relayed to the jumbotron.

Excellent night at Fenway!