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Monday, November 21, 2005
Internationality
Yesterday brought 2 surprise distributions from my Performing Rights Agency of Choice. These envelopes are always a gamble—the occasional smaller numbers bring the giggles, and the larger numbers bring confusion (wait, what performance? what piece?). But nothing quite beats the infrequent international distribution for quality of humor:
Envelope containing the writer distribution. $3.34
Envelope containing the publisher distribution. $3.34
Knowing now that sometime last year there was a Moon by Night performance in Switzerland? Priceless.
3 Comments:
Wow, $3.34? You totally beat me! My Writer distribution : $.24, or some amount too small for them to even cut a check. My publisher distribution (which should have been the same): $3.15. Yes, a check for $3.15.
Classic, of course, is that the Writer distribution didn't even match.
By 
John Mackey, at
11:59 AM
I am a student at Jefferson Forest High School in Forest, VA and would like to thank you for writing Uncle Sid. We performed your piece at VMEA on Friday. It was extremely fun to perform. Jim Bonney also directed and performed with us. He is an awesome guy. thanks again
Sincerely,
Trevor
P.S. i wasn't quite sure where to post this so i put it here.
By 
, at
11:06 PM
Thanks much, Trevor—I heard from Jim that you guys sounded terrific on the piece!