AMAZING,STUPENDOUS,COLOSSAL GRAND OPENING!

Welcome to my new, improved, website. Now, at last, I will be able to communicate, in almost real-time, with my millions of adoring fans. All improvements are due to my wife, artist and computer-whiz, Brenda Semanick. When I had to choose a title for my blog, I found myself in a real dilemma as there were so many tempting possibilities. I finally whittled it down to a few favorites: "Precious Mementos", "Montclair Moments", or perhaps "Jovial Bonhomie and Gay Banter". Anyway, I decided that discretion was the better part of valor and went, temporarily at least, with "Blather". If anyone has a favorite, or an exciting suggestion, please let me know. But don't send me a lot of scatalogical, expletive-laden stuff as you might bruise my tender psyche.

Hot News- My latest painting (which is viewable at Recent Works), "That Fine Madness", which is a portrait of Christopher Marlowe as Dr. Faustus, will be included in the next newsletter of the Marlowe Society. I sent a copy to Roger Hards, the Society's PR man, and he has decided to use the image. I was wondering what true, Marlowe fanatics would make of my efforts, and, apparently, they passed muster. Roger had to contact Cambridge University to get their permission to reproduce my painting because I used the putative Marlowe portrait found at Cambridge which they own the rights to. Because the Marlowe Society is non-profit, everything went swimmingly. If you haven't checked out the Marlowe Society web-site, it is well worth a visit.