Let Us Now Praise The Stage Fright Blog...

I don't think there is a blog quite as successful as the blog Stage Fright. In a world wide web over saturated with blogs promising updated news, the latest insight, the most recent images, and populated by self promoting, snarky, competitive, armchair opinion makers as authors, Stage Fright is refreshing. It delivers what it promises. The blog name refers, of course, to that paralysis one feels before one is thrust into the spotlight, a paralysis, by the way, sorely lacking in the blogosphere (who amongst you shuns the limelight, especially under the cloak of anonymity?). And the blog itself is a witness to its eponymous condition - two aborted posts, each deeply unsatisfying from a traditional point of view. There are no updates, nor is there any reason to check back in on this blog ever again. It seems to have been abandoned. Yet it is deeply satisying psychologically and artistically. It stands as a reminder of a kind of failure, an inability to overcome a condition, and of, perhaps, an unwillingness to make good on an opportunity afforded. It is, in a way, the road more often traveled which, in our current cult of individuality, originality, entrepreneurship, etc, makes all the difference.

So to Stage Fright I say, simply, thank you.

I will try to procure an interview with the person behind Stage Fright, and also, as a new GuardtheGuardians feature (always innovative, we are), will interview some other of your favorite internet celebrities. The first to agree has been my co-blogger, the mysterious Colonel Knowledge. 530 souls have viewed his profile, but who really knows what makes him tick? I'm excited to announce that Hidden Junk's Greg Condon has also agreed to be interviewed. Future interviews will hopefully include Jazione, a man whose interests know no bounds, or, in some cases, age limits. Perhaps some of the ArtDecade Team will agree to be interviewed. So do check back.

If anyone else has interview ideas, email me at sheridandupre@hotmail.com. Confidentiality guaranteed.