George Hunka -- a theater critic and dramatist with a wonderful blog -- explains why he has a blog in the first place:
"I want to insist that unlike my reviews for the Times or nytheatre.com in the past, these are essays of advocacy: notes on theatre work that I find interesting and inspiring to my own creative and critical efforts. I find that this is where the dramatic blogosphere works best. Because I'm not beholden to the whims of capricious editorial desks, constraining word counts, or the need to serve as a Zagat's Guide to theatre and drama, I've got the freedom here to write and contemplate at length and with seriousness that art form to which I've dedicated my time and my life."
That there is no room for GH's meditations within mainstream print media is a sad comment on that media, but good news for people who look more and more to blogs in order to find stuff worth reading.
