Elsewhere

"Your Niche or Mine?" in which I run some numbers on what constitutes a "niche" or minority interest and what qualifies as "mainstream" culture (hint: not much anymore), is posted at NewMusicBox:
http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=4962

My review of eighth blackbird's latest CD, "strange imaginary animals" (this group is not big on capital letters), is in print in Style Weekly and online at:
www.styleweekly.com/article.asp?idarticle=13849