Highly acclaimed American playwright David Mamet is a blogger over on Ariana Huffington’s empire of the left. When I was first perusing the ‘Huffington Post’ (Ariana Huffington, one of few people to name a ‘newspaper’ after themselves and get away with it) and saw the little bio-pic of Mamet, I had a ‘double-take’ moment…David Mamet, author of Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross, Pulitzer prize winner is blogging on someone else’s site! How much is he getting paid?
Perhaps even more unexpected is his blogging style, actually it would be more apt to call him a cartoonist than a blogger. Three quarters of the posts are scans of his own doodles, political satires that comment on issues of the day. The messages are never clear, the drawings even less but there is definitely a sense of humour there somewhere…perhaps it is more a sense of smugness from knowing that he can get paid for submitting a few scribbles as opposed to grafting a 100 page script.
