Flog & Blog: Stanford in a hurry

But lovely campus that Stanford. Stanford is the alma mater of the poet and NEA Chairman, Dana Gioia, also known as my boss. I was thinking of him as I tried to find the Stanford Bookstore not only because I was driving along the byways of his alma mater but also because this morning on Michael Krasny’s show, Michael referred to me as the #2 man at the NEA, and while I was too busy trying to promote my book to correct him, I do feel I should clarify: Now and for the record let me say that I am the #2 Californian at the NEA but the #2 Man at the NEA is probably the Deputy Chairman. Below him there are many of my colleagues with whom I share a bench on the NEA pyramid, including the director of dance, the director of theater and the directors of just about every other art that has a muse to go with it.