Apparently, I recently insulted a little something called Drew Jansen. As it turns out, Jansen wrote the music and lyrics for A Servants’ Christmas at the History Theatre. I listed the show as one of this year’s holiday productions that I wished I could murder. During the past few days, Mr. Jansen has published several negative comments to a 7-month-old post of ours. I guess Mr. Jansen thought that everyone would be as excited about the show as he is.

Now, normally I’d do something immature like call Jansen a “weenus” or an “ass hat” and say that he should suck it up and get thicker skin or simply stop reading a blog that offends him so much. But in this case, I won’t. I gotta believe that writing a musical is very hard work. It probably takes an insane amount of time. When you finally finish the damn thing, it must feel a little like your child. And if anyone said something bad about my baby (or the theatre producing my baby), I might think about throwing a negative comment or two their way.

That being said, I did want to point out one little thing that Mr. Jansen included in his comments to FringeFamous. Unfortunately, he wrote the following:

“Remember: Those who can, do. Those who can’t, blog.”

No matter how much I want to try to agree with someone, when they say something that ridiculously pompous, I just can’t let it go. Here’s a quick list of 20 blogs maintained by local artists or companies:

• Mike Fotis (actor/writer/improvisor)
• Minnesota Fringe Festival (local company — only maintained during the festival…when they’re the busiest.)
• Matthew Foster (writer)
• Rik Reppe (writer/storyteller)
• Ben Thietje (actor)
• Matthew A. Everett (playwright)
• Alan Berks & Leah Cooper (MN Playlist — not a blog, but more content than your average blog)
• Gemma Irish (playwright)
• Clarence Wethern (actor)
• Jared Reise (actor)
• Ten Thousand Things Theatre (local company — actor Steve Hendrickson just contributed to this blog)
• Guthrie Corporation (local company)
• Aric McKeown (actor/improvisor)
• Leigha Horton (actor)
• Josh Eakright (actor/writer/improvisor)
• Butch Roy (actor/writer/improvisor)
• Jen Scott (um…she does just about everything)
• Joe Bozic (actor/writer/improvisor)
• Brave New Workshop (local company — and it’s actually a podcast…cool!)
• Phillip Low (actor/writer/director)

If you’re a local artist and you have a blog that I didn’t mention (I’m sure there are several), please leave me a comment and let me know. But don’t waste your time searching for a Drew Jansen blog. Unlike all the local artists listed above, he’s too busy “doing”.