For all my lofty statements about wanting to see a little of everything, I fell victim to peer pressure and saw the show all my friends were going to - TJ Dawe's. Now I love him, and his show is fantastic, but I feel a little down for not going to see one of the other dozens of shows.

If you didn't see the audio interview with TJ Dawe - why not? it is very easy to download and listen to. I even took the 2:45 that I cut and made a little clip - because there is some entertaining stuff in there, but it does not serve the interview. Check it out:

Podcast 03 Outtakes
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Two more full days of shows to go, and then Monday come the Patron's Picks, or as I have been calling them, Venue Favorites. The currently announced PPs are as follows:

• Orange Venue: The Lion Queen and the Naked Go-Go Cub (also listed as the Lion Queens for some reason)
• Red Venue: Bathhouse: The Musical!
• Brown Venue: Lilly & Lila's Lovely Lesbian Hour
• Pink Venue: Mr. Charles, Currently of Palm Beach

I am curious to see what some of the smaller venues end up with: Green Venue - of the three shows I've seen there, it was a bit of a toss-up as to the largest crowd.

Mark really has the best marketing this year - great posters, multi-platform promotions, what with the podcasts, leading the pack to MySpace, and the awesome signs I saw in the Round Room today - he was quoting reviews that had only been posted hours before (namely Emily).

Can Fringe really be in a state of deceleration, or is that just the way I see it? Not quite "the Home Stretch" yet, but we are surely Rounding Third, to stick with the baseball terms.

I am proud of this year's Fringe - I was not in town last year, but from what I understand, the online aspect was almost non-existent. The Sentinel has got great up-to-date coverage, bloggers and MySpacers are posting all the time, I saw some people with video cameras around (which I can only assume will be posted to the web). Now the hard-core Fringers will all be thinking of next year: if people do their homework, there are some insane viral marketing campaigns out there. I hope we won't be so MySpace reliant in a year - maybe people won't cringe when I say Podcast and RSS Feed.