A turkey for your Thanksgiving pleasure…Drosselmeyer Inc (June 2009) told of the weird uncle from the Nutcracker and his unnatural relationship with his dolls Hamlet, Tex, Frenchie, and Tooth-Rot (aka, the Sugar Plum Fairy). Excellent performers and designers couldn’t pull this one out of a tailspin. A balletophile and established dipshit, the local dance critic wasn’t wrong to dislike it though she might have gone a little far to write that my future should be as “a dancer in someone else’s company.” Ouch. Thank God that failure is now acceptable in our creativity-worshiping culture.