There are musicians who take their turn at being bad writers. (I’m talking to you Madonna!) Apparently, there are also writers who take their turn at being (presumably bad) musicians.

The Rock Bottom Remainders is a band that includes Amy Tan, Stephen King and Dave Barry, among other well-known writers. The article about them in the New York Times wouldn’t go so far as to say they suck, but I’d be terribly surprised if they didn’t. I mean, do we really need to hear Frank McCourt sing “It’s my party, and I’ll cry if I want to”?

I’d like to think this is some elaborate statement about people using their fame in one field to create a vanity project in another field they would otherwise be too unskilled to break into. But I sometimes make things too complicated.
Then again, maybe they would blow my mind. Maybe I need to hear Maya Angelou  cover “Smoke on the Water.”
-Marcia