Spalding Gray Dot Com
Spaldinggray.com has been reorganized; please support the site by using our brand new fundraising/affiliates page for your purchases. Enjoy musical artist's Bob Egan's tribute to Spalding, Spalding's Lament. Be sure to check out Brushes with Spalding, Fan Writings, and Reviews --- contribute something! Our Reviews page features a listing of monologuists --- is the art of monologue thriving or what? Updates and Links pages provide the latest events and (yup) links. The huge and wonderful Los Angeles event, A Tribute To Spalding Gray: Leftover Stories To Tell, is reviewed by our own John Boland --- and by Heather Compher.
 

Type It In . . . Just Type It In
I've appreciated Spalding's work since the 1980s. In the last few years I occasionally searched for his web presence and found nada. I imagined that he was too busy with life and love and art to be concerned with the relative banality of flickering cyberspace. In the 90s I began to type it in: spaldinggray.com. Why doesn't he have a website, I wondered (though it was kind of charming that a person would choose to not have one, I thought). In spring 2004, I typed it in; the site came up! Social worker John Boland and Dr. Dan Hewak had recently struggled with domain speculators (fabulous.com) to help Spalding Gray heirs gain control of the domain name. By this time I'd had web design experience and offered to donate my time to the site re-design.
 

Funny Things Happen on the Way to Web Sites
I enjoy web design. Web art can be an outlet and showcase, though it tends to encourage one's tendencies towards instant gratification, vs, say, taking the time to do a painting! Web design is time-intensive and I've prioritized in order to have time for my writing projects. In the beginning, circa 2000, I experimented with various servers/hosts (as were many, I was ripped off by domain speculators: Freehost, Cheaphostonline). I finally secured my domain name and signed up with Dreamhost. The fun part: web design: playing with format, content, color, and pattern. Get a website today! Though consider that it can be a cool, radical, subversive act to NOT have a website. Astound your friends and family: don't have a website!