I have writer's blog. 

I've been commissioned to do a book on food and travel - things I've eaten and places I've explored, and for it to be ready in time for the Xmas spending spree, I must knuckle down and write. I just can't get started. My first chapter is about my experiences in India.

The March 9 issue of FinWeek features an article on Blogs quoting me in the first line: "United States-based public realtions specialist Brian Berkman describes blogs as: 'a new medium that has its sails filled by the zeitgeist.'"

I don't recall saying that - although I don't mind a bit if I did, but I am alarmed that people may now think they'll have to traverse the oceans to hire me.

I think I may have finanly succeeded - a global presence of one!

Basil Rubin's production of Fiona Coyne's Glass Roots opened at Pieter Toerien's Montecasino theatre in Johannesburg this week. If you saw Glass Roots in Grahamstown or Cape Town you'll remember the snappy script and Mona - the mum from hell played with uncanny reality by Diane Wilson. Glass Roots is still great fun. The updated script makes it current while the complexities of a cross-racial relationship are ever more rife now that the political pressure has dissipated. Nazli George as Verity Stevens is outstanding and Duke Motlanthe delivers a solid performance as a black ad exec dealing with Mona's racism. Tessa Jubber unconvincingly plays Mona's daughter - a highly-strung copywriter with a coke habit. Roy Sargeant's able direction keeps the pace going. He uses the small stage well by managing alternate realities - intercom, kitchen, phone and TV.