I'm up, I'm up - three hours of sleep. Was up at five-thirty for reasons unknown. Couldn't fall back asleep so I followed two auctions, which was interesting in light of the Sondheim auction, since one was at the same auction house and had a lot of theater, film, and music stuff, including three Sondheim items which, of course, went for large bucks. Why? Because some nitwit woman posted in the Sondheim Facebook group and alerted everyone to it - and come they did and over paid for the three items in amazing ways. If you want something signed by Sondheim, it's really not hard to find items, especially posters, photos, etc. - and for reasonable money. One person paid about 2500 bucks for a lot that included five Sondheim notes to some guy who sent him things. They're all signed formally rather than Steve, and have no interesting content. You may recall that I offered up ninety such notes to someone Sondheim actually knew and worked with for 5K - I'll bet people regret not grabbing that archive now in that Indiegogo campaign. Each of those notes would now go for two or three hundred each, perhaps more. Funny stuff. And then some of the nitwits stayed and bid up other stuff, then got bored and left, after which things calmed way down and there were many, MANY great bargains to be had.
