One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.