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Thursday, May 15th, 2008

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    5:19p
    My eleven-year-old nephew, who is of course awesome, is playing the cello in his school band's performance at Carnegie Hall on Monday. This is an actual, real thing. They really are. But that's beside the point. The point is that I just went to check the Carnegie Hall website, and the event is actually listed on their calendar, and moreover, I have discovered that the musical director of this event is Mr. Malafronte, and I have decided to believe that "Malafronte" is an ancient Italian word meaning "evil forehead."

    That all by itself may just get me through the rest of this week.

    ETA: I asked him over the weekend, and no, he will not be playing this:

    7:05p
    First they came for the soothsayers, but I was not a soothsayer ...
    Okay, so, now that we've got this whole gay marriage thing tucked away, may I suggest that we pool our formidable powers of persuasian to advocate for more lenient anti-sorcery laws in this country?

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354327,00.html

    Because, no way should this guy have been fired. Sure, okay, suspended, docked a few days pay, all right. Maybe. But in the 21st Century, for a charge of wizardry to result in anything more than a slap on the wrist seems really excessive.

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