I have neglected to mention Maya Angelou.
A little bit ago West Texas A&M, a university half hour south of us in Canyon, Texas, brought Maya Angelou to campus for a lecture. The school does these kinds of fantastic events every year (last year was Elie Wiesel), but then bizarrely undercuts it all by bringing Karl Rove to talk at commencement.
Maya Angelou was, of course, amazing and beguiling and, believe it or not, really funny.
Before she spoke, the Harrington String Quartet played as a musical accompaniment to her poetry. Unfortunately, the person running the speaker system had something out of whack, so there was the occasional high pitched howl from the speakers.
Right after one of these electronic screams from the speakers, I leaned over to Colleen and asked her if the quartet was playing Beethoven.
"No," she said. "It's Bach. Feed-bach."
I laughed a little too loudly, and the old man next to me (who had crossed his leg and was poking me with his shoe's sole) gave me the stink eye.
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