End of the week

Tonight was a great night -- really good music, good crowd, Alina was at the top of her game, Eric and Mel were kicking ass. Lots of applause -- I hope Eric's tip jar reflected the appeciation of the masses. As usual, to encourage the listeners to pay hard cold cash, Eric said something along the lines of having two concubines with syphilis (Mel being one of them, she covered her face in pseudo-shame) who need urgent treatment, and that the tip jar proceeds will pay for the treatment. I love this part of the evening cz every time Eric manages to find a new way to entice the crowd to pay using usually the most low-down techique...

Tonight Eric dedicated Pride and Joy, which I love so much, to me personally, saying "This one goes out to Dmitriy, the last honest man in Brooklyn". I decided not to discourage him ;)

Mel also pleasantly suprised me today.

Mel: I've sat on my cat today.
I: ???
Mel: No, seriously, I've sat on my cat today.
I: Umm...Mel, when a girl says she sat on her cat today, I interpret that in the most sexually explicit way.
Mel: I know. But no -- I had to sit on my cat to give her medication she needs, otherwise she struggles.

Mikie and I are going fishing to a Bulgarian joint in the City tomorrow, hopefully netting us some cats we can sit on :)

And finally

There's something to be said about the influence music has on us humans, and me personally. I'm not really a judgemental person -- I accept most people the way they are, with all their imperfections, and serious imperfections those might be.

However, I have to admit, I think of people without musical hearing, the "tone deaf", or, to use the Russian expression, "the ones who had a bear stop on their ears", as somewhat handicapped. I catch myself not understanding how can one be unable to hear the melody as played by a musician. I guess we all have our deficiencies, and God knows, being tone deaf is nowhere near the bottom of it, but I can't help it.

I hope to God my yet unborn children are not tone deaf -- it'll be a bad blow to me.

I'm a musical racist -- I discriminate (somewhat) on the basis of a person's musical capabilities.

Silly, yet such an arse I am.

On Miers

Well, I kinda knew Miers should not be on the Supreme Court because she qualifies for it as much as Michael Brown qualified for being FEMA director. On top of everything else, according to Washington Post, she apparently was a supporter of affirmative action in the legal system.

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers supported affirmative action goals in the early 1990s when she served as president of the State Bar of Texas, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.

Miers wrote that "our legal community must reflect our population as a whole," and under her leadership the lawyers' association supported racial and gender set-asides and numerical targets for jobs, the newspaper reported.

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