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"I'm white people's best friend -- they think I'm their enemy but I'm not; I'm their best friend because I'm honest. This election thing, this whole thing with the election, it has always been racial for black people in America. Even when we couldn't vote, we always had to say, 'Is this white man liberal? Does this white man like us? What will this white man do for us?' It has never been racial for you guys. This is the very first time. And it has driven you crazy -- the things that have come out of my white friends' mouths, it scares me! And I'm saying, if this has driven you crazy, we've had to do this all these years -- how crazy must we be? Because it's been race for us, you understand?" -- Paul Mooney, on the CBS television program, The Late Show With David Letterman, 2008-10-29

( Paul Mooney, on race and the 2008 presidential election )

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Argh. My body is not being cooperative lately. I did get out Saturday, then I slept all day Sunday, all the daylight hours and then some Monday, and much of today. This is not conducive to getting things accomplished.

Anyhow, the tardy announcement: I'm looking for musicians to play Playford and Regency dance tunes.

Specifically, if you are going to be attending Darkover Grand Council Meeting XXXI in Timonium, MD, this coming weekend, and play an instrument well enough to keep up at dance tempos, I could use you in the pickup band for the Playford dance on Friday from 16:00 to 18:00, and/or the Regency Ball on Saturday from 17:00 to 19:00. If you tell me you think you'll be able to play for the Regency Ball, I can point you to PDFs of the sheet music online. Sheet music for the Playford will be made available at the start of the Playford dance.

In related news, although The Homespun Ceilidh Band is skipping Darkover this year (due to fidhle's injury), I'll be performing in an act billed as "Michael Stoddard (of HCB) and friends" (with Mike, obviously, and two other friends) on Saturday at 16:00 (that is, immediately before the Regency Ball, in a different room). We'll be playing some familiar and unfamiliar tunes, and some of the famliar ones in slightly less familiar arrangements. (I'll be playing, uh, seven or eight different instruments, according to the current plan, though admittedly three to five of those are guitars depending on what you count as a guitar.)

Also, keep an eye out for maugorn on the schedule, as he has, IIRC, two concerts under his own name and one as "and special guest".

( Need musicians for Playford (Friday) and Regency (Saturday) dances at Darkover this weekend; and I'll be performing on Saturday in a concert billed "Michael Stoddard (of HCB) and friends" )

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