Didn't Aretha look great the other night?

See more of her here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/08/3602131/aretha-franklin-performs-at-the.html#slide-1

Of all the flash mobs

Of all the flash mobs that happen, it seems to me that the one that should happen again and again, year after year is either people performing Handel's Messiah, year after year, at different locations, like this: or they should do Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his 9th Symphony--or both. People could do these forever, year after year, and no one would get tired of them, unlike everything else that's done. Just a thought. A hopeful thought.

Pretend, for a moment, you're Julie Kauffman today

NOW what do you do? (I mean, besides sleep late this morning).

"Waterfire", renamed

Last evening's performance on Brush Creek should be renamed. It was to be "Waterfire", of course, and it's always terrific but last night's should just be called "Water", what with the rain before it, which delayed the beginning, and then at the end, hastening it's close. I will say this, though, too--the blocking of the sidewalks along the creed stifled the flow and fun of the event. In the past, we could all, as a crowd, go up and down, back and forth at the creek so it made the whole experience very flowing and open and "alive". This time, because we weren't to be on the sidewalks--they were concerned the creek would rise and there we'd all be in water up to our ankles--it killed some of the energy of the event. Still, though, it was fun and a great street party. And Kansas City doesn't have enough street parties.