Kicking the Pants

The photo that spawned this post. (Credit: ThatMakesAStatement)

I wrote this post by accident.

My friend George emailed me a few days ago to say (among other things) that a local theater was showing a production of Brecht and Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, an opera he considered to be “one of the foundational pieces” of his late adolescence.

I intended to reply, got distracted by something shiny, and rediscovered the email as I sat down to write a half hour ago.

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