Another pure delight. When Susan Boyle was linked from Yahoo news, there was also a link for a toothless six year old sweetheart who did a stunning job with "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"; she's probably on Youtube too. To me, this is running so far ahead of what little I've seen of "American Idol" winners "styling" their guts inside out that there's no comparison.

I couldn't make myself pay money to see "Lord of the Dance". When I hear the Sydney Carter song, I see a scene from an Easter Sunrise service in Chicago 30 years ago: the teenagers of the church dancing, leaping, twirling, singing, playing, down the center aisle, with tamborines or whatever any of them happened to play. "Dance, then, wherever you may be!" I can't stomach any pile of egotism appropriating that title for self-promotion.