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Cue Sheet – December 23rd, 2005

HIATUS

    I’m taking the next week and a half off from KUAT, and may or may not blog during that period. In-laws are descending upon us, and since these are people I actually like, I want to devote some time to them. With luck, I can get my remaining work-related obligations out of the way efficiently. By the end of next weekend, I need to edit three articles by other people for the Tucson Weekly, review a play that opens on New Year’s Eve, finish proofreading someone’s very strange novel about graverobbing and necrophilia (if only the writer had more fun with the sheer loony perversity of it all), write 2,000 words for the All Music Guide, do some minimal Web site maintenance every couple of days for Fanfare magazine, and finish off two overdue articles for Strings magazine. This actually is equivalent to only about two full days of work, so it shouldn’t interfere too much with my social life. Meanwhile, as those of us who are supposedly waging war on Christmas say, happy holidays.

quodlibet,

COYOTE CAROL

    A few years ago I heard a pack of coyotes howling on Christmas Eve, and was pleased to think of them as wild carolers, going wash to bosque with their own seasonal greetings. But what, exactly, would coyotes, good pagans all, sing about at this time of year? Here’s what I came up with, sung to the tune of “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen”:

God bless you, hairy cattlemen,
and hirsute shepherds, too.
More meager would our mealtimes be
Without the likes of you,
Who’ve introduced into our realm
That tempting baa and moo.
Oh, thank goodness for human fools who keep
cattle and sheep.
All we ask is:
Please don’t shoot us from your Jeep.

quodlibet,

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James Reel's cranky consideration of the fine arts and public radio in Tucson and beyond.