What are you doing New Year's Eve?

Am I a total dork for making my New Year’s Eve plans in October? Maybe so. But we’re going to see Patti Smith at the Bowery Ballroom, so I’ll live with your derision.

AND – as an added bonus: when I visited Patti’s website today just after buying our tickets, I noticed that she posted her own memorial for Joan Sutherland (and a Frenchified 'souvenance' at that). To add to Patti’s celebration of the numeracy of Joan passing on 10-10-10, I’ll add the personal touches that Cory and I went to Melanie and Damon’s wedding on that day, and that it was my grandfather’s birthday.

It’s well worth clicking on the Lucia di Lammermoor video that Patti embedded in her post.


Ave atque vale, and grosses bises, Dame Joan.