As Annie mentioned yesterday, it's cold and gray and altogether a depressing time to be in St. Louis. Despite all the goodwill that was supposed to be generated by Easter and Passover (rebirth, freedom, chocolate), my thoughts have taken a misanthropic turn.This morning a friend sent me a YouTube clip of Susan Boyle's performance last Saturday night on Britain's Got Talent. Boyle is 47. She lives in a small village in Scotland with her cat. Her eyebrows have apparently never seen tweezers. She f
Damn you Internet. For the second time in two days, you've brought me a video that makes me want to cry. Yesterday it was Susan Boyle, the Scottish woman who looked like a lamb to the slaughter on Britain's Got Talent, but whose gorgeous voice poleaxed Simon Cowell and restored my faith that sometimes good things do happen to people who deserve them.Today it's the Newark (Ohio) High School Sinfonia, particularly its first violin and concertmaster Tiffany Clay, featured in Dan Barry's New York Ti
The Daily Record, a newspaper in Scotland, has found a recording of Susan Boyle singing "Cry Me A River" on a charity CD that came out in 1999. The CD was to benefit Whitburn Academy, a high school near Boyle's home in West Lothian, and only 1,000 copies were ever burned. I assume it's high Internet traffic that is not allowing me to hear any more than a few seconds at a time, but maybe some of you will have better luck.Also, for all the commenters who were so upset about the media's obsession w
