Mary bore little Cheeses

The Suspicious Cheese Lords held a dress rehearsal, minus the dress, last night at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in upper NWDC. It went well, and we met and rehearsed with our guest artists, three instrumentalists from Modern Musick (which plays Ancient Musick... ain't that the cleverest?) After several lords started bewailing the lack of red wine (a staple at all rehearsals at Stately Cheeselord Manor) Lord Fomo retrieved from his car a full "fifth" of blended Scotch whiskey, which we passed around like wharf rats. That made the second half of the rehearsal all the more interesting. Certain lords were clearly unused to swigging hard liquor, but there were no disasters.

The concert is this Saturday at 4 p.m. at the cited church. I think it's going to be really, really good.

Following the rehearsal a gang of Lords went in search of late-nite foodstuffs and found many closed kitchens. But Ireland's Four Fields (formerly Ireland's Four Provinces) served us Guinness on tap, which is almost like food. The denizens of SCM still had rumblies in they tumblies, so they stopped at EnormoSlice in Adams Morgan to procure an acre of pizza each. I declined said real estate and went home for make a nice grilled cheese sandwich with extra sharp Irish cheddar.

Silence is glodden

(I was happy to learn, in the media flurry surrounding SB Cohen's Borat movie, that "glod" is Kazakhstani for "mud"; now the puns on "god" and other words are endless.)

This afternoon, everyone—really, pretty much everyone—has left the office to go across the street for the company "Holiday Party," for which I RSVPed in the negative weeks ago. My mom's Christmas Eve open house is about all the Holiday Party I can stomach, and even that's pushing it, depending on how many of which relatives show up. But this makes it beautifully quiet in the office today. Ahhhhh......

"Israel's Demise Is Predicted in Iran"

This article (quoted in its entirety) from yesterday's Washington Post Express goes a long way, in my opinion, toward demonstrating that Israel is not merely a ruthless aggressor against Palestine and other Middle Eastern countries/factions:

Subhead: At Holocaust meeting, president says Jewish state will be 'wiped out'
Tehran, Iran / Iran's hard-line president said Tuesday that Israel will one day be "wiped out" as the Soviet Union was, drawing applause from participants in a conference casting doubt on the Holocaust.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments were likely to further fuel the outcry prompted by the two-day gathering, which has gathered some of Europe's and the United States' best-known Holocaust deniers.
Anger over the conference could further isolate Iran as the West considers sanctions in the standoff over Tehran's nuclear program.
But Ahmadinejad appeared to revel in his meeting Tuesday with conference delegates, shaking hands with American participants and sitting near six anti-Israel Jewish participants, dressed in black ultra-Orthodox coats and hats.
"The Zionist regime will be wiped out soon the same way the Soviet Union was, and humanity will achieve freedom," Ahmadinejad said during Tuesday's meeting.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday that the conference was "shocking beyond belief" and "a symbol of sectarianism and hatred." The White House condemned Iran, saying the conference is "an affront to the entire civilized world."