My funny Valentine
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A few things to make you smile on this holiday. First, “Your Love Is,” a deadpan ditty with an immortal closing line, from those talented singing persons, Paul and Storm. (You can hear more clips from Paul and Storm’s December 2006 MilkBoy Coffeehouse show by listening to the Skullcrusher Pirate Hotdish, and you can purchase a studio version of this song from their website at www.paulandstorm.com.)
Next, something hilarious from Chicago-based multimedia artist Michael Hightower: A video for “Baby Got Back — Gilbert and Sullivan Style.” When I watched his side-splitting, throwback rendition of the deliciously lurid old vaudeville saw, “The Aristocrats,” I felt the very sting of Cupid’s dart, as if my tender ticker had been “inscribed by the maharajah himself.” There was no way around it: I simply had to ask Hightower to be my Valentine.
I’m not at liberty to say exactly what transpired next, only that it led him to remark, “…but now I feel guilty.” As Woody Allen would tell you, that must mean we’re doing something right. Happy Valentine’s Day, all!
