Bugaku in San Francisco!!!!

http://www.sf.us.emb-japan.go.jp/archives/PR_e/2008/pr_08_1014.htm

The Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco and the Genji Millenium Committee present, with the support by the Japan Society of Northern California, Bugaku- Japanese classical dance performance by the Japanese classical dance troupe, Hara-sho-kai as follows. Both performances are admission free.

First Day	When: Saturday, October 25 6:00-7:30 p.m. Location: Bechtel International Center, Assembly Room Stanford University, Stanford CA (Directions: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/icenter/festival/directions.html.) RSVP recommended. RSVP to infoav@cgjsf.org The performance at Stanford is sponsored also by the Center for East Asian Studies, the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI), and SPICE.
Second Day	WHEN: Sunday, October 26, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. LOCATION: San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) 100 Larkin Street (at Grove Street) Civic Center, San Francisco CA Free Admission For ＳＦＰＬ's website, click here

I definitely want to hit the Sunday performance - it's not only free, I can take BART!  Who's with me?

For the folks on the Group W bench.

Yeah, you over there. Playing with the pencils and having ideas you actually think are funny.

Maybe you weren't here last year. Read it, please.

I wasn't joking then. I'm not joking now.

You want to honor someone when he's gone, do it in a way that is true to who the person truly is. 

If you bothered to get to know me in life, you would know how to do that.  You'd know what songs I like because you actually paid attention while I was here. You would know better than to use me as an exercise of Your Bard-icky Chops to churn out an Ode To Gurdymonkey.*  You would know what should be in your glass** when you raise it in my name.

I shouldn't have to leave instructions. No one should.

"Here's to gurdymonkey, she was a cast iron pain in the ass!" 

You have to admit it has a certain charm.

*I pray that the perpetrators of a four part polyphonic "Potato Skins" paean have long since forgotten it. I don't THINK any of them read my LJ....

**"Mango Margarita" is not a phrase uttered in the halls of heroes.....