Stanley D. Currier Archive: Seriously, Opera?
I'm beginning to think that my fellow Gwinnutians lack the stomach for looting. A while back, I heard a rumor that there was going to be a flash mob at the Mall of Georgia and so I packed a couple of bricks in my book bag and headed up to Buford planning on getting a free pair of Nike Air Jordans out of the deal. I get up there and notice lots of people with conspiratorial expressions milling about the food court, so I plant myself right in front of the entrance to Foot Locker and wait for the signal. All of the sudden, someone blows a pitch pipe and, get this, people start singing opera. Yeah, everyone's coming out of the wood works bellowing out friggin' Wagner. (Quite frankly, IMHO, Puccini might provide a better background for a riot, but ... whatever.) So I wait, figuring that this was just a prelude to the "get free stuff" part of the flash mob. And I wait. And I wait. About half way through the Ring Cycle I start thinking "You know, I like 19th c...
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