Those poor people in Houston who’ve already evacuated once now have to evacuate again. I can’t even think about it.

I’ve been spending the morning reading a paper for my friend M which is making my head swim for all kinds of reasons. Because of this, I will spare you an actual entry and offer instead a PSA.

Here is an amazing version of George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” played on ... ukelele. Wait, don’t laugh. This guy, Jake Shimabukuro.com, is damned good. The video is appropriately shot in Central Park’s Strawberry Fields. For anyone in the Chicago area, he’s doing a free concert at 6 this evening at the Borders on North Ave. You can also catch him in the Chicago World Music Festival, which opens today. You can find out more information about “the Jimi Hendrix of the ukelele” at jakeshimabukuro.com.

I will now have to add ukelele to bagpipes, accordions, and gamelan on the orchestration list of music I like but which probably annoys the neighbors.

[Yesterday’s entry was posted quite late. Click back if you want to read about AJ’s growing pains]

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