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Violin virtuoso Sarah Chang brought the Oregon Bach Festival audience to its feet last night with a rousing performance of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. I heard murmurs and comments of awe coming from the audience around me throughout the piece. And, breaking with protocol just a little bit, the audience gave a round of applause halfway through the work, between Summer and Autumn, as well as a full standing ovation at the end.

But enough about the music, we all want to know what Sarah was wearing! It can best be described as a mermaid gown. For a visual example, see the woman pictured second from the right below (between Biancé and Britney Katherine Heigl, I think her name's Rihanna something or other):

In fact, that's the exact color and sheen that Sarah wore last night (and just as curvy). I think these styles of dress are known as "fishtails," and it fit perfectly with the Spring and Summer movements of the Four Seasons (but maybe not so much Autumn and Winter). It all really came together when I saw this bewildering text come on the supertitles:

"the lark coos, the goldfish sings."

I can picture a lark cooing, but a singing goldfish? Ah, but then you look down and see Ms. Chang "singing" with her violin in a fishtail dress and it all makes sense.

You can check out Sarah Chang's rendition of The Four Season's by clicking on the image below:

No, seriously, this is a short and unfunny one. Because sometimes the news ain't funny. OK, except for one.

1. Bombs kill. Death toll still rising after attacks. Oh, and although some (*cough*Britain*cough*) sort of want to get out of Iraq, France wants to become an "honest broker" in the country. Someone has to do something that doesn't involve killing, I guess. Because soldiers are psychologically conditioned to kill.

2. Republicans revel in making others grovel. I don't think that's just a Cali thing either.

3. Leaders like to be deciders. This means they sometimes rebel when their puppetmasters try to tell them what to do or how (or when) to do it.

4. Deciders don't like journalists. Especially after pro-democracy demonstrations.

5. Deciders don't like protesters. And have manuals on how not to see them.
Not that they're worried or anything. But the White House evidently leaves little to chance when it comes to protests within eyesight of the president. As in, it doesn't want any.

6. The funny one: Crocs are ugly! But popular! In case you hadn't noticed them, or all of those little things you can put in their holes, the Christian Science Monitor tells you all about the shoes and their devotees. (And their detractors.)

BONUS: "Dwarf's penis gets stuck to vacuum cleaner"