In which my Christmas music collection wins me a contest

Tonight the three of us went to a madrigal dinner -- do they have those where y'all are? I'd never heard of one until I came to Illinois, and it's an odd combination for Illinois: food plus a strolling chamber choir singing Renaissance music.

And after dinner, the lead tenor demanded that all the people who had a ribbon tied around their chair leg should go up front for a little game. The kidlet would have loved to go up front, but I was the one with the ribbon. So I went up, dreading the worst. The last audience participation stunt I saw involved antlers.

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