Friday Random Links

• Joe Wilson as a black drag queen in Cabaret? (made you look--of course, it's not that Joe Wilson, or that one, but this one).
  
  
• Working stiff in Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side.
  
  
• Why Adorno hated protest songs. (Reminds me of a Eugene Chadbourne lyric: "Governments love anti-war songs / they say sing 'em loud, and we'll sing along / because it reminds them, in a musical way / that there's a war.")
  
  
• Pace JP Shanley, how gossip can be good.
  
  
• Baby on board.