1) Storytime re: the Old Post Office in DC, now home of Trump Hotel
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2) My first job out of college was working there, at the National Endowment for the Arts
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3) It's a beautiful, huge, old building with a hollow interior -- like an amazing ten-story pavillion
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4) Not sure about now, but back in my day at lunch various high school bands would perform on a stage in the pavilion / food court
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5) So I'd eat lunch with friends and you pretty much had to listen to some high school band from Malaria Creek, Alabama
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6) This was around the time of a movie called "Mr. Holland's Opus," about an inspirational high school music teacher (yes I'm old)
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7) Never seen it, but I gather it's a terrible, cheesy "Dead Poets' Society" rip-off (which is also a terrible, cheesy film)
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8) So basically for a year out of college I ate lunch listening to these horrendous, screeching high school bands
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9) And without fail, the (almost always male) music teacher /conductor would be on the edge of tears, if not bawling, when the music stopped
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10) By any objective measure the music had been a train-wreck but I think the real lesson here, folks
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11) Is that we all get moments where we get to shine and really, who gives a fuck what some shit-head like me thought of yr performance?
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12) You and the Malaria Creek marching band rocked it
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13) Haters always gonna hate
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14) The End
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