The Fredösphere

If you are in Ann Arbor, you may want to go see the University Symphony Orchestra perform Shostakovich Numero Fivo tonight.  It's free at Hill Auditorium.  (Oooh, sweet, sweet Hill Auditorium.)  They will also perform the Prometheus Overture by Beethoven, and Barber's Piano Concerto featuring Ming-Hsiu Yen, last year's winner of the Concerto Competition.  You should enjoy watching the carefully controlled energy of conductor Kenneth Kiesler.

I can't get away, alas.  I'm committed to sitting all evening in the township office discussing certain parcels of land of which I have about 3% ownership.  I'm not kidding.  If you think ordinary land deals are complex, you should try to get involved in one where dozens of people have equal say in the decision making.  This is all for a piece of land that's worthless, although adjacent to our property.  Our only interest is in making sure no one else gets control over it and decides to put a scrap metal processing plant there. 

Or worse, they could build a state hospital and move in all of Michigan's budding young Hannibal Lecters.  Naw, that couldn't happen, since we have one of those in our neighborhood already.