Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: The Musician’s Brief Guide to Holy Week

Greetings friends. I’d like you to take this time to be kind to your church musician friends. They’re going through the crazy part of the schedule. As this is Holy Week, the one where they’ve got things all the damn time for the next four days, starting tomorrow. Holy/Maundy Thursday? You betcha. There’s a service then. Then, there’s Good Friday service. Then, surprisingly the longest of the bunch, Easter Vigil, which is Saturday night. I played it for the first time last year and it’s a solid 2 1/2, 3 hours. You know it as the one with the people walking in with the candles and if you’re in Italy they’re dressed up like the Klan? Or is that Good Friday. Italian agent 2Pack would be able to shed further light.

No, that’s not the South, and this wasn’t yesterday’s MAGArraignment, it’s apparently Good Friday in Sorrento. (Link)

By the time you get to Easter service, or double service, no longer a problem. So give love to your church singers and organists when all is said and done, and possibly a double shot, whether alcoholi or espresso. Meanwhile violinists and trumpeters are like “And which ones do we get to do?” (So far in my life I’ve played Holy Thursday, Vigil, and Easter Sunday. Not too much Good Friday.)

Which is good, because unfortunately for my current primary contracting end, it’s Passover. Nothing doing during Passover, we don’t play the Seder in case you’re wondering.

Speaking of, people of a certain age would tell you about the animated movie The Prince of Egypt. Good film. I think I might have seen it only once though so I don’t remember much of the detals. People of the same age would also tell you Rugrats has the best Passover special. They’d be absolutely right about that one. Listen, The Ten Commandments is on ABC, but it airs for approximately one eternity.

Okay, the news
QAARON’S QAVE WATQH QTILL QONTINUES: Current update: If the Jets talks fall apart the Niners want in.

Speaking of HoF QBs, John Elway’s consultant contract has been sent to the glue factory (not renewed).

Former Qards VP Terry McDonogh accuses Michael Bidwell of gross misconduct, including discrimination, harassment, and… cheating? I mean, that’s bad, but as long as there aren’t 34 counts of using the cheating as a business expense I figure that’s fine, right?

That’s Rikki’s Raiders! is now Hoyer Country. And former P*ts gritback Danny Amendola joins the team as an assistant coach.

Sports
Dirtball
Team Nepotism vs. Lesser Arrowhead (TOR vs. KC, 7:40, MLBN)

Iceball
Jacob Trouba’s Inevitable Trade Destination vs. Trouba’s Current Team (TBL vs. NYR, 7:30, TNT)
BOOTS ON THE GROUND! Never been to a Rangers game, having been peer pressured into following hockey during high school and not getting the chance to play Wieniawski’s Scherzo-Tarentelle on the ice (only at halftime of Knicks and Liberty games), but I’m on spring break. (I have been to a hockey game, which was Isles-Devils, preseason, and it was… Hockey Math Day or whatever. It was in 6th grade, and I remember there was a fight, and then as soon as they both got out of the box, second fight.)
Fightin’ McDavids vs. Knuckle-Puck Time (EDM vs. ANA, 10:00, TNT)

Woodball (heh)
Alan Parsons Project vs. Leicester Alliance (CHI vs. MIL, 7:45, ESPN)
Staples Battle! Lakers vs. Clippers (10:00, ESPN)

Robot Fights?
Yes, it’s the return of RoboGames, the biggest non-televised competition out there. Mainly because there are more weight classes than at NHRL, though that might be the foremost for 3-lb. beetleweights. You can follow the Twitch stream here starting tomorrow.

Will I get home to start writing the BattleBots Beat at a reasonable hour? Find out!

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