Ah yes, and when I am sporting my babushka and galoshes -- John is in his fake beard, black pants and shirt, suspenders and Amish hat and I'm calling him Emmett.  For as some of you may know -- John is as close as you can get to Amish without being in Lancaster County.  Although he is king of the gadgets, he shuns popular culture.  Indeed, when I first moved here I explained to one of my friends back in Cleveland John's disdain for movies, TV and most music.  Which led to my friend sending John a postcard with an Amish guy on front asking him to stop the masquerade and return to the Amish fold before New York "rejected him like a bad skin graft."

Speaking of popular culture and ethnic cultures, I saw Prince the other night.  The crowd was very ethnically diverse.  Indeed my friend Melissa I went with is Mexican, I mean Puerto Rican.  Anyway, the guy in front of us was Asian not sure if he was Japanese or Korean.  The back of his shirt read "Cracker, A**, Cracker." I looked at Mel and asked her if I should be racially offended.  Cuz if it said something else, I'm quite certain others in our vicinity would have had something unpleasant to say to him.  But in the true Christian fashion and respecting Prince's new found religiosity, I turned the other cheek.  The show by the way was great.