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Sunday, June 11, 2006

La Spawn's Brush With Greatness
on the Way to Her Mahler Performance

"Condoleezza Rice was here."

"What? How do you know?"

"I bumped into her."

"What do you mean?"

"I was walking into the Kennedy Center with a bunch of other choristers when this guy with wires hanging out of his ear told me to stop. He said, 'Hold up, please.' But I didn't know why I should stop, so I kept walking. He said 'Hold up' again but I kept walking. Then all of a sudden Condoleezza Rice appeared and kind of bumped into me and I said 'Whoops, sorry,' and she said 'That's okay.'"
Posted at: 6/11/2006 03:52:00 AM