my holy trinity

last night i went to a fundraising event for an organization that runs tutoring and writing and cool programs for kids. 826valencia was started by dave eggers in san francisco and now there are 826LA and 826seattle and lucky for me 826chicago in wicker park. each 826 is fronted by a "store." in sf it is a pirate supply co, in brooklyn a super hero supply, seattle has a space travel gear store. they want to front chicago's with a spy store. so, fundraiser.

dave eggers was there. as was ira glass. ira got tipsy and began to ramble and giggle about how weird showtime (the network this american life will air as a tv show on) is and his show can kick the l word's ass.

then, an hour long acoustic set by ben gibbard which didn't start until midnight.

at the end of the evening people were frenzied and tired but not quite ready to go home. so ben gibbard and another fabulously talented and articulate guitarist named john roderick, who plays with the long winters, rewarded the audience by playing what they deemed the worst song ever written.

and thus began a raucous cover of neil diamond's porcupine pie.

so, if i were assigning the father, son and holy spirit of my choice that would go to dave, ira, and ben (not sure who gets what yet). i bet i ignored guys like them in high school and now i know they were always too cool for me.

a note to young girls...date the quiet shy geeky guys. they wind up being total bad asses.

i'm going to try to upload a horribly grainy video of the song...