More notable sights and events from  the suburbs...

• a rickety old church with chipped white paint and fading green trim, with a sign identifying it as "Primitive Baptist Church."
• a gas station featuring "Dick and Rip's 24-Hour Tow Service."  I wonder if those fellers are concerned that their name drives potential customers away out of fear.
• I broke DJ Flav's snazzy white plastic fedora, which he received as a party favor at a Great Gatsby-themed wedding, and has been displaying on the back shelf of his car ever since as an (unnecessary) indicator of his classy ways.  I was trying to bedeck myself in fineries for our impending dinner at Il Giardino, Buck's County's finest purveyor of Italian delights.  Instead, I facilitated a small tragedy.
• Masten slammed my hand in Flav's car door (unintentionally, he claims), and now I have a throbbing bruise.  Fitting atonement for the destruction of Flav's chapeau.
• Oh, and Flav's piano recital was effing brilliant.  The next time you have the opportunity to listen to him coax Debussy's very thoughts from the heart of a baby grand piano in a lovely and cavernous hall of stained glass, do take it.  There was this one awesome part where a passing fire truck siren harmonized hauntingly with Flav's pianistic renderings...'twas a special moment indeed.