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Definition:  sound made when Robby finishes singing in an I Cantet (definition of I Cantet [by the way, I just made up the word]:  I Cantori demonstrative quartet/octet [in today's case, quartet]).  It’s good that Robby and I have had a lot of time to practice our part, but it can only go so far in alleviating nervousness.  I think we sang alright except for the occasional squeak, quivering breath, and sigh.  It doesn’t get any easier, Robby.  You just get more used to it.  Wait, I guess that makes it easier in a way… whatever.  It just doesn’t completely go away.  Stupid fear of singing to a crowd of more-musically-talented-than-Robby-or-I peers will haunt you through I Cantori.  Why did we join? you ask.  It is worth it.  Just come to our final concert and you’ll see what we mean.  Until then, happy whewaaaahhoooooos to all I Cantori members!

Since Alistair is looking for a better job--If he were to look for a new job, I mean--Bret has some advice for him.

Yes, I know, two videos uploaded in three days! It’s exciting!

Oh, and we’ve gone back to ad lib-ing everything. Scripting ended up being too hard (it made us take two weeks to get our first one out).

Allow the celebrations and jubilation to commence! We have our first episode of the new season! It took us a while, but we don’t have all the time in the world, you understand. Anyway, we scripted this one. It was a little bit easier for us to do it that way. The ad lib thing is really hard to do every week.

Bret shows us his not-so pearly whites. It’s dentist time, babay.

Fun with a tablet.  Serious fun.  Robby got himself a new drawing tablet for his computer, and today we had some fun with it.  Robby drew a few things, then got bored and drew a couple of random dots (or something like that).

Then, he asked me what I saw in it.  I said I saw a polar bear.  He then said it looked more like an upside-down head.  So he drew that.

I still thought it looked more like a polar bear, so in 5 seconds I demonstrated where the ears, eyes, and body would be on the bear.

Well, that’s what a 5-second bear looks like.  Then we started taking turns.  Here is what Robby came up with:

This is a peeping Tom.  And a police officer received a call from the peeped.

In case you can’t tell, that’s a nuclear rocket on a skateboard heading for a screaming person.

And that was a footstep of a rather large man as seen through Holmes’ magnifying glass.  In between each of those, these are what I drew:

This is a rather interesting picture of a man about to fall off a cliff in his tractor.  Serves him right for having such a gas-guzzler, though, eh?  (the tree-huggers are applauding at this point)

This is a rather bad man.  Stay away from this man.  He also has a rather large gun.

(took me about 12.2 seconds, so it’s not fantastic, but it was hilarious enough to include here)  I realize that most of my pictures are morbid or otherwise horrible… but don’t read too much into that.  The random dots just have morbid characteristics.

(this is to what I degraded when I ran out of ideas; I don’t know what this is)

So, there you have it.  An hour of fun with two random dots.

This is a comment on the Eric Whitacre Choir Youtube video.  I just thought the screenname was interesting.