A moment from tonight’s National Spelling Bee (with apologies to Perini Scleroso):
“Syringadenous.”
“Syringadenous?”
“Syringadenous.”
“Syriggadenous.”
“Syringadenous.”
“Syriggadenous.”
“Syringadenous.”
“Syriggaddanuss.”
“Syringadenous.”
“Zeeriggaduhns.”
“Sy. Ring. Ad. Enous.”
“Nnnh. Rynnnh Uhd. Nnh-unh.”
“I’m a little worried about the middle, there: Syringadenous.”
“Zhyt.”
“Syringadenous.”
“...”
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This has nothing to do with any of that, but I found it funny: David Byrne saw Sunn0))) at Avalon the other night and is planning on inviting them to play Carnegie Hall.