Corrupting the Snolfs?

After seeing my Musical Maunderings selections in this month's Salon, a friend commented on how eclectic my music collection is. Is it ever! But to be honest, it isn't just "my" collection -- the music at my fingertips comes from three grownups who all enjoy music very much, plus some contributions from the teenagers. I'm not brave enough to set my music player on random—I just don't think I can handle a sequence of, say, Miles Davis – Tone Loc – Merle Haggard – Frank Zappa – Dread Zeppelin – Metallica – Fairport Convention – Henry Mancini—but I do select unfamiliar artists from time to time, and usually enjoy at least a song or two. And the snolfs are often nearby, absorbing whatever bits of the musical stream that catch their attention.

So, it was met with some surprise the other evening when my daughter requested Tom Lehrer's Poisoning Pigeons in the Park. My son was a bit upset—he seemed to think it an endorsement of the activity. I don't think so ... but all the same, I'm glad we don't have any rat poison around for her to experiment with. Mostly because we don't have pigeons around here, but an assortment of lovely birds, including a recent influx of robins, and it'd be a shame to lose them.

In case you're wondering, yes, I've fielded some questions such as, "What's 'making book'?" and "What's a poll tax?" Hey, they're getting a good education from it, right? Heh.