Cool worlds are colliding! Ur-blogger and gay conservative Andrew Sullivan, one of the all-time blogging heavyweights IMHO, wrote an essay a few years back entitled entitled "The America We Breathe," a paeon to some of the finer pleasures of life in the US of A which we take for granted. The cool part is that he's going to be performing said essay with Wilco at this summer's Chicago Conservative Arts Fair at Grant Park! According to a press release, singer Jeff Tweedy has been a long-time fan of Sullivan, and wrote a suite of songs inspired by the essay entitled "The Stripes Triptych". When he sent Sullivan a CD featuring a few rough masters of the tracks in question, Andy was so touched by these he had his publicist call Tweedy to arrange a "future play-date". This performance is to be the materialization of just that. The Kosmic Kwote:
"No one is more excited about this opportunity than little ol' I," said Sullivan. "I feel that at long last I am winning the cultural cachet I feel the causes I support deserve. These are dark, trying times in this nation, and to have an artist of such high esteem -- critically and popularly -- as Tweedy is indeed a great honor."
Added Tweedy: "Dude, this rocks."
If you're looked for me on June 24th, look no further than the Buckingham Fountain. I'll have the beer stein and the flag hat.
Oh, and PS: April Fool's on me. Sullivan and Wilco? Conservative Arts Fair? Cool stuff at Grant Park? In my dreams.
