Long Talk with Phil tonight

Discussing: Seymour Hersh's latest revelations about the murder of Osama Bin Laden (in dumbass Salon Magazine, which will be read even by those who don't read), the utter farcical nature of this year's presidential election, the Hookup Culture (and the fact that boys no longer have fathers), the exquisite, utterly non-vocal beauty of BMV 56 ("Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen") which Phil is singing next Sunday in church (for money, of course).  I was, I daresay, something of a salutary irritant in pointing out that the oboe obligato is too idiomatically and ravishingly oboistic to be played merely by an organist, however proficient.