My Brother is the Best of the Web Today
My brother Kenyon, a low brass instructor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, wrote a piece entitled “Kerfuffle” for a tuba/euphonium ensemble. It will premier this Sunday. The school’s newspaper, The University Echo, carried a news report about the premier.1
The piece is built on a musical equation based on the last name of James Taranto, an editor for the Wall Street Journal who popularized the word “kerfuffle”. Although the news article only came out on the web yesterday, Taranto happened to find it in time to include it in today’s Best of the Web Today, a feature he writes everyday for the WSJ. It is the first item mentioned in the article, which I assume means my brother’s premier is the best of the best of the web today.
Kenyon also wrote a piece for my wedding that used my wife’s maiden name in the same way that this current piece uses Taranto’s name. The Internet was just getting started when I got married, so I was in no position to proclaim that piece the best of the web.
- The newspaper reported that ‘kerfuffle’ is a German word. I pointed out to my brother that it is actually of Gaelic origin, which he already knew. [back]
On April 18th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Congratulations on that, Kevin,
Have a nice time with your children.
On April 30th, 2008 at 12:02 am
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