Kennedy Center Honors----smh

     I watched most of the Kennedy Center Honors show.  I know it's a serious honor, but the ribbons the honorees wear around their necks remind me so much of Mork from Ork's  suspenders.  I wonder if any of them feel the same.  Supreme Court Judge Sotomayor introduced someone I thought I'd never heard of but then recognized the name Martina Arroyo when someone else pronounced it, without so many syllables and trills.
     I thought the Billy Joel segment was the best, but I may be biased because I have seen his live performance twice, once at the Carrier Dome when David was attending Syracuse, and then at The Pepsi, from a seat so high in the rafters that Billy was just a black speck.  I can't believe I'm writing this, but I thought Garth Brooks stole the show, performance wise.  He looked really great, in the best black tailored suit and cowboy hat I've ever seen.  He sang "Allentown" maybe a little bit better than Billy Joel, so could be that's why Billy looked so sad.  Though he does seem to have some degree of inflammation in his right eye. 
     When I heard the introduction for Rufus Wainwright, my first thought was that he was dead, but then I realized that no, that was Jeff Buckley who'd died after recording Hallelujah.  I was momentarily confused because that's the only song I ever heard Rufus sing.  But he sang "Piano Man" instead.  That was the closing number, and Billy Joel did smile, but maybe just because that meant the end of his seat in the balcony.  (I just heard that Sotomayor is going to drop the ball on New Year's Eve in Times Square.  Shouldn't she be studying about precedents or something?