Today, JSVB takes a mean-spirited turn a couple of days too late. First, please click on the audio player below to listen to the great Enrico Caruso sing the aria "Vesti La Giubba" from the opera "Pagliacci", by Ruggero Leoncavallo. This was recorded almost to the day in 1907, and so is public domain:
As the music plays, you can look at my rendition of hockey player Sidney Crosby losing the Stanley Cup (if you are in a hurry, try fast-forwarding the music to around the 1:40 mark to get to the juicy part) :
Sid the Kid is definitely not my favourite NHL player by a long shot, and I am not at all sad to see his Penguins out of the playoffs this year.
The aria "Vesti La Giubba" means "Put on the costume". In it, Canio the clown puts on his jolly clown suit while practicing his stage laugh just before a performance. However, he is heartbroken and enraged at a personal loss, so he laughs and cries at the same time. Vesti la giubba, Sid.
The Stanley Cup images are public domain. I pulled the Cosby picture off of a hockey blog on the Internet with no credit, and that's bad. I did re-work the image a lot, so hopefully I can skate by on this one.
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