SELF-REFERENCE ALERT:

So, my best friend from High School has pulled off one of the most dastardly coups in a long-running battle.

He called the other night from a jazz club and held his cell phone up in the air, so I could hear the opening act for the show he'd gone to see.

It was Roberta Flack herself singing Killing Me Softly....

He's a dead man walking.....