Saturday morning The Chicken and I made a trek to the public library. After looking at this, that and the other thing, I found myself browsing the music CDs. That's always a mixed bag.

I think my library has a $0 budget for that sort of thing, so their collection is composed entirely of donations. They have some truly "library worthy" items, like the Ken Burns Jazz series, and they have items no one will ever check out, like Vince Gill Christmas albums.

After browsing through about half of the collection, and while pondering the check out history of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's Best Loved Hymns, I noticed I was doing something really stupid. I was guarding my selections.

I'd chosen two CDs and I wasn't ever taking my left hand away from them. I was sliding the CDs along the counter as I moved from one rack to the next. Maybe it's a holdover from my more urban childhood. Maybe I'm just an idiot. Either way, I'm pretty sure no one was plotting to steal away from me The Essential Willie Nelson or the Broadway soundtrack to Fiddler on The Roof.

In the last rack, Male Vocals, I found a real surprise. Mandy Patinkin's Oscar & Steve. What? Mandy Patinkin? The guy from Dead Like Me and The Princess Bride?

Yeah, that Mandy Patinkin. And he's singing Hammerstein and Sondheim songs. He's mostly doing pretty well with it… I think. He's got a hell of a range but I can't decide if I love or hate his vibrato. The man's certainly got some pipes on him.

The one thing I'm absolutely certain I hate is the album title. That CD could be sixty minutes of white noise and I can virtually guarantee I'd love it, if only it was titled Inigo Montoya Sings.