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I'm not, though I have a lot of friends who are.

A lot of it comes from being willing to experiment: Picking up discs by artists I haven't heard, going to a lot of shows, that sort of thing. That, and reading just about every music book and magazine I can get my hands on.

I'm guessing he spent a lot of weekends alone.

He also said "neither a borrower nor a lender be". Probably one of those miserly old crackpots who sits around at home all day and yells at "those damn kids" to get off of his lawn!

Didn't he also say "If there's grass on the field, play ball!"?

Um. No. I believe you're the one who's always saying that.

Oh yeah, that's right. Polonius has nothing on me!

Polonius was unfairly tarred with the "stodgy" brush. His advice to his son, Laertes, is actually pretty sound advice even today.

Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
And you are stay'd for. There, my blessing with thee!
And these few precepts in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!

Jillikers! How'd my rebellious anti-establishment thread end up with people quoting ancient poetry?

UPDATE

"So I have this friend who's coming into town this weekend, and his wife is Russian. So I was wondering if you'd like to meet her..."

About as smooth as sandpaper, but it's tentative plans...

It's so un-hip it's hip.