For tomorrow’s inauguration (have you heard about it?) it appears that rapper Yo Yo Ma will be playing a carbon fiber cello, as his made-in-1733 Monagnana might not like the 10º outside temperatures.

The $1700 Carbon cellos are made by Luis and Clark in Massachusetts.

In fact yesterday (according to an article in today’s New York Times), the oddly named “Joint Service Orchestra” had all 44 members of their string section playing carbon fiber instruments in the 14º temps.

Since what remains of the again reunited Grateful Dead is also playing the inauguration, I was thinking that the Joint Service Orchestra was some kind of tribute orchestra (like a tribute band) to the first president to admit that’s he’s actually inhaled a joint. I think Obama’s candid words when asked if he’d smoked pot and actually inhaled (unlike Bill Clinton) were something like “Look, when I was a kid, I inhaled frequently, that was the point”. In fact that’s the quote on my most prized possession, my Sock Guy Hope socks, shown here.

Sorry about the picture quality, I was too lazy to get a real camera and had to use the worst camera in the world, found on every iPhone in the world…
But I digress.
We were talking about carbon fiber, not hemp fiber.

That’s all really. More carbon fiber making into the nation and international news. Now if we can just get the President Elect off of that aluminum Trek he’s been riding, and onto something made out of carbon. We need term limits on Presidential two wheelers, this makes a “three-peat” for Trek. It should be unconstitutional.

Oh, and I know Yo Yo Ma is not a rapper, but he should be.

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