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In which Trina is a blathering fangirl and Hugh Laurie is hot.

Tuesday evening, my friend Ju and I boarded the Queen Mary to attend a blues performance. Yes, "blues" and "Hugh Laurie" are related.  What does a middle-aged, middle-class English white guy have to do with the blues?  Well, he's loved them for decades, and he released an album called "Let Them Talk" a few years ago.  I'm no expert on these things, so I don't have any say in whether he should be performing it, but I know that I liked it.  A lot.  He said Tuesday night that he can't believe he's been so lucky as to make a single blues album, much less a second blues album, which comes out in the UK and Europe in early summer and comes out in the US in September. *wrinkles nose in distaste at having to wait an unnecessary three months to hear the album* I'm a disorganized spaz who forgot to bring a note pad or anything to write down the musicians' names or the set list.  Sorry about that.  I do remember that he started with