Like many four-eyed, Brooklyn-dwelling culture nerds, I was tickled when the Obama White House hosted an evening of music, poetry and the spoken word last May.  Somehow I missed this clip of artist and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda performing "The Hamilton Mixtape" until I saw it on clusterflock last week. 

Not since They Might Be Giants venerated James K. Polk has a dusty figure from American History received such a hip musical tribute. Now if Sarah Vowell would compose a marimba tribute to Roger Williams, and Billy Joel would perform an a cappella ode to Imre Nagy, my life would be complete.