Kansas Kristmas Karaoke

No good idea should go unreported, as no good deed should go unpunished. In Kansas business districts, large and small, mixed among the stores and offices are what Kansans politely refer to as ‘watering holes’. These watering holes are in fact beer joints, taverns or bars. In these watering holes are electronic devices called karaoke machines, which mix music and vocal tracts for entertainment. In the same business centers, street light poles bear loudspeakers that are connected to an amplifier in the chamber of commerce office, the library or the city hall, whichever unlucky place happened to be where the business district committee who proposed it decided it should be housed. These two technologies, the karaoke machine and the outdoor loudspeaker, could be combined to provide holiday music for the business district. Can’t you imagine Christmas songs like Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer and Hark the Herald Angels Sing performed by barleycorn celebrants wafting across the roof-tops and sidewalks of the shopper’s paradise? I can foresee Kristmas Karaoke festivals throughout the state with thousands in attendance brightening the fortunes of many a Kansas merchant.