happy valentine’s day today! i’m heading to machine’s we love dumpling’s party tonight and then off to tahoe tomorrow until next week for my annual aileen visit!

in the meantime, i’m full of congratulations for esperanza spalding who took the grammy for best new artist last night. it seems there are a lot of people who ran to the internet to say “who is she?” well, here’s a post on the very same internet for you.

she honored stevie wonder with a rendition of overjoyed for the obamas, live at the white house:

she promoted her grammy nomination on all the late night shows, like letterman:

and here she is in the studio with my sister playing jobim’s inutil passagem:

so. that’s a bit of it, now you know!