From: Joe Jackson <jjackson@wpine.com>

When my Sire Embraced me, I was unconscious from a massive 
heart-attack.  When I awoke he was gone and a strange song was playing 
in my mind.  It took days to actually hear it completely, because my 
mind was not `being all that it could be' for a while, but now I realize 
that he was trying to give me the information that I would need to 
survive in his own musical way.

		My Favorite Things.

	Giovanni mobsters are out robbing graves,
	the Brujah rant `freedom!' at their raves,
	Brothers in Blood, they surround you in rings,
	these are a few of my favorite things.

	short-tempered Gangrel resemble the Beast,
	while the Nagaraja on corpses do feast,
	a Ravnos is dancing, her bodice she flings,
	these are a few of my favorite things.

	Set's Followers are here, don't meet their eyes,
	when Malkavians gather, there'll be a surprise,
	Saulot has flown on an angel's wings,
	these are a few of my favorite things.

	Nosferatu kingdom lies under the ground,
	Assamite's coming, you won't hear a sound,
	Cacaphony's Daughter, 'midst shipwrecks she sings,
	these are a few of my favorite things.

	at Toreador socials the blood flows like wine,
	surrounded by horrors, the Tzimisce do dine,
	you to his master, the Gargoyle brings,
	these are a few of my favorite things.

	the Tremere are studying sorcerous scripts,
	while Samedi plot revenge deep in their crypts,
	Ahrimanes are said to conjure Englings,
	these are a few of my favorite things.

	in darkness Lasombra await the call,
	Infernalists grovel, invoking Baal,
	if Kindred be noble, then Ventrue are kings,
	these are a few of my favorite things.

	Years later I received an aged brown envelope from a lawyer that 
stopped me on the street and called me by name.  It had been in his firm 
waiting to be delivered at this place and time for over 80 years!  (Odd 
I hadn't realized that the song was that old...) and contained the 
following additional stanza.

	Old Clan Tzimisce dislikes the new,
	some older Brujah call themselves True,
	Kiasyd are said to have blood of Changelings,
	these are a few of my favorite things.

	Pretty weird if you ask me, but then my sire was a Malkavian and 
I have heard that some of us are prone to being a little odd at times, 
'though I'd scarcely credit the absurd notion that we are all mad.
	Want an M&M?  I've got jars and jars of the green ones, I've 
been saving them for years for a special occasion.

						Sammy.