More than 300,000 people living in the danger zone directly under the volcano regard it as a living thing, a magical man-mountain, a geological god giving rain and rich land.
While we love The Perc, we'll be the first to admit that he'll never measure up to Harry Potter when it comes to the most important magical men of our childhoods.
Age 10: Believing In Santa Claus If you're older than 10 and still believe in a magical fat man who delivers presents all across the world, then your gullibility as well as your home-security practices are seriously questionable.
The international superstars were mostly magical: Wu Man on pipa (Chinese lute), Wu Tong on sheng (Chinese mouth organ) and Kojiro Umezaki on shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) on both evenings; Sandeep Das on tabla (Indian drums) and Dong-Won Kim, a Korean vocalist, on Saturday.
Every good comedy set is like a religious experience, though mine just happened not to be attached to a big magical invisible man in the sky.
