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"The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum holds parties in their beautiful garden on Friday nights during the summer, each one of which features a guest DJ. I was talking to someone there and suggested - half jokingly - that I thought I would make a good guest DJ since I had what was, to my knowledge, the best collection of rap and dance 12 inch records of any middle-aged white guy in Sleepy Hollow, New York."

To his surprise, The Cooper-Hewitt took The Design Observer up on the offer. Michael will be DJ'ing the afterparty for the National Design Awards tonight. Read more.