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Quote of the moment Vol.2

“We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.” – Illustrated London News, Jan. 17, 1931 G. K. Chesterton

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"I am the last monarch of the old world. As Emperor, it is my duty to protect my peoples from their politicians" -Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria-Hungary

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In Which I go to town to see Marty Supreme: quite a movie!

Good morning, my dear friend, dear reader of this post, you fine lady, you fine gentleman! Cheers! How are you? Hope you are okay? It has been a week that went by faster than one would expect! I was wanting to write a post earlier than now, and I had a draft, but it was getting too big, and too many threads of thinking going into it, and it would be far out of the scope of a blog post to cover all that I was loosely writing about, it was too big and tiresome to read, too hard to find a finishing line, so I did what I don't usually do and scrapped the whole post, not an easy nor a decision I took lightly, but it was needed, or else the post would just keep dragging on. That said, I am okay. Monday I was pretty melancholic, so this Tuesday I could go to the movies, for the first time since The Phoenician Scheme, which was a good excuse to get out of the house, though the movie disappointed.  I went to the movies, got my ice cream, then popcorn, and also bought a bottle of eau de toil...

In Which we say Farewell to July, a month of Net Positive overall

In Which soon I will be a quarter of a century old

In Which we talk on Med Withdrawal, The Sims 4 vs. 3, and the evil of Modernism

In Which I talk further on The Sims 3

In Which I try The Sims 3!!!

In Which we have a bit of my history with Drawings

In Which we briefly talk about Late Rococo and the age of the Harp (1773-1789)

In Which we talk a bit about some events in the amazing life of Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun

In Which we have the time of limbo on videogames and books

In which I say once again: Happy July 4th. And there is a lot I don’t know

In Which we Briefly talk about the decline of Roman Art

In Which we welcome July: Winter and Rain

In Which we Wrap up June: the Blog Birthday month