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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 don't like April Fools

Good morning, my good friend, dear reader of this post! Happy new month, happy new Wednesday, and say no to April Fools. If I can have a say, on the domain of my boudoir, there is no place, here, for such foul test on one's patience. I have been time and again a victim to such pranks and jokes. As such, no, I do not have any ounce of patience with April Fools. I don't understand why people still engage on such tasteless jokes, it is no longer the late 1990's and early 2000's. I don't think pranks went out of style because of the rise of "woke", but it was coincidental that a bad thing went away while another bad thing gained notoriety at similar positions. I am happy that this time of political correctness is drawing to a close, and I say that because the supposed man "behind it all" so to speak, the man that admins BlackRock, said something of the sort in a recent interview. At some point, the losses become too big to ignore, and the bad outcome...

In Which we Wrap up November 2023: A musical Retrospective

In Which we Have a nice Tablecloth and 500 grams of Sugar

In Which we Remember and Praise Empire Earth

In Which I journal a bit further! Life stuff and writing for amusement and work

In Which The Season is for Celebrating! And other topics of talking

In Which We have a Happy Thanksgiving 2023, and how Madame Du Barry was not well portrayed in my favorite movie

In Which We Discuss some 18th century Thinkers and their ideas

In Which I conquer Roma as the Byzantines, and other stories

In Which I go Back to the drawing board with the Byzantine Dream

In Which we have not the most auspicious start to November…