I’ve said before that befriending Frederick was just about as good a way as any to get yourself prematurely deaded. He did, though, always keep his lost friends dearly in his heart, contrary to the above. He provided decent pensions […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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To be fair, the pay-by-the-hour women were, by all accounts, EXCELLENT in France in 1527, and were getting far better in England. But Peter was hanging around with Lutherans mainly for his part of the mission and, well… While in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have my doubts that the historical Frederick would have chosen Bavaria, Richard Wagner’s turf since the mid-1860s, as the musical center of the world. He was not only a gifted flutist, but also a decent composer in his own […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hey all, colors will be late this week due to the performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Gondoliers” that is currently eating most of my time. However, be assured that I look quite dapper in my gondolier vest. –Geoff
http://www.ftg-comic.com/2008/08/28/For those a little bit fuzzy on just what Newton is talking about, here is the last time we witnessed the majestic transformation of the United States’s 16th President. Leibniz’s paranoid hatred of necromancers is well documented, and we need […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Subnormality is back!! Hurrah! As far as I know, pretty much every European system of currency in the 19th century was just about this messed up. If I’d thought about it, I would have had them somehow bring Johann Sebastian […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Apparently, many modern songs are well known to the denizens of the 18th and 19th centuries. We should probably think up a reason why this is true. The reason will probably involve time travel. –Geoff
Around the time of our 200th episode, I commissioned a piece of Frederick art from Adriana Ferguson of Stop the Comic and Very Very fame. And it just came!! Check it out! Way Awesome, isn’t it? Thank you Adriana! In […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Count does tend to measure things in dead babies. On that subject, a meta syntactic exercise: What is worse than [number] dead babies in a [container]? One dead baby in [number] [containers]. –Geoff
Nightingale is a tough nut to crack. Lytton-Strachey brought this out pretty well a century ago in his mini-biography of her in Eminent Victorians. She was a single person set up against an entire system of studied neglect who managed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…