Last week WAS all sorts of crazy. For me, it was because I was visiting New Orleans for a friend’s bachelor party. Now that I am back home, and not consuming roughly four thousand calories worth of gumbo and booze […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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For those of who who have never had the pleasure of “Bear is Driving! How can that be?!” I direct you to this. Back when we were in college and had nothing but time on our hands to do such […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I am totally thrilled with The Count’s latest level-up of his bear-drawing technique. That bear looks like it just wandered out of the Jamboree. — I haven’t thought about that Tick video game in several years. For us, what promised […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Peter the Great. What draws me to him is largely what draws me to Frederick – the mass of contradictions oozing about under his skin. The starry eyed innocence of his pleasure in mechanical devices and building things with his […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I sat down at the piano and played through Pictures at an Exhibition (well, the easy parts of it) as an act of contrition for today’s episode. Mussorgsky did not have a happy life, dying an underappreciated, diseased alcoholic whose […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The phenomenon of Russian serfs yelling out the names of past and future milestones of Russian culture with their dying breath is so well documented we need not go into it here. Suffice to say it appears that some of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Charles XII is entirely his own thing. Attacked by Denmark, Poland, and Russia simultaneously after coming to the throne as a teenager for no other reason than that they all wanted land and thought a teenage king would be easy […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the things that comes up about Charles XII a lot is his flirtation with switching Sweden, or at least the army, over to base 8 or base 64, the reasons given being either that Charles preferred to have […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For those who missed the last time Newton favored us with a song, here it is, wayyyyy back in episode 211! I love the Corn Laws and the parliamentary debates surrounding them… careers made and broken based on what sliding […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If it wasn’t for the Corn Laws, we would have never had the Anti-Corn Law League