I am coming off a mightily satisfactory winter celebration – The Countess got me a ridiculously awesome kaiser helmet and, strapping on a pair of aviator goggles and waving about a light saber, I’ve been having a fine time chasing […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The American Revolution was uniquely gifted in the number of its leaders who were not hideously deformed. The French Revolution less so. Marat’s skin disease, compounded with his reluctance to change clothes. Mirabeau’s portliness and (don’t let his wikipedia portrait […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First of all, Thinking Ape Blues is back! Nobody was kinder to us when we first began than Mark Poutenis, and so nothing is better than seeing this comic back on the web – nifty! Now, Pericles. Of course, I’ve […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’ve never treated yourself to the compositions of Hector Berlioz, here’s a good place to start – it’s the last movement of his most well known work, the Symphonie Fantastique. It’s a little bit like coming in on Hamlet […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This weekend, I had the opportunity to dress up as Beethoven and give a small talk about his life at a recital in San Lorenzo. He is my “You can only preserve the works of one composer for future generations, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy 5th Anniversary to us! So very much to say but since I had an apparently remarkably unsuccessful surgery on my hand this morning I’m typing this with one paw and it’s a bit slow going. But what I do […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Five keeps the neighborhood alive! When we started up Frederick five years ago, I didn’t expect it would still be going strong in the future year of 2012. I’m glad we do our part to amuse people for a minute […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, the old boy turns 300 today, and my what he’s weathered in that time. There are few other figures in history who have meant as many different things to as many different people – there is so much packed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love Simone de Beauvoir – so much that I tend to think of Sartre as her sidekick, rather than the other way around. Prior to Geoff saying he wanted her in this arc, I had only read The Second […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Of course, America had a chance for a female president before, in 1872 when Victoria Woodhull ran for the Equal Rights Party. But, since women weren’t even allowed to vote until 1920 in this country, the government refused to print […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…