I remember we had this discussion where it was determined that adding letter isn't changing a letter. I never thought that strictness was necessary, so I happily report that the local washing machine parlour has a band, too , the Bleach Boys.
A rather rough day in history 1542 - Execution of Catherine Howard, 5th wife of Henry VIII 1692 - The Glencoe massacre 1945 - Beginning of the Dresden bombings, co-incidentally on Carnival Tuesday, just as today 1945 - Capitulation of the Wehrmacht forces in Budapest before the advancing Red Army; a...
My problem with anything vaguely historical is that there are so many great true stories that could be told without turning them into cartoonish nonsense. Plus, of course, the public come to consider the films historical which increases the overall level of stupid in the world. And that we don't ne...
100 years ago today, Rhapsody in Blue was first performed in Aeolian Hall, Manhattan. As a worse-than-mediocre clarinettist, I have a scpecial relationship with this piece, as it told me, in one bar, how utterly hopeless I was.
SpVgg Greuther Fürth 1 - 2 Hertha BSC I prefer this outcome because 1) I don't want my Greuther to be butchered in the Bundesliga yet again, and probably neither do they. 2) It provides some much-needed relief for Hertha from relegation pressure - we're in 8th place now, 8 points below the good play...
53 years ago today, Switzerland adopted, with slightly less than two-thirds majority of eligible male voters, suffrage for women on the Federal level and in some cantons that had been staunchly on the correct conservative path before. Als, what a black day for everything that's right and good. Tu qu...