I was supposed to go to the opera to see Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, a lengthy and high-cultural-value affair lasting 4.5 hours. It is an opera about master singers, and a comedy, so I was really looking forward to the auditory spectacle and the sheer delight. Very enlightened, very fancy, very grown-up and moved-to-Paris of me.
But.
There is a national strike today, over some new labor laws, which includes theater technicians. So the opera was cancelled because of a strike.
Even more French!
This post's theme word is inveigh, "to complain or protest with great hostility." The octogenarian-filled queue to exchange tickets at the opera was grumbly but did not inveigh.
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Sunday, March 6, 2016
Video game art
An interesting and high-concept, fancy exhibit of video game art included swooping drops of tone down to doodles on the wall, including several featuring a very stupid rabbit (citation needed?) who goes on adventures, often of a fatal and pratfall-humor nature.
The squids, tentacly, badly lit in this awkward photo, and in a spaceship, were a favorite with me.
This post's theme word is quisling, "a traitor, especially one who aids an invading enemy." Is there any other kind?
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