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1. 26 days ago on That is Priceless

   Among these we might see an Earl,

   who feels undue urgings to hurl,

   And even a Duke

   might violently puke

   on Milady, who’ll call him a churl.

2. 26 days ago on That is Priceless

   So this is a portrait of some Swells among the swells then…

3. 26 days ago on That is Priceless

   In the original novel, Aschenbach is a writer. For the film, Visconti changed it to composer in order to lard things out with Mahler in the score. Ironically, in the 1977 opera, Britten (a gay composer) returned to the original story and made Aschenbach a writer once more. ;-)

4. 30 days ago on That is Priceless

   A musical soirée at the asylum: Matron keeps watch while Gertrude taps out a rhythm on her teacup and Miranda plays her imaginary flute.

5. about 1 month ago on That is Priceless

   Like many old geezers you know,

   Ish awakens quite often to go.

   Then, unable to sleep,

   to this website he’ll creep,

   for a similar nocturnal flow…

   (boorish gests are a sibling’s privelege!)

6. about 2 months ago on That is Priceless

   His personal stylist has gone too heavy on the rouge and lipstick… good thing mirrors haven’t been invented yet.

7. about 2 months ago on That is Priceless

   Steinway is doing largely the same thing now with it’s ‘Spirio’ pianos, semi-experimentally accruing digital performances by selected up-and-coming pinaists at a handful of top ranked conservatories. The recitals are live, and the digital playback files are available to purchasers of the pianos equipped for it.

   Basically they record the recital on the piano’s action from the inside. (and of course it doesn’t require a sound isolation cabin for a steam operated device as apparently the old forsetzer technology did…!)

8. about 2 months ago on That is Priceless

   More likely Gounod’s 1867 opera, from which many excerpts and abstractions were made. Much more popular in France than the Berlioz’s 7 movement “symphonie dramatique.”

9. 2 months ago on That is Priceless

   The Congresswoman felt sure the tinfoil hat would protect her from The Aliens’ mind control, but was still very afraid that “Jewish space lasers” might burn a hole in it…

10. 2 months ago on That is Priceless

    Everyone at the Zoom meeting was amused when auto-spell introduced them as Regents and Regrets of the Leprechauns Asylum…