Sigh.

Le Balcon, Édouard Manet, 1868-69.

Le Balcon, René Magritte, 1950

The Balcony, two ways.

Was there a turnstile? Many I've encountered require a 1€ coin to gain entry.

I look forward to the ensuing social media posts.

I'm so glad you're going, too! It's a marvelous city.

Thank you. This was helpful.

House of Wax Maisie.

I'm just happy I got to experience it.

I took care of Henry Mancini and Michel Legrand as they lingered over a very long lunch in Beverly Hills a couple of weeks before Mancini died.

A lot of smiling and reminiscing and hands on shoulders. I knew at the time I should file that afternoon away in my memory.

Extremely.

Once in a crowded elevator, my friend Jay casually asked, "I wonder whatever happened to that little Feltch girl on the 3rd floor?" and I nearly died.

Please overlook the double comment. I thought the first one didn't take, given Bluesky's current wonky status.

The only Sondheim I ever got to see on Broadway.

I’ve been trying to figure out why I’ve been obsessed with the Artemis II mission — more obsessed than I usually am with NASA stuff.

This explains it!

(IG: morganevelyncook)

Elsie the cow, Rotolactor spokesmodel and mass deportation fan girl.

Elsie is not happy about Leo spending the 4th of July in Lampedusa.

My hyperlocal ice cream flavor growing up was boysenberry.

Probably not as exciting a scoop of your Cullen Skink Swirl or Jellied Eel Ripple, but we Anaheimers and Buena Parkians love it.

Belgian movie poster for the film Down Argentine Way (1940)

What do Argentinian soap stars, potted palms, and diapers have in common?

The answer to this and other questions can be found at:

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He was a regular at a restaurant I worked at in college, so I got to chat with him on a weekly basis.

Such a warm and delightful guy.

I thinks it's adorable she got her braces off just in time for the charter school Spring Dance.

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An actual American absolute monarch defends liberal democracy and the jealous, syphilis-riddled wannabe can't stand it.

13th century France was...A LOT.

A nightmare to live through, I imagine, but so much fun to read about.

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

You need to catch me up on all the latest Chinon goss!

Bless you. ANd fresh wallpaper to boot!

Only 1800 more paid subscribers and I can afford it!

Me, too.

I've dusted my bibelots in his honor.

Well my day is made!