With a pinch of salt

That should do the trick ... ;-)

Lauging Lhursday*

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Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

With 175 days delay

Hardly a man takes a half-hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, 'What's the news?' as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels. Some give directions to be waked every half-hour, doubtless for no other purpose; and then to pay for it, they tell what they have dreamed. After a night's sleep the news is as indispensable as the breakfast. 'Pray, tell me anything new that has happened to a man anywhere on this globe' - and he reads it over his coffee and rolls, that a man has had his eyes gouged out this morning on the Wachito River; never dreaming the while that he lives in the dark unfathomed mammoth cave of this world, and has but the rudiment of an eye himself.

And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steam-boat blown up, or one cow ran over the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter - we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications. To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip. There was such a rush, as I hear, the other day at one of the offices to learn the foreign news by the last arrival, that several large squares of plate glass belonging to the establishment were broken by the pressure - news which I seriously think a ready wit might write a twelvemonth or twelve years beforehand with sufficient accuracy.


Henry David Thoreau (July 12th, 1817 – May 6th, 1862)

With four years delay :)

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Daniel Barenboim

Happy New Year, dearest Claude. Enjoy!

2017 New Year's Concert

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Gustavo Dudamel

There is no video recorded, yet, but music is for the ears, anyway, hm?

Same Procedure as Every Year

Saturday Night Music

Hélène Grimaud

Christoph Eschenbach

Orchestre de Paris

Laughing Lhursday*

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Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Bookworm's Delight

This was the beginning, ...

... and thus it ended:
My family knows to silence me. :)

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas,
Peace on Earth
and Goodwill to all People.

Saturday Night Music

Free Ramón Ebalé

Read more at Reporters without Borders.

Laughing Lhursday*

* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.