tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67606023570559143.post3370560085243058468..comments2023-12-15T07:43:17.560-05:00Comments on The Elegance of Humanity in America: How Not to Write an Operetta: Being an Indictment Against Neil Gaiman's CousinBillChashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16150091339105865805noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67606023570559143.post-15175008032474959492012-10-20T02:00:17.571-04:002012-10-20T02:00:17.571-04:00After a similar, gruesome experience with the pers...After a similar, gruesome experience with the person in question, it seemed proper to rename a certain variety of weed in my garden as "Fagins": that is, a vile noxious weed that serves no purpose whatsoever, but which is insistent, covered with thorns and resists mightily efforts toward it's uprooting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67606023570559143.post-35190242255857908522010-01-28T14:28:05.391-05:002010-01-28T14:28:05.391-05:00I'll forgive you. You have obviously never he...I'll forgive you. You have obviously never heard Tchaikovsky's violin concerto, one of the most beautiful and breathless pieces of music ever writ.derekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10995903434249065562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67606023570559143.post-62432251986883039982010-01-22T09:57:49.617-05:002010-01-22T09:57:49.617-05:00This sounds truly harrowing, to be sure--as if an ...This sounds truly harrowing, to be sure--as if an entire opera itself could be written about the experience. It could be a tragic epic. Fagin's Folly, I'd call it. Except maybe it should be Italian, I guess? That would lend it more of an air of legitimacy. La Follia di Fagin. The rest pretty much writes itself.<br /><br />Make it so.IceCreamNinjahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07421233369478238401noreply@blogger.com