The Syrian Shia 'ceasefire,' an exquisite comic coda for the desecration of American foreign policy; supporting the U.N. Resolution merely a last stain on the final swirl down. I would return to my mourning for Harambe, but there's the matter of the 10% tariff.

Connecticut melancholy

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf "Christmas Album" with the Ambrosian Singers, Cond. Charles Mackerras, and Julian Bream, Guitar

W. A. Mozart, Exsultate, jubilate, with I Barocchisti under Diego Fasolis 2005 Roberta Invernizzi

The Ankara assassination of the Russian Ambassador - a crucifixion worthy of a medieval master

Tales of Hoffman Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Carol Vaness - "Per pietà" - Cosi fan Tutti, Metropolitan Opera 1996 Cond. James Levine

China Forbes with Pink Martini at Town Hall, New York

Bull! Your host, with a bronze bull, taken from Persepolis, reign of Xerxes, circa. 424 B.C. The Oriental Institute, the University of Chicago

The winged bull from the entrance to the throne room of King Sargon II - The Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago

Robie House - Frank Lloyd Wright at the University of Chicago

MARTIN LUTHER 500th Anniversary - Eyn geystlich Gesangk Buchleyn - Johann Walter & Martin Luther

No seal sashimi for him - New England has lost it's bite - Shark attack at High Head, Cape Cod, MA