Before It All Comes Tumbling Down

Arnie Gunderson on Ecoshock Radio 4/12/12

All the waste in a year
from a nuclear power plant
can be stored under a desk.
--Ronald Reagan

more quakes today
near Fukushima

pool near Boston contains more radioactive cesium than released by Fukushima, Chernobyl and all nuclear bomb tests combined

Opera à la Mozart

Don Giovanni

RAOUL DUFY: HOMAGE TO MOZART

Cosi fan tutti

MARY CASSATT: THE OPERA

The Marriage of Figaro

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back
and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
--Robert Benchley

The Magic Flute

An unalterable
and unquestioned law
of the musical world
required that
the German text
of French operas
sung by Swedish artists
should be translated
into Italian for
the clearer understanding
of English-speaking audiences.
--Edith Wharton


TOULOUSE-LAUTREC:
AT THE OPERA BALL

The Times They Are A-Changin' Very Slowly

WHIRLPOOL GALAXY

Bob Dylan's The Times They are a-Changin' slowed down considerably.