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This defensiveness explains the surprising number of firearms at Lincoln Center. Heck, I've noticed the same thing right here at Opera Omaha.

The Russians have an eight hundred year head start, so I grant them their lead graciously. The Euros on the other hand, have had opportunity after opportunity to plant their seed here, but instead of letting it bloom and flourish they opted to treat America as the redheaded stepchild, so America told Europe to stick it where the sun don't shine.

But in any case, whether it's a sandy haired Van Cliburn wowing the crowds in the heart of Vienna while doing "cover tunes" or a
boisterous Leon Russell holding a tent revival in Japan to a sold out house with his wholly original compositions, or an Ed Ruscha painting hanging in a revered spot at the Centre Georges Pompidou, or a Frank Lloyd Wright craftsman home holding its stateliness in Illinois, one thing is certain, the culture wars will never be won so it makes more sense to fraternize with the enemy instead of ridiculing the opposition.
Great things always come of such illicit affairs.

Say it isn't so! I thought he was referring to the bea insects.

It has been said that every country has bad cooking, but only the British specialize in it.

And there is the old joke:

"Heaven is where: the police are English, the cooks are French, the lovers Italian, the mechanics German, and the whole place is run by the Swiss.
Hell is where: the police are German, the cooks are English, the lovers Swiss, the mechanics French, and the whole place is run by the Italians."

In fairness, it must be said that British cooking has improved to an amazing extent in recent decades. And English breakfasts have always been great; the very best part of their traditional cooking. They are the foundation of the wonderful breakfasts you find in the American South.

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Alas. We've tried so hard and still you refuse to expand.

SWISH! Hand passing over head?

man, nu-man, now you're pushing the envelope. well, i'll agree that anything heston did was awful, but i sure as hell would love to hear those old english recordings you have. must be fun to listen to a dialect so old. i'll be there is all that wonderful scratchy.

My British friend (who lives in northern England and sounds Scottish to me) says my accent (I was born and raised in the south) is the closest to what she thinks of as an American accent.

Numan, you wouldn't last a minute in my small town full of musicians and artists of all kinds.
We're terribly uncouth.
Ask the surrounding counties.

Judging art is so subjective.
I don't really understand this whole conversation.
But then I've been out of town and haven't read every single post.

Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Art, music, sculpture, clean water, clean air, pretty girls, great schools, great food, great health care and hardly a condescending note in the whole cacaphony of culture to be found.

With Minneapolis and San Francisco we have a couple of very nice European cities, stocked with culturally savvy American, of course.

Oh, and a very well known American bard that even the Russians respect, named BOB DYLAN.

Bob Dylan is God.