You're probably thinking I've been pretty dang lazy this past week or so, shoving up only a couple of posts. Truth is, I'm ...

In gearing up for our trip to Italy, I read a pile of books, both fiction and non. This was the most interesting, and had the biggest pa...

These two undated pieces by Peter Wenzel ( 1745-1829) are hanging in the Pinacotera (painting gallery) of the Vatican Museum. What they...

These leaf-headed aliens (from Milan,I think) are just the type of threat you expect to see stalking the streets of the Doctor's Lo...

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In keeping with my Italian frame of mind (did I mention I'm 25% Italian?), here's a great Spaghetti Western. This is the origin...