Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!

You have probably noticed that my website has been a bit stale the last few months. I'll be frank about why that is.

One of the strong focuses of my website has always been the overlap between European and American culture. I've covered several uniquely European adaptations of Disney and Belgian appropriations of American culture. And even the more general nostalgia-focused articles were generally strongly colored by American culture.

It's a bit harder to get as excited about that as I used to, these days. Much of what I admired has been sacrificed on a profane altar to pettiness and hatred. But the true America is still that of The New Colossus.

In the meantime, my attention has often been focused on other things. I have gotten into miniature painting, for example. It's fun, though quite expensive. I don't feel like it's a good fit for this website, so I will probably not be talking much about it here. Maybe I'll reconsider if I find an interesting hook. I'm still reading Defiance of the Fall during my commutes as well. It's moving quite slow, and it's definitely not hooking me as Primal Hunter did. But I keep reading anyhow. I believe I'm at book 11 now?

Despite all of that, I do bring some updates now. The Greatest Belgians is a page that came out of discussions I had concerning cultural literacy. In it I go over some of the people voted by Belgians as the so-called Greatest Belgians. This list of course includes few women, for many of our prominent women have simply not been allowed to be consequential. Beyond that, there's a small page about Cirque du Soleil, and there is a new paragraph on the Belgian comics page, showing how one specific Belgian comic artist definitely read American Donald Duck comics!