Oct. 2 -- Stairs on a wall, reflections on Paris, the Iron Man of churches and Hotel de Ville

Quote of the day...
"Clearly there was only one escape for them -- into stupidity. They could keep society in its existing shape only by being unable to grasp that any improvement was possible." -- George Orwell writing about Britain in the last year of the Empire.

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_n_o1anu9E&NR=1