via Wait, Wait! Don't Tell Me! int'l Nooze Service

*Salzburg is installing soft-wraps around their lampposts; te reduce the growing number of injuries via cel-fone-dementia.
Yup, them kwazy 'Strians have stolen a march.. literally, on the Marching Morons/dis-US version.


((sigh))
* A lovely city once visited by moi, wherein [as previously noted] trumpet sounds emanated from a basement (of some conservatory?) whose window was at level of the sidewalk.. one thing led to another and the player handed me one of those rotary-valve type trumpets beloved of Dicke Wagner and others;
I proceeded to toodle a few notes (as my companion later noted: ending up in a few passer-by cameras du jour)

Ahhh.. those carefree days when an American could travel freely sans narsty quips from the natives (though it may well have helped even then: that my transport Sprite had a GB oval I.D.-plate.)

Mozart (well, the Amadeus version) would have Loved this and other milieux du jour and likely Would have instantly Despised the Orange-man/boy:
possibly unto some wicked musical send-up of the mofo, doncha think?




I'll be here until the ausfahrt occurs..