>Kind of off topic, but where does the quote in your signature come from?

Italian author Italo Calvino. IIRC that one's Invisible Cities. He's pretty amazing, you should check him out.

No problem. As it turns out, I'd put the entire passage on our internal staff site as a mood piece for Moon Mages, so have the whole thing:

Cities & The Sky 4
Summoned to lay down the rules for the foundation of Perinthia, the astronomers established the place and the day according to the position of the stars; they drew the intersecting lines of the decumanus and the cardo, the first oriented to the passage of the sun and the other like the axis on which the heavens turn. They divided the map according to the twelve houses of the zodiac so that each temple and each neighborhood would receive the proper influence of the favoring constellations; they fixed the point in the walls where gates would be cut, foreseeing how each would frame an eclipse of the moon in the next thousand years. Perinthia -- they guaranteed -- would reflect the harmony of the firmament; nature's reason and the gods' benevolence would shape the inhabitants' destinies.

Following the astronomers' calculations precisely, Perinthia was constructed; various peoples came to populate it; the first generation born in Perinthia began to grow within its walls; and these citizens reached the age to marry and haven children.

In Perinthia's streets and square today you encounter cripples, dwarfs, hunchbacks, obese men, bearded women. But the worse cannot be seen; guttural howls are heard from cellars and lofts, where families hide children with three heads or with six legs.

Perinthia's astronomers are faced with a difficult choice. Either they must admit that all their calculations were wrong and their figures are unable to describe the heavens, or else they must reveal that the order of the gods is reflected exactly in the city of monsters.

-Armifer
"Perinthia's astronomers are faced with a difficult choice. Either they must admit that all their calculations were wrong ... or else they must reveal that the order of the gods is reflected exactly in the city of monsters." - Italo Calvino

Two months with no replies here? Sacrilege!

'Tis the season for light-sa-bers. https://youtu.be/U9t-slLl30E

Nikpack

>>Two months with no replies here? Sacrilege!

Musical review of the last two months: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhXcLJFpQ6A

-Armifer
"Perinthia's astronomers are faced with a difficult choice. Either they must admit that all their calculations were wrong ... or else they must reveal that the order of the gods is reflected exactly in the city of monsters." - Italo Calvino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK8xB1opuQ8

Yep, I'm that guy that starts 9 days early.

No no no you're welcome. God bless us everyone.

<<I saw your post and decided I would share the song that's been in my head, especially since it's Star Wars related. I went and grabbed the link, and then decided I'd better follow your link first before posting. Of course, it's the same song.
I usually try to post more than a link cause the same has happened to me.

<<It's really the most catchy of the trio.
Yes!

<<Musical review of the last two months: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhXcLJFpQ6A
I wish it wasn't

<<Pfft. Amateur. Christmas starts after Thanksgiving dinner.
<<https://youtu.be/2Dec9Jb_Ac4
It doesn't help that is a common Amazon commercial I see ALL the time on Youtube. I never heard of this song before a month ago.


Nikpack

<(... It's an inside joke from my work).

Judge free zone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohh3dLBFdGs

Why yes, I am in a house with small children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N83z4zxjFOQ

Dedicated to my old 79 lincoln town car

I believe with Paul Simon that after Music TeleVision and You Tube, music in the music industry became more about looks and appearance than about actual quality of music.

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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Bertrand Russell
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/search_results.html?q=love

Noumena
https://youtu.be/8N_tupPBtWQ

I blame you thieves: Khri is for Cookie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye8mB6VsUHw

Helje
DragonRealms Senior Board Moderator

I come bearing gifts, friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v0c6smpHSk

~Evike
Twitter: @EvikeDR

>>Once it gets in you can't get it out!!!!!

https://tinyurl.com/2fcpre6

we didnt start the fire as sung by Peter Griffin

majestic from American Dad with Rogers people & lover as being performed at Jeff.

I clipped part of Majestic & its my ringtone now. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqhOVY58zIo

No particular reason, these things just happen sometimes.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIAyrg9p-FE

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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. Langston Hughes
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/summer

Been having trouble not watching this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk5Dwg5zm2U

If Weird Al, Crispin Glover, Douglas Adams, Paul Reuben, et. al never existed...well I just shudder to think.

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>get coin
You try to get some mounds of platinum coins, but they're out of reach.
>wail
You begin an eerie, warbling wail of despair.

Do you hear that heavy metal sound?
The symphony of Hadestown
And in this symphony of mine
Of power chords and power lines

Young man, you can strum your lyre
I have strung the world in wire
Young man, you can sing your ditty
I conduct the electric city!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd4O4bKz7rA

-Armifer
"Perinthia's astronomers are faced with a difficult choice. Either they must admit that all their calculations were wrong ... or else they must reveal that the order of the gods is reflected exactly in the city of monsters." - Italo Calvino

Two good songs I'd never heard.

Nikpack