Just ahead of our summer Tale for Our Time - our contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda - let me put in a word for our complementary entertainment at the other end of the day: the audio edition of The Mark Steyn Show, which returns on Tuesday morning. I'm delighted that some folks are enjoying both. Marc Swerdloff, a First Day Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club from Florida, is enjoying The Prisoner of Windsor:
Stinging satire, screech, bawdy banter, screech... Quite the antidote to the Plague horror show Tale and the daily twitter twits and progressive riots. I laughed my a//s off. All hail the new King of Comedy!!
Thank you, Marc, but it is in fact a tragedy. In tonight's episode, a penniless Ruritanian finds himself invited to a glittering Coronation Ball, but stuck down the dull end of the party:
'Do you know the President of Europe?' asked the United States Embassy's Acting Minister Counselor for Agricultural Affairs, inviting him into the conversation. He wore his personal standard as a face mask. I would have thought 'President of Europe' was quite an important person, but apparently nobody wanted to talk to him either. Another 'President of Europe' came up a moment later, and then a third. The Acting Minister Counselor asked if they had business cards, and it seemed that the first was, in fact, the President of the European Council, the second the President of the Council of Europe, and the third was the President of the Commission to the European Council. They wouldn't customarily have troubled themselves with anything so footling as a Coronation Ball, but, after the crisis brought on by my remarks on referenda, the various European presidents had been prevailed upon to wangle a group invite to reassure the world that all was well.
'Pretty bad that European Central Bank of yours going belly up,' sympathized the Acting Minister Counselor. 'Tough break.'
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"Demure de merrier"! Indeed! I also recognized that song, "The Very Thought of You," from our host author's Goldfinger CD! "I'm in a kinda daydream, happy as a king........"
It has to be one of my very favorite sweet little piano pieces! Oh, the romance of it all! Sigh!
Continue to enjoy this adventure. Terrific portrayals of Trudeau, Thunberg and Macron.
Hard to keep up with all your satire, but I have to say the description of the exploits of the French president was 'génial'. Macron's saving the older population from Covid by having them in the Élysée Palace because of his preference for older women sounds right up his alley or Champs d'Élysée. And the Nobel Peace Prize winning poppit is all too likely. Well I hope you had a few chuckles writing this story even if it is going to be a tragedy.