I feel like an alien walking around with one of these antiques everywhere I go, while everyone else buries their faces in glowing screens.

Aside from being a professional writer, I'm also a musician. Here's my cover of Bach's Violin Concerto in A Minor, played on synthesizers in FL-Studio (links in thread):

Η Ελλάδα είναι στα μπαλάκια της, δεν κάνει μαλακίες.

Greece is goin' wild (again).

Reminds me of Hitler in Paris. He expected the French people to embrace him in the streets, which were absolutely empty. The Regime planned public relations, but no one was out and no one would talk to them, so they scrapped those plans and they took this picture by the Eiffel Tower instead.

Ο Παρθενώνας στην κορυφή της Ακρόπολης.

Der Parthenon auf der Akropolis.

The Parthenon atop the Acropolis.

Athens from above

Revisiting this classic, The Second Sex while taking a break from Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger, which is a great book.

Oh, Simone, it’s been a very long time.