Today is the memorial of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231): Saint-link Unus, Saint-link Duo, & Wikipedia-link.
Scripture of the Day
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter sixteen.
The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
Graham B.L.V.D., "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" via iTunes (T.L.A.M.)
Commentary: "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" in the least melancholy song about the Great War with which I am familiar. I normally prefer a much faster, punk-influenced rendition by The Staggers, but today this jauntier version appeals to me.
"After the turn of the century,
In the clear blue skies over Germany,
Came a roaring and the thunder they had never heard,
Like the screaming sound of a big war bird.
"Up in the sky, a man in a plane,
Baron von Richthofen was his name.
Eighty men tried and eighty men died,
Now they're buried together in the countryside.
"Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, or more!
The bloody Red Baron was running up the score!
Eighty men died trying to end that spree,
Of the bloody Red Baron of Germany…"
Side note: Kim Newman's Anno Dracula novel The Bloody Red Baron is, like all the others in the series, brilliantly titled, meticulously constructed, & altogether disappointing.
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