The Culture Enthusiast

Photo by Patrick Tomasso Oh, hello.  I feel like you caught me visiting an old house I own but no longer live in. The property is wrecked and desolate and I can see your look of disapproval: “Why didn’t you take care of the place?”  I know. The posts are all dusty, the content stagnated, ancient pictures all over the place. Many bloggers...

source Hey guys, please forgive my absence. I don’t have a great reason for being gone that long, it was mostly because of work. And partly because of winter. Anyways, I’m back and eager to share my latest obsession: P. G. Wodehouse. But let’s start from the beginning. Back in December, I read a million books just to finish my 2013 to-be-read list....

Above the Narrows - Andrew Wyeth (1960) Andrew Wyeth was a contemporary American realist painter. Even though Wikipedia calls him one of the best known artists of the 20th century, I first heard about him last month. I was at the National Gallery in D.C. and saw this painting: Wind from the Sea - Andrew Wyeth (1947)  I was blown away (the reproduction...

Vest from Ferris Bueller's Day Off via Max Goldberg There's something so ambiguous about collectibles. For the person who is buying them -  the person who has seen the movie hundreds of times, memorized the lines and basically wished they could live in the movie - a collectible is a sensible purchase. For everybody else, it's a waste of money. And perhaps a...

Northanger Abbey is certainly less famous than other Jane Austen novels like Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. But it is not less fun or charming. It has all that good Austen stuff: despicable villains, exciting balls and, of course, a dashing hero. To be honest, it took me longer than I expected to finish this book. Probably because the book tries...

(Hi, there. I'm back again. Please forgive my lack of posts. Once again it's part because of life and part because I can be a total slacker who doesn't want to read anything but shampoo bottles. But let's get serious.) The Dead Christ supported by an Angel by Antonello da Messina Source A little bit of history Date: 1475 – 76 Location: Museo...