Arts Beat

Wolfgang Wagner, grandson of Richard Wagner, sleeps with the valkyries:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/arts/music/23wagner.html. Colorful family, the Wagners: productions featuring strippers, male nudity, plastic phalli, etc. along with lots of Nazis, hanging with Hitler, obligatory homosexuality, invading Poland, big family arguments, and probable fetish enthusiasts. The annual family Oden Day dinner must have been great fun.

Mrs. Bulba had an uncle who was an opera singer of some note--he sang all across Europe and with the Met in Nuevo York and even married a really, really strange German model who looked like she just walked off a Wagner set. Anyway, he spent most of his career in Germany and even became noted for his mastery of a Bavarian accent which I guess is different than a Berlin accent and most certainly some distance apart from a San Benito, Texas accent which is where he was from--the world is a curious place. The guy had loads of fun in his life, being a committed heterosexual in the theatrical community--don't have to draw you a picture on this--he was quite popular with the frauleins. He even ended up owning an inn on the island of Elba where he had a sailing school for Germans thawing out from winter and the occasional American seeking Euro-fun. Too bad Tio Elfego up and died--he would have no doubt had lots to say about Wolfgang and the merry Wagners and most of it would have been a little more colorful than what you get from the NYT.