Cap'n Tony's Article – July 2012 Archive (4)

Cap'n's Cabaret #36: Interludio Español

Bienvenido a Cabaret, mis amigos! It's another lazy day in Spain for the Cabaret, lounging by the pool, drinking zurracapote, and having impromptu music sessions. And after a gruelling train ride exit from Nazi Germany across the broken-spirited French countryside, with many delays due to "heat-related track repairs" (news flash: tracks don't spontaneously explode from the ground, however hot it might be) we arived in beautiful old Madrid. It's been about three weeks of legal limbo here…

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Added by Cap'n Tony on July 28, 2012 at 8:00pm — 2 Comments

Cap'n's Cabaret #35: I did Nazi zis Coming!

Wilkommen im Cabaret, meine freunden! We're once again in beautiful Berlin, only...well...things have changed a little bit since we last were here. I guess we should be glad to be here and out of Stalin's, er, hospitality (our great thanks to Mr. Robbins at the State Department for arranging our way home via Stalin's ally Hitler), but somehow it's hard not to think about the…

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Added by Cap'n Tony on July 21, 2012 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Cap'n's Cabaret #34: Swingers of the World Unite!

добро пожаловать, comrades, to the Cabaret! Tonight, we are hitching our wagon to a Red Star and lighting up the night in Moscow, capital of the Russian Federated Soviet Republic and the Soviet Union! The city has undergone quite a change from the days of the Czars as the new Soviet government under the magnificent and benificent guidance of Uncle Joe Stalin! So magnificent are his acheivements that truly Moscow is the center of Democracy and Modernity, bar none! He has even graciously…

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Added by Cap'n Tony on July 14, 2012 at 6:30pm — 4 Comments

Cap'n's Cabaret #33: Blue Notes and Black Shirts

Benvenuti al cabaret, my friends, and welcome to the new Old Italy! And seriously, folks, we are not in Kansas anymore! We've gone back over the rainbow and into a land of black and white where the Great and Powerful Oz seems to have swapped places with the Wicked Witch of the West.