l.p. - luminous pondering - hmm...

... I mean, REALLY?  Everything under the sun,  everyone and their most distant cousin;    ALL seem to have "their day" set in stone  --- i.e. on the social calendar, these days...  Haven't we gone too far now... Hmm?  For the record -and right off the bat-  the only "goths" that we will ever acknowledge  in these luminous parts here are  the Visigoths  and the Ostrogoths   --- capisce?  (This in spite of what they did to ROMA!  A barbaric twist on Veni, Vedi... Vinci, eh?  Well - we forgive... but we don't forget!  Don Luciano will *never* forget...!!!  But... Hmm... that is another story.)  Modern Goths are...  just not the same thing at all.  Whereas the Ostrogoth was rough and tough  (to the point of fighting off its brother barbarians!)   the Metrogoth (my invention - adore it) is weak.  Extremely weak, actual...