Salutations!

It is I once more, W. Skeleton-Boney, serving as your pro tem master of ceremonies here at Mister Skeleton’s Trivia Zone while my brother embarks upon another of his quixotic schemes.

I must admit to harboring the merest mote of skepticism regarding the judiciousness of establishing a new cinema in this day and age; yet also I hold a certain regardful ambivalence about it: I have looked on with horror (as I am sure you too have, my dear reader) the lamentable Verfall of contemporary film culture—saturated as our theaters are with the turgid and histrionic antics of the latest Spider-Fellow, Star-Warrior, and what have you—and I feel the keen need for some modern Justinian to stimulate a great instauration of the seventh art.

But on I prattle! Let us continue with the matter at hand.

Trivia 1

Let us now retreat from the Mediterranean heat to more temperate climes. Might I suggest old Germania? And ... what luck! We are just in time to catch Wagner’s Parsifal on this, the final night of the annual operatic festival held in what town in Upper Franconia?

Trivia 2

From the banks of the Red Main let us travel to that great capital on the Spree; I speak, of course, of Berlin. And lest you think me some fusty old fuddy-duddy, allow me to disabuse you of that notion: when the weekend comes and night falls, follow me past the glowering eye of famed bouncer Sven Marquardt into what storied nightclub on Rüdersdorfer Straße, a modern mecca of techno music housed in an erstwhile power station?

(Oh ho, I see the arch of surprise that creeps upon your brow! Not to worry, not to worry—I take no umbrage: I am well aware that my lofty bearing cuts startling contrast against the mind-picture one might naturally conjure of those happy vampires of Berlin. Yet I can affirm there is more than a glancing kinship between me and them.)