The Last Word on Mood

  

Take a deep breath and think what time it really is. Time to laugh.

What this site is really about. Standing back and realizing just how funny it can be when politicians who know nothing about anything but attacking their enemies finally have to be responsible for governing a nation. What we’ll be doing here at Gargantua.gov. Everything and everyone mentioned in the posts to follow are completely fictional, because nothing could ever be as hilariously stupid and evil and horrifying as what we’re going to making up about the entity called “the UniParty” and its South Park-worthy leaders  and soldiers.

So relax. Come here when you get depressed. What’ll be going on here will be worse. As a hint, we’ll remind you of Wiki has to say about the weird tradition of Grand Guignol:

Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol was founded in 1897 by Oscar Méténier, who planned it as a space for naturalist performance. With 293 seats, the venue was the smallest in Paris.^[1]

A former chapel, the theatre's previous life was evident in the boxes – which looked like confessionals – and in the angels over the orchestra. Although the architecture created frustrating obstacles, the design that was initially a predicament ultimately became beneficial to the marketing of the theatre. The opaque furniture and gothic structures placed sporadically on the walls of the building exude a feeling of eeriness from the moment of entrance. People came to this theatre for an experience, not only to see a show. The audience at "Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol" endured the terror of the shows because they wanted to be filled with strong "feelings" of something. Many attended the shows to get a feeling of arousal.^[2] Underneath the balcony were boxes (originally built for nuns to watch church services) that were available for theatre-goers to rent during performances because they would get so aroused by the action happening on stage. It has been said that audience members would get so boisterous in the boxes, that actors would sometimes break character and yell something such as "Keep it down in there!" Conversely, there were audience members who could not physically handle the brutality of the actions taking place on stage. Frequently, the "special effects" would be too realistic and often an audience member would faint or vomit during performances. Maury used the goriness to his advantage by hiring doctors to be at performances as a marketing ploy.^[3]

The theatre owed its name to Guignol, a traditional Lyonnaise puppet character, joining political commentary with the style of Punch and Judy.^[2]

The theatre's peak was between World War I and World War II, when it was frequented by royalty and celebrities in evening dress.^[4]

Buy yourself a case of appropriate beverages and visit our little theater often. First will be to explain that there really can be something too big to succeed, for example the biggest bureaucracy in the history of life on earth. Ciao for now.