They all sound like one another, and like whimsical young men everywhere.
Saturday's program -- the Beethoven "Pastoral" Symphony, H. K. Gruber's whimsical one-man oratorio "Frankenstein!!" and von Suppé's "Poet and Peasant" Overture -- seemed as much about what an orchestra thinks of its new conductor as the reverse.
A similar impulse recently prompted the whimsical New York men's wear designers Duckie Brown to mine the archives of the Wisconsin-based shoe company Florsheim (est. 1892) to create a new laceless wingtip and star-spangled Patriot boot.
Those up for the "unofficial Oscars of comedy" include the lo-fi poet Tim Key, the whimsical Tom Wrigglesworth, new man John Bishop and sensitive, neurotic soul Jon Richardson.
In her previous novel, the whimsical "Margarettown," a man falls for a woman who has splintered into versions of herself at different ages, showing how hard it is to sustain love when identities are constantly changing.
It's one of several mid-00s vaguely whimsical dramas about men navigating adulthood with the tools of childhood, but one of the only ones that takes its project so seriously.
Each paper – which ran from 30 to 50 pages – includes photographs, features, caricatures of officers and men, whimsical observations of life in Antarctica, cartoons, weather reports and a range of breathtaking watercolours of the polar landscape – most of them works by zoologist Edward Wilson, Scott's deputy, and a painter of considerable talent.
But his letters give us the man, pugnacious, whimsical, proud and flawed.
"Masks," at Janos Gat, shows an artist entranced by man's whimsical handiworks.
