Yves Montand-Les feuilles mortes/Dead leaves

My wife watched this clip and commented: "He had bad teeth"

Zapotek DNA

 According to  my Ancestry DNA  I have a very close cousin by this name. Started to look. First there is a major confusion in searches and the first offering is Zatopek, the famous Czech runner.  Stupid mispells! After the next offering that is a brand of batteries, I hit in  music - a song by Zapotek called Blood Offering. Of course! probably related to the ancient  Zapotec -the Cloud People - this picture from a wiki (in Turkish?). this scary one from the MET. Luckily I found some intelectual.

tearing eyes

 Listening to Kotkin talking about  kleptocrats with tearing eyes about Mother Russia, made me think about the Russian women -  eager  to get money and jewelry, but with a soft, romantic soul molded by Anna Karenina and War and Peace.