#Little Bavaria

[shutterandsentence]

Photo: Frankenmuth, Michigan

[scottwellsmagic]

912: Diana Zimmerman - The Enchantress

Diana Zimmerman is an enchanting woman in every sense of the word: personality, charm, abilities, looks, intelligence, skill, and so much more. She has led a life of magic like few other women. And she is being recognized for her achievements by being inducted to the Los Angeles Times Global Magicians Hall of Fame on July 9th, 2025. Married at 19 to Dick Zimmerman, magician and creative genius, she performed around the world on television and stage with her one-woman performance. She traveled with a giant gramophone then later switched to a thumb tie and pick pocketing. She developed and still works with the Magic Castle Junior Program (which just celebrated their 50th year) and is the author of several books of fantasy. But she also authored the definitive collector’s edition of the Siegfried and Roy book.

Diana has so many stories that she shares with us this week including her early days working with her then-husband, Dick Zimmerman, then how Cary Grant encouraged her to form the junior program at the Magic Castle, and many stories about the late Siegfried and Roy. She was a close confidant to the illusionists and shares some “behind the scenes” stories from Little Bavaria to “the Incident” that ended their Las Vegas run.

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[imthefailedartist]

Took myself on a riverboat tour

Saw deer grazing and a great blue heron, ducks, and turtles. Have no pictures of any of that, but I saw it.

It was peaceful and informative. 16 bucks well spent.

Bought some beignets.

[sunlight-shunlight]

at any given point i'm thinking about pentiment. genuinely one of the most... heartfelt and beautiful video game stories i ever experienced!!!

love is stored in the memories passed down from previous generations. the fonts are plot relevant. the printing press is changing everything. go have lunch with the gertlers and they give you their last piece of bread bc they refuse to lose face as hosts - go have lunch with the abbot and he's eating plums and partridges or whatever. obnoxiously correct a priest's latin. decide who lives or dies for a crime that needs a scapegoat. what does it mean to inhabit a society where faith is used as both a class stratifier and a balm? how much is the "truth" worth, compared to a lie that gives meaning to people's lives? can you ever picture someone clearly if you love them? cookie cutting minigame. listen to this guy's funky blasphemous theory about how satan created the world. martin guerre is there. everyone needs to go play pentiment immediately

[scourgiez]

Auf eine friedliche Wiesn!

In Pelican Town 🫶

[trenchfront]

liechtensteiner traditional dress and bavarian lederhosen

[wunder-plunder]

Summary:

Do you ever look at someone and wonder, "What is going on inside their head?"

Well, do you want to find out?

Meet Germany’s core emotions: Enthusiasm, Apprehension, Rage, Pride and Calmness and follow along as they prep the personified nation for his big day. A day so significant that it may change the trajectory of Germany, or even the entire world, forever. A day he will never stop preparing for, because what could be more exhilarating and frightening than a bi-yearly World Meeting that no one beside him seems to want to attend?

Or:

A short love letter to the movie franchise Inside Out, set in the Hetalia universe and featuring both canon and original characters.

Relationships and Characters: Germany/North Italy, Germany & Japan & North Italy (Hetalia), Brandenburg & Hesse (Hetalia), Saxony (Hetalia), Bavaria (Hetalia), Schleswig-Holstein (Hetalia)

Additional Tags: References to Inside Out (Pixar Movies), Humor, Nationverse (Hetalia), Crushes, Friendship, Mini Character Study, Original Hetalia Character(s)

Chapters: 1/1

Word count: 7,280

[skyloftian-nutcase]

I think it’s really touching that the first thing Hudson did when building Tarrey Town was make a home for himself and make a little place for the Hylia statue. Like that’s just so sweet.

[seattlefactsijustmadeup]

Leavenworth Fact #87:

If you've got enough coin, you can stay in a Cure For Wellness spa and maybe get the special eel treatment perhaps?

[german-enthusiast]

oh wow ur in munich?? have fun here!!! i just moved to munich a few months back and have been trying to learn german which is how i found your blog. i'm also gonna go to CSD, it's also my first ever pride parade and i'm so excitedd

I was here last year with the same mate I'm with again this weekend!

I was really unsure about it last time (because big events are often overwhelming for me) but we found a good spot to watch the parade and had a good time!!

I hope you have a great experience yourself!!! 🏳️‍🌈🎉🏳️‍🌈🎉

[nachtsoklein]

brain got rotating n look i love love love the ships ive got here atm really & truly but i cannot lie. in my heart i need kurt to smooch a guy. or be smooched by one. man's so out of his depth w other men it's kinda funny but also kinda cute & it would do him some good to actually get a bit into his own head now n then.

[archduchessofnowhere]

I went quickly through Hamann’s book to answer that ask and I came across a really good exemple of her negative bias. Take this paragraph:

Elisabeth’s father, Duke Max, had always taken a highly critical view of his daughters, including Elisabeth. On the occasion of his diamond wedding anniversary in September 1888, he read to the assembled family his favorite passage from a newly published book, Das Nervöse Jahrhundert (The Nervous Century) by Paolo Mantegazza: “The nervousness of those who do no work can be cured only gradually—not until, that is, the dukes, counts, and barons teach their children that work is the best occupation for the nobility and at the same time the surest road to a long and happy life.” This quotation was soon afterward reprinted in a celebratory article on the anniversary in the Vienna Fremdenblatt—coming close to public criticism of the Empress. The relationship between Elisabeth and her father, who was quite ill by this time, was so bad that she did not even attend his funeral in Munich in November 1888—officially because of her own precarious health.

The source for the first part of the segment is the entry “Maximilian in Bayern” in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. She, however, does not source the last part of the paragraph. Hamann is pretty clear: Elisabeth had such a fall out with her father that she made up an excuse to not go to his funeral. An statement that completely falls apart when you remember that we literally have the telegram in which Franz Josef asked his wife NOT to go:

I advise you most earnestly not to go to Munich, for in the present cold state of the weather, you might easily be taken ill, and as I have an impression that Papa [Duke Max] is rapidly approaching his end, you would be sure to arrive too late. Should I unfortunately happen to be right, I will be certain to attend the funeral at Munich myself.

In fact, the way this telegram is worded sounds as if Elisabeth had tried to go to Munich to see her father before receiving the request (which might as well be an order) from her husband to stay where she was (I think she was in Corfu?). This is not brand new, groundbreaking information: the book that contains this telegram was published in 1924. I couldn’t find it in the bibliography, so maybe this wasn’t in bad faith, but even if Hamann truly didn’t know about the telegram, claiming that Elisabeth not going to the funeral was totally because she didn’t want to and the health issues were just an excuse (without even backing it up with a different source!) is a reach, and only shows her bias.

[schadenfreudich]

Found a magazine from 1982 about knitting Tracht. And oh boy, it looks so very 80's (affectionate). Unsure what I'm going to do with this.

I will take a few pictures when I get home, just so you understand what I mean with very 80's looking Tracht.

[ageofhearingloss]

if i get one more tiktok about bronners i’m gonna shoot through the roof

[tilbageidanmark]

From Little Big World's Joerg Daiber.

[jadegr8]

In Bavaria, we have a tradition where we put out sourdough bagels on a plate in the living room and it is said that "Niels Schwuimo", a mystical figure that's nocturnal and dressed all black, magically enters over night, accompanied by wild animals about which we only know that they're not wolves, enjoying the baked goods and leaving fountain pens and little stories in return. Bookworms and kids will be delighted the next morning, waking up to find these sweet little gifts but little do they know (or even WANT to know) that sadly Niels is made up, no more real than the Wolpertinger.

Some people however like to dress up as him for November 10th, making the magic a little more real.

It is also common among these impersonators to hold readings of books in whose creation Niels supposedly played a part in parks, public libraries and cafés.

Neil Gaiman, what are you doing EVERYWHERE?? Yesterday, you were in two knowledge bowl questions- one involved a reading from a passage in Stardust, and the other was "Which novel, written by Neil Gaiman, published in 2001-" (I didn't hear the rest of the question before I was shaking my teammate to hit the buzzer). And then, this morning, your name was one of the answer options to a radio show question about who wrote a Dolly Parton song. Sadly you did not write a Dolly Parton song.

Whew!