So I had an emotion that was neither desire to drink alcohol nor desire to have sex and it was so unusual I wanted to talk about it on the podcast. But you know, those assholes Keith and Scott never let me, and really, maybe this feeling is better talked about here.
The rough part, is that this feeling was about a dead man and also of historical relevance so maybe you won’t care about it. Explaining it involves explaining the contents of a 700 page book, and maybe that’s too much. I hope you do, but whatever. I just finished reading Nicholas and Alexandra, and it was about the last Tsar of Russia.
What makes this all interesting is that despite being the last autocrat of the Russias, and thus an impossibly powerful man, Nicholas wrote volumes of diaries. So did his wife. And the author of this book, Robert Massie paints a portrait of these two people who are astonishingly normal. He quotes extensively from their journals, and details this other world that more or less doesn’t exist anymore. How much of it was an authentic translation of history I can’t know, and in trying to recap the story so it’s marginally interesting here I may fail Russia utterly (sorry, gang) but I’m gonna try because it was so fucking touching.
If you’re not familiar with the FabricLive series of mixes get the fuck out of my house. Oh, it’s the internet you might say, I’m in my own house, you can’t kick me out. Yeah, well, you’re on MY website, so unless your name is Scott, Sophie or Jon (or I guess maybe if you’re one of the Vagrants) then I can still kick you out. Stop reading our stuff, right now. I swear to God. Get out of here; we don’t need your readership. 
