# How wonderful - this little life. An Art Criticism Blues

Henry de Overwood

MMMDCCLXX. How wonderful - this little life. An Art Criticism Blues. - February 23, 2026.

How wonderful - this little life. An Art Criticism Blues.


Last Sunday was the Condensed Milk Workers' Day. I was invited to perform in front of the Molzhimkoz employees. I sang. Everything was fine.


A few days later, Marianne invited me to fly her Bombardier to Paris. After the performance last Sunday, I agreed - it was easy. I took my family with me.


It was morning, when I went out for a walk in Paris. I saw a girl walking by. She was pretty. She reminded me of Ira Knyazeva, deputy editor-in-chief of the Pioprava website. A song immediately formed in my head: she's a Muscovite, just like me. What city block is this? Let's say the twenty-first.


I stopped next a jewelry store. I'll give Marianne a gold brooch with a diamond - I can't pay cash for a flight on her Bombardier. Plus a song on the way there, and a song on the way back.


We spent the day in Paris and back to Moscow. Snow, blizzard, drifts.


Everything's fine; it's even nice that there's snow. Snow removal is underway. So it's really great to feel the snow stinging my face. Overall, the mood is optimistic. On a frost-covered window, a public transport passenger writes: "Summer will come soon!" Meaning: everything's great!


So, we pierced the sky. The airport.


Here, an assistant with a limo meets me. How can he park at the main entrance? My assistant will tell the duty (attendant) about my song: how we drank beer from a plastic bag under a mushroom, by the children's sandbox. The duty will let him to park.


We're driving on the toll road. In a week, I'll be invited to perform at Dom-Stroy-Invest. "What a beautiful house you live in!" It's melodic.


In such snow, a ride on public transport - it is a little life.


We'll arrive (in a limo) at Arbat. There could be a some parking issues. I should probably write something about the metro-it would be appropriate and useful.


Today is the radio show "Mentors of Art," featuring me. It's a good show. Tomorrow I have a concert at Gaz-Mir. The reception at Gaz-Mir will be twice as good after the radio show.


And at the end of June, there's a festival and concert near Samara. Should I go near Anapa? Near Samara, by the lakes-it's lovely. The romantic mood will be very welcome. Surely someone very close will whisper me very tenderly, "How wonderful that we've gathered here."


All in all, everything is going like along butter. Or, rather, like along a condensed milk.


February 23, 2026, 00:07


Translation from Russian into English: February 23, 2026, 10:26

Владимир Владимирович Залесский " Как здорово - это маленькая жизнь. Искусствоведческий блюз. "


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