Shattered Empire: Monuments Mages!

Statuesque greetings, mortals! After our encounter with divinity last week, this Friday we shall seek a more grounded look at this Shattered Empire—courtesy of Stifyn Quo, Living Statue! In the ruins of a mighty monumentary, we found a stone-man who witnessed the Empire’s height & fall, & we would have of him LORE. Join us to learn & laugh Friday at 8PT, as we become MONUMENTS MAGES!

I must take ye, for a moment, to the city that ne’er sleeps—the city that piles its garbage in heaps & all there pretend ‘tis normal—the city which, last night, shone a rare ray of HOPE: New York City.

Zohran Mamdani, a young State assemblyman, toppled the wretched beast Andrew Cuomo to earn the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City. A few months ago, Zohran’s polling put him in the single digits, with more hope of winning a rent-controlled abode than of becoming mayor. But with a powerful, people-focused campaign, promising equality & empowerment, he overcame unbelievable political machinations.

Cuomo & his allies spent over THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS. They sent out racist & xenophobic flyers, letters, commercials. They wielded the Politics of Fear as ably as any in America—& ‘twas all for naught. Mamdani, his team, & his allies, roused the loud denizens of Eboracum Novum to exercise their vote FOR AN AVOWED ANTI-CAPITALIST. His victory, be a victory against Fear & Finance!

As ye know, I wage a slow, one-wizard war upon MONEY. I believe all mortal-kind would thrive in its absence—or at least, if ye would simply stop letting it RULE ALL. I cannot help myself but hope that this victory, along with Duke Musk’s recent failure to purchase a judicial election, might mark the slow turning of the tide. Could we truly see an end to the horrid grip of Money? Will the dark dweomer of the bankers, brokers, the C-suitists & kings, will it finally begin to crack? Mayhaps…& I think, in this grim æon, we ought to allow ourselves—just for one brief moment—to hope.

& if not, well, let us at least feast upon the buffet of spite, that is watching CUOMO LOSE. Reports claimed him “visibly upset” before he stumbled through his concession speech—DELICIOUS. An embarrassment to Italians throughout all time, this Andrew & his entire Cuomo clan! & if we are luckiest, this may be the last we need think of him…we shall see.

Thank ye for reading, mortals! I hope Zohran’s victory adds at least a little pep to thy steps this morning—I know it did mine.

I shall write ye Saturday after our show—& thus I hope ye shall join us Friday at 8PT as we absorb much lore from Stifyan Quo, Living Statue, at MONUMENTS MAGES! ‘Til then—be safe, be well, & FIE UPON CUOMO.

Cheers,
Amœnus Franco
Wizard, Writer, Prefers Old York