Saturday, October 31, 2015
Witchy Women
We're having a quiet Hallowe'en this year, but if we were to head to some theoretical costume party, I think I'd like to go as Aunts Enchantra and Hagatha.
Friday, October 30, 2015
Ring It Off The Wall
Today, whoever it is who handles Things Digital for Miss Debbie Harry and company decided to startle me by pointing out that this little ditty first thrilled the waiting world 37 years ago today. As is now quite routine, I feel Old.
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Jumble
An Excellent Woman in her natural habitat, at a jumble sale
With fall coming on - the trees in the landscape beyond our little terrace are turning, and the mornings are increasingly chilly when I go to walk the dogs - my thoughts as usual turn to things cozy and familiar. As a result, I am rereading Excellent Women.
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Miracle of 34th Street
Like most great stars, she had a face the camera loved; even more, she had a coloring that the tricky, fickle Technicolor camera turned into something as rich as cream and as a invigorating as a dose of cinnamon.
Saturday, October 24, 2015
Revolting? You Bet We Were
Grainy photographs, pictures of neatly dressed, stone-faced people, walking, signs in hand. Making history. I'm reading a great book right now, kids, and I think you should, too.
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Meanwhile, in Morocco
This stunning image, Irving Penn's 1951 snap of model Lisa Fonssagrives at a palace in Morocco, appeared in this morning's throwaway free paper, in among the sports scores and banal headlines, and my whole day has been the better for it.
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Up to the Glitter
Well, darlings, on the (I'm sure very) off chance that your weekend hasn't turned out to be quite as soigné as perhaps you were hoping, why don't we drop in on Mr. Hefner and see what's happening up at his place? As it turns out, the marvelous soul queen Carla Thomas has popped by as well, doing something rather magical to "Where do I Go?" from Hair.
Friday, October 16, 2015
"You Get to Live When You are Living"
Orchids and royalty in Mrs. Post's front hall
The end of another week, elhamdulileh, and a busy one it's been, too, with some odd and unexpected ups and downs.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
In the Garden of Good and Abstract
Canton Palace, Ohio, 1980
One of the little joys of my
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Mock Time That Flies
Earlier this week we celebrated National Poetry Week, and while I missed out, here, belatedly, is my contribution: Dame Edith Sitwell intoning her hypnotic "Through Gilded Trellises" against Sir William Waton's evocative, spare music from Facade.
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Ladies and Gentlemen, Dame Helen Mirren
Here to brighten up what is, at least in Our Nation's Capital, a gray and dreary day, one of the United Kingdom's most distinguished thespians. And I bet you thought her appearance in Caligula was as far a cry as one could imagine from The Queen.
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