Birds, Bees, Finns, Eels... and Eartha

This gem recently popped up on my feed over at the FaceBooks, and not having seen it previously, I was even more than usually transported than I generally am by the insinuating charms of Miss Eartha Kitt.

Taking the unorthodox combination of a chaise longue, a macramé evening gown, and a little good old-fashioned cocktail organ (and whatever happened to that vanished, much-missed genre?*), she throws in some Cole Porter and enough of what was once called SA to float a battleship. The YouTube poster calls it a lesson in how to the play with the camera, and one can't deny that it's a talen tthat la Kitt has down cold. And doesn't she have an enchanting smile?

It was an overcast and unpromising spring day, but now that I've had a little dose of Vitamin Eartha (and with a nice big pot of soup bubbling in the kitchen), all's rather right with the world. I do hope the same is so with you, wherever you may be, even if you find yourself unaccountably chaise-less...

* Speaking of vanished phenomena, have you ever had shad roe? I've not, and really must find a way to try it...