Café Muscato
Monday, January 21, 2019

Here and Back Again

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Well, I'm going back to work, albeit not (unless I'm feeling particularly antic in the morning) in my Maidenform; the Powers That...
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Sunday, January 13, 2019

The Snow is Snowing...

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...And The Mister, the dog, and I are weathering the storm rather nicely. For once the Experts Meteorological if anything underestimated ...
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Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Involuntary Vacation

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So one thing I've been thinking about as I come back to this curious form of public writing is the question of truthtelling. With ret...
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Monday, December 31, 2018

Muddling Through

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Well, to steal a phrase from Miss Deven Green , hello there.
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Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Today's Sanity Check

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This is how it's done.
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Sunday, May 13, 2018

Redux 2018: M is for...

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M is for...  first appeared on May 10, 2009 and has become my Mother's Day tradition. Once, again, Happy Mother's Day, Mother Musc...
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Monday, April 16, 2018

Birthday Girl: Trouble Proof

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Our very dear TJB has reminded me that today is Dusty's birthday. Here puts a wistful, almost anesthetized, and very, very effective ...
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Sunday, March 18, 2018

Au Reservoir

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Carissimi, the Café is going on a little break.
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Sunday, March 4, 2018

You'd Better Shop Around...

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...And the award for Most Enchanting New Products goes to...
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Sunday, February 25, 2018

Living in the Moment

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I came upon this arresting image at some point this week, and I can't get it out of my mind. Somehow, it explains Joan Crawford to m...
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Sunday, February 18, 2018

Tell Mary to Call Diane!

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The fabulous Miss Dina Martina gives us her... unique... perspective on this most invented of all long weekends..
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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Once More, With Feeling

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From all of us here at the Café (that is to say, the Yorkie, the Mister, and me), it's once again my pleasure to wish each and every...
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Sunday, February 11, 2018

Birthday Girl: The Pre-Teased Superstar

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Well, it's deepest gray and pouring rain here in Our Nation's Capital, and I have to admit that my seasonal funk continues. If an...
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Saturday, February 3, 2018

Birthday Girl: The Miraculous Miss Mercer

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As part of my ongoing cheer-up efforts - and in recognition of her 118th birthday - herewith a half-hour with Miss Mabel Mercer.
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Friday, February 2, 2018

Medley Madness

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It's hard to not to feel at least a little more cheerful in the presence of the divine Josephine, I find. Isn't she just too too...
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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Complaints Department (With Bonus New Drag Name)

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So, O Best Beloveds, I won't lie to you: la vie is rather bleak chez nous at the moment. I'm in a slough.
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Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Of Flaring Pains and Old Flames...

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So 2018 has gotten off to rather a pesky start, chez nous ...
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Monday, January 8, 2018

Birthday Girl: The Dame

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Insofar as a force of nature can have a birthday, Dame Shirley Bassey is doing so even as we speak - 81 going on eternal.
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Monday, January 1, 2018

New Year's, Baby

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Just look at the red cheeks on that bellboy...
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Sunday, December 31, 2017

Fast Away...

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Another one, already. Where, as the song says, has the time all gone to?
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Once an exile on an alien shore, now a Prodigal Son perplexed by this odd place called America. Still up for the occasional drop of Champagne, though.
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