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Tattoo chic(ks)

Posted in Dandyism, Great blogs, tagged , , on 4 July, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Scott over at The Sartorialist is in his pomp at the moment.  It’s Paris, it’s Milan and it’s summer!  Check out the two photos of the women with tattoos.  One all cool and white in her suit and black straps (June 28); the other, a direct descendant of every screen siren to have thrown a [...]

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Coming out + more ugo

Posted in Art and exhibitions, Great blogs, Melbourne cool, tagged , on 22 June, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Someone on the weekend asked me why I don’t have my name on this blog, and I realised it was time to do it. When I started this blog almost two years I wanted to write as unselfconsciously as possible so I wrote using only a blog title.  As time’s passed I’ve got more comfortable [...]

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Incendiary blogging

Posted in Great blogs, On writing, Philosophy and culture, tagged , , on 23 May, 2010 | 15 Comments »

Blogging, I’ve decided, can be a humbling and baffling experience.  The things I most love sink without trace, while the merely ornamental go on and on.  Yes, probably the former are my darlings and are thus in need of a good crucifixion.  But it’s the latter that really kill me. So Chris Clarke, writing recently [...]

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Tidbits from the deep and Melbourne the cool

Posted in Great blogs, Literature, Melbourne cool, tagged , , , , , , , on 19 January, 2010 | 4 Comments »

News in The Age that David Mearns, the UK-based shipwreck hunter, plans to search for the Endurance, the ship crushed by ice and abandoned by Ernest Shackleton and his men on their Antarctic expedition in 1915.  Readers of this blog may remember my wonder and torment when reading Shackleton’s account of the expedition (click here and here).  It’s [...]

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A dash of nightgown: Quotes from December

Posted in Great blogs, Philosophy and culture, Quotes from the month, tagged , , , , on 30 December, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Anyone who reads this blog will know by now that I like a good contrast. Serious … silly … serious … silly … is how my mind works. Previously, I might have been described as having catholic tastes if only the word hadn’t died, if not by disuse then surely by association. If I’d been born in the [...]

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Paris, France

Posted in Great blogs, Perfume, tagged , , , , , , on 10 December, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Do you have a secret dream of something you’ve wanted to do for years? Something you’ve put in your too-wild, too-stupid basket? Something, nevertheless, you keep finding on the floor, away from its basket? I’ve got several, and today I’m finally going to make one of them happen. Because today I’m booking a flight to [...]

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Delight your eye

Posted in Great blogs, tagged , , on 4 December, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Just discovered Geoff Manaugh’s great blog, BLDG BLOG, and on it, the dazzling photographs of Indian temple architecture by Takeo Kamiya. Try this one from Jaisalmer for a taste of the architecture’s “full hallucinatory power.” (Image: Takeo Kamiya) Or this vertiginious 18th century wooden temple in Himachal Pradesh. (Image: Takeo Kamiya)  And this, with the daunting door, in Chitorgarh. (Image:  [...]

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Bra rage

Posted in Great blogs, Philosophy and culture, tagged , , , , on 8 November, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Must have been a mistral from the 70s blowing through the world this week.  Wisps of SCUM Manifestos and womyn everywhere. Even Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, the queen of sock knitting, had a 70s moment with a post on the diabolical nature of bras and her respect for her “working class breasts.”   Of the 400-plus comments (just an average day really), a couple [...]

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Mistress of the double entendre

Posted in Great blogs, tagged , , on 6 November, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Ms Scarlet is back with the bit between her teeth.  No longer playing with her bush, but indulging in a spot of rubbing down and touching up, I believe. And her merry chorus is in fine form.  But really, what could a “live/work” unit be?  Is that where Winston Smith lives these days?  http://scarlet-blue-scarlet.blogspot.com/2009/11/dreams-and-schemes.html

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Excavating the internet

Posted in Great blogs, On writing, Philosophy and culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 25 September, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I’ve been excavating the internet without realising it.  Actually it’s the “blogosphere,” but I refuse to use that word.  Conjures up visions of a lot of hot gas circling in a screwed-down dome.  And accuracy alone is not a good enough raison d’etre for a word.  So I’m sticking to “internet.” A few weeks ago, [...]

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