the new emotional blackmailer's handbook

... of the seven deadly sins, the eighth and most horrid is emotional blackmail ... whilst for this blogger, the only sacred thing is life itself

Saturday, September 19, 2009

a "D", two corners, and a spot ... signifiers anticipating a mid-morning narrative

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

night must fall on paris

if you ever run out of ideas when you are redecorating ...

cat

the old ballroom in the gare d'orsay

metalwork

signage

a few bits of old stained glass

blue stuff

what's the french for wurzel gummidge ?

red stuff, green stuff

what should a discerning librarianette nibble whilst watching all four episodes of lost in austen for the third time ?

some of the astonishing rubens series commissioned by marie de medici to celebrate and legitimize her regency of the french throne

... after her husband's unfortunate assassination http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/detail_notice.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=101341986732256...

in the louvre ... the big (next?) version of the national gallery's picture by the anonymous master of the saint bartholomew altarpiece

!!! not ingres but gericault !!! predicting/preceding balthus

http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=15358 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gericault http://en.wikipedia....

insouciance

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tristan: Tenby, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom; you were only supposed to eat the cake, john ... not the flipping candles !

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