"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." (Voltaire, 1694-1778)

nice.

Hallowe'en wraps fear in innocence,
As though it were a slightly sour sweet.
Let terror, then, be turned into a treat...

(Nicholas Gordon)

Where Summer sits braiding her warm, white brows
With bramble-roses...here you may meet with Beauty.

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Another great dance scene, with the incomparable Cyd Charisse. She had an incredibly beautiful body, of its particular type...long, lithe, slim-waisted, small-breasted, with just spectacular legs ( Read more... )

Tonight, Stevie Nicks is in town... of course I can't go (and only got to go in 2006 because of the kindness of Stella), but maybe I will dress up witchy and play some of her songs and dance by myself. Just because she is near.

Somewhere in the twilight, dreamtime, somewhere...

Aaron on Hillary: "She reminds me of Senator Palpatine."

(He added, in an evil voice, "Something - something - something - dark side," a quote from the TV show Family Guy.)

I saw a pickup truck today with the following license plate:

4 HVN SX

Yeah, not with me.

Or maybe it was some prole's gift to a woman who had sex with him. Here ya go, honey! That there was worth a whole pickup truck! Only five previous owners and 190,000 miles on it. Much like yerself ( Read more... )

Marcus Aurelius on beauty:

Everything which results in something beautiful is itself beautiful and is complete in itself, with praise holding no essential role.  Therefore, whatever is praised becomes neither better nor worse because it is or is not praised.  I assert this also of things which are commonly called beautiful, such as material things ( Read more... )

For those who wanted to know what "Tess green" looks like, the girl's dress in this Millais painting is an example. Like emerald green but slightly more yellow; and nice and saturated.


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Well, a Lillassea's a Lillassea, but they call it 'le Lillassea'.

Which movie was this quote from?