Monday, April 13, 2015

Is No Me



If any old photo nuts are out there who recognize this vision of loveliness, do please let me know!   Photo, which seems to have been marked up for use in a magazine in the 1930s, discovered in Paris, at flea market stalls off Rue St Paul.  I confess that expression-wise and tweedy-coat-wise, this lady might be mistaken by some for me.  I have never, however, let a cigarette ash grow so dangerously long that Smokey the Bear might have to be called in.  I'd say she's definitely French.   Perhaps Marguerite Yourcenar on a *very* good day?

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Effortless Skill






French children's book cover, ca. 1920. 

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Guignol Toupée by Brian





I require help of Toupinet, for sure: floppy forelock of recently adopted Beach Boy hairstyle, has gotten just a little bit too floppy.  I was hoping to look like Brian Wilson, ca., release of "Don't Worry, Baby."  But I don't think it's working.