So here we go, trying to get off that bench…
And speaking of sex:
Now climb on your flamingo and fly off to work.
Or whatever.
So here we go, trying to get off that bench…
And speaking of sex:
Now climb on your flamingo and fly off to work.
Or whatever.
As promised, another of Reader Pierre’s (and my) favorites, another horror movie queen (and Bond girl) Caroline Munro.
Today?
Somebody once said of her that she had the perfect body. I dunno; that’s always a personal thing. (I, as any fule kno, prefer them a little more zaftig.)
But she’s pretty near the top, regardless of taste.
Merci encore, Pierre.
I don’t know when I developed my fascination for the human form when it’s been contorted or twisted, for whatever reason or by whatever force.
Maybe it was at the Rodin Museum on an icy late-December day in Paris, where I saw this:
It depicts the fate of Ugolino the Count of Gherardesca, who while immured in Pisa’s Muda Tower, was driven mad by hunger and ended up eating his own children to survive. I remember standing there, frozen to the bone, but unable to escape the tragedy. (Nice story, but pure fiction. When Ugolino’s bones were exhumed and examined for DNA traces of cannibalism, none were found.) Of the Burghers Of Calais, we will not speak:
In warmer climes (Vienna, also in December but indoors), I saw a couple of paintings by Austrian Egon Schiele, who after WWI was unable to see any kind of future for mankind, and his artistic vision was distorted thereby in his depictions of people:
That’s The Lovers’ Embrace, and one has to have pity on them — which was his intention. Even his own wife Edith wasn’t spared:
…nor his mistress, Wally [sic] :
And so to the modern day, where others — perhaps sharing Schiele’s attitude, or maybe just having their own mordant view of the human form, have produced works such as this:
I don’t know who the artists are, but their work fascinates me still.
Bloody well… you know the rest.
Ones you’d like to see, in Comments. Will not be moderated or censored.
Update: Damn, after reading some of y’all’s comments, I feel like a big wussy by comparison.
From the late- and very-much-missed Rik Mayall (as Tory MP Alan B’stard):
“NHS waiting lists can be eradicated overnight by shutting down the health service, thereby killing poor people and wiping out poverty.”
Cruel? Yes. True? Also yes.