Eddie Pensier writes:
I suspect many of us can relate far, far too well to the lyrics of this song, from Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green’s Wonderful Town (1953).
Performed by Richard Muenz, Dawn Upshaw, and Donna Murphy, from the brilliant 1996 compilation album Leonard Bernstein’s New York, one of my very favorite albums of recorded music ever. More selections coming up on a future ShoSat.
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Faye Reagan is:
Nothing more needs to be said.
Tons of videos at all the usual sites and nudity below the jump. Happy Friday.
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Friends o’ the blog Kirsten Mortensen and Lloyd Fonvielle are making their latest short stories available for free through the weekend. You get can get Mortensen’s Elmore Leonard homage Free Money here and Lloyd’s South Seas supernatural pulp thriller Black Pearl here. I’ve read ’em and they’re both lots of fun. Self-publishing rules.
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Another batch of paintings from my visit to the AGNSW, this one focusing on European and British artists. I’m particularly fond of Strutt’s coolly triumphal David’s First Victory, the barely suppressed sexuality under the surface of Sallé’s The Anatomy Class at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and Rivière’s Requiescat, which might be conventionally sentimental, but it works, damn it.
A bit o’ nudity (and other stuff) after the break.
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The Peabody Library at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Source.
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Daiso Japan is a Japanese-based retailer that specializes in cutesy cheap crap — curios, stationary, toys, kitchen supplies, cosmetics, toiletries, seasonal goods, etc. It’s an Asian Dollar Tree, with few exceptions, everything in the store is $1.50. The company has a few thousand stores in Japan and about 30 in the United States, most of which are in California, specifically here in SoCal. Their mission statement is “Constant self-denial, to improve stores and products.” Here are a few pictures I took at one of their bright, white-and-pink, fluorescent-lit stores. Like EP, I encountered some weird stuff.
They sell the usual good luck totems and tchotchkes.
I have not met a woman who didn’t think these are a brilliant idea.
Hey, for all I know it works well.
This was in the toy section. Would make a great party favor at the neighborhood kid’s birthday.
No idea what this is, but it was also in the toy section. You’ll be the silliest sex offender on the block!
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Eddie Pensier writes:
I spotted this on the shelf at a local bookstore. I’m putting the photos below a page break because I suppose they might be considered NSFW, even though the subject in question was out in the open at eye-level in a public bookstore in the “Health” (?!) section, clearly visible to any browsing moppet.
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SHAG (aka Josh Agle), “Her Second Night in the City,” 2013
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