Author: Susan Blakey

  • Another colorful character

    This charming fellow and his friend Wyatt Earp were on their way up the hill to entertain the kids at ski school. Yes, that’s a…

  • Dude, Where’s My Oxygen?

    View from the balcony. One thing about going from sea level to 8,800 feet, you feel it (tiredness, light headedness). So we always take a…

  • En vacances

    Poster from here. By tomorrow afternoon, we will be here. For most of next week, I’ll be somewhere in the vicinity of: Posting may be…

  • Gender Studies: Girl Meets Boy

    Even before Diane Keaton as Annie Hall launched a thousand baggy menswear looks, une femme was a fan of androgynous style. Growing up I loved…

  • That Touch of Mink

    While Doris Day’s “professional virgin” characters never really appealed to me, and this movie is a particularly execrable entry in the “sex-and-the-single-girl-will-she-or-won’t-she-or-will-someone-think-she-did” titillation film genre…

  • O frabjous day!

    Callooh! Callay! (I suspect everyone will be dressed in much warmer attire today…forecast high 31F, snow flurries.) Edited to add: 1. Something told me I…

  • Gender Studies: The Male Gaze

    So Saturday night on our way to dinner, thinking of comments on my post here and Duchesse’s follow-up post here, I asked mon mari, “what…