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…