Friday 18 June 2010

Glimpses of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Doomed Golden Couple


Who didn't read F Scott Fitzgerald's 'A Diamond as Big as the Ritz' or 'The Great Gatsby' at uni?

Not in for any Eng Lit course but for the sheer Jazz Age excess expressed in the stories. And of course for the delicious writing - like creme brulee.




Curiously though and when I think back, I had absolutely no mental image of either the writer or his wife.




I'm going to redress this now.

Apart from photographs, I was stunned to find so much film footage!

So Zelda as a young woman ...



... and walking about rather saucily and hip-swinging in a garden ...


A little older ...




... and playing gaily about in a street ...



The couple with daughter Frances ...





... and in a garden ...



On the Riviera, where the family retreated to escape the gloom of the Great Depression - and keep the party going ...





... and in a cafe ...



And finally, F Scott Fitzgerald working on 'The Great Gatsby' ...



Happily, my visual memory bank of the gilded and alcoholic couple is now full to overflowing!

Thursday 17 June 2010

Cute as a Button - Cuter, Much! (Mega Post)


There's just one word for a super cutie like this ...


... and it's 'big big on-your-knees worship'. Which his maybe-momentary-friend is pretty quick to grasp.

But first there's the necessary get-to-know-you stuff ...



Daniel Cox is so very very cute the way he listens to the question about the size of his dick ...


... and so gently sweet and shy the way he responds ...


Now, his friend seems to like the answer ...


... but is teased for his coyness in the usual and approved manner ...


... though he takes the initiative again with a classic Big 'Sex and the City' retort ...


Next up is the 'come in and make yourself comfortable' bit ...




... which is a quick pre-amble to the big big worship bit - with the object of veneration being ...






Any such venerable object instantly provokes on-the-knees supplication - and image snagging ...













Sorry guys, but I must do a digression for the arty-Japanese-woodblock-cut-off-image part of the post ...




And now we're back to serious smut business ...





... but with a momentary relapse ...




... and back again ...






A different angel every now and then is good - not that our interest is at all flagging - it's just an artistic thing ...









... with a pan up to Daniel's face ...


... a zoom out ...



... and a zoom in ...




... and another angle change - to keep the Art going ...













But push must finally come to shove ...






... and it's the kinda shoving round I like the very best of all.

So in those immortal words 'Put it together and what have you got' ...



... you tell me!