Old Is When ...

Rembrandt Study of an Old Man in Profile c 1630

Old is when ...

Yours friends compliment you on your new alligator skin shoes ... and you're barefoot.

Your boyfriend says 'Let's go upstairs and make out' and you reply 'Pick one, I can't do both'.

A hot guy catches your attention ... and your pacemaker opens the garage door.

'Getting a little action' means you don't need any fibre today.

You're not sure these are jokes.

Though I suspect old is when you can laugh heartily and in good spirits when you read jokes like these!

Just Too Tempted

As you well know, this type of cutesy post is not what I usually do ('de trop' as Bette Midler put it in 'The Divine Miss M') ... but today the temptation was just too great ...




I think it was the way he seemed to eye me off as he hurriedly gobbled down bits of my scone ... like some child who kinda knows s/he is doing something naughty but thinks a bold face might just disguise this or distract me!

Anthropomorphising gone wild!

There was also something comic in this little creature getting the evidence of his 'crime' all over his beak!

I Need Your Help Guys - Not Pleading, Just ... Begging!

In the Belami video, there's a guy (circled) ...


... who I really want to post (if there are no other options of course!) ...


Can anyone ID him ... please :>

Ascending and Descending Thrones

Suddenly and unexpectedly, I got a whole new interest in thrones and their ascension ...


... though little by little our monarch here begins to indulge in some fairly un-kingly behaviour ...



... actually, very un-kingly behaviour ...





... though there is a sceptre involved ...


These next two shots seem to capture the first part of the official abdication process ...



... and I guess this is our monarch in some palace anti-chamber - waiting to sign the official Act of Abdication ...





There is a happy ending to this otherwise sad tale - cos our unemployed royal quickly found himself meaningful and satisfying work ...







... in the entertainment industry!

Just Amazing What You Can Google Up!

Vaslav Nijinsky filmed in Vienna on September 12, 1945

As you must be aware by now, I'm an inveterate and serial googler - for which, I am reliably informed, there is no known cure or medication.

The up-side to this dangerous condition are nuggets like this is unique footage of the greatest of of all Ballets Russes dancers, Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950).

It was filmed in Vienna on September 12, 1945 by an Occupation-authorised cameraman, and presented to the world through Pathe newsreel footage.

The legendary dancer is seen walking out of the entrance of a building and then down a street, accompanied by a uniformed American news reporter.

Other images of the dancer in this period for comparison are ...

Vaslav Nijinsky and his wife Romola in Vienna, 1947

Vaslav Nijinsky and his wife Romola in Vienna, 1945

I've added music to the video from 'Le Spectre de la Rose' (music: Carl Maria von Weber, choreography: Mikhail Fokine, sets and costumes: Leon Bakst) - The Rose being one of Nijinsky's greatest early roles ...

Amazing stuff, eh?

What's In A Name!

This is yet another 'Ricky Martinez' - but the name's not the thing, as we well know. I don't know about you guys, but whoever he is, this guy has got absolutely what it takes to get me completely in and more.

There're the full broad muscular shoulders ...


... the fabulous face - totally beautiful and totally erotic ...


... the red hot dick - where's never going to be a gagging situation ...


... and its a bit closer-up shot - accompanied by THE sweetest and most seductive smile - in my dreams we're just about to have the kiss that puts me into paradise ...


Nearly forget his big juicy near-bubble butt, not!


And I reckon he's putting out the 'Welcome' mat here ...


... don't you!

Things You'd Grab as the House Burnt Down

C19 Ashanti Figure - an Akuaba or Fertility Doll, Ghana, West Africa

The list things I'd tuck under my arm when the house is burning down and I'm I dashing for the front door is not short at all at all, but near the top would be our C19 Ashanti Figure ...





... an Akuaba or Fertility Doll from Ghana in West Africa ...





... with its text-book lovely old patination ...







Akuaba dolls are carried round on the back by expectant mothers so their new-born will be beautiful, as is the doll. They also function as a tool for socialising young girls into parental child care, as dolls do in many societies.



What I particularly like bout these sculptures is the simplified geometric forms which remind me of the African sculpture that was so influential on Pablo Picasso and non-realistic art of the early C20



As you do, I was Akuaba doll browsing this morning and googled up a few other beautiful examples, such as ...

... and ...









... and finally ...







Just a brief caring and sharing moment - and a bit of serious self-indulgence on my part!