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10/20/09 11:18 pm

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From the film:

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10/19/09 05:52 pm

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10/16/09 08:34 pm

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8/7/09 12:18 am - Reckless Abandon.

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Abandoned 1960s Pod village in Taiwan--originally constructed for wealthy urbanites.

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More abandoned fun:
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7/20/09 11:59 am

Mustachied Smoking:

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7/17/09 03:06 pm

"Mr.Joel Cairo was a small-boned dark man of medium height. His hair was black and smooth and very glossy. His features were Levantine. A square cut-ruby, its sides paralleled by four baguette diamonds, gleamed against the deep green of his cravat. His black coat, cut tight to narrow shoulders, flared a little over slightly plump hips. His trousers fitted his round legs more snugly than was the current fashion. The uppers of his patent-leather shoes were hidden by fawn spats. He held a black derby hat in a chamois-gloved hand and came toward Spade with short, mincing, bobbing steps. The fragrance of chypre came with him."

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Peter Lorre is a perfect gentleman pervert alongside the great Dirk Bogarde:

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6/22/09 01:28 pm

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5/18/09 06:53 pm

Spring and summer seem to bring out the most egregious forms of attire known to man. At least in the winter, one has the assurance that no one's hairy paunch is on full display--instead, it is rather covered underneath layers of some kind of poly-blend and likely, a North Face jacket.

In actuality, it is not even summer yet--even if the temperatures disagree--and we are already confronted by shorts, tube-socks and sandals. There is something quite offensive about a middle-aged man in khaki shorts, white tube-socks pulled up and cheap sneakers. There would at least be something tragically redeeming about designer sneakers.

I daresay, I do not necessarily mind say, the tee-shirt so much as I mind sloppiness. If people were more thoughtful in their approach to dress, casual wouldn't be so much a bane and an abortion.

5/5/09 05:03 pm

In celebration of the Cinco de Mayo, something completely irrelevant, and probably irreverent:

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5/4/09 07:59 pm

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Baron Alexis de Rede who initially made his fortune by being a pillow-biter to the Chilean millionaire sodomite, Arturo Lopez-Wilshaw, whose wife was also something of a well-known fashionplate back in the day. The Lopez-Wilshaw fortune came from guano, bat excrement.

Alexis de Rede was rather an insidious individual who unlike many other decadent Nature's Bachelors, excelled in business and thus became quite independently wealthy.

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"He and Arturo would sit on the deck of their beautiful gin palace La Gaviota, and look at us youngsters frolicking about. On Hydra, the Greek island, I watched from my father's boat as the crew would lower Arturo and an Italian grande dame, La Moffa, in a large net into the water to cool themselves down, then winch them back up again. Alexis observed the scene silently."

5/4/09 12:14 am

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Two of the six Mitford sisters-Unity Mitford and Diana Mosley (wife of British fascist Sir Oswald Mosley). I love the name, Unity. It's quite unexpected.

The Mitford people may be most familiar with is Nancy Mitford who amongst other things, wrote a book about "aristocratic" language, which was termed "U" and "non-U".

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5/2/09 09:15 pm

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I'm rather fond of these sorts of late '60s, early '70s houses that have things like hanging lamps with rippled orange glass inserts and some kind of garish flocked wallpaper with wrought iron railings strewn about.

The furniture is usually some variety of 1960s Louis Quinze reproduction, covered in plastic if we're lucky. Brown "Spanish" tilework is probably evident in the foyers and bathrooms.

4/30/09 04:24 pm

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Ukrainian Cardinal.

4/4/09 12:17 am

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25244770@N07/sets/72157610826356608/

4/1/09 03:56 am

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3/30/09 10:14 pm

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3/29/09 07:41 pm

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3/7/09 04:33 am

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2/15/09 02:46 am

Cloak-inspiration.

The cloak is an interesting and practical piece of outerwear, which has unfortunately been tainted by association with fat Goths, scrawny Steampunks, Halloween costumes, and Renaissance Fair actors--all truly unfortunate characters.

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Former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet.

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2/10/09 11:52 pm - In the Pink.

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Hong Kong millionaire coupe, Brenda and Kaibong Chau, with their matching pink and gold Rolls Royces and gold house, the Villa d'Oro.

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