tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post1044530684290600317..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: Bijou Batts and Dior Kaffieszmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-73836919175462849092013-02-12T13:02:15.917+01:002013-02-12T13:02:15.917+01:00If you're in the market, I've heard you ca...If you're in the market, I've heard you can get a very nice frock from a lovely trans-gender girl who runs a little shop just off Macleay Street, Sydney.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-9393421225575542822013-02-11T14:14:32.029+01:002013-02-11T14:14:32.029+01:00I should get out more. Maybe in a dress.I should get out more. Maybe in a dress.Chris Matarazzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17885109959459471509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-29149623135142488942013-02-11T10:50:35.812+01:002013-02-11T10:50:35.812+01:00I suppose there is also the possibility that Bill ...I suppose there is also the possibility that Bill and Hilary might actually have friends who are allowed to roam free in the wider world. I do love Saki. There is one story I'm especially fond of that concerns a dog called Bertie and a very highly strung young man. We had a dog called Bertie when I read it and I imagined him in a leading role in the final scene of the story.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-30321550598344688222013-02-11T10:48:06.330+01:002013-02-11T10:48:06.330+01:00You lead such a sheltered life Chris.You lead such a sheltered life Chris.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-20823038258391066212013-02-08T18:59:51.613+01:002013-02-08T18:59:51.613+01:00"Times, they are a-changin'."
What..."Times, they are a-changin'." <br /><br />What an astounding exchange.Chris Matarazzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17885109959459471509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-53927940185010044812013-02-08T02:47:17.476+01:002013-02-08T02:47:17.476+01:00I'm still in shock from reading a snippet of a...I'm still in shock from reading a snippet of a letter from Alexander III to Prince Frederick of Bulgaria (as he briefly was), addressing him as "sa Altesse" and therefore necessarily "Elle". As the girl says in one of Saki's stories, "French is such a dreadfully unsexing language." But perhaps he would have been considered a mono-gender (what's the German for "highness", or for that matter the Bulgarian?)<br /><br />Between 15 and 20 years ago we were walking in downtown Washington, DC, and overheard the following conversation:<br /><br />a: ... Anyway, that's what Bill says.<br />b: But what does Hillary say.<br /><br />A co-worker to whom I mentioned this suggested that the downtown business improvement district hired actors and actresses to hold such conversations and the streets and remind tourists that they were in a very important place. So perhaps the conversation was not meant to spite you so much as to make you understand how dreadfully chic the area is.<br /><br />Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com