tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post3677653492409904865..comments2024-02-26T21:27:17.091+13:00Comments on The Fundy Post: Cherry ChapstickPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08024440694895271805noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-79692755358896895732008-08-26T12:36:00.000+12:002008-08-26T12:36:00.000+12:00Thanks, H. Alias Olympia apparently is subtitled: ...Thanks, H. <I>Alias Olympia</I> apparently is subtitled: "a woman’s search for Manet’s notorious model & her own desire." Sounds erudite and dirty; I shall read.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08024440694895271805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-56379999127608147962008-08-22T18:01:00.000+12:002008-08-22T18:01:00.000+12:00There is a short volume that I would recommend cal...There is a short volume that I would recommend called <I>Alias Olypmia</I>, by Eunice Lipton, about the young model who featured in both the eponymous portrait and <I>Dejeuner sur L'Herbe</I>. She was an artist herself and seems to have been supportive of the kind of major shifts in the treatment of the female subject that Manet was all about. To tie it into some other themes of your post, the record (if I recall correctly) suggests that she also preferred teh wimmins for her intimate company. One could infer from that the source of her bemused disengagement from those two men opining in <I>Dejeuner</I>, if one were that kind of biographical critic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-20218645564713890982008-08-22T15:43:00.000+12:002008-08-22T15:43:00.000+12:00porn people seem to be enjoying themselves far too...<I>porn people seem to be enjoying themselves far too much</I><BR/><BR/>Yet so often with such a shallow pretense of enjoyment that I ...uh... a hypothetical observer might find off-putting.<BR/><BR/>There's a book of essays by a guy <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_the_Lobster" REL="nofollow">David Foster Wallace</A> - one where he covers a porn convention. It has any number of thoroughly intellectualised observations on the business. He reports some who maintain that every once in a while in porn there's an accidental unguarded moment which is more sincere and human than anything actors do (the guy in question maintained this to explain the way they watch LOTS of porn).<BR/><BR/>Much as I approve of authenticity I saw a hamfisted suicide girl airbrushing effort on PhotoshopDisasters the other day.<BR/><BR/>And now to do some work. Rather than start thinking about ethics and aesthetics...<BR/><BR/>(Interesting I prioritsed think about teh pron)Lyndonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05622953598107216261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-29193992663323804772008-08-22T15:21:00.000+12:002008-08-22T15:21:00.000+12:00I don't know if it was pornographic or erotic, but...I don't know if it was pornographic or erotic, but the Olympic women's volleyball final in the rain was among the more arousing things I've seen in the media lately (not just lithe, athletic bodies in small bikinis, but lithe, athletic, <I>glistening wet</I> bodies in small bikinis). If I wasn't already slumped on the sofa, I'd have needed a lie down.Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12428777233351272669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-14302194338626512222008-08-22T12:13:00.000+12:002008-08-22T12:13:00.000+12:00Knitwear is too warm for Auckland, even in winter....Knitwear is too warm for Auckland, even in winter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com