This description:
Category winner, open competition, landscape
Electric Storm on Lavender, a dramatic photograph capturing the moment lightning strikes a flowering field of lavender with a solitary tree at its centre, set against a dusky evening sky.
Taken in the province of Guadalajara, Spain.
Photograph: Juan Lopez Ruiz/Sony World Photography Awar
comes from HERE.
I dunno… I tried searching the image, and discovered that it’s part of a 12 second video… but there was no other info with it, and I couldn’t copy the link from Pinterest.
Meanwhile… check out this one.
A VERY determined parakeet and apparently, his cat buddy, trying to sleep when budgie wants to play.
Here’s the clip. It was posted on “dailymotion.”
I get really annoyed with Pinterest. As far as I can tell, if it’s on Pinterest it was posted elsewhere first. Pinterest members, much like here, find things they think others might be interested in and post them.
Then the owners of the site block virtually all of that member posted content, which they do not own, from view unless you join Pinterest.
They’re fishing for information (I refuse to use “phishing”).
“I’m No Angel” was not only the title of one of Mae Westbasset’s earliest films…
it could also have been the title of her life.
…
The film plot was full of con men, swindlers, and suggestive repartee…
I don’t mean to suggest that Westbassets life was mixed up with crooks... but there was suggestive repartee and innuendo in spades…
and she broke every rule or law she could that was concerned with sexual mores… titling her first big self-penned and directed Broadway hit simply “Sex”.
…
A vaudeville and Broadway sensation well before coming to Hollywood, Mae hid her age as best she could, but it was well known that she was no ingenue.
The movie costarred Cary Pant-Pant, one of my all-time favorite male stars, quite a few years her junior.
…
It’s difficult to dig up biographical information on basset stars, due to a certain… let’s say permissive behavior amongst dogs… and they don’t wrinkle like people, so it’s hard to say….
but I can tell you that her human counterpart was born in 1893, and was already 40 when HER blatantly copied version, also (and confusingly, for move-goers) titled “I’m No Angel” was released.
…
BTW, like a basset hound, she was very short… one reason she was drawn to imitating basset film stars…
But human actors proved to be very tall, so ironically, for most of her roles, she wore 8″ platform shoes hidden under her dresses.
…
When I was quite young, my mother loved her movies.
I can’t remember whether we saw some at afternoon matinees, or on 50’s TV….
but I was rather confused by her appearance.
To me, she looked plump and matronly, in both face and figure.
Not old enough to pick up on her sexual allusions, and confusing her platinum hair for grandmotherly white …
especially since the 1930’s styles she wore were by then replicated in “little-old-lady” styles… I took her for elderly.
Not in judgement… I didn’t understand “old” as pejorative… but how she would attract the dashing 29 year old human, Cary Grant, was beyond me.
…
While there’s a lot I admire about her boldness and her role in redefining women’s place in film, I never lost that impression of her looks.
If you look at that first .gif, and imagine an opaque dress and far less make-up, she looks closer to Ethel Mertz than an international sex symbol…
Yet, following in the pawsteps of the ageless Mae Westbasset, the latter she certainly was!
Story goes that when V.V. showed up to her interview for the roll, Lucy said, “No, she’s too pretty” to play Ethel. V.V. told her, “I can do frumpy.”
She was a professional actress, 100%.
Here is a short article about the dancers in the clip. Jason Colacino, sadly, passed away in 2009.
Katie Boyle is well known within the dance community, but is otherwise publicly quiet. LINK.
.
Devil’s Food Cake
MMMmmm… 😛
definitely dinner! (can anybody tell i’m a chocoholic?)
You are not alone!
Now, remember…. you mustn’t fill up on vegetables first so you don’t have room for this nice dinner!
This description:
Category winner, open competition, landscape
Electric Storm on Lavender, a dramatic photograph capturing the moment lightning strikes a flowering field of lavender with a solitary tree at its centre, set against a dusky evening sky.
Taken in the province of Guadalajara, Spain.
Photograph: Juan Lopez Ruiz/Sony World Photography Awar
comes from HERE.
it’s been years since i’ve seen one. very nice.
.
It is:
A) A wonderful story.
B) A masterful photo-montage.
C) A totally drugged, unconscious cast.
I dunno… I tried searching the image, and discovered that it’s part of a 12 second video… but there was no other info with it, and I couldn’t copy the link from Pinterest.
Meanwhile… check out this one.
A VERY determined parakeet and apparently, his cat buddy, trying to sleep when budgie wants to play.
Here’s the clip. It was posted on “dailymotion.”
I get really annoyed with Pinterest. As far as I can tell, if it’s on Pinterest it was posted elsewhere first. Pinterest members, much like here, find things they think others might be interested in and post them.
Then the owners of the site block virtually all of that member posted content, which they do not own, from view unless you join Pinterest.
They’re fishing for information (I refuse to use “phishing”).
Ahhhhhhh!! Both are so cute! Why can’t we all get along like that?
indeed
Mae West was one of a kind, born or her era and her play on it. I like her collaborations with W.C. Fields too.
If she was 40 in 1933, she’s 47 here.
Of course, W.C. Fields was no spring chicken either, at 60… but they didn’t play it as a geriatric romance.
Good for them!
Puttin on the Ritz looks almost like a flash mob.
That Honky Tonk dance puts Mic to shame!
“I’m No Angel” was not only the title of one of Mae Westbasset’s earliest films…
it could also have been the title of her life.
…
The film plot was full of con men, swindlers, and suggestive repartee…
I don’t mean to suggest that Westbassets life was mixed up with crooks... but there was suggestive repartee and innuendo in spades…
and she broke every rule or law she could that was concerned with sexual mores… titling her first big self-penned and directed Broadway hit simply “Sex”.
…
A vaudeville and Broadway sensation well before coming to Hollywood, Mae hid her age as best she could, but it was well known that she was no ingenue.
The movie costarred Cary Pant-Pant, one of my all-time favorite male stars, quite a few years her junior.
…
It’s difficult to dig up biographical information on basset stars, due to a certain… let’s say permissive behavior amongst dogs… and they don’t wrinkle like people, so it’s hard to say….
but I can tell you that her human counterpart was born in 1893, and was already 40 when HER blatantly copied version, also (and confusingly, for move-goers) titled “I’m No Angel” was released.
…
BTW, like a basset hound, she was very short… one reason she was drawn to imitating basset film stars…
But human actors proved to be very tall, so ironically, for most of her roles, she wore 8″ platform shoes hidden under her dresses.
…
When I was quite young, my mother loved her movies.
I can’t remember whether we saw some at afternoon matinees, or on 50’s TV….
but I was rather confused by her appearance.
To me, she looked plump and matronly, in both face and figure.
Not old enough to pick up on her sexual allusions, and confusing her platinum hair for grandmotherly white …
especially since the 1930’s styles she wore were by then replicated in “little-old-lady” styles… I took her for elderly.
Not in judgement… I didn’t understand “old” as pejorative… but how she would attract the dashing 29 year old human, Cary Grant, was beyond me.
…
While there’s a lot I admire about her boldness and her role in redefining women’s place in film, I never lost that impression of her looks.
If you look at that first .gif, and imagine an opaque dress and far less make-up, she looks closer to Ethel Mertz than an international sex symbol…
Yet, following in the pawsteps of the ageless Mae Westbasset, the latter she certainly was!
“Ethel Mertz” LMAO
I think you’ve got something.
Mae West was a smidgeon under five feet.and Vivian Vance was a hair over five feet six inches.
Story goes that when V.V. showed up to her interview for the roll, Lucy said, “No, she’s too pretty” to play Ethel. V.V. told her, “I can do frumpy.”
She was a professional actress, 100%.
She was only 2 years older than Lucy, 22 years younger than William Frawley.
She offered to play frumpy, but then resented people thinking she was Frawley’s age, just because he played her husband.
She also resented it when Lucy wanted her to look frumpy at Hollywood events or TV appearances… she wanted to be glamorous and NOT look like Ethel.
Is she waltzing through the streets, too?
Sorry?
I’m not sure what you mean.
Her posture reminded me of that picture of yours.
This one?
Exactly; thank you.
I do take your and StelBel’s request not to post your work seriously.
But since you do know your readers… 😉
Oh!
I suppose so!
Though I’m not sure she can sashay quite like me and Cleo.
No one was better than Mae West with a double-entendre.
The couple dancing to the Honky Tonk Blues are outstanding. Their names mean absolutely nothing to me, and that is probably just as well.
I believe they’re competition dancers… a whole world I know nothing about.
But within it, there are prizes and stars and fans all over the world.
Here is a short article about the dancers in the clip. Jason Colacino, sadly, passed away in 2009.
Katie Boyle is well known within the dance community, but is otherwise publicly quiet. LINK.
They are amazing. And the crowd is really enjoying it.
Woo hoo! Mae Westbasset! Hot Dog!
Poster Thursday from our favorite Stel.
So get out there and be a ray of sunshine! (((((HuGz!)))))
very good, Stel.
….
so, this is who Cleo models her life after!!!
…
sure hope you are getting some relief!
Thinking of you Stel. Get well soon ~ that’s an order!
Brought over from today’s “The Comic Strip…”, read it carefully (it’s worthy of Susan, I think).
Took me a second ~~ too funny!
Boo! 😀
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More on this tree.
Other sources agree with the assertion that it is still living at just under 5,000 years old. LINK
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