“Afterwards, as I have suggested, I was to discover in Miss Moonbeam an almost incredible capacity for evil.”
– Sir Henry Bashford (1880-1961) in Augustus Carp, Esq., Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man
A piece in an magazine tipped me to this one, an extraordinary (and obscure) work of fiction in the spirit of Jerome [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Incredible Capacity
Posted in Literature on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oh My Goodness
Posted in Art on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the February 2009 issue of Wired magazine, on pages 50-51, there is an article about the forthcoming stop-motion animated film Coraline, and the model-making that went into it. All amazing, but Coraline’s gloves truly took my breath away. They were knitted by Althea Crome, who creates miniature gloves, socks, sweaters and more via “extreme [...]
Winston Guest, Patron of the Arts
Posted in Art, Photography, Polo on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Winston Guest, trailed by Lewis Lacey, 1930 Westchester Cup
I have read much about Winston F. C. Guest (1906-1982), who in his youth led Yale’s polo team to the Intercollegiate Championship, playing, in the words of Time, “polo that was fast and sportingly rough enough for international cup matches.” Guest did become an internationalist, playing for [...]
Scranton Curtains
Posted in Art on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As envisioned and advertised by illustrator Coles Phillips.
A Variety of Interests
Posted in Art, Photography, Polo on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“I love naked women, wildlife, polo ponies and chandeliers. I have eclectic taste.”
– Darryn Lyons, owner of the world’s largest celebrity photographic agency
Pray
Posted in Commentary, Religion on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“If your conscience won’t stop you, pray for cold feet.”
– Elmer G. Leterman
O.M. Wallop, Yale and Polo
Posted in Polo on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The other day, I stumbled across another Yale polo story, this one with a player named Wallop. How could anyone resist picking up that thread of history?
The story began in 1883 when Oliver Henry Wallop graduated from Oxford and went to Wyoming. This may strike you as an odd move, but he was the fifth [...]
Hats
Posted in Commentary on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Elfin
Posted in Commentary on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“There is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss.”
– G.K. Chesterton in “The Blue Cross”
Everyone
Posted in Commentary on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.”
– Immanuel Kant
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