Fitzgerald: Go ahead. Sue me.

Fair warning . . .the video Hugh links to begins with rather inocuous images . . .but ends with an image that may not be considered 'work safe' or 'family safe'.

Thank you, Mr. Fitzgerald. That is truely a treasure.

Trader Vicks in Tokyo used to have a drink called 'suffering bastard' that helped wonderfully against sleepless nights and the shamelessly tempting Japanese females.

I'm suffering for one -either one- right now....

Beautiful video, very tasteful. Personally I don't feel the final image, a lovely art deco nude, merits any warning. Except maybe for muslims!

"Trader Vicks in Tokyo used to have a drink called 'suffering bastard' that helped wonderfully against sleepless nights and the shamelessly tempting Japanese females.

I'm suffering for one -either one- right now...."

Not a drinker anymore, but I'd say many of these uptight cleric types in the islamic world would greatly benefit from an occasional beverage.

Is the url link Louise Brooks? - I've heard references about her throughout my readings for years, but I just discovered Brookie.

What a beautiful woman! What a gorgeous body - God's creation! The way a we, women should look - NOT the skinny things of today.

That did it, Hugh!

Now I can't sleep and as for praying..............

For more French video, look at this one of American-born Josephine Baker, singing as a scantily-dressed bird in a cage.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2AQYCSIns5g

I never heard of the woman until a friend made me sit through a biographical movie about her. The woman had great talent but couldn't handle men or money very well. Since she was black, America ignored or insulted her whenever possible.

Here's a little something MORE that may cause some mental anguish

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JOBUVkCx5h4

Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, SUE ME ALSO!

sceptico, I had the pleasure of knowing her. The last time I saw Josephine Baker was in 1975 in Interlaken/Switzerland. She was great...

That was a Lulu.

ONE FOR BABY
ONE FOR HUBBIE
AND ONE FOR NIK ABDUL

http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007/05/no-burqas-here-may-23.html

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Posted by: sheik yer'mami

I'm suffering for one -either one- right now....

'suffering bastard'

http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007/10/no-burqas-here-oct-6.html

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Brave words from one very hot muslimah

I don’t want to believe
And i don’t want to live
By the excuses
Of your weakness
.
’cause a woman should do
What she wants to do
There is no reason
For your shallow aggravation
.
Nothing wrong with this dress I wear
Nothing wrong with this smile I dare
Nothing wrong with my long black hair
I’ts all in your mind, in your mind
.
Nothing wrong with this legs you see
Nothing wrong with this lean body
And nothing wrong with the woman in me
Its’ all in your mind, in your mind
.
I just want to be sure
Don’t want anymore
You’re calling out names
Oh what a shame
.
Just open your mind
Then maybe you’ll find
That there’s no reason
For your shallow aggravation
.
This is the time
To change your mind
There’s still a chance
To change your mind
.
It’s plain to see
From anywhere that the only thing wrong
Is your irritating mind
.

http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007/04/anggun-cipta-sasmi-just-could-not.html

Hugh-

I don't think they can handle Betty Boop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q2T_9UCTiI

much less the luscious Louise Brooks.

It's the cartoon factor, methinks.

(Since the militant Mohammedan lives in one.)

Do not believe this lie. It is the animals that are suffering. All these aroused muslims are definitely vetting their lust on the domesticated kind in the household. The dogs are dancing in the streets while the goats are packing in the preparation H.

"I don't think they can handle Betty Boop"
-- from a posting above, which then offers a later, made-for-TV version of Betty Boop

I prefer the earlierBetty Boop voice (despite the unsuccessful outcome of the lawsuit against Max Fleischer), that of the inimitable and also imitable Helen Kane, as in this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VvQ48ulQ-A

Hugh-

Au Contraire.

The Boop I linked to is from 1932, with just the opening frame added in the late 50's when they re-copyrighted them.

The illustrations are vintage.

And the voice, classique!

Where are the examples of Humor from the Muslim world?

******crickets******

"There is nothing funny in Islam."?

Or sexy.

Aye Caramba! That Josephine Baker was a hot babe!!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZwJGJ4lfl7A
Maybe they could arrange 24/7 screenings for the guests at Guantanamo? ;)

the problem with Muslim men is that they are raised to see women as nothing more than baby factory's for sons and a way for them to get their rocks off where in the West men are men are not raised with this atituded with the end result most of the time a woman can walk in any western city in perfect safety without a male escort can any muslim city in the middle east say the same

That's why it was called the Roaring Twenties. Sexy women, miniskirts (they were called "flappers" back then) and free love. Not even the sixties were as decadent!

However, unlike the sixties, back in the 1920s my great-grandmother's generation did their decadence with class. Thanks Hugh.

Mr. Fitzgerald,

I am (sniff) highly offended by this divergence from the usual high moral standards exemplified by this publication. The reference to such titillating material leads me to suspect, sir, that you are but a whited sepulchre and may have in the past (and particularly on this occasion) indulged in spirituous liquors.

I do hope (and will ask my pastor to pray) that you will reform and abandon these degenerate proclivities.

Very (in)sincerely yours,

U. S. Beast

"NOT the skinny things of today. " Huh? The flappers, including Louise Brooks, were famous for being extremely thin. In contrast to the plumper fashions of before.

Anyway, thanks Hugh, she's wonderful.

A craving for diversion, Hugh? I'm with you there.

But a lawsuit in an infidel court? Naw. Where's the fun in that?

Now, when you get a stir out of Nik Nik and the fatwas hit the fan, maybe they try Robert/Hugh in abstentia in Kelatan Sharia Count--they put a bounty on you, see?--now THAT'S entertainment!

[Droll relief from tedium, that.]

"famous for being extremely thin. In contrast to the plumper fashions of before"

They tried to be - but not all could be. Not all wanted to be. Take a look at Brookie's stomach and esp. her luscious thighs. Ay Caramba! (Sign of the cross).

"I do hope (and will ask my pastor to pray) that you will reform and abandon these degenerate proclivities.”
-- from a posting above

Sorry, no can do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw6r_o3GQE4

Well, as for me, I'd like to send these photos to all the imans in the world, see all the beautiful women of the West,maybe they'll have a rage so that they'll disappear from the world:

Lucy Lawless - in all her personas
http://www.crazycreeks.com/det/9024.html

(check 'er out in the Search Engine in all her sultriness - sorry Adult Content)

and Renee O'Connor

http://www.espritlibre.ws/celebrities/photos/343177/reneeoconnor.jpg

both from the Xena tv show.

And always a favorite, Bettie Page- a model from the 50s:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/amcam/325464808/

(Adult content also- can't put any more photos here -- OOO la la !)

Good God. Listen again to "J'attendrai" and study carefully the pictures of Louise Brooks that accompany it. Now look at the faces and attitudes of those you have linked to in your posting above. A hyperionnette to a bunch of female satyrs.

Nice Hamlet reference, Hugh.

However, with women, as with everything, de gustibus non disputandum est.

A hyperionnette? (What's that?) Female satyrs?

Actually, while I think Brookie is luscious; like a blackberry - I do detect a core of darkness in the presentations she appeared in. Makes me uneasy. It gives me pause.

While, on the other hand, Page, was a cutie - playful and harmless.

And Xena was also comedic and a spoof on other shows on tv and the movies.

Hamlet, I, ii, 140.

You mean I'm going to have to look it up in my Sha-kes-pe-a-re?

We, in Latina America, have Brookies, too.

Dolores Del Rio (starred in "Flying Down To Rio")-

these could sing too:

Libertad Lamarque
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VIic8BQlZAc

and Sarita Montiel
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Uwvaa-qZVy4

Hugh:

I match side by side - your "Luscious Louise" (pbuh) with Maria Felix (pbuh) of Mexican Cinema:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Le8A8YEoosw

What say you?

I'm not changing my dance card. Not even if the orchestra is playing something south-of-the-borderish, if not necessarily down Mexico way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLfgT2CFC4Y

You see, I love Louise Brooks, and I hope she loves me.

But were I choosing someone to take on a visit to Veracruz to visit the museum dedicated to Venustiano Carranza, and then to go with me for a guanabana ice at La Parroquia, and then to settle down at that small hotel on the same street, practically just across, from that zapateria with the disturbing swastika-sign (probably as innocently, but still most intolerably, offensive, as the one that used to be outside the "Swastika and Bells" near St. Stephen's Green in Dublin), in a room where try as I might, I simply wouldn’t be able to concentrate for long on reading aloud to her from Visión de Anáhuac, but would be compelled to get on to other things, well then….

"You see, I love Louise Brooks, and I hope she loves me"--
Are you sure you aren't Kenneth Tynan?
Sadly, Louise is famous for having said:
'I have never been in love.' but as Pauline Kael said of Brooks in Canary Murder Case: “The men she mistreats are lucky.”

"You see, I love Louise Brooks, and I hope she loves me. "

Ooookaaayy!

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I'll throw my hat in the ring for Lucy and Bettie.

But were I choosing someone to take on a visit to Veracruz to visit the museum dedicated to Venustiano Carranza, and then to go with me for a guanabana ice at La Parroquia, and then to settle down at that small hotel on the same street, practically just across, from that zapateria with the disturbing swastika-sign

(You do realize, of course, that the swastika legs were put backwards by the Nazis? It's a bastard sign in Europe (What's the percentage of these countries in the world?) and the U.S. and completely legitimate elsewhere? (Being an ancient symbol)

"(probably as innocently, but still most intolerably, offensive, as the one that used to be outside the "Swastika and Bells" near St. Stephen's Green in Dublin), in a room where try as I might, I simply wouldn’t be able to concentrate for long on reading aloud to her from Visión de Anáhuac, but would be compelled to get on to other things, well then…."

Anyway, your style of writing rivals Hemingway (it's true).

Hemingway's "In Another Country:"

http://apo.cmaisonneuve.qc.ca/villanova/hemingway/original.htm

Chaqu'un a son gout. Here's mine:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSyur_ZXMsc

And I forgot to add -- thanks to all the posters above for the great youtube musical links, from Betty on down -- all great stuff.

In the privacy of his (or for that matter, her) computer room, posters on the thread above, however their tastes may differ (and I'm sticking with Louise Brooks, the girl what brung me), may wish to listen to this and let their differences dissolve:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-wRysF_gY8

"Are you sure you aren't Kenneth Tynan?"

Yes.

In the first place, I never married Elaine Dundy, though I remember enjoying "The Dud Avocado."

In the second place, I am not a sadomasochist as Tynan was said to be, but am a perfectly healthy normal American boy, although possibly too promiscuous in my reading.

In the third place, why didn't you ask if I was by any chance Adolfo Bioy Casares? I'm more likely to be the author of the Brooks-haunted book called "The Invention of Morel" than I am to be the author of all those newspaper drama reviews. But don't worry. I'm just as sure that I am not Bioy Casares, as I am that I am not Kenneth Tynan.

Hugh:

This one's for you:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zZ3fjQa5Hls

Tynan actually knew Brooks, so I was doing you the favor of the corporeal over the phantom Louise (even if she was 85 at the time). As for other aspects of Tynan, well, that probably wasn't doing you a favor. You didn't deny being married to Kathleen Tynan, however (even if you weren't Kenneth Tynan you might have been married to his second wife!). Furthermore, if you were Adolfo Biouy Casares you might be sure you weren't when you really were, like one of those recordings invented by Morel. How could we ever know for certain? Except that both of these authors are dead as doornails.

Louise Brooks said "I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away." Do you think she was reading Kierkegaard?

No. That was my diary she got hold of.

Warning! Muslims of the World!

Decadent western males are discussing semi-naked women!

Run for cover! Hide the kids and the Qur'an!

Oh, the horror!

Do not follow the links above! For your own good!