Junior’s the best! Also, he was once kidnapped
the plums that were in the icebox
“It was a small tortoise with Julia’s initials set in diamonds in the living shell, and this slightly obscene object, now slipping impotently on the polished boards, now striding across the card table, now lumbering over a rug, now withdrawn at a touch, now stretching its neck and swaying its withered, antediluvian head, became a memorable part of the evening, one of those needle-hooks of experience which catch the attention when larger matters are at stake.”
Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited
I hope that where you are now is pagan free
Edward Woodward 1930-2009
“Traditions inherited from the Rancho period encouraged a tendency to ‘speak in superlatives, to live out-of-doors, to tell tall tales, to deal in real estate, to believe whaat isn’t true, to throw dignity out the window, to dress dramatically, and, last but not least, to tackle the impossible.’ Lee Shippey on Californians from Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies




