Big Little Wolf's Daily Plate of Crazy

Alexander McQueen, 40, takes his own life

Sumptuous. Elaborate. Theatrical. Audacious.
These are some of the words that come to mind when I think about the fashion of Alexander McQueen, the 40-year old British designer who was found today, reportedly dead by his own hand.
I follow fashion peripherally; at its best I believe it is a breathtaking [...]

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Unanticipated pleasure
Last evening, for three hours, I hovered in the pleasure zone, my brain and body exquisitely in sync. This was delight the likes of which I haven’t felt in six months, or perhaps as long as a year. The kind of pleasure, intense and pervasive, that obliterates worry and fatigue as all the universe [...]

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It is called impasto. I can’t help but smile when I say the word – or hear it – because it sounds edible, like pesto and pasta. And to me, it is delicious to the eye and the hand, and even aromatic for those who spend their days and nights inhaling it.
Impasto is a layering [...]

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What if you were a wall, a blank canvas, a work of art yet to be created?

If you haven’t already, peek at Joy Part 1, and then…
Imagine… You are a broad expanse of wall – indoors or outside – material of your choice, and located anywhere in the world you’d like. Your surface is [...]

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What gives you comfort when you are alone?
I admit it. I have an unusual penchant for chairs. Old chairs, child’s chairs from the 1800s, mid-century modern chairs, and sleek millennial creations that are, for me, pure objects of desire.
I have several diminutive chairs from other centuries, tucked in corners of the living room and on [...]

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Last week’s Mad Men was an exercise in subtlety and restraint.
While it is titled “The Gypsy and the Hobo” (for the Halloween costumes worn by the Draper children), I’d like to focus on the exchange between the main characters, as Don can no longer duck the past he’s hidden from his wife for a decade.
The [...]

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Married sex!?! Is it an oxymoron?

Oh, there’s nothing like a great roll in the hay. Or on a nice mattress, if you prefer not plucking straw (or splinters) out of your hair and derrière, respectively.  Mmm…  images of an open field, a soft breeze, a sensual afternoon… all the more delicious if love is in [...]

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Les femmes qui boivent du vin auraient une vie sexuelle plus épanouie
English version / version anglaise © D A Wolf
Les femmes s’épanouissent sous l’influence de l’alcool ? Quelle nouvelle ! Comme si on ne le savait pas ?
Voici l’article qui apparaît sur yahoo.fr, grâce à Zigonet… Et quel vin préférez-vous pour une vie [...]

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Study shows women who drink wine have a more satisfying sex life
French version / version française  © D A Wolf
Women blossom sexually under the influence of alcohol? What a news flash! As if we didn’t know?
Here is the article (above) which appears on Yahoo France, courtesy of Zigonet. And what wine do [...]

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After enjoying the Season 3 opener of AMC TV’s award-winning drama, Mad Men, I was pleased to see a few things I hadn’t expected.
We are plunged into revelations concerning key characters as they continue to act out hidden agendas that foster lies, deception, infidelity…
We are offered greater insight into the psychological make-up of our favorite [...]

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