/\  All true.  My Legal Eagle Brother saw to it.

J.

- Nothing to do with me, I should add.

Actually it's a great story with a ton of media potential: A Godfather and his 8 year old Goddaughter and a misfit called 'Christian'...

... With Gedes thrown in in the 'Igor' role.

... And the FBI.

Without the child menacing dimension to this they wouldn't have been remotely interested. The thinking is that if this is going on then what else is going on? So the nasty pair of them are going to be given a jolly good looking at to make sure all is as it should be. Bravo!

Let's hope the creeps have nothing to hide for their sake.

Now I must go to my bookshop where everyone is nice.

J.

Pleeeeaaaase!

Yobbo! What's the man's sexuality to do with that? He is a blue blood, and a Brahmin, and he's also a good protestant. He would never engage in Sodomy! It's never happened in the holy halls of Harvard...

Chatting to my brother & the killer detail was that Goodfella is on the West Coast & Chens is on the East and for no very clear reason Mr. G. starts to threaten kids to 'defend' Mr. C and then the morning after they share a public Internet 'high five' and joke that C. owes. G. overtime for his efforts....

Is it normal to threaten kids ?

Is it normal to approve of the threatening of kids ?

Is it worrying that these two misfit batchelors span the land mass of the US? Do they have more Kiddy Botherer mates in the fly-over states ?

This has been an amazing own-goal.

J.

I decided not to go to the Ivy Style at the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology as I postponed my trip to the United States, I realised the pretentiousness of it all goes against my own notions of Ivy Style.  One wears it,  discusses it, and looks at its influence on other fashions and people.  Yet, other than it being what people at a certain time and place wore, does it require a two day talk fest aided by people who have become the self arbiters of Ivy Style you would move entire countries to avoid.   

Reading the Daily Prep does give one ideas of a leisurely road trip to New England (and Muffy Aldrich's family tree); and the Ivy Style shows how to not have a proper job at 40 yet manage to become the arbiter of everything Ivy yet know nothing behind the social atmosphere that begat it.  I was wearing it before I knew that such a phenomena as Ivy Style existed and that I believe is the crux of the matter. It is what one conceives to be at a particular time and place.  It isn't just soft shoulders, swelled edges and certain materials.  It is as much the style of Hollywood's and America's influence on the post Second World War World as well. 

It was worn almost exclusively to the 'elite' prior to the Second World war and afterwards became the fashion for "every man" in the period 1946 ~ 1966 and many of those people still wear it today.  Prep is as much about labels and certain clothes one must wear, which is what pre-war "Ivy Style" was as much about.  Muffy is a clothes horse for much of the little shops that sell the "proper brands" and those wrist bands she flogs off as true Americana aren't.  Like the term "Ivy" it is  marketing tool. I think the whole concept was a bit of a laugh by the authors as much as anything and started an industry based on the backlash of grunge.  This coming from a man who is currently attired in black track suit (sweat) pants, a black heavy metal T-shirt and is identified locally by the tatty Harvard sweat top which I have on as well.     

Me, I just liked the clothes that Humphrey Bogart wore, and that is what started by liking of "Ivy Style".

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The one percent rule over the other 99%.  Vive le Difference.

The right lineage is important to Ivy Style?  Well that must be me then.  My forebears were selected by the British judges for the first assisted migration scheme to Australia.  They may have been convicts, but they weren't transported for stealing a loaf of bread.  Three were political prisoners having been part of the unsuccessful Irish Uprising of the Pike. Beats the crap out of Plymouth Rock.

Just in case we forget what's really going on with Chensvold these days...

His recent attack on the disabled was to draw attention away from his kiddy threatening.

Not sure it worked.

Not sure what his logic was either to be honest...

J.

Worth a read for Jim's madness and Jo-Bo's vulgarity. Still made me chuckle...

I'm pretty much with Yuca on this one, in spite of my mostly bullshit postings around ten or so years ago.  Like Jimbo, I suppose, I wanted to tweak a few noses. 
Having not appeared on 'Talk Ivy' until about 2008 and being totally unfamiliar with everything else that was going on online I never quite got the feuding.  Jimbo would attempt to explain it to me on the 'phone and I would stare out into the darkness of my garden (with the old medieval deer park beyond) and stifle a yawn.  I just wanted chat about Johnny Simons, John Gall, Ian Strachan, Jeff G, Kenny and the others.  That was where my interests - and learning and mental stimulation - lay. 
The most amusing, contrarian poster I remember was Beatnik, a lovely guy who dared question the orthodoxies of the JS politburo.  I very happily gave him a framed scrap of one of Jack Kerouac's shirts.