If there is an emerging genetic underclass, I could run for class president or class clown. Read more in ![Fog at Isle Royale [Source: wildmengoneborneo.com]](../wp-content/uploads/2008/04/isle_royale_fog.jpg "Fog at Isle Royale [Source: wildmengoneborneo.com]")
"Brendan, this is what the world looks like all the time to me. Just a little fog. It’s a fine day for boating on the Great Lakes.” Without missing a stroke he turned to dart a skeptical glance at me. Brendan the Navigator. When we named him I didn’t tell his mother everything the legendary Irish name implied. But I imagined him taking on the role of navigator for me. Growing up with Coastal Survey charts and tales of Great Lakes shipwrecks, he came to know Superior as another home. He never doubted the wisdom of canoeing there with a father who was half blind. 
![Charlotte Casiraghi in a red dress. [Source: Stylophile]](../wp-content/uploads/2008/02/charlotte_casiraghi_red_dress.jpg "Charlotte Casiraghi in a red dress. [Source: Stylophile]")
When I figured out who Charlotte Casiraghi was, I realized that I once sent a poem to her mother. 
The legendary Kiki of Montparnasse posed for Man Ray’s 
Even high-minded blogs need a little celebrity gossip from time to time just to grease the search engines. Our resident celebrity is Carla Bruni – Italian supermodel, rock- star arm candy, First Lady of France. Her trajectory in male consorts, arcing from Mick Jagger to Nicholas Sarkozy, is further evidence that entropy rules the universe. Now a new book compares her to Marie Antoinette when it comes to ambition, frivolity, and bling. The Daily Mail dishes the dirt.
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Carla Bruni Might Out-Bling Marie-Antoinette, But Can She Keep Her Head?
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February 24, 2023 at 7:18pm
by Mark Willis
Fashionista Street: Dig That Pill Box Hat!
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March 29, 2023 at 12:01pm
by Mark Willis
First she sexed up the ratings of a French President who’s been caricatured as a “Corsican hoodlum.” Now she’s pumping a much-needed glamor infusion into the House of Windsor, and the House of Dior is cashing in on the coup. What’s next? Carla Bruni might just revive the pillbox hat as a fetish object. (Bob [...]
Carla Bruni · London · fashionista · gossip Add Your Comment
“As Befits A Caprice of Love and Magistracy”
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March 13, 2023 at 12:15am
by Mark Willis
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, with his wife, Silda, announces his resignation at his Manhattan office. [Source: NYT]
I admit, I’m as guilty as the next guy when it comes to prurient interest and schadenfreude. I came of age in the reign of Richard Nixon, so I expect sleaze and delusional behavior from politicians, even [...]
Les Misérables · Rodin · VIIe · Victor Hugo · gossip · politics Add Your Comment
Canoodling: Personal and Political Implications
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January 19, 2023 at 1:21pm
by Mark Willis
Carla and Sarko on holiday in Egypt. [Source: guano]
You know a juicy story has jumped the shark when NPR devotes a think piece to it. Scott Simon weighs in on the Carla-Sarko affair with a cheesy shtick delivered with a faux French accent worse even than my Maurice Chevalier in Gigi impersonation. Here’s [...]
Carla Bruni · France · Sarkozy · fashionista · gossip Add Your Comment
Fashionista Street: Sarko & the Supermodel
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January 10, 2023 at 5:00pm
by Mark Willis
French President Nicholas Sarkozy flew to Egypt with his girlfriend Carla Bruni. [Source: National Post/AFP]
No one tells me any good gossip. This juicy tidbit jumped the shark eons ago and I didn’t learn about it until I heard an angry French rapper on Global Hit while my head was submerged in Walter Benjamin’s theory [...]
French culture · Imaging Paris · Playing by Ear · Sarkozy · fashionista · gossip Add Your Comment