On the Jukebox this weekend at Dolores Delargo Towers

The laughter is over

The last photograph of James Dean alive, and he is sharing a joke with our own, dearly departed Sara Montiel...

RIP

Going against the rules

"I've never done what was fashionable. Going against the rules comes naturally to me."

"Life is more with colours."



RIP "Mr ZigZag" Ottavio Missoni (11th February 1921 - 9th May 2013)

Tea lovers

“I know my little ‘dirty drawings’ are never going to hang in the main salons of the Louvre, but it would be nice if - I would like to say ‘when,’ but I better say ‘if’ - our world learns to accept all the different ways of loving. Then maybe I could have a place in one of the smaller side rooms.”
- Tom of Finland, 1991

Creator of the greatest "über-masculine" homoerotic art in the late 20th century, Tom of Finland is now considered an artistic, as well as erotic genius - his work appears on the walls of such esteemed establishments as New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as on t-shirts, numerous prints and books, and on this rather marvellous tea service...









[I know I have featured it before, but it is my 50th birthday this year - hint, hint!]

Touko Laaksonen aka Tom of Finland (8th May 1920 – 7th November 1991)

Tom of Finland Foundation for the protection, preservation and promotion of erotic art.

The Latin Lover

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"Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams."

"To generalise on women is dangerous. To specialise on them is infinitely worse."

Rudolph Valentino [aka the "Latin Lover"] (6th May 1895 – 23rd August 1926)

Here comes the Bride

It's my sister's wedding today.

Life's a Drag

"Clothes make the man" - Mark Twain