March 01, 2007

• Very interesting. Wagner's already known to have been quite the clotheshorse. But maybe he was ordering the bustles, etc, for Cosima? Maybe he just knew very well what he liked to see on her-- stage-managing her appearance as he did so much else? (His stage-directions for his operas, for example, are similarly detailed.) Soon to be discovered: the lost manuscript for der Ring des Doktor Frank-en-Furter. Heiaha!
• You go, girl!
• No, no, I am Emily Wagner, and I am a lady! I miss Little Britain. There, I've admitted it.
• In the mid-1870s he had an intense friendship, which may or may not have been consummated as a sexual relationship, with a woman named Judith Gautier, who supplied him with the silks and perfumes with which he so adored to surround himself. So, even if Frau Wagner never mentioned getting these particular dresses, it seems just as likely to me that they were for Mme. Gautier. Too bad the emasurements weren't included in the letter or article. Having worn a bustle in a play once, I can testify that they do indeed feel very nice. They give your walk a swing and are comfy to sit on.
• I mean her butt It's just so big I can't believe it's so round It's just out there I like big butts and I can not lie Sir Wagner-a-lot. Heh!
• BlueHorse wins! I just got looked at funny at work for laughing so hard!
• go GranMa, go GranMa!
• I'd love to see bustles make a comeback (so to speak). Then everyone's ass would be as big as mine.
• Bustles are so last century. It's paniers all the way for me!
• (dons winged helmet and large bustle, sings) Ich liebe die grosse Arschen! Und ich kann nicht lugen! Meine Gebrüder, Sie kann es nicht geleugnen, Wann passiert ein Mädchen mit einen itty-bitty Wespentaille Und ein runden Ding konfrontativ Dann werde ich gesprungen!
• This goes a long way toward explaining some of the more florid passages in Parsifal et al. Oddly, it's not that hard to picture ol' Richard slipping into frills and bows to compose the Ring Des Nibelungen, or donning a frilled peignoir to pen those teutonically martial Valkyrie passages. And what's with that neck beard?
• PAFTW
• PAFTW? Please to define for those of us who are acronymically-impaired?
• Pallas Athena For The Win
• Oh God YES.
• Hello, Mokeyfilterians! RalphTheDog here to once again provide the liguistically challenged with another aces translation from our friends at Babelfish! Ready? Here we go: I love large Ar! And I cannot peep! My brothers, you it can not geleugnen, When a girl with one passes itty bitty Wespentaille and a round thing konfrontativ then I jumped! Why, That's beautiful! Geleugnen to all, and good night!
• *wonders if Honus Wagner was a transvestite too?*
• Oh, PA, you be da BOMB. I would so lurve to see you in your metal brassere!
• Well, BlueHorse, you started the whole Mix-a-Wagner mashup! One of these days we shall gallop over the plains together in shining metal underwear, blasting "Baby Got Back." Oh yes.
• Chorus: Gertenschlanke Taille aber viel Hintern!
• Valhalla awaits us! Meet you after work.
• Goetter, you are such a gentleman for not criticising my crappy German! As a reward, I will refrain from making the Goetterdaemmerung joke. BlueHorse, you're on! ...do valiant sporting heroes go to the Valhalla Sports Bar when they die? Enquiring minds want to know. Also, how'd they get our pictures for that web page? Should we sue??
• Glashause, PA-schatzie. The challenge is in getting the damned thing to scan like the original: Sag, Damen! (ja!) Damen! (ja!) Moechten sie in mein' Benz fahren? Ruf' 1-900-Misch-Ritter Und denk' Gedachten geil! (Disclaimer: I had a long commute on foot yesterday, and amused myself by aping bits of BgB in my shitty German. This is not a spontaneous composition by any means.)
• Oh, I'm not going to sue. They made my boobs look so perky!
• PAFTW? Please to define for those of us who are acronymically-impaired? Padded Asses Flatter The Women.
• Goetter für das Sieg!
• *sings La Marseillaise tearfully*
• Judge says both parties in transvestite case have serious credibility issues. Oh, Jerry, why have we been denied your Final Thought on this..? Coming up: are $20,000.00 house worth fighting for?
• It's like a redneck version of M. Butterfly.
• Dear Miriam...
• Her car "juddered" to a halt? How does that go, then? Anyway, upon reading her story, it struck me that (had I such a creature) my husband wearing female underwear and makeup around the house would bother me a hell of a lot less that somebody else - anybody else - even an intimate somebody else - wearing my freaking underwear without asking first and telling after. Now I can't stop wondering if he washed the underwaer before putting it back in her drawer, or if she's been unwittingly wearing dirty panties for months. And you can get all kinds of eye inflamations and even infections from sharing eyeliner and mascara. I dunno, maybe it's my unwillingness to swap unlaundered skivvies that's keeping me a spinster.
• *decides not to let The Underpants Monster in on the underpants secret she should probably know about, really*
• TUM - juddered is a truly-and-for-true word.
• *wonders if she should burn the silly pictures of M.________ wearing TUM's undies
• Why is it that one never hears of this happening the other way around? Is it because women who enjoy dressing up as men already do without repercussion, or maybe because husbands discovering them doing so are terrified of letting anyone else find out? *hitches up baggy stolen Y-fronts*
• Maybe guys just find it hot, and so aren't about to complain.
• So, is Miriam a car or personal advice columnist? Because I'm having a major "WTF?!?!" attack after reading her response.
• Here ya go TUM, have these lacy little numbers back. You might want to rinse 'em through...
• 1. I think you're right on both counts, Fishy. 2. I am officially burning all my unmentionables and buying new. And keeping them in a locked safe. And changing my front door lock. And moving. 3. Upon reflection, she should simply rent a copy of Ed Wood. Hubby can still cross-dress, and she can still fantasize that he's Johnny Depp. Win-win. 4. In the summer, when I don't wear pantyhose, I switch to boxers myself. They make ladies' boxers (I call 'em "Barbara Boxers") but they're more expensive and less comfy than men's so I wear the latter. 5. Keep yer cotton-pickin' monkeymitts offa my fine washables!
• You just KNEW I'd have to do this, you little minx! MonkeyFilter: Keep yer cotton-pickin' monkeymitts offa my fine washables!
• Earliest Painting of Transvestite Uncovered