On keeping it simple, from Calvin & Hobbes:

Ah, after a day (still not over) of endless frustration, it's time for to relax and enjoy some beauty. Today's six entries in "Man in Painting and Sculpture 3," www.pinterest.com/doriengrey include this 1908 study by the ever-relaxing Henry Scott Tuke.

A Matter of Words.......It all comes down to words. Without words, there would be no language. Without language, there would be no civilization. Of all the things that set Man apart from every other creature on earth, it is words. They are infinitely malleable and, depending upon how they are put together to form thoughts and ideas, can be the equivalent of water vapor or steel. They can move us to anger, fear, or pride. They can lift us above ourselves or they can break our hearts....For the full blog, click www.doriengreyandme.com

So many, many beautiful men--how can so many of them be gone now, and gone for so very long? The photo below, of a French soldier in Paris in 1955,is reportedly the last portrait ever taken by famed photographer (and beauty in his own right) George Platt Lynes.

It's "Men in Painting and Sculpture 3" (www.pinterest.com/doriengrey) time for six new additions, including this Pierre-Paul Prud'hon painting (love the colors) from around the turn of the 18th century.

OKAY, going to do a little experiment here to see if I'm actually reaching anyone at all (I honestly don't know).Audible.com, the producers of the "Caesar's Fall" (book #3 of the Elliott Smith series) and "The Ninth Man" (book #2 of the Dick Hardesty series) have given me 3 copies of each to give away on Myspace.  The best way to do this is via a drawing, and if you'd like to be entered, all I ask is that you be kind enough to post a note to Amazon.com (and/or Audible.com) and here on Myspace with your reaction to it when you've finished.

Please drop me a note at doriengrey@gmail.com with either "Myspace The Ninth Man" or "Myspace Caesar's Fall" as the subject line. Unfortunately I don't have enough copies to give more than one to the same person.

Enjoy.

Dorien

So very many beautiful young men now long gone! Have a look at these six photos just added to "Echoes of Beauty Lost 6" www.pinterest.com/doriengrey, including this handsome WWI British field officer, killed on 25 March 1918

Sailors, sailors, sailors! Six more photos added to "Of Time and Sailors" at www.pinterest.com/doriengrey include these two rugged men's men in a rugged men's men pose. (Love the flower.)

Blog: I Do Not Go Gentle...Why am I so obsessed with being old? Why is it still a horrendous shock to realize that I, eternally young in mind and heart, am suddenly old in body? What happens to people as they age? When do they find themselves not in the mainstream but in some side-water marsh or tide pool? When do they cease being who they were and become...old?


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Just because...I saw this photo from Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake and wanted to share it with you. It is still, to me, the most beautiful and moving production I've ever seen. There are several clips from it on YouTube

J.C. Leyendecker (184-1951) was one of America's best-known--and subtly homoerotic--illustrators (the Arrow Shirt ads among his most famous), but he also did paintings and drawings such as the one featured today as one of the six examples of Men in Painting and Sculpture on www.pinterest.com/doriengrey

And here I am, yet again, entering the "Tulgey Wood" of cyberspace and trying to get back on MySpace after several years. Why? Largely because I am a writer on a constant search for new readers. If you and I know one another already, I'm delighted to see you here. If we've not yet met, I do hope you'll get to know me...and I you...through MySpace.