Mars Undressing Venus, Paolo Veronese, ca.1570
Image from The Web Gallery of Art
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About Me
- BitterGrace
- TN, United States
- My blogs will tell you everything you want to know, maybe more. If not, send me an email. I don't bite. Usually.
Some of my articles, essays, and interviews
- "Doll in Shadow" (Guernica)
- "Girl, Alone" (Nashville Scene)
- "in Search of Darkness" (NYT)
- "The Humanitarian's Dilemma" (Chapter 16)
- Blas Falconer interview
- Elizabeth Spencer interview
- Haitian Art / Q&A with Madison Smartt Bell
- John Updike interview
- Kay Ryan interview
- Margaret Atwood interview
- Mark Jarman interview
- Molly Peacock interview
- Richard Bausch interview
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And in case you still haven't had enough of me ...
Labels
- Poetry (369)
- Gallery of Antique Smut (230)
- Unscented reviews (68)
- One Sentence Perfume Reviews (66)
- Perfume (59)
- Bloviations (51)
- Blogging the Madinis (12)
- Poetry for the Dead (9)
- The Creep (9)
- Mystery of Musk (8)
- Monsters (7)
- Nio speaks (7)
- Random Rave (7)
- Real World Perfume (7)
- Beautiful Children (5)
- Hags (5)
- Scent made visible (5)
- Bring Out Your Dead: A Perfume Series (4)
- New Orleans (4)
- New York (4)
- Dolor of Autumn: A Perfume Series (2)
- Introductions (2)
Blog Archive
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2007
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December
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- The Late, Great Harley ...
- Pigs and Battleships
- Benazir and Indira on the couch
- Pearl takes BitterGrace for a walk
- Girl Crush, cont'd.
- One Sentence Perfume Review: Bel Respiro, Les Excl...
- We all love Jennifer so much
- "Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted s...
- Hopkins loved trees
- A gentleman always takes his helmet off
- Happy Solstice!
- Jazz Fest, 1977
- BitterGrace goes to StoryCorps
- Kobi says thank you...
- One Sentence Perfume Review: Ambre Sultan, Serge L...
- Missing in Action
- Strummer, pt. 2
- Another wonderful art post...
- See, I'm not the only one
- Green and good
- Five questions I can't answer
- Strummer
- One Sentence Perfume Review: 28 La Pausa, Les Excl...
- Deer season
- Here's something pretty...
- Where has this word been hiding?
- 'Fuming Scotland
- "Okay, but you owe me"
- One of us
- Quote of the Day
- One Sentence Perfume Review: Gris Clair, Serge Lutens
- Oh, the irony
- How have I missed this till now?
- Perfume report (and more pics)
- Airplane book
- What's not to like?
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Friends and Fellow Travelers
- Anya's Garden [natural perfumery]
- aromatisches Blog [perfume, of course, in German]
- Cafleurebon [online magazine devoted to perfume]
- Everything is interesting [great writing, a smorgasbord blog]
- Gubbinal ["Literature, cats, knitting,.."]
- Indie Perfumes [perfume and culture]
- Mossyloomings [great 'fume writing and other stuff]
- Notes from the Ledge ["perfume, fresh water, and other indulgences"]
- OlfactaRama [thought-provoking perfume blog]
- olivier Thereaux - Two Neurons and a Camera [original photography, poetry, musings. Go look]
- Perfume Posse [witty perfume criticism]
- Perfume Shrine [perfume for history lovers]
- Perfumum [artful musings on perfume]
- Phydeaux Speaks [politics and life, Carolina style]
- Punk Rock Perfume Party [pithy 'fume reviews, with an attitude]
- Shakesville (Shakespeare's Sister) [politics, etc.]
- Tea, Sympathy, and Perfume [beautifully eclectic]
- The Bleeding Heart Show [politics]
- wood s lot [eclectic, brainy, Canadian]
2 comments:
Yeah, but that one wasn't a gentleman! As attested by the wonderfully naughty tryst with Aphrodite, which cost them both the ridicule of all the Gods, when Hephaestus (Aphorodite's husband) caught them in a golden web on the bed!
The best ones never are--gentlemen, that is. ;-)
You know, I think somebody could do a year's worth of blog posts with nothing but artistic depictions of this myth. There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of paintings of it.
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