This week, our teenage wall posters of yore feature the Lamborghini Countach:
…and Raquel Welch:
Classic pairing, if ever there was one.
Tag: Things of beauty
Art, music, whatever
Annnnnd They’re Off!
Apples, Trees, Etc.
Just for your viewing pleasure, Monica Bellucci and her daughter Deva Cassel:
The youngin needs more than a couple pasta dishes to catch up to Mama (see below), but it’s an excellent start.
Different List
The Daily Mail has published its list of the Top 39 (?) Beautiful Moments of the last one hundred years. Of course, a lot of the things they celebrate are among the events I’d have added to my list of the worst moments in the past century (e.g. election of Obama), but there ya go.
Here’s my list of beautiful moments (since Jan 1, 1923, in chronological order).
- 1923: Calvin Coolidge inaugurated
- 1940: Battle of Britain
- 1945: VE- and VJ Day
- 1947: AK-47 first submitted for USSR military trials
- 1963: getting my first air rifle (birthday present)
- 1964: Beatles release A Hard Day’s Night album
- 1967: Beatles release Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album
- 1968: first Shakespearean acting gig (in Hamlet)
- 1968: French-kissed a girl for the first time
- 1969: Moon landing with Neil Armstrong / Buzz Aldrin
- 1970: bought my first beer (age 15, Castle Inn, Hillbrow, Jhb)
- 1971: lost my virginity
- 1971: first played on stage to an audience (rhythm guitar)
- 1971: member of team competing on S.A. schools’ radio quiz (we won)
- 1971: graduated St. John’s College (First)
- 1972: arrested during anti-apartheid demonstration
- 1972: bought my first two centerfire guns (Mauser 98K, Llama XI 9mm pistol)
- 1973: first professional music gig
- 1974: co-founded Pussyfoot Show Band (later Atlantic Show Band)
- 1976: bought a Rickenbacker 4001S bass guitar
- 1979: first apartment (solo)
- 1979: joined A.C. Nielsen
- 1980: Ronald Reagan elected
- 1980: Borg-McEnroe Wimbledon final
- 1981: Hill Street Blues first episode aired
- 1981: slept with four different women over a single weekend
- 1982: first marriage
- 1982: visited America for the first time
- 1983: first extramarital fling
- 1984: first presentation to the Board of a major client
- 1985: bought my first computer (Apple IIe)
- 1986: emigrated to America
- 1989: Berlin Wall came down
- 1989: birth of the Son&Heir
- 1997: my first trip to London
- 1999: published my first novel (Vienna Days)
- 2015: B.A. degree (summa ) in Western European History (UNT)
- 2016: Donald Trump elected
- 2017: met New Wife again, after over 40 years apart
Bygone Broads 3
Seems like the combination of bedroom-poster-worthy cars and women is becoming a fan favorite over on this back porch of mine, so here we go with another “pairing”. This time, it’s the Sunbeam Tiger / AC Cobra 427 and Ann-Margret.
And another lil’ red thing:
And a little while later:
Lemme tell y’all: it was pure hell trying to decide which A-M pics to feature here. There may have to be a Part 2 at some point…
Bygone Broads 2
Last year, I posted the first of this series, in which I lamented the disappearance of beautiful cars and lovely women from teenage boys’ bedroom walls. That post featured a couple Ferraris and Lucy Pinder.
Here’s another such coupling [sic]. First, two cars of the Corvette persuasion:
…and second, one of the pinups who might have appeared on the opposite wall:
As the old saying went: “Farrah Fawcett: creating pup-tents in teenage boys’ beds since the 1970s.”
And as an older woman:
