Comments on: Odonata de la semaine

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:33:30 +0000

Thank you for your stunningly beautiful photograph. And for your wise and witty words - they inspire me here in the Czech Republic and I’ve shared your website with other pals in need of shots of sanity, and spiders. La lotta continua indeed, and beauteous insects can only help.

By: Twisty

Twisty — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:45:05 +0000

Thank you for the compliment,kitchenMage. I shoot most of my bug photos with a Canon 1D and the Canon 180mm macro lens with a 2X extender, then zap the hell out of’em in Photoshop.

By: kitchenMage

kitchenMage — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:00:05 +0000

That is an amazing photo! Crap, I need a new lens. What did you shoot it with?

Now I must go see if you have a photo archive; much as I adore your blamery (if I may borrow a word, Rainbow Girl), that picture and the spiders are stunning.

By: Nymphalidae

Nymphalidae — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:32:07 +0000

Excellent photo!

Entomology is for the win.

By: Theriomorph

Theriomorph — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:37:29 +0000

(IBTP)

By: Theriomorph

Theriomorph — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:36:48 +0000

Hey, look - The Reverend B. Dagger Lee knows my ex-lover.

Haven’t seen ‘The Killing of SIster George,’ but ‘Notes on a Scandal’ made my teeth hurt. Made every individual strand of hair hurt. And that it was Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett doing it just pissed me off.

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:13:45 +0000

And a lovely odonata it is. Thank you.

Blame on.

Oh, and Frigga’s Own? The Deepa Mehta movies are worth the wait. Great stuff, every one of ‘em. Make sure you watch the DVD extras, too, as they are quite instructive, even though they will likely send you into a blaming frenzy.

And after that frenzy, I recommend a chaser of Bend It Like Beckham, just because it’s light and fluffy but also Indian-flavored, and because the DVD extras include the director Gurinder Chadha making aloo gobi with her mom.

Mmm, aloo gobi…

(Ellipsis inserted here to represent seductive daydream.)

By: tinfoil hattie

tinfoil hattie — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:55:51 +0000

That is an AWESOME photo. If “gentleman farmer” isn’t a code word for “professional photographer,” perhaps it should be.

And, regarding Dudes who come here to “help”? Instead of immediately banning, perhaps we could band together in a vile mixture of black widow spider and Lord of the Flies to lure him in, coquettishly, then SMACK down, THEN ban.

(It doesn’t take much for me. I’m easily entertained.)

By: Antoinette Niebieszczanski

Antoinette Niebieszczanski — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:54:34 +0000

Yeah, quit hogging all the rain. Everything up here is brown and crispy. It’s enough to make me think I’m back in SoCal.

By: larkspur

larkspur — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:45:47 +0000

I remember one of the first movies I saw in which a lesbian character was sympathetic. It was a John Carpenter TV movie called “Someone’s Watching Me!” (USA 1978). O yes, cheeezy. It starred Lauren Hutton as a TV exec who’s just moved cross-country to a new job. The lesbian character is played by the delightful Adrienne Barbeau, Lauren’s new co-worker. Barbeau cleverly asks Hutton, “Who was he?”, referring to the man who must have broken Hutton’s heart in order for her to have left the great job and go to a new city, partnerless.

Hutton tosses the question back at Barbeau (on the grounds that Barbeau has said she’s partnerless as well). “Who was she,” Adrienne corrects. Short discussion of whether Lauren considers it a problem, and Lauren doesn’t, so now Adrienne and Lauren are new best friends.

And of course Adrienne gets murdered by Lauren’s stalker while trying to help Lauren. Because, see, that’s one of the next stages in the portrayal of previously marginal types of characters on TV and in film: they are no longer insane, depraved, or horrific. They are sympathetic, asexual, and doomed.

But Adrienne and Lauren are pretty. Almost as pretty as that checkered setwing.

Twisty, I have been worried about you and the rain. At least I can be reassured that in Travis County, Texas, at least you and a checkered setwing are still bright-eyed and bushy-winged.