#Pompey Bum

[white-throated-packrat]

Measure for Measure -- fornication as a huge part of the main plot and has two secondary characters, Pompey Bum , a pimp, and Mistress Overdone, the madame of a brothel.

[noshitshakespeare]

Loved that the last question was about Measure for Measure. Its one of my favourite Shakespeare plays even though it's less popular. Just brought my ticket for Measure for Measure at the RSC Theatre too so it's strange it's seems to be popping up everywhere atm. Did it have a hidden political meaning for the time of it's release at all? I heard most Shakespeare plays did?

Hi @cacticharlotte! I guess you haven’t yet been to see the RSC Measure for Measure (it’s this June, isn’t it?). I hope you have a great time! 

It’s been quite a popular play in the last few decades because it does contain a few really complicated roles that make for great star vehicles, and because there’s a lot of creative potential in staging and ending possibilities. But I think the proliferation of Measure for Measure productions lately also has also to do with the fact that it’s been gathering attention as ‘Shakespeare’s #metoo play’. Looking through recent reviews (both newspaper and academic) of recent productions it’s difficult to find one where the reviewer doesn’t mention the #metoo movement (Emma Smith’s newest book does it too). It looks like people feel quite strongly about it as a play that speaks to our times. 

As for a hidden political meaning… Well, Shakespeare is never so straightforward that there’s an explicit political meaning to his plays, but there certainly is some correlation between the play and topical issues. Even then his use of topicality is far more subtle than that of many writers of his time (including people like Ben Jonson and Thomas Nashe who got into serious trouble for their overt satires). 

The most often noted topicality in Measure for Measure is the resemblance between Duke Vincentio and King James I. The line critics often cite for this is ‘I love the people / But do not like to stage me to their eyes’ (1.1.67-68). This bears some correlation both to Queen Elizabeth’s speech in 1586, when she stated that ‘We princes, I tell you, are set on stages, in the sight and view of the world’, a line James I quoted. It’s a well-known fact that James was not keen on crowds.

Surveillance was also a pretty topical issue. Queen Elizabeth famously had eyes and ears everywhere, a fact that is presented as a symbol of her power in the so-called ‘Rainbow Portrait’ where she’s painted with eyes and ears all over her dress:

So you can see just how effective theyr knew such strategies to be, as well as making it known that spaying is going on. But if possible James I was even more obsessed with surveillance. He not only used surveillance, but actively took part in it like ‘the old fantastical duke of dark corners’ (4.3.147-48) in Measure for Measure. And the parallels will be pretty obvious when I say that he was known to spy on his own law courts in disguise. In fact, there are several stories of the kind, such as his going into London incognito with his wife a few days before the coronation and Royal Procession only to be recognised by the crowd that then thronged around him. On his secret visit to the Royal Exchange in 1604 (maybe after the play was written) he hoped to watch how things went on without being observed and once again, his visit was leaked to the crowds. These incidents might also have suggested the Duke’s dislike of crowds, as well as Angelo’s metaphor about how kings’ subjects ‘Quit their own part and in obsequious fondness / Crowd to his presence, where their untaught love / Must needs appear offence’ (2.4.27-30). It’s not explicitly clear what Shakespeare is saying about surveillance (that’s up to interpretation), but the fact that he makes it pretty central to his narrative in Measure for Measure couldn’t be more obvious. The 1994 TV adaptation makes much of this by using lots of CCTV footage and film cameras to draw attention to the way people watch and are being watched. So there’s another bit of modern significance to add to the first point about why the play is so popular now, because what was nascent then our society has taken to extremes.

Another similarity is in James’ savvy politics of theatricality. There’s been some critical attention on the way James ‘staged’ the pardon of Cobham, Markham and Grey, letting no one, not the victims and not his personal advisors, know about their reprieve until they were literally about the be executed. In fact, he went further and confused them by pretending their execution had been postponed after they’d made their final prayers and even arranging things so that they wouldn’t know the others had been let off the execution until the big unveiling at the end. You can see how the Duke’s way of making matters look as dire as possible before his forgiveness fest at the end contains echoes of James’ approach.

The final similarity is the one that many critics have thought might have occasioned the rather unusual set up of this play: the demolition of brothels in the London suburbs as a precaution against the plague in 1603, which may have been an excuse for getting rid of the unsightly lower orders of society prior to James’ coronation. Again, it’s not immediately clear what Shakespeare is doing with this idea, and the rather extreme measures taken by Angelo’s government to suddenly tighten up a law that hadn’t really been upheld before. But Pompey’s insightful idea that pimping would be legal ‘if the law would allow it’ (2.1.194) and his question to Escalus: ‘does your worship mean to geld and splay all the youth of the city?’ (2.1.197-98) does suggest some sense of a mismatch between the law and propriety and the way it treats natural and necessary human urges.

I do think it is possible to overstress these parallels though, and while there are undeniable cases to be made of the relevance of contemporary political events, it’s always worth bearing in mind that none of the plays are reducible to historical events, as if the references were their hidden or ‘true’ meaning. It’s equally possible that such events serve as an inspiration rather than political commentary for Shakespeare, so that they aren't direct social critiques, but explorations of questions suggested by topical issues of the time.

[pompadourpink]

Spotted on Twitter

There are people who deserve to have short arms and an itchy bum

Leonidas: Spartans! Eat your food with appetite! For tonight we dine in hell!

Hades, running around: shit shit shit I don't have anything prepared

People gave me the stink eye after I farted on the bus, I told them your real enemy are Jeff Bezos and capitalism, you should attack them, but it's less easy of course

Idea for a cartoon

A young deer comes back to avenge his mother's dead. Faced with the hostility of all, he applies all the combat techniques he has learned, alone, against the unleashed pack.

The title: Rambi

In Pompei, the incredible discovery of a mummy with hair

When all you needed to do was going to the Senate

[shadlad24]

More Funny Little Moments #1: Season 1, Episodes 1-12

So, I decided to do this post after all. Halp. LOL Because I apparently LOVE giving myself a bunch of unnecessary work, I decided to choose two to three extra moments, per episode! SUPER halp! X’D Anyway, these are moments that didn’t make the cut for my FFLM series because: my sense of humor is a little weird, they were gonna be too much work (LOL/Siiigh), I like to highlight patterns, and I don’t like a lot of repetition. [Links to each FFLM along the bottom of the post. :)]

Let’s start with something I originally agreed with other fans on but have since changed my mind. A lot of people didn’t like this part of “Chariots of War” because it seems so ludicrous that Xena would forget her chakram anywhere. Well, let me tell you! This lady has left her weapons behind most episodes thus far. I didn’t note it every time here (and especially didn’t bother with her whip) because that’d really overrun the post buuuuut… You’ll see. XD

1.01 Sins of the Past

Xena’s shift being so much dirtier than the little boy’s clothes though she’s high up off the ground, and he lives in smoked-out rubble.

Yup. Xena forgot her sword (and later, her main saddlebag) at her mother’s tavern. Pft.

Sorry these were kinda lame, but I didn’t want to re-use any more of the original fifteen points I made about this episode... Ah well. Moving on! (heh)

1.02 Chariots of War

Xena loses her sword after the chariot crash, taking up and discarding Sphaerus’s but walking off without her own. (See her front and back and both of Argo’s sides.)

Gabrielle chewing Xena out, Xena being bummed about it, and Argo being surprised. X’D

1.03 Dreamworker

This got me good. Gabrielle does Xena’s war cry so well here that I really thought it was Xena for a few seconds. Realizing it was GabbyWabs only made me chuckle more because she apparently can’t do it when it really counts in “The Greater Good.”

Argo NOT being on Team Gabrielle. XD (Their feud is a little funny to me.)

1.04 Cradle of Hope

Xena tossing aside her sword after killing Nemos. Extras even dance and celebrate right on top of it! Wut thuh?

I decided to avoid mentioning Hope in the FFLM because Xena’s quote here is more ironic than comedic, and Gabrielle’s little face is just so sad, but I didn’t want to let it pass by entirely unremarked upon. At least GW gets to show off her oracle skills again? :’)

1.05 The Path Not Taken

So, Xena and Gabrielle walk into a bar… Heh. No, but really, they enter this tavern for the first time ever, yet the bartender not only knows what they want, he knows that they’re coming and has their drinks waiting for them too. All Xena has to do is knock on the counter and nod to get her fire-breath alcohol/oil, and Gabrielle barely has the word “cider” out of her mouth before the guy hands it to her. Xena, like me, is duly amazed.

Lucy, through Xena, making another timely anti-peanut statement. I just didn’t want to do the same thing twice back-to-back in the FFLM. X)

1.06 The Reckoning

Gabrielle thinking along the same lines Xena and I did about this poor excuse for a judge.

Me not being well-versed in ancient Greek heroes and picturing the fool who Draco killed so handily in the first episode. heh

1.07 The Titans

I’ll let Xena explain this one. …Mostly. I can’t believe Gabrielle not only sassed the Titans such that she unashamedly put Xena and Phyleus in danger too, but also kinda got this (admittedly awful) town demolished and didn’t lift a finger to actually help anyone in the temple. Tsk tsk. XP

So… Hyperion here can smash homes and businesses that were probably well-built and reinforced and all, but he can’t get his hand out of a stocks-cuff that was made in a single evening with scraps from those destroyed buildings. He also, inexplicably, has no use of his left hand or the power-breath that he used to knock Gabrielle over. Okie. XD

1.08 Prometheus

Is this really a thing? I was giggling quite a bit in disbelief that severed windpipes can heal. Like, perforated is one thing; completely bisected? Yeah, I don’t think so.

Gabrielle being incredulous upon learning that Xena has other friends, realizing what the warrior princess means, and then wondering if that could be her one day. 

   1.09 Death in Chains

Gabrielle enjoying watching Xena kill someone for the first time, then quickly realizing that fact. Whoops.

I found this moment really odd and then kind of hilarious. This poor dying old woman begs for water and goes ignored not only by the hospice workers, but also Talus and Gabrielle. Then Talus decides to be helpful. Gabrielle goes to the woman and lets her talk a lot (undoubtedly drying her mouth and throat even more), hears that Xena might be in danger, and then just… leaves. Talus goes with her, not having gotten water from the well after all. What a couple of jerks! XD

1.10 Hooves & Harlots

I really don’t know why Gabrielle kept making this face as Terreis died, but it tickled my funny bone too. So, I provided alternate subs to go with it. [Did you notice how she kind of cringes when Terreis tries to hold her hand and then just lets the Amazon flop once she’s died, flinging her hand aside like, “Ew, get it off me!”? What was that all about? X”) Hm… maybe she has an aversion to dying people, and that’s why she abandoned the old lady last episode?]

Gabrielle being a smart aleck, just like me, because Phantes’s complaint here is so ludicrous. But then you see the close-up of little hoofies in cuffs too, and, if you’re anything like me too, kinda just topple over laughing. The poor actual horse they did this to, though, man! What even?

Gosh, this episode was chockfull of hilarity, eh? Why did this happen? Gabby, take it away!

1.11 The Black Wolf

I laughed at this too. But now I wonder. Is Xerxes related to Caesar and/or connected to Rome or something? Because Xena does this twice around them too. In “When in Rome,” she jokes that the two guards lost playing tag with her, and in “A Good Day” she informs Pompey that if there were more guards hiding around their meeting space, then she would have had more helmets. heh Oh, Xenie. I think I know why Gabrielle’s turning out to be such a little punk ...or vice versa? Is Gabrielle actually a bit of a bad influence on Xena? XP

So, this fight just struck me as really odd. Xena passes her sword to Flora though she (Xena) needs to battle the big boss of the episode, and… actually, is totally right. The king throws a single wide-ass punch, waits while Xena kicks the guy behind her a few times, lets himself get kicked in the face a couple of times, and then comes at her with a little piece of chain, presumably from the restraints that were intended to keep Flora in place during her execution. Sir, you have a sword! A giant sword, right there on your hip! What are you doing? Then, when Xena kicks him a final time and sends him flying, his (supposed-to-be) metal armor is no match for the splintered wood of the axe she broke earlier. …Okie. XD XD XD   *gif below*

Xena once again leaves her chakram somewhere. …And I am now imagining this being part of Gabrielle’s maid duties: the poor kid has to go find Xena’s weapons each night and bring them back to her. I’m especially imaging the fluffball hilariously, adorably struggling to get the chakram out of things like this wall, as she did with Xena’s sword in the tree stump in “Dreamworker,” but more parallel to the floor. Cuuuute! XD

This plus this 

*pic + GIF below*:

1.12 Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts

This scene too really made me wonder, though amused as well. Why is Gabrielle so surprised that the only city nearby, that they were headed to, is the one they find? Is she really being that loud? Is Xena goofing around with the bootlaces question? Why startle Gabrielle and then yank her into enemy territory screaming, when what you want is quiet? What’s with the trapdoor-spider soldiers? Xena’s pose throwing the chakram. XD Gabrielle mostly featherlight dance-y moves through the battlefield. XD XD XD Why is it that when Xena tells Gabrielle to stick right behind her, Gabrielle disappears? And what was with the bucket-sitting soldier? Gabrielle is like, “Oh; no, thank you!” when she sees him and turns tail. Then Xena ...follows her. “We’re goin’ this way! Now we’re goin’ that way!” But they still end up dead-ahead from where they burst out of the bushes. XD That was ridiculous and nonsensical, and I’m very confused but had lots of fun. heheheh  *gif below* [ETA: Darn! The original file was too big, so I had to remake the GIF and cut quite a few things out. :( Sorry]

Xena’s outta-nowhere crusade to emasculate Deiphobus coming full-circle. What was that all about?

Welp, I hope you had as much fun as I originally and then later did. Not so much in the middle with the collage-and-GIF-making and editing and redoing, but; y’know. XD Wouldn’t trade it for …Hm… Nevermind. LOL

If you missed any of the FFLMs, then please click on the corresponding number-links below. :D

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[rosiewitchescottage]

OK. The wording might be a bit off track. But I actually see where our friend here is coming from.

Sex is indeed talked about.

Going by three examples that I know of, there are probably more.

Romeo and Juliet - Juliet's Nurse is full of bawdy talk. But it's all saucy double entendres. Likewise Romeo's friend Mercutio.

Juliet, first wallowing impatiently in anticipation of her wedding night with Romeo, and them waking in the morning together, when Romeo must leave for Genua.

There's sex in the air. Of course there is! But more implied than spoken of directly. And even then there's nothing explicit.

Measure For Measure - There's a brothel and a character Pompey (who jokes that his second name's Bum) who's the brothel keeper.

His language can best be described as 'fruity' it's cheeky, seaside postcard level smut.

A man is going to be put to death for getting his girl friend pregnant outside marriage, on the order of the tyrant, currently running the city of Vienna, whilst her Duke is away on business. His sister, a novice nun, is told by said tyrant that her brother's life will be spared, if she will give up her virginity to him.

Yes. Sex is talked about. But not in explicit, language. There's a lot of innuendo, and poetic terminology.

Don't forget. These plays were written in the late 16th and early 17th Centuries. Women characters were played by boys whose voices hadn't yet broken, because women on the stage was seen as one step away from prostitution. Why? Your guess is as good as mine. But there you go.

We're not intended to see characters having sex on stage.

And if a director were to include it. Then I doubt they'd be having school parties coming to see the production.

Titus Andronicus - A story with a lot of violence, particularly the rape of Andronicus' daughter Lavinia, and her mutilation by having her tongue and hands chopped off.

In the productions I've seen. There's no need to see any of this brutality actually happen, for the impact to be deeply felt.

Lavinia being dragged off stage by Queen Tamora's sons, leaves no doubt as to their vile intentions.

And when she's roughly dumped back on stage again, bedraggled, traumatised and soaked in her own blood. Need I say more?

Historical context matters. Theaters in 16th Century Britain wouldn't have been blessed by lavish stage sets. Barely any at all, in fact.

The settings are all in the language. And Shakespeare's original audiences, from all walks of society, were practiced enough in the art of listening, to glean all the details needed from the words being spoken.

We see sensuality in Shakespeares plays than explicit erotica. Even when sex is being talked about.

And, you know what? I think they're better for it.

I love well written erotica. Oh yes indeed. And I also love smut when it's well written. No detailed story line. It's a sex scene. And doesn't pretend to be anything else.

But I also love the delicious word play that talks about sex. But is holding up a curtain between us and the action.

It makes our imagination do some work. Because the storyteller has other stuff to get on with.

Sex in fiction, poetry, plays, movies, comics etc. It doesn't have to always be written as erotica or smut.

A friend of mine once said that she prefers stories that take us to the bedroom door, but then shut the door on us.

And I know what she meant.

(original tweet)

[roughrudesea]

We did it!! Project Shakespeare has officially finished reading EVERY play. What a joy this group has been—truly one of my favorite things I’ve ever been a part of.

I’ve had a chance to play so many incredible roles, but here are some highlights: Macbeth (Macbeth), Richard II (Richard II), Crab (Two Gentlemen of Verona), Pompey Bum (Measure for Measure), Parolles (All’s Well that Ends Well), Gloucester (King Lear), Douglas (Henry IV part 1), Jailer’s Daughter (Two Noble Kinsmen), Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), and Falstaff (Merry Wives of Windsor).

[fulviavincit]

the late republic as the thick of it quotes

Caesar: [Best way to clear a paper jam?] I don't know. Kill a kid an hour until it sorts itself out?

Pompey: How dare you. How dare you! Don't you ever, ever call me a bully. I'm so much worse than that.

Crassus: I hate schoolchildren, they're volatile and stupid and they haven't got the vote. Might as well be talking to fucking geese.

Clodius: Scruples? Scruples, what are they? Is that those low-fat Kettle Chips?

Antony: Relax, I’ve never hit anyone. Or at least, anyone I have hit has never had the balls to take it to a superior.

Catalina: (opens a box. inside is a cake with icing that reads ‘Happy Birthday Cunt.’) Well, this could be from anyone.

Fulvia: Look, I'd love to stop and chat to you, but you know, I'd rather have type 2 diabetes.

Octavian: [I'm not leaving it to you. You couldn't organise a bum-rape in a barracks.] Au contraire!

Curio: [I don’t think it was funny.] I’m an elected representative of the people. It was funny.

Caelius: I am not a liar. I categorically did not knowingly not tell the truth, even though unknowingly I might not have done.

Catullus: [Don’t take it so personally.] You’re telling me she doesn’t like me as a person, how else am I supposed to take it!

Brutus: Oh, sorry darling, I've gotta go, I think the bailiffs are coming to take away my will to live.

Cicero: No, but you know me, I’m a man of principle. I like to know whether I’m lying to save the skin of a tosser or a moron.

Cassius: Tucker's Law. 'If some cunt can fuck something up, that cunt will pick the worst possible time to fucking fuck up because that cunt's a cunt.' I've got that embroidered on a tea towel at home.

Clodia: Oh, great, I’m flypaper for dickheads today.

Lepidus: Why don't you go and have a lie-down and a Hobnob while we run the fucking country, all right?

[dark-eyed-elegance]

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tagging: just do it, bare your soul, become vulnerable, this is supposed to be funny but it sounds really creepy

nicknames: jer, lenk, j, jeri-cho, jeri (no), jer bear (don’t), shithead armand, fuckface

zodiac: cancer sun, sagittarius moon, leo rising 

height: 5′1″

time:  20:00

favorite band / artist:  o this question is impossible, i range from grunge to alt rock to indie folk, lo-fi, indie pop, lately lots of classical (shotakovich, schubert), 

song stuck in my head: i don’t know, i’m watching guy’s grocery games on netflix and procrastinating work 

last movie i saw: ‘the clovehitch killer’ and it was SO FUCKIN GOOD

last thing i googled: ‘jojo narancio’ (misspelled) @dominusromanus pff

other blogs: ffffff a fic writing blog i don’t touch anymore and @agnusdeisanctus (VC benedict) 

do i get asks: yes, i do, mainly tormenting me about current dash drama or santino’s/rhoshamandes’s/marius’s dick

why did i choose this username: no idea, it was like 7 or 8 years ago

following:  279

average amount of sleep: 7 - 8 hours depending on if i lay down again after taking my morning medicine, though i try not to go under 6 or beyond 7

what i’m wearing: a convention staff t-shirt and black boxer briefs 

dream job: where i am currently: grad student TA, writing, club dancing; where i’d like to be next year: grad student TA in seattle, writing in seattle, working the spooked in seattle haunted museum/ghost tours, club dancing in seattle; overall: bestselling author and indie actor 

dream trip:  i’m making my virginal trip to london, paris, and venice this december! next on my list: japan, greece/rome/pompei, entirety of british isles, amsterdam, st petersburg i would love to take a year or so off of life in general and just travel/bum my way around the us and europe

favorite food: fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck um cosmic brownies??

play any instruments: i played clarinet in middle school, u know how all us edgy band kids say, ‘lots of fingering and blowing hahaha i’m so mature ;)))))))’ 

eye color: light blue 

hair color:  dirty blond/strawberry blond, though i’m in between aurburn and blond at the moment for a show

languages you speak:  english, russian, scrape by reading and pronouncing french 

most iconic song:  the fuck does this meeeean idk, bohemian rhapsody? heart-shaped box? naara? bad guy? 

random fact: sharks have two dicks and my mom almost dated bon jovi 

describe yourself as aesthetic things: cool, grey dawn filtering through damp evergreens; blackbirds on university campuses; walking back to your car in the golden light of midnight downtown; flannel, ripped jeans with fish net showing through at the knees by night, oversized sweaters, parka, and ankle boots by day; the smell of new books; the taste of blood; cigarettes and coffee 

[clawheld]

Leather begins with a litany of don’ts, creating from them a poetry of meaningful experience. We are taught that the asshole is dirty and despicable. Leather explores and builds on its forbidden sensations that are closely tied with those of sexual arousement. We are taught that urine is to be shunned and that the natural tendency Of children to play piss games are unclean. Leather uses the expression of pissing along with its overtones of territory, dominance and sexuality to cement bonds on a level that is basic and animal. Leather could be termed the art or culture Of the forbidden. This art has its beginnings in a very animal core that lies within all of us. That core is at its heart instinctive and addictive both strongly animal and distinctly human.

Geoff Mains

The masks neither can nor want to limit themselves by law, morals or common sense. The masks are here mirroring themselves mainly in actions of unmatched stupidity, or driven by monumental lust or hunger, or blissfully unknowing about rules and ideas of moral. [...] Stupidity in all its lewdness often transcend to pure animal behavior, which in in itself is totally immoral. This is an immorality that doesn’t come from malice or greediness, but the inability to follow moral rules and patterns. Or to quote Pompey Bum: “It is not more evil than a dog that overturns a garbage can is evil; they are not self- conscious in their embodiment of nature, which refuses to become castrated and flattened.”

Micke Klingvall

the way gay scholars and clownery scholars talk about leather/piss kink/pup culture & commedia dell’arte respectively are so similar

[sege-h]

12: Do you prefer tea, coffee, or cocoa? - 35: Where would you like to travel and/or live? - 47: What is a sound you really hate? o:

12. Coffee or cocoa. It depends on the season.

35. Id like to travel basically anywhere but here. But places I’d really like to visit are Amsterdam (re-visit because I couldn’t get enough of it just once), Tokyo (Japan in general also but I have always dreamed of visiting the Pokemon Center), Venice (re-visit and I’d love to go with my mom because she’s never been, and while I got to go once with school, none of my bum classmates wanted to ride on a gondola), Rome, and also maybe the ruins of Pompei? And also freakin BELGRADE, I know Serbia is RIGHT THERE but money is very much NOT HERE, and I have been there and I have vague memories of the Zoo and I want to go there so badly they have BEARS and FENNEC FOXES. London, maybe? Im always on the fence about London. I just wanna go there just to get Sonic stuff tbh. Also Australia. I know that’s vague because I have all these towns and now I come here with a whole island/continent. All these other places are places I’ve fantasized about for years, and the desire to go there has popped up recently because we came into contact with my uncle and he lives there, and I also now have a friend that lives there.

Also just. Just a tour of America tbh. I wanna visit all my friends. Maybe go to Disneyland and be a childless millenial that eats all the pretzels. ANd god I have a whole list of foods that I want to try that are available there but not here.

God I rambled so much but now onto where I’d like to live. Im a person that doesnt like change and one of my worst nightmares as a kid was the idea of moving. Im also terrified of being alone. Ideally I’d still live Here but travel anywhere else

47. I hate the sound of screaming, but more specifically children screaming because it’s more high pitched and gets to me more. The yelling too. Though a sound that will instantly and very irrationally tick me off is the sound of snoring.

[followthecyborg]

Mistress Overdone! I'm trying to serve sack, but I'm dummy thicc, and the clap from my ass cheeks keeps alerting the duke!

-Pompey Bum, probably

[sanremista-dal51]

Chi più ne ha, più ne ha, più ne metta Chi più ne ha, più ne ha, più ne metta Chi più ne ha, più ne ha, più ne metta Chi più ne ha, più ne ha, più ne metta Chi più ne ha, più ne ha, più ne metta Chi più ne ha, più ne ha, più ne metta Chi più ne ha, più ne ha, più ne metta Bum, bum, laka, laka, bum, bang Avrei voluto un po’ parlare di tutto Quello che sembra bello non può essere brutto Ma non l’ho fatto, ci penserò domani E parlerà poi di mondi lontani Avrei voluto trovarmi un bel lavoro E fare, fare, il bravo davvero E avrei voluto scappare molto più lontano E di sicuro poi gridare meno Avrei voluto già capirlo da un bel pezzo Che poi non sono solo l’unico pazzo Potevo anche donare, dare un deca ad un barbone Io avrei voluto fare stamattina a colazione Avrei voluto anche parlare bene bene alla mia gente Di quello che pare falso o se vale veramente E avrei potuto anche cantare, invece io reppo Questo chi più ne h” che pompa di brutto Chi più ne ha, più ne ha, più ne metta Chi più ne ha, più ne ha, più ne metta Chi più ne ha, più ne ha, più ne metta Avrei voluto fare ma no, non c’è fretta Chi più ne ha, più ne ha, più ne metta Chi più ne ha, più ne ha, più ne metta Chi più ne ha, più ne ha, più ne metta Bum, bum, laka, laka, bum, bang Avrei voluto imparare con le braccia a volare Magari cadere giù per poi riprovare Ma è molto più facile fregare dei soldi E scappare ad abitare nei paesi più caldi Avrei voluto poter comprare la luna col sole Ed invertire ribaltando la terra con il mare E avrei voluto annientare il male adoperando il bene E dare poi, dare poi la forza di lottare (testo completo nei commenti) (Francesco Ciccarelli, Luciano Favarin, Stefano Bonci e Rudy Neri) #sanremo #sanremo45 #sanremo95 #sanremo1995 #festivaldisanremo #nuoveproposte Brano: Chi più ne ha Immagine: Priapo con gli attributi di Mercurio - autore ignoto - Bottega di Mercurio a Pompei Antica - II Sec. a.C. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_SZRmelx_Y/?igshid=1ody8dt6jhscy

[doublewarhol]

JULIUS, continued (Chapter 1)

“What’chu expect from Julius? You think he’s gonna make everything better? He’s gonna buy you a house? Is that what you want?”

        “We heard he got us permission to stay here permanently, Marcellus,” said Shoes, known as such because he never wore any.

        “We always had permission to stay here,” Marcellus mumbled.

        “That’s not what I heard,” said Jane, the pill girl with the red cheeks.

        “Oh, so you’re impressed by ole Jules, huh? You think he saved the day, huh?” said Flave.

         “Right he did, Flave,” said Shoes. “He talked to the mayor. They had a talk.”

        “My ass he talked to the mayor. Mayor’s got no time for us.”

        “He’s got something, brothers. He’s got heart. And that’s more than you got.”

        “So you sayin’ Pompey doesn’t have heart?” Marcellus blurted. Maybe it wasn’t the most expedient time to make this stand, but he had to say something. “You know how long that man took care of us here? He kept the outsiders from comin’ in by talkin’ to ‘em.”
  

        “He made them hate us more. And anyway, he’s gone, Marcellus. Now he’s gone out there with all of them.”

        “Get back in your tents!” yelled Flavius, with obvious desperation, lashing out with a hand. He wanted to hit them. They saw that repressed intensity, and some of the bums drifted back to their tents. But some continued to stay, looking out into the dusk. The thing that he hated most about Julius’s arrival was that everyone had become so goddam hopeful. He despised the tone of enthusiasm in their voices. They were all becoming so nice to each other too, which cut down on his and Marcellus’s work.

“C’mon, let’s get out of here,” Marcellus said, and he waved Flave back to the shadows of the Park. “So he had a meeting with the mayor. Fuck the mayor. You think that guy keeps promises?” He tried to spit on the ground but the drivel stuck to his chin and he had to wipe it away. “He’s using his Ivy League connections, I figure. Doesn’t even deserve to be up in the Park if you ask me. Who has that? He oughta be playin’ golf with the other goons.”

        “Mmm hmm,” said Flave, still stiff with anger.

        “Those fuckers used to give Pompey respect.” Marcellus broke his stride and pinched his eyes a little to squash out the tears that were coming now. First drivel, and now tears. “Damn, Pomps, where’ve you gone? Where’ve you gone, my brother?”

        Flavius stood awkwardly and stared off into space.

        “If Julius went away, he’d come back to us, I’m sure,” he muttered.

        “Brothers,” came a voice.

[jessicakehoe]

Here’s All the Fashion News You Missed This Week

Halima Aden makes history as the first model to wear a hijab and burkini for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit: https://t.co/8WFD4hHmiH. pic.twitter.com/OsBthnjoLY

— Sports Illustrated Swimsuit (@SI_Swimsuit) April 29, 2019

Halima Aden Wears a Burkini in Sports Illustrated’s Annual Swimsuit Issue

Halima Aden’s story is filled with firsts. In 2016, the Kenya-born, Minesota-raised 21-year-old model became the first-ever contestant in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant to adhere to a modest dress code. A year later, she went on to become the first hijabi model to ever sign a major modeling contract. Now she’s breaking ground again as the first Muslim model to appear in a burkini in the salacious Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. “Growing up in the States, I never really felt represented because I never could flip through a magazine and see a girl who was wearing a hijab,”Aden says in a promotional video. She describes the experience of modelling for Sports Illustrated as a “dream come true.” Considering that historically, the swimsuit issue has been a collection of softcore wank material of busty white women, it’s refreshing to see the cultural mood shifting toward one where all expressions of beauty are honoured. (New York Times)

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Model Dies After Collapsing on the Runway in Brazil

Tales Soares, a 26-year-old male model who worked under the professional name of Tales Cotta, died in a hospital after stumbling and collapsing on a runway at Sao Paulo Fashion Week. Soares was known as an exemplary model and an advocate for LGBTQ rights. A video of the event depicts audience members jumping out of their seats to help Soares, whose fall was just out of frame. Doctors have speculated that Soares may have suffered from an undiagnosed congenital illness. The model’s sister, Gabriella Gomes, told British tabloid The Sun, “Me and my mother (Heloisa) spoke to Tales by video call before the parade and he said he was well and said he had just finished eating a carrot… My mother called to find out what was going on, they said that Tales had been taken ill and hospitalized, and shortly after, the organization called again and said he had died… We’re very scared and devastated by what happened. He was very healthy, ate healthily and exercised every day. He did cross fit and yoga.” (CNN)

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Cher and designer Bob Mackie, 1974. Bob Mackie Will Receive the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award From the CFDA. Photo: Ron Galella / Getty Images Via @vogue ‘With the announcement that Bob Mackie will receive the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement honor this year, the bar for this CFDA Award has just been raised. Not many designers or costumers have been influencing popular culture for as long, or across as many media, as the 80-year-old Mackie has. And talk about having a moment: This week Mackie was also nominated for a Tony Award for his work on The Cher Show.’ . . . . . #bobmackie #cher #tonyaward #CFDA #GeoffreyBeeneLifetimeAchievement #dressdesigner #thechershow #1974 #cherandbobmackie #cherattheoscars #bobmackiedress #1970sfashion #70sfashion #1970sstyle #1970smakeup

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Cher’s Costume Designer to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Anyone who can recall the jagged crop top and feathered fright wig Cher wore to the 1986 Oscars will be familiar with Bob Mackie. The 80-year-old designer began working with Cher in 1967 and is responsible for the star’s most memorable getups, from the aforementioned fright wig to the sequin-bedecked “naked dress” she wore to accept her Oscar for Moonstruck in 1988. In honour of his cultural contributions, Mackie will be presented with the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2019 CFDA Awards on June 3rd. “I’m amazed and delighted,” was the simple quote he provided to WWD after the award was announced. As someone responsible for some of the most unquestionably iconic looks of the 20thcentury, we can’t think of a more deserving candidate for the award. (WWD)

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Art by #HarmonyKorine is interspersed throughout the limited-edition book ‘Gucci by Harmony Korine’ together with photographs by the director with the #GucciPreFall19 collection by @alessandro_michele. Discover more about the book through link in bio. #AlessandroMichele Images shot in @pompeii_parco_archeologico and @ercolanoscavi Courtesy of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Archaeological Parks of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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Gucci is Releasing a Photo Book by Harmony Korine

Director Harmony Korine is responsible for some of the most discomfiting films of the 20th century. Gummo, Julien Donkey Boy, and the literally-titled Trash Humpers all traffic in queasy absurdist realism, daring audiences to look away from his horrible yet fascinating visions. He’s taken a turn towards the mainstream in the last five years, casting Selena Gomez in the Girls Gone Wild-inspired Spring Breakers and Matthew McConaughey in his latest slacker fever dream, The Beach Bum, but his latest move might be his most family-friendly work to date. Gucci asked the director to shoot their pre-fall 2019 collection at UNESCO World Heritage sites in Italy and produced a photography art book from the body of work. Korine’s quote about the book is uncharacteristically tame: “Working with Alessandro Michele was such a great experience. It was a chance to shoot in historic places such as the ancient towns of Ercolano and Pompei, which are so inspiring. The special atmosphere made it a unique experience.” The book will be available in June at Gucci’s new bookstore in SoHo as well as Gucci Garden in Florence. Here’s hoping the contents of the book are more compelling that the quote. (WWD)

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[findingflorence]

Amalfi Coast

Sorrento, Positano, Capri, Pompei, Naples

Easter Weekend! What a beautiful place to be! Southern Italy is hands down my favorite place (other then Florence). The coast is absolutely stunning. We did this trip through bus2alps (siiggghhh) but they had everything planned for us and we got the trip at a discount price. We left thursday evening and arrived in Sorrento around 1 am. Mackenzie and I had to have random roommates because the rooms were only 4 people and not 6. We were super bummed about it but they ended up being pretty cool. The hostel though was tiny to share with people you don’t know and the beds were AWFUL. so hard. kms. We had to be up early again because we were heading to Positano for our first day.

Friday

According to the weather for our long weekend this was the only day it was going to be sunny which worked out very well because Positano is a beach. We threw on our swimsuits and headed to the ferry to get us there. Although we had to wait over an hour to get onto the actual boat, the ride made up for it. Bus2alps had set up a booze cruise for us with free lunch! We sat on the top deck, sang, ate, and drank with all of our friends. It was so much fun! Needless to say I did drink a whole bottle of wine. The sites on the way to Positano are breathtaking. We saw other islands in the distance and the clear blue water as well. We were on the boat for around 2 hours and then docked once we got there and had the day to ourselves. Of course us being girls decided we were going to lay out all day in the heat. It ended up being so hot I got burnt! It was such a fun day though, we met some people that day on the boat and hung out with them on the beach as well. I had a slice of pizza that was delicious for lunch and reminisced on the time I was in Positano with my family. After a long day on the beach we headed back onto the faster boat to go home. Once home I showered and took a nap before we headed out to dinner. We found a place right on the water that basically just sold seafood. I had the seafood pasta and calamari. Side note, I had calamari every single day there and it got better each time. I now crave calamari every day. After dinner on the water we headed back and passed out to get a good night sleep for Capri the next day. 

Saturday

Capri! A place I was excited to go to because I have never been before but heard lots about. Again we had to take the ferry to get there but it was not a booze cruise this time. The weather wasn’t as nice as the day before but it had not rained yet. We had to hike up 15 minutes to the top of Capri, which was actually grueling. But once we got up there we were given some time to explore. We then took a bus to Anacapri which is the top of Capri. Once there we got on a chairlift that I heard a lot about and that took us to the tippy top. Unfortunately it was completely cloudy so the whole journey was pointless and we wasted 10 euros. I am also afraid of heights so I was scared the whole time...Anyway!! We got back down and had lunch at a place the tour guide recommend and it was amazing. We got calamari and a pasta with sausage, zucchini, and cheese in it. The noodles were homemade and so amazing. I would go back just to eat that pasta again. We had free time after that and explored and then headed back and napped for an hour. Bus2alps had a dinner and drink special or us this night so we spent the 15 euro for unlimited food and then realllly cheap drinks. They gave us so much but the hot dogs were the best part. So good. I love America. After dinner we bought drinks and then headed to the English Inn which is like an outside beer garden. It was one of the best nights I had, it was so much fun and we danced for hours before heading home and going to bed. 

Sunday 

Mackenzie and I bought tickets for Pompeii and Mt. Vesuvius because no one else wanted to go but then she ended up backing out so I just went with the other group of girls. The mountain was literally covered in clouds and we somehow convinced the bus2alps people to skip it and just go to Pompeii. Pompeii ended up being pretty boring but I felt obligated to go. We had a very strange experience at the pizza shop though. They tried to rip us off with the big it was odd but anyway we fixed it and then went back to Sorrento. We went out to eat at this amazing little place called La Cantinaccia del Popolo. I highly recommend, everything was to die for. We left stuffed and sat at the pool bar back at the hostel for a couple hours before going to bed.

Monday

Naples was the last stop of the trip. We did not have much time here but enough to try the place where the margherita pizza originated!! And we saw the egg castle. The pizza was reallllly good. Naples wasn’t anything too special and wasn’t that pretty but a cool place to check off my list! We headed back to Florence and got in around 10pm.

Next weekend is what I have been waiting for this whole time... PARIS!

[followthecyborg]

Still thinking about the Shakespeare character Pompey Bum and how he’s named that because he has a thicc ass