Showing posts with label suitors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suitors. Show all posts

Monday, July 19, 2010

A Question of Aesthetics

Another thing about Victorians: they ruin cute boys.

I was grumbling about Masterpiece Theater's Wuthering Heights on here before, but what I didn't mention, because it wasn't particularly relevant, is that Tom Hardy, our protagonist, but certainly not our hero, made a bit of a meh-looking Heathcliff (comma total: 6). Which is what I sort of always imagined anyway, what with his being a terrible Gypsy and totes evil.


So imagine my surprise when he showed up in Inception (go see it right now. Go see it ten times.) looking utterly gorgeous. A case can be made for Victorians and evil Gypsies uglying up all our most eligible eligibles, and they must be stopped.

Georgians, on the other hand, will do wonders with what they're given: I only like Matthew Macfadyen in all his waist-coated Darcy glory, and Simon Woods looks for all the world like Paul Bettany's learning-impaired younger brother unless he is playing the nebbish Bingley. As if I needed another reason to prefer Pride and Prejudice to the Heights.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Oh Engaged Bliss!

Many congratulations and happy returns, etc, etc, to Lady Brett for bagging such a worthy suitor!

Oh, if there were such another man for me--perhaps Mister Collins has a cousin!

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Another Thing...

Sarah is right here. Since my parasol didn't match the wallpaper (or the drapes but that is an entirely different crisis altogether that would take up the better part of an hour to whine about), I have decided to have my father send a telegram to the parasol repairman to tell him to blast the thing.

Parasols be damned! I'm buying a new corset, to hold in my knowledge. As we all know that knowledge makes ladies husky and unattractive. Bad enough I haven't made a single spelling mistake in this entire blog entry. I'll never find a suitor this way...