7/28/08

About as far as you can get

from the obsessions of Styles and the sneering at vegetable gardeners for hire.

2 comments:

Beacongal said...

Well, I've been escaping into books, as always, and have learned that Jennie Jerome Churchill, aka Lady Randolph Churchill, had a snake tattoo on her wrist that she frequently covered with jewels. So this was also a Victorian pastime, it appears. P.S. The Wiki denies Jennie's tattoo, but my source is Ralph Martin's excellent biography of Winston Churchill's mum, "Jennie."

Gastropoda said...

She at least kept it hidden. And this is funny after I've just been immersed in Matt Taibbi on Arizona: Did you know the town where I went to high school was named after Jennie J? Or so I always heard; who knows what facts have gotten in the way.

(That was one bleak depiction of NY north of Beacon.)