Madeline Takes You to the Movies

This was the beginning of the movies:

In 1878 Eadweard Muybridge was challenged to prove that while galloping, a horse's four legs would all be in the air at the same time. He did so, with
a bunch of cameras, trip wire and the lovely thoroughbred, Sallie Gardener.

This is also the beginning of the screenwriting course that I'll be teaching soon. Ain't it cool?

Here's his next photographic esssay: Woman Dropping Handkerchief

Here's Another: Men Wrestling:

It didn't take movies very long to feature naked folk, did it?
I like that about the cinema.

xoxo Mad

ps - In 1874, still living in the San Francisco Bay Area, Muybridge discovered that his wife had a lover, a Major Harry Larkyns. On October 17, 1874, he sought out Larkyns; said, "Good evening, Major, my name is Muybridge and here is the answer to the letter you sent my wife"; and shot and killed him. He was put on trial for the killing, but acquitted of the killing on the grounds that it was "justifiable homicide."

What a guy!

Eye Candy Monday

I like dirty guys

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I like them to get nice and clean so . . .

. . . they can get dirty again. How about you?

xoxo Mad

Look At Me!

Remember this?

When he turned sixty they said, "He's not sixty years old, he's three twenty year olds."


Judging from the way he rocked it baby at the Grammys last week, I'm inclined to agree.And then there are those memories, the ones many of us have, that we each think are ours alone.



Bad Boy

Baby boy

My boy (Hey, I know how to share!)

Eye Candy Monday - When One is Not Enough

Boo hoo sob sob I'm still sick. I sleep. I sip ginger ale. I read half a paragraph of a magazine. I sleep more. I have an inhaler, like an asthmatic.


Felix takes care of me, of course. But he has so much he needs to get done.
I believe we need reinforcements. I believe we need:

Him:

I don't want him to burn out, giving me my sponge bath and taking my temperature and fetching ice chips and ginger ale.

I know I'm high maintenance. I've never denied it. So perhaps it's best if we bring in even more reinforcements.

Him:

Yes, I think the three of them can do the job. Before I take my mega pill, which will knock me out before I can take a single sip of ginger ale from my bendy straw, I will express my appreciation to those who take care of me.

I love Felix, too.



xoxo Madeline


Photos: male nurse one - www.blogmonkeys.com
male nurse two - some14me.blogspot.com
i love male nurses banner - cafepress.com

Grand Horizontal

If only I could be like the lovely, reclining woman on the cover of Grand Horizontal The Erotic Memoirs of A passionate lady, by Cora Swan.


She only lived 1835 - 1886. So I guess if really was her I wouldn't be sick I'd be dead. Oh hahahaCHOO! Along with the above book she also published The Memoirs of Cora Pearl. So she only wrote two books but then, I imagine she was pretty busy being a courtesan.


I am horizontal but there the comparison ends. I'm bedfast with a setback,
my friends. Weak and sometimes dizzy. Pneumonia. The flu. So I'm a little closer to this picture:

Yes, I know, I used the same picture on my facebook pages. Guess why?
Because I'm sick! Jeez!

- Mad Mad