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Lis is reading a book on Disraeli
Sep. 5th, 2006 10:29 pmSo, yeah. Apparently, Benjamin Disraeli is basically a case-study in the dangers of self-esteem. Apparently, if you just manage to convince yourself that you are going to grow up to be Prime Minister, you can eventually convince enough voters of the same thing.
Anyway, she also was reading me excerpts about Disraeli's fashion sense. Um. To summarize, Benjamin Disraeli's fashion sense would make a pimp's eyes bleed. Like, I don't know about you, but I personally would not wear green velvet trousers with gold stripes down the seams with a scarlet shirt with giant silver buttons and a rainbow scarf.
Well, normally I wouldn't, anyway.
But it occurred to me: Victorian Day is coming up in a week or two.
See, Melrose throws a town party every year. This is one of the things I like about New England towns -- a lot of them will throw yearly parties, just, y'know, 'cause. Sometimes they have themes, sometimes they don't. Ludlow, VT, for instance, throws Zucchini Day, for instance -- a day to celebrate the miracle of zucchini, by having zucchini fritters, zucchini bread, zucchini races, Mister Zucchini-head contests, and, the highlight of the day, the Zucchini Catapult Contest, where people bring their catapults, trebuchets, and so forth, and attempt to launch a zucchini the farthest distance. So that's a theme party. Arlington, MA, on the other hand, where I grew up, just has "Town Day".
Town parties usually have food being sold by local restaurants, local merchants setting up displays and advertisements and stuff, local craftspeople selling stuff, dance studios and martial arts dojos putting on performances, pie-baking contests, stuff like that. Thank goodness, to the best of my knowledge, "competitive eating" hasn't made any significant inroads on New England town parties. . . yet. But it would probably fit in.
Anyway, Melrose's town party is called "Victorian Day", and it theoretically has a Victorian theme, although, in practice, it doesn't. People can show up in Victorian garb if they want to, but usually Lis and I are the only people who bother. We ended up with our picture in the local paper because of it, once.
But, see, now that we know about Benjamin Disraeli, the definition of "Victorian garb" just got blown wide open.
Anyway, she also was reading me excerpts about Disraeli's fashion sense. Um. To summarize, Benjamin Disraeli's fashion sense would make a pimp's eyes bleed. Like, I don't know about you, but I personally would not wear green velvet trousers with gold stripes down the seams with a scarlet shirt with giant silver buttons and a rainbow scarf.
Well, normally I wouldn't, anyway.
But it occurred to me: Victorian Day is coming up in a week or two.
See, Melrose throws a town party every year. This is one of the things I like about New England towns -- a lot of them will throw yearly parties, just, y'know, 'cause. Sometimes they have themes, sometimes they don't. Ludlow, VT, for instance, throws Zucchini Day, for instance -- a day to celebrate the miracle of zucchini, by having zucchini fritters, zucchini bread, zucchini races, Mister Zucchini-head contests, and, the highlight of the day, the Zucchini Catapult Contest, where people bring their catapults, trebuchets, and so forth, and attempt to launch a zucchini the farthest distance. So that's a theme party. Arlington, MA, on the other hand, where I grew up, just has "Town Day".
Town parties usually have food being sold by local restaurants, local merchants setting up displays and advertisements and stuff, local craftspeople selling stuff, dance studios and martial arts dojos putting on performances, pie-baking contests, stuff like that. Thank goodness, to the best of my knowledge, "competitive eating" hasn't made any significant inroads on New England town parties. . . yet. But it would probably fit in.
Anyway, Melrose's town party is called "Victorian Day", and it theoretically has a Victorian theme, although, in practice, it doesn't. People can show up in Victorian garb if they want to, but usually Lis and I are the only people who bother. We ended up with our picture in the local paper because of it, once.
But, see, now that we know about Benjamin Disraeli, the definition of "Victorian garb" just got blown wide open.