tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post2528688249497402361..comments2024-03-19T02:34:30.151-04:00Comments on The Blue Remembered Hills™: SPLATBluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-32299070860740732602014-11-04T15:34:24.875-05:002014-11-04T15:34:24.875-05:00home before dark, thank you. It's a dastardly ...home before dark, thank you. It's a dastardly blow – knowing a woman of taste would have 'ere to 'ere leopard carpeting – but what can I do but cope? <br /><br />"Gifted" is wondrously tasteless – almost as unappetizing as the act of "re-gifting".Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-25652341525190362432014-11-04T12:19:54.504-05:002014-11-04T12:19:54.504-05:00As always love your writing and your point of view...As always love your writing and your point of view. But I love leopard carpet and it's going to be in almost every room of my house. I love the colors and the pattern. Always have. Always will. Quick pass Professor Blue the smelling salts. So glad we did not inherit some of my husband's uncle's "trophies. <br /><br />On the other hand I would like the take the pops of color that are verbally worse than road kill and bang people on the head with them when they use that twee "reaching out" phrase to cover up they got a freebie if they whored themselves out in print. Which is better or worse than being "gifted" of something. The higher tech our world becomes, the more our speech turns to nursery gibberish.home before darkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13272062955786414729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-90619396841450839142014-11-04T07:07:02.455-05:002014-11-04T07:07:02.455-05:00You had me with the trumpet blast at "reachin...You had me with the trumpet blast at "reaching out," but the recollection of the abbatoire is as fine as anything in Hazlitt or in Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant." I only wish you'd permit the obvious reflection on others' choices to stand as the innocent observation that it is. And just for the record, I'll settle for the bestiality of the slaughter; the irony of mixed metaphors in decor rather pales, I'd like to think, even in a practitioner's eye. A great blog entry, to be kept. Laurenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17972899387484460347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-18050790980469838402014-11-04T04:03:03.864-05:002014-11-04T04:03:03.864-05:00I believe you! And respect your feelings.
As for ...I believe you! And respect your feelings. <br />As for the genuine articles, <br />I've always liked the idea of flying carpets.<br />gésbihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18094108253356167918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-74569323507466174152014-11-03T17:16:58.858-05:002014-11-03T17:16:58.858-05:00Dean Farris, thank you. I know all the arguments t...Dean Farris, thank you. I know all the arguments that hunters, big game and otherwise, employ to justify what they do, and I do not agree with them. My father-in-law hunted and taught both his sons to do so. Neither they nor I hunt.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-64568378099784988722014-11-03T16:45:00.537-05:002014-11-03T16:45:00.537-05:00Don't forget that bigger animals hunt and kill...Don't forget that bigger animals hunt and kill slower or smaller animals...<br />My big game hunter client told me when I asked him why he had so many trophies, that some (species) such as Zebra, over produce, and they can starve to death when the natural food supply dwindles... Dean Farrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11651467227402717540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-5037702956939410482014-11-03T16:39:07.281-05:002014-11-03T16:39:07.281-05:00gésbi, thank you. I did say it was a personal reac...gésbi, thank you. I did say it was a personal reaction to what I see and believe me the reaction is real – as is the distaste I feel when I see reptile skin, be it real, printed or woven. Cannot abide it! <br /><br />A word I did not use, and I think I might have, is "triumphalist". There is something, to my mind, of the triumphalist in spreading animal pattern over the floor and furniture – however, I fear it would not have lessened your dislike of my equating leopard carpet pattern with "a cosmic skid mark of roadkill" (not quite calling it roadkill but I won't argue the point). It might have helped connect to the later mention of the Hitchkiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-34427216619397407422014-11-03T15:46:44.557-05:002014-11-03T15:46:44.557-05:00My problem with animal skins in designs has been t...My problem with animal skins in designs has been that they are still often tainted by brassy glam interiors, but I do appreciate them in anyway for the patterns and warmth they offer. I’m speaking of the fabrics and rugs inspired by animal skins patterns. Nature inspires so many designs without being tortured – well, dependent on the designer’s skill not directly. I couldn't have enough praise for what is undeniably at the summit of the category, Le Manach’s hand-woven silk velvet animal patterns. Calling them roadkill designs is going too far!<br />I don’t see how anyone could feel any other way than you having had your experience but calling carpet design inspired by an animal's markings roadkill is going too far!gésbihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18094108253356167918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-21823877494301722202014-11-03T14:50:19.580-05:002014-11-03T14:50:19.580-05:00ArchitectDesign, thank you. Faux taxidermy is abou...ArchitectDesign, thank you. Faux taxidermy is about as logical as zebra-printed cowhide. Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-86342396322331225522014-11-03T14:46:02.462-05:002014-11-03T14:46:02.462-05:00JD, thank you. Somehow even more horrifying yet wh...JD, thank you. Somehow even more horrifying yet why it should be, is hard to say. Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-40812684368621061532014-11-03T14:42:33.263-05:002014-11-03T14:42:33.263-05:00Anonymous (Mrs S), thank you. I agree ... poor zeb...Anonymous (Mrs S), thank you. I agree ... poor zebra. And poor polar bear, and poor cow, etc.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-69410185408460674402014-11-03T12:39:31.142-05:002014-11-03T12:39:31.142-05:00I've never liked taxidermy (and after being qu...I've never liked taxidermy (and after being quoted as such in Elle Decor a number of years ago received a lot of attention and nasty emails).In the same vein I've never understood why Vegans insist on eating fake 'meat-tasting' substitutes . I also can't understand why people who would ever have a dead animal in their house will have a faux-taxidermy rug, etc. It's the same thing isn't it, with less cruelty. I say you only live once -it should be REAL (and not dead). ArchitectDesign™https://www.blogger.com/profile/01481754380363676771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-20814308581935971162014-11-03T09:49:36.706-05:002014-11-03T09:49:36.706-05:00Ten or so years ago,I was on a trip with my young ...Ten or so years ago,I was on a trip with my young son and we stopped into an antique store. As we wandered around I noticed an array of small to medium animal figurines. This shop comprised an entire house and on the landing there sat a Golden Retriever puppy. In the room directly across from the pup was a bed on which a Yorkie was lying. I touched the Yorkie,and because I'd had one, I knew it was real. The Golden was real. Made in China. I rushed to the front desk and ask if they knew what they were selling. They eat dogs and cats in Asia and trade the skin and fur for bags, shoes, fur trim and figurines. jd JDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12464535786253279172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-68940137453154260782014-11-02T15:18:30.699-05:002014-11-02T15:18:30.699-05:00There has been a trend of taxidermy for a few year...There has been a trend of taxidermy for a few years now. I think it reached its zenith when the New York Times published a design piece called "The New Victorians" or something like that, about a group of hipsters who plastered their (mostly) Brooklyn walls with the mounted trophies of long ago safaris. Sadly, some of my children and grandchildren have found this trend de-rigeur. My distaste for such things goes back to when I was a little girl and was terribly afraid of a real zebra skin rug in the hall of my grandmother's house. No one quite knew how long it had been in the family or who shot the poor creature, but I found it shameful and frightening. One day I summoned the courage to press the sole of one of my shoes on to the rug and it felt stiff and crinkly like old cardboard. Poor zebra.<br />Mrs. S.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com