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Ms. G

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

About Me

Wouldn't you like to know?

a little handmade book of calligraphy practice & mixed media

My Interests

Many things ... especially music, art, illuminated manuscript, calligraphy, history, culture, oysters on the half shell ...
Art Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Gustav Klimt, John Everett Millais, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lord Frederic Leighton, John William Waterhouse, Caravaggio, Fra Angelico, Piero Fornasetti, Édouard Manet, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Hieronymus Bosch, Pierre Bonnard, Sandro Botticelli, Agnolo Bronzino, Pieter Bruegel, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Antonio Canaletto, Albrecht Dürer, Jean Fouquet, Edward Hopper, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, John Singer Sargent, Titian, James Tissot, the Bayeux Tapestry
Calligraphy Ludovico degli Arrighi, Giambattista Palatino, Bernardino Cataneo, the Limbourg brothers, Edward Johnston, Irene Wellington, The Lindesfarne Gospels, Sheila Waters, Julian Waters, Ward Dunham, Jean Formo, Adolf Bernd, the creators of the Lindisfarne Gospels, Marc Drogin, Timothy Noad, Diana Hardy Wilson, David Harris, Denis Brown

I'd like to meet:

Fantasy—Leonardo da Vinci, God, Pope Benedict XVI, Winston Churchill, Anthony Bourdain, Oscar Wilde, Martin Scorcese, I could go on and on ...

In real life—artists, craftspeople, type designers, calligraphers, art journalists, thinkers
French Kiss (1995)

Music:

Too many to mention. Pretty much everything except country and polka.

Movies:

Some favorites: French Kiss, Pride and Prejudice (any version), Gangs of New York, La Strada, Blade Runner, The Boondock Saints, Léon—The Professional, Love Actually, Crash, The Fifth Element, Babe, Stealing Beauty, The Third Man, Kill Bill, Almost Famous, Garden State, The Shining, Reservoir Dogs, Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Blanc, et Rouge, Some Like it Hot, La Belle et la bête (1946), Twelve Monkeys, Barry Lyndon, The Best Years of Our Lives, Monty Python: The Meaning of Life, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Fargo, Dogma, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

Books:

Impossible to list all the books that have a place in my life. A few essentials: Dante Alighieri's La Divina Comedia, Jane Austen, Umberto Eco, Arthur Rimbaud, George Sand, George Orwell's 1984, Colin Wilson's The Philosopher’s Stone, Mark Steyn's America Alone, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Tristan and Isolde, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged,
Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler’s Wife, Niccolo Machiavelli's Principe, Edward Rutherfurd's London & The Dublin Saga, Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d’Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table, Lynne Truss' Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, The Bible, James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man & Dubliners, Erica Jong's Fear of Flying, Thomas Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilizaton

Heroes:

Leonardo da Vinci, Dante Alighieri, Filippo Brunelleschi, Ludovico degli Arrighi, Mary (mother of Jesus), Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Bill Whittle, Henri Cartier, Joan of Arc, Madame Marie Curie

My Blog

Welcome to the Christmas Craft Zone

I am now in a place I go to every year at this time. It's the Christmas Craft Zone, and it's very dangerous. In the midst of finishing the shopping, wrapping, menu planning, and decorating, I am attem...
Posted by Ms. G on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 07:55:00 PST

I don't want to push 1 for English!

I am an American, living in America, and I don't want to push 1 for English, dammit. English should be the default language. Make the others push a button. If they can't make the minimal investment of...
Posted by Ms. G on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:44:00 PST