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Miss Mhoon

Where are we going, and what am I doing in this handbasket?

About Me

Here's my button from www.ViaDelia.com: Cocktails with my beautiful friend Miss 1929 - always the best.

My Interests

Art Deco, hot jazz, dandyism, monocles, accessories, eccentrics, jokes about animals in bars... The Art Deco Society of California ~ my obsession? ~ my club. And here's my magazine (labor of love since 1997...): (cover by the fabulous STEPHAN)

I'd like to meet:

Flappers, dandies, androgynes, artistes, Bright Young Things, socialites, socialists, comediennes, eccentrics, raconteurs, litterateurs, boulevardiers, flaneurs, ragtime millionaires, ladies who lunch...

Music:

Tiny Parham, Sam Wooding, Fletcher Henderson, Thomas Morris' Past Jazz Masters, Mr. Jelly Lord, Hot 5s+7s, Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, Empress Bessie Smith, Chocolate Dandies, Johnny Dodds, Bagelman Sisters, Original Klezmer Jazz Band, Bonzo Dog Band, The Monochrome Set, Grandmaster Flash, Baguette Quartette... and Max Raabe!

Movies:

Affairs of Anatol, Madame Satan, Pandora's Box, Blonde Venus, Shanghai Express, Deadly Snail Meets Kung Fu Killers, The Women, The Group, The Moderns, White Countess, White Mischief, Mystery Men, Wings of the Dove, Bride of the Wind, Bullets Over Broadway, Sweet and Lowdown, Idlewild, Man of the Century, Mr. Hulot's Holiday... Au Bonheur des Dames

Television:

Metalocalypse, Venture Brothers, Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, The PJs, Homeboys in Outer Space, Babylon 5, Buffy, Angel, Dark Angel, Xena, Poirot, Jeeves + Wooster, Blackadder...

Books:

Orlando, Vile Bodies, Private Lives, Tart Noir, the Aubrey-Maturin books which I'm trying to stretch out for a decade or so, Jonathan Ames's neo-Wodehouse-isms, Paris-in-the-20s memoirs, Zadie Smith's 'On Beauty', Edith Wharton's 'Glimpses of the Moon' and my new favorite psychedelic wiccan, Graham Joyce...

My Blog

June ~ The Uptown Lowdown

Doin' the Uptown LowdownMusic by Harry Revel, Words by Mack GordonWhere do we get that musicThat puts the swing so hot in us?Where is life never dull,Humdrum or monotonous?Hop a subway, hop a cab,Shoo...
Posted by Miss Mhoon on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:27:00 PST

May ~ The Green Carnation

DO you know that Miss Mhoon has appeared in Glamour, the magazine? As a cautionary "DON'T"? It's one of my proudest accomplishments; let me tell you the story:I was walking (or sauntering, perhaps) ...
Posted by Miss Mhoon on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:19:00 PST

April ~ La Fiesta Grande

April ~ La Fiesta GrandeSo the ball had a Spanish theme, and it couldn't have been more delicious; everyone looked absolutely divine. Almost all the gowns were black (with a red rose, naturally), or ...
Posted by Miss Mhoon on Thu, 01 May 2008 10:47:00 PST

March ~ the Trans-Siberian

On the Trans-SiberianOf course, in retrospect, the engagement in Vladivostok was a terrible mistake.Six days on the Trans-Siberian...if all had been running well. With the engine breakdown, the herd ...
Posted by Miss Mhoon on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:43:00 PST

Februarys cocktail: the Lady Jade

The Lady Jade, named for one of my personae, was created for me by the Man in the Fez.  It is somewhat simila r to another gin & absinthe cocktail,the Frantic Atlantic, which took its name from a 1...
Posted by Miss Mhoon on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:32:00 PST

Cocktail of the month: the Rosita Forbes

..">I have long admired the English travel writer (though that term is much too sedate) ROSITA FORBES (1890 - 1967).  Truly intrepid, she adventured through the Middle East, India, Afghanistan,  Centra...
Posted by Miss Mhoon on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:50:00 PST