A toast to your 'boast'. Well deserved words of praise - and the energy! I
don't know how you do it. Andrew
On 25 May 2010 09:20, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hey Bobbi - Thanks for the fabulous vision!
>
> Planning some bubbly on the weekend, when I get over this damn lurgy,
> just because. There's a brilliant rooftop bar in Melbourne where you
> can sit out under the night sky and look over Parliament House and
> drink Tasmanian champers - which is a wonderful drop. I'll drink a
> toast to you!
>
> xA
>
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:51 AM, bobbi lurie <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > This is not boasting, Alison, this is grandeur--So please: put on your
> > velvet gown (no excuses about not having one), your long white gloves
> that
> > reach over the elbow (ditto as above), order the best champagne to
> accompany
> > the limousine waiting outside your door (look out your window right
> > now--it's waiting for, you can see it, can't you?) Certainly the driver
> will
> > bow slightly as he kisses your hand--(forget about all the feminist
> > garbage--let us be honest)--make sure he opens every door for you and
> calls
> > you Madame--that person who seems like a pest is there because someone
> must
> > walk behind you to lift the long train of your dress as you are lead up
> the
> > marble steps to the most special table in the grandest of edificios where
> > you must eat nothing but caviar on delicate crackers. Laugh the kind of
> > laugh they laughed in 40s films and don't forget to smoke, using a long
> > cigarette holder (forget all the health garbage as well)--this is a black
> > and white event--Make sure the attendants bring expensive pillows for the
> > foot rest you will need to protect your feet which are dressed in satin,
> > decorated in diamonds (let's not think of money today)--allow one brief
> > moment of silence to sink in while you are seated. Then look up. All of
> us
> > are there. "Brava, Alison! Brava!"
> >
> > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> But what the heck.
> >>
> >> Delighted by the company I'm keeping - Susan Sontag and Pauline Kael?
> Hell
> >> yeah!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/young-arts-critic-competition/young-critics-competition-2010
> >>
> >> xA
> >>
> >> --
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> >> Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
> >>
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au
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> Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
>
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Andrew
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