Leap Year, Baby....

"I treated art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction."
-- Oscar Wilde

Count  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola 

When Balthazar Klossowski turned six, he had a large birthday party in his family's apartment in Paris. Birthdays were a funny business for "Baltusz" — as everyone called him. Since he had been born on February 29 in 1908, his family did not know precisely when to celebrate except on leap years.....

to re-phrase OW
 and succinctly(my favourite word) sum up B...
Life is an absurd Fiction-Folly,
only Art contains any Truth and Beauty.

On the demise of "Mademoiselle"

 

Like Coco, I rather like being Mlle....

Hope for Love....

"I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up,

tell me ten things I don't already know,

and make me laugh.

I don't care what you look like,

just turn me on.

And if you can do that,

I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow.

I will do your windows.

Just have something in there."

----Mr. Henry Rollins

Holiday Gift....

Holiday Gift....

Diana Vreeland