Dog day afternoon -- and more
There was more going on in town than a person could get to this past weekend -- starting Friday night with the celebration of hand-set typography at Art Center South with the mistress of the Vandercook cylinder press, Gloria Kundrup:
and then the opening of "The Little Foxes" at the Pasadena Playhouse. I was under the misapprehension that the play was based on the old "Saturday Night Live" sketches about searching for hot babes in clubland and was unprepared to follow Lillian Hellman's complex plot.
Saturday it was the celebration of Adelaide Hixon at the Boone Sculpture Garden at PCC and the unveiling of Yutaka Sone's "Baby Banana Tree." Adelaide chose as ever an outfit that complemented the art:
Then Sunday it was the 101st running of the Pasadena Kennel Club's dog show in Brookside Park, and I took Charlie over to visit with the others of his kind: One of these collies won second in herding dogs, obedience section. Don't know which one. Both very well-behaved:
I don't always read all the comments on things I post or write. But Sunday I was looking for something else on this blog and noticed some comments on the "Words matter" entry of a week or two ago and so took a look and then cracked up when I confirmed what I'd long suspected without thinking too much about it: The made-up person who comments on Pasadena politics and calls himself Sharkey and who is the same person as Dormitas and is likely the same person as Paddy O'Shea is definitely the same person as a supposedly new poster, "Mike R. Dewees, East Pasadena taxpayer," as he forgot to protect his identity and the ghosts in the machine recognized him as that other concoction, Sharkey. That is just so sad ...
Comments
what a bunch of snobbish dog people at that show not a friendly face at all
Posted by: Anonymous | June 1, 2009 9:40 PM
What a bunch of snobs! Not a friendly face in that crowd! Dog rescue people are friendlier by far.
Posted by: Rudy | June 1, 2009 9:41 PM
Snarky Larry doesn't like that I used my whole name in signing a post thereby not being anonymous, if I ever was. I signed my name ON PURPOSE for you.
Sorry Larry boy, but I'm not Dormitas, I just post with him at the Underbelly site, and I'm not Paddy O'Shea either. Just because we all think you represent the Gone With the Wind/Great Gatsby/Birth of a Nation era of Pasadena doesn't mean we're the same person.
Thanks for keeping up the coverage of your wealthy pals and riding point for the biddies of Pasadena.
Signed on purpose by
Mike R. deLeeuw
East Pasadena taxpayer
former purchaser now online S-Nooze reader
Posted by: Sharkey | June 2, 2009 4:32 PM
Dewees, deLeeuw, yes, I knew it was something like that, and I'm sorry I got it wrong. If this now is indeed one real person among many, then, who just share opinions and a writing style, fine -- but "anonymous, if I ever was"? What could that mean, since by calling yourself Mike Sharkey rather than Mike R. deLeeuw, haven't you for years been using a name not your own, whereas I'm always just me, never having posted anonymously/pseudonymously? When did you ever use your own name in postings until the other day? /// Thanks, I'll take the Fitzgerald praise -- he was satirizing Gatsby, after all, not praising him -- but isn't it Dormitas/Sharkey who are rather more in the D.W. Griffith mold than me? We'll all just leave ol' Margaret Mitchell to herself. Larry Wilson, Pasadena taxpayer.
Posted by: larry | June 2, 2009 5:39 PM
Didn't compare you to Fitzgerald, Larry. Compared you to Gatsby, the wannabe. Oh, damn, yeah I took English in high school, too. Deliberately getting somebody's name wrong, well snarky Larry boy, that's just childish now isn't it?
Mike R. deLeeuw
East Pasadena taxpayer
online S-Nooze reader
Posted by: Sharkey | June 2, 2009 11:10 PM