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Post by nickwillard on Feb 9, 2015 18:32:38 GMT
In case you haven't noticed, in the last couple of days there were 2 comments added to the 2013 Dandy of the Year post (I'd add a link, but I still haven't learned how to do it) telling Natty how proud his family is of his achievement. Checked with Natty via PM, and he confirms that it was, indeed, his mother who posted those comments.
Nothing like a mother's love.
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Post by Fine and Dandy on Aug 14, 2016 21:03:12 GMT
The given name "Natty" is admirable and fine. However, it suffers from an, erm, unfortunate predecessor-- Nathaniel Hawthorne's protagonist, Natty Bumppo of the Leatherstocking Tales. While the prospect of leather stockings is itself intriguing, to combine the concepts of dandyism and nattiness with backwoods bumpkins is an unfortunate aesthetic faux pas, sort of like flatulating at the tea party. He reminds me of David Crockett as a senator in Washington-- he brought with him the savoir faire of the frontier, which mingled not well at all with the pretentious nouveau nabobs of the District. Somewhere, there is a Tropic of Taste, where the stylistic gestures of the eccentric recluse meet the ultra-refined snooteries of urbanity. I confess that I still, at my late age, still don't know precisely where to draw that line.
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