Slog - Comments on Christopher's Classic Tastes http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes Regarding Frizzelle's post about the under-appreciated beauty of men's calves: You're living in the wrong century, Christopher. I ran across this in Eleanor Herman's Sex With Queens, my current beach reading: When the German princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha found herself not queen of England, as she had imagined, but the widowed Princess of Wales, she lived a retired life at Kew Palace with her eight children. Family friend and advisor John Stuart, marquess of Bute, was in almost constant attendance, often in locked rooms with the princess dowager. A handsome man known for his shapely calves in white silk stockings--that... Copyright 2008 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:21:38 -0800 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:03:17 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Phelix I get a whole different mental image when I read the title "Sex with Queens". *shrug*

It sounds like good reading though. :)

]]> Phelix http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765585 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765585 At Large Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:59:14 -0800 Comment by Gloria I love the glory days of men's stockings. It doesn't strike most men as very masculine, but a man who's confident enough to show off his strong, shapely, manly legs like that (and wear something short enough to taunt us with the rest of the goods) is super sexy.

]]> Gloria http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765606 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765606 At Large Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:12:26 -0800 Comment by Anthony Hecht Challenge accepted.

]]> Anthony Hecht http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765630 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765630 At Large Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:33:42 -0800 Comment by Original Monique Dan, you are the cutest thing ever.

]]> Original Monique http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765639 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765639 At Large Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:39:45 -0800 Comment by kinaidos You're sounding a little bit like arch-conservative Edmund Burke:

"0h, what a revolution! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall!"

]]> kinaidos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765673 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765673 At Large Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:56:13 -0800 Comment by Eric F Christopher might also be interested in a running plot in the second season of Entourage having to do with Drama's insecurity about his calves and his continual ogling of other guy's legs, speculating whether or not they have implants. It's ambiguously gay-a-riffic.

]]> Eric F http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765733 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765733 At Large Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:54:07 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale So, high socks at Safeco?

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765747 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765747 At Large Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:06:03 -0800 Comment by Gitai @1 Seconded.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765786 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765786 At Large Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:24:55 -0800 Comment by Thom Totally agree with Christopher. A guy with great calves is freakin' HOT. The photos he posted were drool-inducing.

If only the Renaissance look was in nowadays. Somebody needs to bring it back. Well, maybe not the wigs and syph. and everything. Sigh...

]]> Thom http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765793 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765793 At Large Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:43:19 -0800 Comment by Boomer in NYC Every century is the right century for calves. This is a known fact.

]]> Boomer in NYC http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765844 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765844 At Large Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:24:02 -0800 Comment by Patrick On the other hand...

From the wikipedia article about the guy:

"...following the death of the Prince Frederick, Bute became close to his widow, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, the Dowager Princess of Wales. It was rumoured that the couple were having an affair, and indeed soon after John Horne (an associate of the Prince of Wales) published a scandalous pamphlet alluding to a liaison between Bute and the Princess. Rumours of this affair were almost certainly untrue, as Bute was by all indications happily married, and he held sincere religious beliefs against adultery"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart%2C_3rd_Earl_of_Bute

]]> Patrick http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765880 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765880 At Large Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:00:54 -0800 Comment by Emily Lol, I am reading that book right now. Calves are hot, especially when the guy is in a kilt. Yum, men in kilts...

]]> Emily http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765980 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c765980 At Large Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:05:53 -0800 Comment by EleanorHerman Glad you are reading my book. Men's fashions have declined so. I wish we could bring back the white silk stockings and ogle their calves. Regarding Lord Bute, history has proven that sometimes the same people who are ranting against adultery are, um, committing adultery. Look at our politicians.

]]> EleanorHerman http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c766502 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/christophers_classic_tastes#c766502 At Large Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:03:17 -0800