Madame's Nightshirt
Mrs. Peperium
Mrs P. & Sir Basil,
What are the rules for putting up new members to the
RCBfA [Roman Catholic Boys for Art]? I'd like to
propose Robbo the Llama Butcher (and ODT if he is
not already a member). After their admittance, I would
reccomend both be placed directly on the
Stewardship Committee.
The Irish Elk
Dear Irish Elk,
I am not a member of the RCBfA. And will never be one.
Not even an honorary member as the RCBfA is one of
the few remaining all-male bastions left in the entire
blogosphere. And it shall always remain all-male if
I have anything to say about it.
Therefore, I 'm ignorant of the club's charter and rules
but, I believe, they were in fact penned by Sir Basil and
Mr. P after an evening at the dog races. Oh, here comes
Mr. P now.
Oh Dear, Mr Elk has a question...
Mrs. Peperium
Dear Mr. Elk,
As you are the one doing the proposing, the heaviest
burden falls upon your shoulders. Prospective members
must eschew the works of Peter, Paul and Mary, while
evincing a profound regard for the works of Peter Paul
Ruebens. I refer you especially to his "Rape of the Sabine
Women". A simple test of your candidate's fitness would
be to insert a glossy color copy of this towering
masterwork between the pages of, say, Robbo's Wall
Street Journal. As he gets to Section B with all it's
startling revelations about hedgefunds, watch his
reactions closely for this is the acid test. If he blushes,
he's out. If he makes a feeble excuse for the thing being
there, he should be shot. If, however, he surreptitiously
folds the picture in two andslips it into his breast pocket,
we'll make him Treasurer.
ODT, your second nominee is already a member,
occupying the esteemed Mae West Chair of François
Boucher Studies. It goes without saying this position is
fully-endowed.
Sir Basil, do yo have anything to add?
Mr. P
I thought this was to be a post on the Boy Scouts of America from the illustration on top.
Posted by: Mario mandingo | June 03, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Well, the RCBfA are, in their own way, Boy Scouts.
Posted by: Mrs. Peperium | June 03, 2008 at 01:55 PM
Here is our marching song:
http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/beprepar.htm
Posted by: MCNS | June 03, 2008 at 03:05 PM
Well, Mrs. P, when it comes to the Sabine Women, I much prefer Nicholas Poussin's rendition. (And I think David's is pretty poor.)
As to Rubens' treatment of the Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, my thought on seeing those scantily-clad yet evidently well-fed young ladies being hoisted aboard has always been that those Roman fellahs sure must have been an awful lot stronger than me.
Posted by: Robbo the Llama Butcher | June 03, 2008 at 05:25 PM
Companion links for art appreciators:
Rubens:
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/largeImage?workNumber=NG38&collectionPublisherSection=work
Poussin:
http://faculty.evansville.edu/rl29/art105/img/poussin_sabine.jpg
David:
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/d/david/david_sabine.jpg
Leucippus:
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/r/rubens/rubens_leucippus.jpg
The Leucippus today would carry a caveat: Do Not Try This At Home.
Posted by: MCNS | June 03, 2008 at 05:53 PM
Robbo, that's not me with the Sabine women. That's Mr. P. He's RCBfA. I'm just his figurine.
Posted by: Mrs. Peperium | June 04, 2008 at 01:32 PM