The Great 52 New Things Adventure
I am a contradiction in that I crave variety and new experiences yet am also prone to becoming a creature of habit. As I get older, the tendency to simply go with what I know or stay at home for the...
View ArticleLes Fleurs de Shanghai at Duane Park
She was the Paris of the East. And the Whore of Asia. Shanghai in the 1930s was a dizzying mix of glamour, seediness, decadence, intrigue, and political turmoil. A city divided up by conquering...
View ArticleLet’s Play Dress-Up: The Rambling Preamble
It has been my intention, forever derailed and distracted from, that Teleport City would spent time here and there discussing style and clothing. However, I did not want to simply reiterate and...
View ArticleGatsbycore
Rambling thoughts inspired by a billboard I pass during my daily stroll to work This might be the first case of this site ever being timely or tied in with current events. Savor it like a fine tobacco...
View ArticleThat Prince Among Shampoos
His two battered suitcases came and he unpacked leisurely and then ordered from Room Service a bottle of the Taittinger Blanc de Blancs. When the bottle, in its frosted silver bucket, came, he drank a...
View ArticleCultural Gutter: The Worst Dressed Man in the Room
Another Frolic Afield, this time back at The Cultural Gutter, where the month of April is dedicated to writing about something outside our usual purview, which for me is science fiction. So in The...
View ArticleKnot Guilty
Hannibal is a meticulously designed show at every level, from the lighting to the presentation of the food, and of course to the clothing Mads Mikkelsen’s Hannibal Lecter wears. His choices in attire...
View ArticleHe’s Not Iron Man
Tony Stark’s most famous suit is red and yellow and made of metal. Outside of that, the Stark of the Marvel Iron Man and Avengers movies dresses like a lot of modern tech billionaires: jeans and...
View ArticleBond Vivant: Popov…Dusan Popov
On the Bond Vivant site, I’m taking a look at the espionage life of one of the leading candidates for “the real James Bond.” Popov…Dusan Popov was a Serbian playboy and bon vivant with an intense...
View ArticleAlcohol Professor: The Chairman, The Poet, and The Dancer
2015 marks Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday. Over on Alcohol Professor, I’ve chosen to commemorate The Chairman of the Board’s centennial with The Chairman, The Poet, and The Dancer, looking at the...
View ArticleBond Vivant: The Sicilian Connection
This is part one of a two-part post about Ian Fleming, Lucky Luciano, and the unbelievable role both men played in the Allied invasion of Sicily during World War II. Follow this link to read part two....
View ArticleBond Vivant: Trout Fishing
This is part two of a two-part post about Ian Fleming, Lucky Luciano, and the unbelievable role both men played in the Allied invasion of Sicily during World War II. Follow this link to read part one....
View ArticleBond Vivant: Meet Me at the Savoy
The famous Savoy Hotel is first mentioned in the James Bond canon in Fleming’s 1956 novel Diamonds are Forever, when M reveals to 007 that one of his targets, a diamond importer by the name of Rufus B....
View ArticleAlcohol Professor: School for Scoundrels
In an admission that will surprise no one, I’m a big fan of the website Atlas Obscura. And not too long ago, worlds collided when my job working for vice beat for Alcohol Professor led me to the...
View ArticleThe Ribald Stage
Here’s a shock: Teleport City is a strong supporter of the burlesque arts and any other form of performance during which women and/or men find themselves increasingly deprived of their vetements. New...
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