AND GOD CREATED WOMAN

This is an example of a new phenomenon — women using a hula hoop not as a prop for startling tricks but for beautiful and generally subtle dance moves. It’s a bit like pole dancing, which is itself evolving into a highly aestheticized dance form, just with the pole sectioned off and formed into a circle, inside and against which the woman does her thing.

I find it mesmerizing and intensely erotic.

[Via Facebook friend Ron Salvatore]

SOMEDAY SOON

He loves his damned old rodeos as much as he loves me — someday soon going with him, someday soon . . .

One of the great cowboy songs, by the great Ian Tyson, performed here by Tyson and his wife Sylvia, circa 1963.

[Via Peter Stone Brown]