Randoms — Belle de Jour’s Tallahassee Ass

Ran across a ref­er­ence to “my sweet Tal­la­has­see ass” made by Belle de Jour (Dr. Brooke Mag­nanti) that she made on her blog just after she “outed” her­self. Wait a minute, from a Lon­don call girl/cancer scientist/ex-physicist wanna-be. This from some­one referred to as “quin­tes­sen­tially Eng­lish” in a recent com­ment to a post by my friend The Cura­tor on her blog Sex­hi­bi­tion? Any­one who has spent any time in the lovely cap­i­tal city with its canopied roads, mag­no­lias, camel­lias, ves­tiges of the Old South has heard the phrase. But not from an Eng­lish­woman. But I guess an Eng­lish­woman from Florida… One has to believe she felt some relief in let­ting that expres­sion out. But how many times did it get deleted from the blog before the “out­ing”? What was life like hav­ing to be so care­ful all of the time. Paranoid? Schizophrenic? Amaz­ing, I would have ended up in Bedlam.

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