Work has kept me busy this week, so I am posting a little late today. Also, I wanted to note that WASP 101 will be adding a female voice, and she will be doing her first post this Friday.
Today's post deals with WASP home decorations. WASPy homes owners are certainly notorious for hanging dead animal flesh on their walls, and nearby the dead flesh is most certainly a bookshelf filled with leather books. Personally, I have a stuffed pheasant in my home office, and I have tons of leather books throughout my house. In addition, my office at work displays three deer heads with a bookshelf of leather books, etc. on each side.
So, if you are looking to WASP your house up a bit, go shoot or buy some pheasants and leather books, and you will be on your way!
18 comments:
My books are paper. Whoo!
Compliments. These touches are very aristocratic when displayed properly. All that may be missing is a coat of arms carved in fine wood - so long as it's really that of the person bearing it.
I read paperbacks.
Post an office pic!
Critical question - Who shot the pheasant cock? One expects the owner to have done so. The flagrant flaunting of such a trophy without have administed the coup de grace oneself with a fine quality 12 bore is tre noveau!
Old School Prep
"go shoot or buy some pheasants and leather books"
I'll certainly go out and shoot some leather books.
One has NO business having taxidermy in the home or office unless you shot it yourself or it belonged to a relative who shit it...and you disclose this when someone inquires. A stuffed game bird or deer is a "trophy" after all....and one does not display trophies that one did not win.
However Richard, if you did shoot the pheasant and/or deer I commend you!
Ahh...my apologies...that should read "a relative who SHOT it."
Suffice it to say it would be hazardous to try and pass a stuffed,antlered deer head.
Yes, I shot the deer and the pheasant displayed in my offices. However, the pheasant displayed is not my pheasant.
Then I do commend you. Why don't you post about the hunts which led to these trophies....should be much better reading than silly stories about strippers or sweaters or bow ties.
Again, well played...and perhaps some details on the deer...how many points...perhaps a photo??
The pheasants are revolting!
Agreed, a personal library defies justification, as I often tell my wife. I would recommend a library of books one has an interest in, not simply those compiled for sheer looks...(athough it is in part for looks, isn't it?)...still, I have invested far too much money in building collections of Everymans Library and Library of America. Also, the Harvard Classics, an EB set and Great Books set make a decent library in themselves.
I always thought it was the actual content of the books, and the fact that you may actually have, you know, read them that was the point of having them.
I guess it was just the leather bindings after all.
To think, the time I've wasted reading.
Some of my books are for reading, and others are for decoration.
The actual sport of the aristocracy was to shoot peasants, not pheasants, I assure you.
I'l have to disagree with some of your posters here. Taxidermy *is* an art. I think a purchase, or two, to appreciate the art of another is fine.
I feel that folks should surround themselves with things they love and admire. Sure, no one likes a "faker", but it would so rude to tell someone that. The hunting crowd I know admire one another's taxidermy and often will purchase an item because of the wonderful work they have done to the animal/fish/what have you.
I have many a book I've yet to read in my library back in DC. Some are leather bound, others not, but that's the fun/joy in a good library. I have so many books that have been handed down I'll *never* get to read them all by the time I die.
My point is, surround yourself with things you love. It's your house, not theirs, and frankly, no one gives a hoot.
W.D.
I'l have to disagree with some of your posters here. Taxidermy *is* an art. I think a purchase, or two, to appreciate the art of another is fine.
I feel that folks should surround themselves with things they love and admire. Sure, no one likes a "faker", but it would so rude to tell someone that. The hunting crowd I know admire one another's taxidermy and often will purchase an item because of the wonderful work they have done to the animal/fish/what have you.
I have many a book I've yet to read in my library back in DC. Some are leather bound, others not, but that's the fun/joy in a good library. I have so many books that have been handed down I'll *never* get to read them all by the time I die.
My point is, surround yourself with things you love. It's your house, not theirs, and frankly, no one gives a hoot.
W.D.
Glad it's not your bird, that's a horrible mount.
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