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Welcome to The Epic! I am launching this blog as a manifesto for and a guide to living well. The title and motto of the blog are taken from the Epicureans, at least some of whom believed in the notion that not one minute of the future was guaranteed to them and that as a result they had the duty to live life to its fullest every moment.

I believe in discovering fun and pleasurable things wherever I find myself each day and I am told I have a knack for unearthing them. My hope is that by sharing in my pleasures and some of my ways of finding them you will begin to collect all the riches that lie in the moments of your life. They are there. Take them! All our lives should be.....Epic.

Friday, December 11, 2009

From The Epic Den: Gentlemen of Leisure

Years ago. Bachelor times. I saw this ad in a magazine for the Southwick company who was marketing a line of suits call "Nines". I'm not sure what happened to the suits but, being a club man at heart, I loved the art work in the ad. So, I wrote a letter [then, before email] to the company asking them if I could possible buy a print of the ad art. Which led to the ad agency sending me a photo slide of the art! I had it printed out and framed and the possible only copy now resides in my den. Where I look at it every night. Often while sipping scotch in a heavy glass. While thinking of the club man's time. Of long ago...

9 comments:

Toad said...

I'm envious.

EsseQuamVideri said...

Epic,

I love a good gentleman of leisure!

EQV

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~Tessa~Scoffs said...

How neat that you have a den in which you can sip scotch. Our den is filled with unsightly Wii wires.

Keith said...

That looks incredible. I would love to be able to be a member of a club like that.

M.Lane said...

Toad, thanks for the visit! Good to see you.

EQV, I would just like to have more time in the week to assign to leisure of any sort.

Mrs. Scoffs, I hear you. Our gaming wires are in the family room in a corner devoted to them. My den is the smallest room in the house but I cannot live without at least a small space devoted to me.

Keith, I know. It is one of my few ambitions. The closest one I know of is three hours away and I doubt [per Woody Allen] that they would have me as a member.

Thanks everyone! The print of the gentlemen is much prettier than it looks in the post but you know how awful my camera skills are...

ML

The Daily Connoisseur said...

Very cool... My favorite poster is from a restaurant in Paris that I loved called Roger la Grenouille. It is an art deco print of the restaurant and it is so precious to me- also a free gift!

M.Lane said...

DC, it would be so great to have a poster of a special restaurant like that! My problem is that I love so many restaurants my small den walls would be papered with posters!

ML

tintin said...

Very nice. You know ADG's gonna be all over this. He has framer on retention.

M.Lane said...

Tintin, that is SO true! Well, he is going to have two big problems. The first is the print is one of a kind as far as I can tell. The second is that I made that frame myself at a frame shop in my last burst of handiness. Now all I can do is operate spray washing gear...

ML