Ok, that's awesome. I love it. I want one, but not of me.

Freaky. I've been on a pinup/cheeseckae/burlesque kick lately. The women in those kind of pics both the vintage and neo pnes always have more style than typical peroxide-blonde/botox/silicone type pinups you see today. Plus they always seemed toa ctually be enjoying themselves which will always make someone more attractive.

(This, like cleavage, is one of those things for which there really is no male equivalent, unless you count those body-builder type pics, but only a select group of guys can do that. I think the central thing is that women, for a variety of reasons, know how to make themselves look sexy. When we men try, we generally look silly. Best we can hope for is to do it by accident)

I think I'd like to try for a Gil Evgren-style cowgirl -- she's pretty va-va-voom, and so is she, but there are lots of sweeter choices.

they always seemed to actually be enjoying themselves

that's why I love them, too. I so much prefer the joyful expressions on images of women in pinup art to the pucker-lipped, aloof, snooty expressions in modern fashion photography.

Male-image equivalents: James Dean, early Brando, firefighters, etc. Of course, they tend to go with the surly, aloof look, but there are plenty of pinup-worthy male images out there too.

Oops, I should've added the link right to her site.

Oops, I should've added the link right to her site.

Good god, hope me.

Well, Brando and Jimmy Dean (and Elvis) sorta naturally had that intense, brooding rebel thing going on. When Joe Blow tries to look like that he invariably looks dumb. But pretty much every woman can pull it off. I always figured girls had a special class where they learned the moves.

(this is not a complaint,just an observation)

VERY cool idea. I wish someone local did these!

Oh that's awesome, Miko. I totally want one or three.

Well, she does parties....

Pinup Meetup?

I've been on a pinup/cheeseckae/burlesque kick lately

I know what you mean jonmc, I've been a big fan of pin-up/cheesecake art for years. Especially Gil Elvgren, Rolf Armstrong, Zoe Mozert, and a bunch of others.

Somehow it all seems a little less tawdry and more "fun".

A photographer friend of mine does something like that.
I'm supposed to get pictures this summer. I just need to have a not bad hair day.

Wow. Mrs. Doohickie would look awesome in a pic like that!

This, like cleavage, is one of those things for which there really is no male equivalent

I don't know...

On a recent trip to their family cottage, my SO's contractor brother was laying down new doorjambs and the like. Brother handed my some tools and asked, "You wanna give me a hand here?" As my guy started a-sawin' and a -hammerin', his brother glanced up at me with a knowing grin and said, "You like that, huh? Your man with a hammer?"

And I did.

Cheesecake and va-va-voom aficionados might enjoy Lavay Smith (her music with the Red Hot Skillet Lickers is kick-ass). Her old site had better photos.

Elsa, I'm fairly sure that's just a trick you pull to get him to fix stuff. Pips says the same thing about me doing dishes.

Well, anyone doing the dishes so I don't have to is a turn-on. But I don't think I've told my guy how much I liked seeing him working away at basic carpentry.

That said, years ago I was refinishing a boyfriend's Victorian home: steaming off wallpaper, fixing horsehair plaster, smoothing out walls, taping wall joins. The guys at the local hardware store treated me ridiculously well after they got to know me a bit. I was coming in with joint compound on my cheek, plaster dust in my hair, and talking drills with them. They plied me with coffee and pastry, and pulled up a chair to encourage me to hang around.

Competent people working can be very sexy. Heck, maybe Pips does think it's sexy to see you do the dishes. It's certainly sexy to me when my guy, a novice cook, makes dinner to please me, even though I usually love to cook.

Competent people working can be very sexy.

Truer words was never spoke.

Competent people working can be very sexy.

ah, see 'competent.' The only things I'm competent at are drinking and changing channels.

And writing, and pontificating. ;)

Ooh, fun! Thanks, Miko! Just today I was wondering what to get the boy for his birthday... (There's got to be an equivalent photographer in L.A.!)

I love this! What a terrific idea. Hmm, I do have a friend who is a photographer...