Daughter of the Pope

(Bartolomeo Veneto)

This portrait may be of Lucrezia Borgia.  No one is certain.  I hope that it is.  I hope that she was one of the most wickedly beautiful women in town.  She was the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI, Rodrigo Borja, of Spain.  I have been watching "The Borgias" on Showtime this past year.  It is a wonderful reason to pay for premium channels.  The series they run on this and HBO and Starz have made movies seem. . . I don't know. . . thin?  The cinematographic qualities of these series is as good or better than anything in Hollywood.  If you have ever watched "Carnivale," you know that they rarely repeated a setup in a shot.  And with twelve or twenty-four or forty-eight hours to develop plot and character. . . it can be really good.  Still, the best way to watch the series is not week by week, season by season, but by getting the entire collection and watching them back to back to back until they are done.

But that is not what I want to write about.  I should delete all that.  It is. . . thin.  I thought to write about Lucrezia Borgia and power, but I don't know enough about that.  Can you imagine being commissioned to paint the daughter of the Pope?  Nude?  You wouldn't want to fuck that one up.

O.K.  Just a few updates.  Red has disappeared.  She left one message.  Said she fled town and would explain later.  Drug Skinny wrote to me that she has new titties and wants to shoot as soon as they settle down.  I asked for her to send me a picture right away, of course.  It is going to take a lot of settling, I think.  And even though I said I would only shoot once a week, somehow I've managed to schedule shoots for Sunday, Monday, and Thursday.  I could have filled every evening if I wanted.  Surely two of them will not show.  But Sunday I am shooting with a woman who is much pregnant, and I've needed that to show the "wages of sin," so to speak, in the "Lonesomeville" series, so I am looking forward to that.  But I will be overly tired once more and not getting any further along in developing the new process I have in mind for future images.  Two, really.  But I have much to learn still and that is going to take time that I don't seem to be allowing myself.

This turned out poorly.  Just prattle.  Sorry.  I should post a picture, at least.