Several days after the show, I needed to get my mind off the whole imbroglio, so I essayed a photo shoot with two cute young gay boys in Madrid named Carlos and Joaquin for my friends at Dirt magazine.
There's been a resolution, sort of, to the Genesco-UBS-Finish LIne imbroglio that I wrote about in December.
But as I talked to Tea Party activists involved in the imbroglio, it seemed there was something else going on, too.
Crudely put, the ICC story is the kind of power politics imbroglio with which I just can't engage.
Why is it, when I read about the whole imbroglio (was he one of the Marx brothers?), I just think of long-dead comedians?
The Monica Lewinsky imbroglio made her feel more isolated: "I also worried," she writes, "that the armor I had acquired might distance me from my true emotions, that I might turn into the brittle caricature some critics accused me of being".
I asked Hippocrates an impertinent question about his legendary baldness, I watched Herodotus draw many long faces while discussing the imbroglio between city-states and, at a symposium, I helped Sophocles prank Aristophanes.
Rome, 1492, and it's imbroglio a-go-go when Pope Bastard I pops his ecclesiastical cork and lets the fun times flow.
I expect the whole dreadful imbroglio to end merrily with an Easter wedding very much like Cold Comfort Farm, which it so much resembles.
