Project MERCATOR
I have not time for the tale of last Friday's ball—the events leading up to it and the evening after—but continued withholding of the photographs from the evening would be a betrayal of the considerable patience you, my treasured readers, have always extended me. As ever, we make use of codenames here at The Secret Base not because I am any great fan of anonymity (note that all fare is posted under my name, Mike Wilson, though I do acknowledge that there is a certain anonymity in my name's commonality) but because in the past requests have been made to protect the identities of my kith & kin, the innocent, as it were. I have the freedom to be cavalier with myself and myself alone, hence the codenames (but not for all, bit players will be identified solely by Christian name). Plus, come on, codenames are awesome!

The Most Dangerous Game—she whom I pursued, fruitlessly, this past summer in "Prelude to Project PANDORA"
The Impossible Ingenue—my date for the evening, and The Most Dangerous Game's younger sister
The Last Angry Man—your humble narrator, the chump lucky enough to have The Impossible Ingenue on his arm

Enjoy! (click on photos to enlarge)


The Impossible Ingenue & The Last Angry Man



Believe it or not, The Impossible Ingenue is even more beautiful in person.



From left to right: Scott & Vanessa; The Most Dangerous Game & her platonic date, John; The Impossible Ingenue & her platonic date, The Last Angry Man.



How impossibly cool is The Impossible Ingenue? She's made this photo her Facebook portrait.



The Most Dangerous Game



Tada!



Vanessa, The Most Dangerous Game, & The Last Angry Man



An unfortunate, transitional facial expression, frozen in time.



Vanessa & the always dignified, always poised Last Angry Man.



"I hate to see you leave, but I love watching you go." Mercifully, you can't really see that I'm lifting up the tail of my suit coat to give the camera a full view of my arse.

The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
"Weird Al" Yankovic, "That Boy Could Dance" from In 3-D (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: And now you see why I could not resist the selection of "The Lady in Red" as Friday's R.B.D.S.O.T.D.

"I'll never forget,
The way you look tonight."