Famous Four Eyes Elvis Keeps Going With TV Show
The TV show (in the US) with Elvis Costello (see his famous specs) “referentially” called “Spectacle” will go to another series. It’s a chat show with a musical bent which seems to have taken off.Â
The reference to Elvis’ eyewear doesn’t apply to all his guests but, Elvis one [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2010’
More Of Elvis Costello’s Spectacle
Lady Gaga Wins Brits But Doesn’t Thank Spectacles Blog
Three Brits and Three Speeches And Only Lace “Glasses”
Well how ungrateful, after all the mentions on Spectacles Blog, not even a passing reference to us in her acceptance speeches - and she had three goes at it. Never mind.
Nor was she wearing her glasses or sunglasses. Nor did she take any Polaroid snaps for that [...]
Two Famous Four Eyes Together
Elton John & Lady Gaga at Grammys… A Famous Spectacles Wearers Fantasy
Elton John’s Swarovski-encrusted glasses faced Lady Gaga in goodness-knows-what glasses opposite (whch can’t be seen in this pictureI’m afraid.
When these two get together, I bet spectacles chat is on the agenda.
Finally A Website For Hand Made Spectacles Maker - But Not Enough Specs Yet!
Introducing JB Hand Mades: Glasses Ranges For Him, Her, Shades and Design Your Own
It’s been along time coming and it’s not final and finished but it’s there! A web site for Premiere-Optical to lay out it’s stall in the world of custom made and hand made spectacles, glasses and sunglasses - under the banner of JB Hand [...]
And Now (Do You Really Want…)Trifocals
When It Comes To Spectacles; What are Trifocals?
I can’t remember where I first saw this… As you can work out, the current posts are a bit of a rag bag (or “miscellany” if you want to be polite) based on any old spectacles subjects.because I have a load of “drafts” that need to be published [...]
Edgar Allen Poe: The Spectacles
Apropos Of The Word Spectacles Only…
I haven’t read this story: It looks too long to read on the screen but if you want to, you can follow this link to Edgar Allen Poe’s short story called The Spectacles.
Let me know if you manage the whole thing. I guess one day I will be obliged to [...]
Walt Whitman’s Glasses…
Erudition At Spectacles Blog?! Surely Not
There’s an article that came to my attention (it had the word “spectacles” in it) in The Yale Alumni magazine on-line including such prose as follows…
“The eyeglasses, by the way, are real, but it doesn’t seem impossible for Whitman to have decided that Walt Whitman, capital W capital W, would [...]





