The Errant Æsthete

If you are sitting here reading this dear Aesthete, you have forsaken your social duty to be seen with the notables, the upper crust, the creme de la creme, the brazenly rich! (What were you thinking?) The event of the summer, the annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, one of the finest and most fabulously pretentious automobile shows in the world is going on right now in Pebble Beach, CA.

Only the most beautiful and rare automobiles (and closeted millionaires) are invited to appear on the famed eighteenth fairway of Pebble Beach Golf Links each year, and connoisseurs of art and technology are shelling out $450 a ticket just to catch a glimpse. You may still make it the highlight of the event - an auction that includes a Rolls-Royce and a one-of-a-kind Ferrari. If only…