| "I'm down to my last inch of skin." |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|07:07 pm] |
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I get lots of friends who live in latitudes with big numbers in them who think the Czarina and I are nuts for living in Texas. Considering our complexions and our aversion to the big yellow hurty thing in the sky, it's easy to point to the obvious Texas summer survival guide. It's just as much fun, though, to point to the crew at Goths In Hot Weather for ideas. Five minutes with this site, and the Czarina will be laying out her patterns for next year's wardrobe by the time I get home. I guarantee it. |
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| finds from PEI |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|07:41 pm] |
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i went to the value village with my boyfriend to find him a jacket. never did find that jacket. found this instead though.
speckled caterpillar begs you to follow
( follow grasshopper ) |
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[Nov. 12th, 2009|01:16 pm] |
A preview of the 2010 resolutions: 1. give up more often (in a good way, not a lame way, not like "ugh i give up" but "hey look i failed, but it's okay!") 2. make more money 3. not worry about people I like suddenly going psycho and beating me in my sleep 4. achieve a certain amount of local notoriety. You?
There are some HIDDEN GEMS at BORDERS. There WILL Be a blog entry about this. Preview!
The Secret Power Within: Zen Solutions to Real ProblemsPaperback, 192 pages Broadway Books
February 01, 1997 |
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| Meep. |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|01:40 pm] |
Having spent my high school years in North Texas, I know all too well about the insecurities and neuroses of high school principals. My old high school principal took the wearing of hats as a sign of imminent apocalypse, and he made international news when he decided that offering cash rewards for turning in alleged drug dealers on campus would do anything other than start rounds of vindictive retaliation against unpopular students. (He currently has a junior high named after him, which makes me wonder if the school will follow in that tradition by naming the cafeteria after Jeffrey Dahmer.) However, the Boston high school principal who banned the use of the word "meep" is a great example of someone so inadequate that he masturbates by slicing pubic hairs until he finds the one that bleeds. Other than the fact that unnamed school officials discovered this, probably coming from the same "concerned sources" that tried to warn us all about the new drug jenkem, I'd like to warn him that he's being bamboozled again. The secret word to set off a nonstop orgy of the old ultraviolence is "glibber".
Sorry about that. I guess that story hit a trigger. I get the same response whenever I hear my old school's fight song. |
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| Crafting highs and lows |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|01:11 pm] |
As the great Twentieth Century philosopher Joe Bob Briggs used to say, "without eternal vigilance, it could happen again." This is how I feel about the 1970s. Those of you too young to remember the Seventies might not understand why so many of your elders shudder whenever you say "crafts" or "handmade", because all you're seeing is a horizon-wide expanse of wonderful work that deserves recognition and respect. Please forgive us, because we're waiting for the return of paint-by-numbers kits, horrible Tandy wallet-making kits, and really bad macrame. By the time 1978 came around, we'd all been ripped off so many times by the idea that putting a plastic sleeve on a Coke can and calling it a "piggy bank" was somehow going to save the Earth that the excesses of the Eighties somehow make sense. I'm not defending the Eighties, either: it's just that by the time I started high school, having handmade anything meant that you were weird or (gasp) poor, and that just wasn't to be tolerated.
Again, without eternal vigilance, it could happen here, which is why I'm glad of the Interwebs. Without constant reminders, such as those in Craftastrophe, we're only a few steps away from "projects" that would leave James Lileks screaming like a protagonist in a Lovecraft novella.
Likewise, I love the Interwebs, because now it's time to quote the other great philosopher of my time, John Waters: "To appreciate bad taste, you must have very good taste, because you have to know what you're laughing at." When ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) moosl and briansiano both shared with me images of 3D Mandelbrot fractals, I realized I had the perfect complement to Craftastrophe. Who knew that when we'd look at pure unvarnished chaos, it would turn out to be inspired by Wayne Barlowe? |
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| Magazine scans? |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|07:14 pm] |
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icon made by me but can anyone point me to the texture used (the 'love' magazine scan) and other magazine scan textures, maybe featuring the letters 'E' and 'P' for some I'm going to make in the future? Thanks |
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