Halloween Costume 2009

This year, I'm feeling a little gothy, a little scary, a little pop culture. Basically, this year I'm feeling a little Pride and Prejudice and Zombies! I think this would be the ideal costume for me right now, and it's pretty much a now or never costume. This year I would still be riding the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies wave of popularity. Next year, who knows what the relevance of this costume would be. Ah, but this year, yes, this costume would be ripe for the picking.


I figure it's a good mix of funny, pop culture/literary reference, historical, but still has the ability to be a little scary. If you're willing to take it there. And oh, I would be. I would go all out with the green, decaying skin makeup, welts and sores, oozing blood, cockroaches crawling up my body.


(Thanks for that idea Martha Stewart). Yes, this costume would be a glorious melange of everything I love. Thus, it would be my costume.

However.... As things stand, I am currently attending my cousin's wedding on Halloween, thus eliminating basically any chance I have of wearing this costume. Their theme is still pretty fun though. After the cut see what I have to say about it.



So they are going for a "Victorian Gothic" themed wedding. I put together a little Polyvore set of what my DREAM outfit to their wedding would be. Of course my actual outfit will be a little more accessible price wise, but along the same route.

Victorian Gothic Wedding by Twitoyear featuring Marc Jacobs

Sigh, this is fun and all. But I can't help but think that Pride and Prejudice and Zombies will be running through my head the whole night.

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What's YOUR Halloween Costume?

Maybe it's a little premature, Halloween being a month away and all, but I got really jazzed. Guess who's going to be Joan Holloway from Mad Men this year.... Yeah. Me. Anyone want to help me dye my hair and shop for jewelry? :)



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The Obama's first dance

OMG! How much do you love our first couple?!?! I feel like a squealing middle schooler.

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Suddenly a very active weekend on the blog.

One of my favorite blogs A Continuous Lean just did a post with these videos, and it was such a good idea that I just straight up am going to jack it right now and post it here too.

So seriously - just watch this, and think about how badass this is. It's the goddam BEATLES and they did a concert on top of a roof! Who of their fame level would do that today?! Number one - not possible, because NO ONE is of their fame level. Number two - NO ONE is cool enough to do this anymore (I will amend this statement if anyone - not someone lame though - does indeed stage an illegal rooftop concert.) P.S. part two of the concert is after the cut.





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A Creative Construction

Hello again everyone. I know I just posted a creative construction post not too too long ago but I came up with a very intriguing one today. Possibly this would not be an easy one to respond to on the blog but if I can inspire someone to write my idea into reality then it'll be worth it. So my idea was . . .

a person's biography told by fortune cookie fortunes. I was just looking at some fortunes I'd collected over the years and thought to meself what if someone wrote a book about a person who can define the major events that occured in their life by different fortunes they recieved (via cookie). Like if I were to write the book the chapter headings would be the fortune and then it would tell how that fortune came to be true in real life.

For Example: If the fortune was for instance [Happy life is just in front of you.] (this was a particularly good fortune I got from Doc Chey's just yesterday) then the chapter would say when the person recieved the fortune. Then it would describe how the girl worked at an office with cubicles at that time and ended up being in a relationship with the guy in the cubicle across from her. Or something like that. So you see what I mean.

Also, as an interesting sub-idea. Has anyone had a fortune that later turned out to be true? Any good fortune cookie stories out there? Do tell.

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A Lesson in Moustaches

So Glynnis and I went and got a little lunch at Fellini's today, and while we were waiting for our food, I couldn't help but notice that ESPN - the channel Fellini's invariably always turns their tvs to - was ACTUALLY showing something interesting! They were talking about Giambi and his statistics with and without a moustache. I'm guessing that he's doing better with - I wasn't actually listening. But it was really great because then they just kept showing all these people with moustaches! They were even interviewing this man who looked like a doctor, but he had this great moustache and a bow tie on. He had to have been a joke, but still, it was great. And you all know my great love of facial hair, so I was particularly intrigued, and inspired by this story. I will provide the link to the original ESPN story here, just in case anyone is interested (We've mentioned broadening our horizons here and I have to say that I don't think ESPN is a subject I have ever touched on). So here's the link and a little teaser picture that I particularly liked of the baseball player Rollie Fingers that they kept using on the ESPN program:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=nyy (go the video entitled "Mustachioed Masses Supporting Jason Giambi")


And now, after the cut, my own little review on moustaches - if you so please. Just indulge me.


So there are many varieties of moustaches nowadays, some good, and some not so good. I will begin by discussing "moustache dos", and for my first moustache, I want to reach back into the great and proud history of moustaches to feature "The Civil War Moustache."

This hard-hitter, most famously sported in the Civil War by the Union Army's General Ambrose Burnside, is unfortunately not seen very often nowadays. I'm not sure why or when it fell out of popularity, but I'm guessing it takes a man with a certain amount of confidence to sport this one. Interesting fact - as General Burnside was a very popular man, with very distinctive facial hair, this particular 'stache came to be known as the "burnside", which later morphed into the word "sideburns". So we can thank this great man for those marvelous specimens, perhaps my favorite, of follicular ornamentry.

For the next moustache "do", I take you all to Post-Modern Europe where we will meet a man who also has a moustache named for him. This is of course Salvador Dali.

I may not particularly mesh with his art, but with his moustache I cannot find fault. Truly an innovator in both his artwork AND his facial hair, this man took the handlebar moustache and went all kinds of crazy with it. I applaud you Mr. Dali. May someone find inspiration in your upper lip and find the balls to try and work that themselves. THAT would truly be a sight to see.

Now we're traveling not quite so far back in moustache history, but to a destination no less proud. That fine destination being of course to Tom Selleck's vermillion (yes, I looked it up, that is the proper name for upper lip. I had just used the word "upper lip" a little while ago so I didn't want to sound repetitive.).

Look at that fine specimen. So thick, so unapologetic, so masculine. Yes, it's been a while since we've seen the likes of the this fine beast, but I think it should make a comeback. I'll spare you all the "It's Going to be a Thing: Tom Selleck Edition" post.

For my final Moustache "Do" I give you the most recent fashion in moustaches. Often referred to nowadays as the "molestache", this bastard child of the thick and meaty "Tom Selleck" and the smaller, more unassuming "Clark Gable", is best exemplified by Kip Dynamite.

Yes, it's the perfect mix of unapologetic and refinement, with just a touch of the Hulk Hogan/Biker handlebar thrown in.

Now even I, a self-proclaimed lover of facial hair, can own that not all kinds of moustaches are flattering or should be attempted. So for your perusal, I offer you a few Moustache "DONTS", arranged chronologically from oldest to newest.


The toothbrush. Just don't do it.


The "pornstache". Unlike it's close cousin the "molestache" who JUST narrowly avoids this fate, the pornstache somehow has just a little bit too much skeeze to be palatable.

And finally...

Josh Hartnett is a very, very.... very attractive man. But I cannot forgive his VOLUNTARILY (I assume) sporting the "just hit puberty peach fuzz" look. It doesn't work in middle or high school, and it definitely does not work on a man of his age. If you can't grow it, don't do it. Simple as that.

And that, ladies, is my humble presentation on moustaches through the ages. I wish I could have featured more, particularly the "Clark Gable" - there's a moustache I can sink my teeth into. But alas, there is only so much time, so much blog space, and so much I feel like I can subject you to humanely, before I know just have to limit myself. Perhaps another day, in "A Lesson in Moustaches: Part Deux." We can only hope. Adieu!
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Blog cuts and more inspiration! And a test of sorts.

I THINK I may have figured out how to do a blog cut on our posts. So it took me a while to figure this out, and a few tries in editing the html of the blog layout, but I think that this is the best option for what we want out of a blog cut. So here's the deal - when you go to post a new post on the blog, you will notice some new text that is already in the box where you would normally type your entry. Where it says "Type your summary here" - you just replace that line with all of the text and pictures that you want to show on the regular blog. Where it says "Type rest of the post here" - is where you type all of the text and pictures that you want to appear in the cut. Just make sure not to delete any of the stuff in brackets and keep the bracketed lines where they are.

So if you DON'T want your post to have a cut, then just delete everything that's in the posting box when you go to write a new post so that the posting box is just blank like it would have been before, and just post like you normally would.

I hope I'm explaining all of this clearly - it might be a little confusing. If you're confused about anything, then just ask. I'm going to test this out a little with this post to see if it all works etc. So hopefully I'll know any answers to any questions you guys might have.

So, now that I've posted all of this technical stuff, here are some early 1900's sportswear looks that I find to be extremely inspirational whilst deciding what to wear for the lawn sport olympics - after the cut! (I hope! lol)








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Helvetica

So I just watched the documentary Helvetica. So after Allison and Ashley quit laughing at me, I was able to actually hear the movie, and from then on, I realized that it was amazing!!!!! I am realizing that I am totally a typographile and I wish I knew more about it. It's a very good documentary - so put it on your netflix cues. It really inspired me and I think it gave me quite a different focus for my directed study. I don't know if that's good or bad, but whatever.

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