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Ah geez, why did I pay for another year of livejournal when I've turned into one of those people who only updates every 60 years or so ( Read more... )

I read an completely inane, ridiculous sentence in a fairly pedestrian book review and now I have to share the indignation:

If you're a fashionista who's not a babe, you look for clothes that create attention all by themselves. That was the secret of Elsa Schiaparelli, the Italian designer who gave women unusual textures, eccentric patterns and ( Read more... )

All these international rumors about LJ REVIVAL are vaguely annoying to me because I've been here all the time and it makes me feel permanently out of touch for being so gauche as to have a livejournal in the incredible future year of 2009. I guess that fits my low-fi personality, though. I'm a grizzled old prospector standing on the front porch of ( Read more... )

One of my favorite things to play with when I was a kid were those bags of tiny, doll-sized groceries you used to be able to get at five and ten stores. I was SO EXCITED to find a grab bag of them at the flea market this weekend.

Boxes are presented by some of my dolls and two amazing space alien toys I got in a grab bag at the Salvation Army.


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Welcome to 1993! I'm trying to read more zines because big giant monolithic publisher type magazines are so aggravating and expensive (don't even get me started on REAL SIMPLE or we'll be here all night and I finally gave up on BUST because I got sick of paying 6 bucks just to get vaguely annoyed ( Read more... )

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I found a letter inside a donated book at work this morning. It starts out normally enough with some discussion of a biking trip and scenic Pennsylvania bla bla bla...AND THEN:

I stopped and took the girdle off and let my expanse resume its normal self. I also use special creams on my face which eat away the fat that develops under the skin so as ( Read more... )

God I love it when ANNIE'S MAILBOX prints indignant rants ( Read more... )

It's been a really mild summer where I live, so the flea market has been very pleasant and I'm not getting that "WHY DO I BOTHER????" feeling I usually get this time of year. Plus I keep finding REALLY AMAZING THINGS, so that helps kill ennui, too.


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