Oh my goodness. I am so excited ( Read more... )

I remember abhorrence and cruel justification

echoed their pallid faces,

in striking juxtaposition with the blank darkness behind.

“It is not what you can say; it is what you have done.”

My path has been darkened.

I can feel it,

etching away at my nerves.

It is inescapable, and never inexplicable.

When I have been made raw, ( Read more... )

And now making a delayed venture into the world of sewing...

...without any goddamn decent fabric shoppes! Honestly, I ask you... *angry sigh* What is a girl to do when all the Fanny's Fabrics stores close in your city??? Actually, they might have closed all over Canada. Hmm. Now my choices are limited to the rather dissapointing FabricLand or this ( Read more... )

I just saw Memoirs of a Geisha, which was absolutely beautiful. And deafeningly sad...no, I'd actually say melancholy. It made me realize how I, and I'm sure others, have been losing a grip on beauty, and appearances, skill, and desire.

( Most especially that of beauty. )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAXAMOUR!

An afterthought: Merry Christmas!

Much love from sveltedoctor

I have just discovered a fabulous website, www.juxtapoz.com, which is the web home of Juxtapoz, a magazine. Juxtapoz is basically a rec list of good galleries with new art, pop and tiki art, and up and coming artists in the pop art genre. It's really got some cool stuff if your into that sort of thing. ....And *sigh* my calendar feature has gone ( Read more... )

I'm bored and I found this on a journal, so I decided to do it.

[ ]=Haven't
[x]=Have
(words)=Stuff I added

( Click to see an unreasonable amount of things people do )

I'm indulging myself in a little self-satisfaction. I just finished an art session (lasting 4 weeks; 24 hrs total) and two of the pieces which came out of it were entered into this art show and competition with the Mayor of the city! The second piece is this really distored facial portrait in just pencil. I really didn't like it, but the instructor ( Read more... )

OMG. HBP. (Major Spoiler Ahead)

I'm not going to bother summarizing, as there are already some stellar summaries out there...

One thing, though, that I have not seen anyone take account of is the fact that Dumbledore's place of rest will have influence in the 7th book. JKR has mentioned previously that Alfonso could not use a graveyard in the 3rd ( Read more... )

My grandfather is about to die. As he had his last rights he ate chocolate and had a martini. He also requested no funeral, but that all of us remaining folk should throw a party...

Is this remotely normal?????