Sorry, no funny jokes or pictures. I just want ideas. I can never come up with a good halloween costume. My best to date was probably the year I was Karl Marx, but that was really just a fake beard, a suit, and a copy of Capital. Anybody have any clever ideas?

My fancy gala actually ended up being a fair bit of fun, though the art auction bordered on catastrophic -- the recession has apparently hit the art market. Almost nothing went for above it's estimated value, and some of the most valuable pieces recieved no bids at all. I also got a feel for the general provinciality of the Vancouver scene. Granted ( Read more... )

While volunteering as a functionary at a high-priced ($250/ticket) gala, is it permissible to ( Read more... )

What's a livejournal for if not crap like this?

Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.


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Actual discursive content x-posted from Tumblr:

That thing about The Sartorialist that always bugged me but couldn't quite figure out...

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…then Marxy at Neojaponisme nailed it ( Read more... )

Since I lost my old bag, I've been using an even older army surplus one that I dug out of my closet. Just now I managed to forget it at Budgie's. Thankfully, it was recovered when a friend called my phone and the staff answered.

I am an idiot.

Okay, I was just kidding about abandoning my lj.


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I know that I have not been blogging here at all, but I have blogging like a maniac on my tumblr. The tools make it super easy and the feed (and occasional reblogs) make it feel obscurely rewarding ( Read more... )

I don't expect that I'll keep putting too much up on this thing. I don't blog often enough to justify more than having a tumblrHere's some things I've been up to ( Read more... )

I got a Tumblr. Lazy as I am, it's been sucking up what feeble blog-energy I've been able to muster. While I oppose Tumblring in theory as the next symptom of degenerating attention spans on the internet, the logical end of which is the dissappearance of actual content in a mise-en-abyme of endless linking, I do admittedly enjoy the drive-by ( Read more... )