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I enjoy watching Rome more for it’s opulence and style than anything. Yes, it’s a good refresher course on the days of Julius Caesar and Pompey, of Antony and Cleopatra, and interesting power plays, bloody fights and sexual games, but more than anything I like to see the make-up rituals, wigs, lewd drawings, strange pagan-seeming sacrifices within the church, etc. Read More
The website strindberg and helium is amazing. The site features five amazing animated shorts about August Strindberg, a writer and reputed to be a morose sort. The idea behind the site was to create a friend for Strindberg who could cheer him up despite whatever was happening. Read More
When high school chemistry teacher Walter White learns he has inoperable lung cancer, he decides to provide for his family long after his imminent departure the only way he can think of: Cooking methamphetamine and selling it at an enormous profit. He gets a lot more than he bargained for. This show is more addictive to watch than any other. The way it’s filmed is genius, the acting more than believable and the character development is uncanny. No detail is ever left unaccounted for. Read More
I just got some fancy lil’ red lacy bloomers I’ve been wearing as a swimsuit bottom, and I LOVE them. Innocent and sexy at once, slightly longer styles work as playful shorts and take some sass and confidence to pull off…I’ll admit I’m feeling up to the challenge this Summer, if the weather would ever stay sunny long enough to wear fun little nothings!
This pair makes me swoon. I’m on a severe western kick right now. I am wearing a newly acquired beige pair of cowboy boots every day since purchase, and am barely quelling the desire to shell out big bucks on every pair I see. Every make, every color, the wilder the better, and especially perfectly broken-in vintage ones. They go with jeans OR dresses and spice up a bland outfit! 
This bright blue pair may be hard to justify, but picture them with black leggings and a bright yellow ruffly top! It would be fantastic! 
These are so killer! I don’t know many girls who AREN’T looking for bright red cowboy boots, and if these arrived anywhere in my size they would be mine. Luckily, not everyone shares my obsession [yet] so these kinds of treasures are still available from time to time.
If you’re got a hankering for fries but want to eat in a cool place, Dot’s Cafe is for you. This SE Clinton spot features hundreds of velvet paintings, dark 60’s lamps, flocked velvet wallpaper, and pictures of kittens, rock stars, and celebrities, not to mention needlepoints, vintage ads and posters of sunsets, 70’s style. The menu features a large selection of food, as well as meat-friendly fare, cheap cocktails and daily specials.
Here’s a vintage pattern from the 1940’s — a pattern to make rayon gabardine embroidered western shirts! Super elaborate and exciting, these increasingly hard-to-find shirts are darted in all the right places and super flattering and slimming, not to mention unique and adorable. Read More
Swoon! You’d think it would be relatively easy to find a black leather jacket in a fair price range, but I’m having a lot of trouble for some reason. Read More
Above is the Portland-everyguy. Everywhere I look, there are men in hoodies and skinny jeans, and sneakers. Thanks to American Apparel’s degree in cool school, expensive pricing and trend mongering, all the youngsters are hankering to make sure they fit into the hipster archetype. Sigh. Really? Does anyone look good in skinny jeans? A big person looks even bigger, a skinny person looks daft with skinny jeans falling off their nonexistent butt. Read More
Tim Roth as Doctor Lightman, scrutinizing YOUR face for signs of lying. In the series Lie To Me, which I’ve been obsessively watching through Netflix, the Lightman Group works on solving murders, mysteries, and crimes through study and detection of lying through body language and facial ticks, expressions, and involuntary movement while asking personal questions, videotaping reactions and studying everyone VERY closely. I like the premise of this show a lot. Read More
This summer I have been revisiting Siouxie Sioux A LOT. Far from a new artist, Siouxie exploded onto the scene in the late 70’s and took over! Her interesting, comprehensive and passionate songwriting combined with fantastic personal style and stage presence led to her becoming one of the most iconic singers of the last few decades.
Peter and Vandy, starring Jason Ritter and Jess Weixler takes a look at some of the darker elements and more realistic scenarios of certain relationships. Read More
There are many locations of the sensational Saint Cupcake in Portland, but the one I’m referencing is in the back of Noun, a swanky shop filled with everything one could want for their home!
While I’ll admit I was dazzled by the proportion play and visual techniques employed by Tim Burton for the new Alice In Wonderland, the script was flimsy and the liberties taken with the storyline were baffling. Read More
This catering team is not exactly the type anyone would really want in charge of a professional event. They touch the food, have sex in abandoned kitchens, fight, leave, break things, take drugs, and get into other REALLY embarrassing situations. Read More