Tytania Strange

Each bottle of BPAL oil is $20. No preorders will be accepted for the Cobwebs event. Bottles will be sold on a first-come basis, and there is a limit of five bottles per person until 30 minutes before the end of the event, at which point, the limit is lifted.

We will begin giving out random numbers at 6pm. This gives everyone the opportunity to fondle books, poke at toys, sniff testers, and chat -- or leave and get a doughnut, whichever. We will open sales at 7pm.

Please note: the Vintage scents will be sportin’ a new label that was created for this event. You will not be getting the original label used for this scent.

Where and when is this happening?

Dark Delicacies
4213 W. Burbank
Burbank, CA 91505 U.S.A.

Friday, July 17th
7-9pm

1-888-DARKDEL
1-818-556-6660

darkdel *at* darkdel *.* com

( Once again, the list of scents available at the trunk show: )
Details on C15 and the Saturday night meet n sniff will be announced soon.

Title: All I Wanted…
Canon: Leroux
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Summary: An illustration of the Leroux quote, "All I wanted was to be loved for myself."
Warnings (if any): None
Original prompt request number: Prompt 4
Author's/artist's notes (if any): Poor Erik, all alone. He needs a hug.

( all i wanted )

In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself

The buzzard never says it is to blame.
The panther wouldn't know what scruples mean.
When the piranha strikes, it feels no shame.
If snakes had hands, they'd claim their hands were clean.

A jackal doesn't understand remorse.
Lions and lice don't waver in their course.
Why should they, when they know they're right?

Though hearts of killer whales may weigh a ton,
in every other way they're light.

On this third planet of the sun
among the signs of bestiality
a clear conscience is Number One.

-- Wislawa Szymborska

Hey there all you fabulous people! I have a question for you!
I often wear a bandana with a regular pinup updo ( i curl the back, do a ponytail and pin it up) with bangs and everything, but now im looking for a tutorial to put up the bandana so you cant see the hair in the back, like covering it up so you just se the bangs? I dont even know if it has a "name" on the hairstyle. I guess like Rosie the riveter but i cant find any tutorial on the on i want.
Me with a bandana

Well, thanks for yout time!

This review gives me some trepidation. As did the one I read the other day, which I can't link at the moment because I posted it to Facebook, which doesn't want to load just now. (Twitter is also being distinctly squirrely, making me wonder just what's going on in cyberspace today. Did the DDoSers from last week get bored with government sites?)

I'll still definitely check it out, and will no doubt still have fun even if it's as broad/comic as the review makes out, but suspect it will feel like a missed opportunity.

Also of interest: The show's writer, Peter Bowker, offers an interesting mini-memoir about his adolescent experience of the Pre-Raphaelite paintings at the Tate and subsequent explorations of the PRB tangle.

Edit: The fact that the series is based on Franny Moyle's book (I'd forgotten the title) explains a lot. I haven't read it, but I've seen numerous recommendations against it in PRophile blogs and such. I've been meaning to read it anyway precisely because she's regarded as the anti-Jan Marsh. I love Marsh to bits, and have as many of her books as I've been able to get my hands on, which is all the more reason to give some reading time to other voices, even controversial ones.

If the person who just knocked on my door for a really long time at 11:00 am on a weekday happens to be reading this journal then please realise I plan to murder you in your sleep.

In addition to waking me up, and not leaving when the door wasn't answered promptly, this person has incurred my wrath simply because I REFUSE to ever open my door if it is a surprise drop-in visitor.

I have a strict "appointments required" policy. And if I expect you, the door will be unlocked and you can just come in. I do not like doors being knocked on or phones ringing. I also do not appreciate surprises. Especially surprise visitors.

I have a phone and a computer. You can call, text message, email, IM, anything but show up unexpected and unwanted.

If you break that rule AND wake me up? You are asking to die in horrible ways.


Since this is happening more and more often these days, I am putting up a sign on my door.

I was thinking of something simple, polite and explanatory, but people will just ignore it. So, I will more likely go with something along the lines of this:


"

It has been coated thoroughly with a substance you really do not wish to touch.

Never, under any circumstances, touch this door if I am not expecting you. Trust me on this.


If this is a matter of life and death, please contact 911 or your local Emergency/Police."

Me, Susana Casas, Raquel Esteve and four ballerinas (Noemi, Sarai, Angela and...er...I can't remember the name of the 4th, my bad) as Las taquimecas, in Zarzuelas y Revistas, La Mejor Música del Maestro Alonso, Teatro Fernan Gomez, July 2009.

[Apologies for spamming the community yesterday with three foot by three foot photos. Photobucket fail. Flickr now FTW.]

So I've been dabbling with 50s-style pinup hair and makeup for quite some time, and I don't believe I've ever shared them here. I'm cross-posting this to vintagehair and vintagemakeup, so some are of just hair, some of just makeup. I'm hoping there's something here for everyone.

Disclaimer: This is an epic post. Like, forty pictures or something. Commence vanity, narcissism, self-admiration, ( etc )

[Apologies for spamming the community yesterday with three foot by three foot photos. Photobucket fail. Flickr now FTW.]

So I've been dabbling with 50s-style pinup hair and makeup for quite some time, and I don't believe I've ever shared them here. I'm cross-posting this to vintagehair and vintagemakeup, so some are of just hair, some of just makeup. I'm hoping there's something here for everyone.

Disclaimer: This is an epic post. Like, forty pictures or something. Commence vanity, narcissism, self-admiration, ( etc )

Hey Hey!! I would like to know how can I give this shape to my hair? ( the blond one)

Do you know if is better to use the rolls or maybe something else? Please, also can you suggest to me a good video tutorial to use/ put the rolls??

Usually I do the twist as soon after the shampoo and I let it dry , but is not the same effect!!

Thank you GRLZ!!

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am I missing something? because I'm still pissed about this and don't want to think aout talking to my girl until  I can calm down - which isn't happening...

If I can do one word count post, I can do two...

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does. --William Faulkner

How far did you trot along behind your characters today?

There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.-- Wayne Dyer

Did you have the resolve to make your writing happen on Wednesday?

Sound off!

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ALIEN INVASION
A melding of science fiction and horror in which extraterrestrial life forms come to Earth in order to…

* Colonize the planet
* Harvest humans for foodstuffs
* Enslave humanity
* Destroy the planet
* Use probes to perform uncomfortable sexual experiments

… among other nefarious objectives.

Examples: War of the Worlds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Plan 9 From Outer Space, the Day the Earth Stood Still

Slick, spiced space fruits and residual tentacle goo.



DIABOLICAL OFFSPRING
The passage into parenthood is, despite all its joys, often confusing, a little shocking, and sometimes frightening.

-- moreso for some parents than others.

Examples: the Bad Seed, the Omen, Rosemary’s Baby, and Alice, Sweet Alice

Baby sweetness and a touch of brimstone.



GORE-SHOCK
With its roots in the Grand Guignol, Gore-Shock is a transgressive art form, using visual depictions of graphic, horrendous violence to push the limits of social tolerance. In the words of Michael Arnzen, “Splatter films differ from typical horror films because they revel in the special effects of gore as an artform. They are part of postmodern art and depict postmodern condition as a vehicle for cultural transformation.”

Then again, these might be extreme gross-out flicks and nothing deeper.

Examples: Blood Feast, I Spit on Your Grave, Two Thousand Maniacs!

Pulpy, scorched, pork-like flesh, glistening entrails, and doughy skin with the coppery tang of blood, salty, sweaty musk, filth, and a huff of rusted machinery.



GOTHIC HORROR
The blueblood of the horror genre. Gothic horror borrows heavily from Victorian Romanticism: a dark, passionate sojourn into emotionally-driven aesthetic experience – reaching through gloom towards a vision of the sublime. Using sprawling, decay-riddled visuals, and lyrical narrative rife with suspense, awe, and dread, these films tell tales of tortured souls, long-buried secrets, rapid descents into depravity and madness, and grasping supernatural beings.

Examples: Vampyr, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, Frankenstein, the Phantom of the Opera

Morbidly romantic, thick with murky melodrama, untouched by the centuries, and dust-rimed: Byzantine incense, benzoin, myrrh, bitter clove, spikenard, oud, and ancient balsam.


PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR
This is not the Monstrous Other; this is the fiend next door.

Examples: Psycho, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, the Collector, and Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte

It smells perfectly normal: a lovely, unassuming, traditional mid-20th century musk with something not quite right lying underneath.



ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE
Brains? Brains.

Examples: Night of the Living Dead (and all things Romero-plus-Dead), 28 Days Later, Undead, Planet Terror

Swirls of red jelly and sugary white ooze.


Available now on the Dark Delicacies web site, and available at their brick & mortar shop once Friday night's trunk show gets going!

TRUNK SHOW INFO
Friday, July 17th
7 to 9pm

Dark Delicacies
4213 W. Burbank
Burbank, CA 91505

1-888-DARKDEL
1-818-556-6660

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Hi! I'm new...ish.
I've been reading the posts here for a while, but I decided to log into the ol' LJ account because I need some help! Seriously, my last login was probably like a year ago. Anyways...
I have freshman orientation next monday (yikes!) and I wanted to wear victory rolls in my hair. Unfortunately, it seems that my hair is too short. It's shoulder-length and kind of choppy because it's layered. Usually, I straighten my hair, but if I don't, it's very wavy and poofy. I also have blunt bangs, if that matters.
Could someone suggest a new style that would work with my hair? I was hoping for something fairly easy because I am pretty inexperienced and have very little time to practice! I was thinking something rockabilly would compliment my style best, but I'm open to anything. I'm wearing a Bedouin Soundclash tee with black shorts and suspenders, if that helps. I would model it for you all, but I have yet to acquire the shorts or the suspenders.
Sorry if this post is similar to another, older post or if it's annoying. I just love the things people put up here, so I thought this would be a good place to help. I really hope that I've given enough details as well.

Thankyouthankyouthankyou!

Hello there lovely Vintage Hair community-
I have just received images on disc from my latest shoot here in Adelaide, with the wonderful Mandi Whitten. These images were especially for me for my portfolio, other images will be used in her solo exhibition during the SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Festival in August 08.
I am responsible for the hair (Grable inspired!), Make Up and wardrobe styling- I hope you like! xx Thanks for looking xx

The Most Incredible Work of Literature in the Entire Cosmos

Chapter 8, "Spoon"

LOU

Wednesdays are my favorite because that is when we get to do the robot dance! I love the robot dance with all of my body. Even though I am not a robot myself, I try very hard to do the robot dance because it makes me feel truly alive.

The robot dance involves me, my dear friend Haberdash, and all of his robots hanging out in the ballroom and getting our dance on. Dancing makes me feel glamorous like a superstar. Like the stars in the sky, which twinkle and shine with white hot sparkles. Sandwiches are hot. I like the kind with meat and cheese. And sometimes when you put a tomato on it? It's the best. In my excitement, I shout out, "Tomato galaxy!"

Haberdash agrees with me, I can tell. I can tell because he is shaking his thang like it ain't no thang, and he is also smiling. I smile back at him, and he shouts "Twizzlers on a paper napkin!" which really doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but I'm not going to tell him that.

( I'M BEGINNING TO SUSPECT THAT HABERDASH HAS GONE A LITTLE CRAZY. )

I'm expecting the comments of this chapter to be something like, "WTF LOU IS NOT CHRISTOPHER DID I MENTION WTF" but I challenge you to bear with me. To trust me, even. To have patience and...um...trust. THINGS will happen for the next several chapters. I'm hoping you'll enjoy them.