Attention few and loyal readers- from this day forward I am free from the shackles of LiveJournal! You can check me out over at A Rarer BorealisForget Beta testing, any and all visitors shall be Alpha testers! That is to say, the site may have a few bugs and quirks; stop on over, poke around and let me know all about it. I just fixed up the RSS ( Read more... )

I believe I've found a store that out-Puerto-Ricos the actual island of Puerto Rico:


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This is mostly visual goodness- while in Iowa I outbid a gaggle of ladies on some gorgeous vintage buttonry. Click onward if you want to oggle vintage buttons on cards. Also, soon, soon, so very soon, shall I flee the boundaries of Livejournal. Seriously!


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Apologies for the lack of posting, but I'm getting my new website all zazzed up and ready for visitors. I must take a break from this though to share an upcoming rally from Westboro Baptist Church, aka the ultrahypocrites behind 'God Hates Fags'. Remember them? Yeaaaah, they've widened their agenda to so much more than mindlessly hating people ( Read more... )

Occasionally I am gripped by some inexplicable madness leading me to seek knowledge and experiences no man should dare speak of, never mind know. Such is what led me to eat more than 5 different types of fried food in a row on the boardwalks of Wildwood, see a Weston/Less Than Jake show, and watch 'National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets' and 'Doom' ( Read more... )

Perhaps it's the laziness, or perhaps it's the laziness, but I'm quite content just tossing up random photos this week.


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While visiting Iowa, we went to the 99th annual Meskwaki Pow-wow, an event that happens once a year and reunites members of the tribe on their settlement. They were very particular to note their tribe lives on a settlement, NOT a reservation. in the mid-1800's, noticing the trend of shuffling tribes around as suited others, the tribe pooled their ( Read more... )

I took a brief road trip to Iowa a few weeks back- brief in that we crammed it into one long 16-hour drive so we'd only have to rent the car for one day(economizing!). I took the night shift, since flooring it on mostly empty highways makes me feel more badass than shuffling past RVs and minivans in the daytime ( Read more... )

Alright, I've seen a lot of people knitting up the so-called '3 Hour Sweater', complaining about how NO, it does NOT take 3 hours to knit, it takes a day or two, blah blah blah. I say these people are modern whiners. Perhaps in ye olden days it really did only take 3 hours to work up this sweater; perhaps women sitting near their radios were so ( Read more... )