Have been totally unable to write emails or to make phone calls today, so apologies if I owe you emails/replies. Just saying this because I'm feeling super-introverted today and just so groggy I need to gather my strength.

This is mostly happening through devouring medieval Islamic cookbooks. It's helping. I've already gone through this 13th ( Read more... )

GUYS

GUYS

I GOT MY FIRST TUMBLR-STYLE INSULTS-AS-LOVE COMMENT\o ( Read more... )

And of course, just when I mentioned a Connie fanvid to the tune "I'm In Love With A German Film Star" that was just a slideshow, another one shows up and it's like a zillion times better. Because, you know, it has actual video and stuff. AND LOTS OF SOUND MOVIE CLIPS, TOO. Dear Lord, this video is a relief because so many people only ever go on ( Read more... )

Finnish Name Generator. Once you see them all translated like that, it just strikes me how much they are like classic noble savage names; all very nature/mythology-orientated... (Incidentally, Connie got a male name that was the exact wind-blown snow term I talked about a while ago. I just got some boring watery one ( Read more... )

Two scans I spent forfuckingever cleaning up. Click the pics for the Tumblr posts with links to HQ versions.

BECAUSE THIS IS RELEVANT TO THE ENTIRE EXISTENCE OF YOURS TRULY


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I will never be able to get any writing done today. Because. I've just found a huge archive of interwar German magazines. Oodles and oodles of interesting stuff (they've got a special section for fashion, too, for those of you who want to check out flapper fashions and things).

But of course, my main attraction is this guy.


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I'd only slept for like, four or five hours and was feeling like shit warmed up and was barking in my mind crankily at everything when I opened the computer. Aaaaand then these show up on Tumblr (click through for posts):

Can you be any more pretty-eyed?

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This cult t-shirt shop on eBay looks mightily cool. I mean, you can actually get shirts with famous sci-fi writers' and philosophers' faces on. I've never seen a Sylvia Plath or Kurt Vonnegut t-shirt anywhere! And I like their (sadly limited) selection of old movie t-shirts. They've got several Louise Brooks ones and VINCENT FUCKING PRICE and ( Read more... )

Thanks to this page, I can now pinpoint the date on which Doctor Who stole my soul. Handy ( Read more... )

-Just when you thought nobody painted beautiful, old-fashioned paintings any more, along comes Italian Roberto Ferri. His works are a gorgeous mix of Baroque and Symbolism with exquisite chiaroscuro and sometimes disturbing imagery. What I really, really love about this work is that it truly is timeless--a lot of the supposedly old-fashioned art ( Read more... )