Cultural appropriation is what they yell in the (sometimes painfully) Politically Correct circles on tumblr when somebody adapts style element that are associated with some sort of underprivileged culture.

For example:

• White people should not wear dreads -- this hairstyle belongs to the black culture, so it's appropriation (Warning: NSFW image ( Read more... )

Wolves seem to be the ultimate accessory for a fashion shoot this autumn.

Exhibit 1:


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I think this is the modern digital-photographic equivalent of what conscientious restorers of museum objects have been done for decades: when you put a Greek vase or a medieval garment back together for display, you use some contrastingly neutral material for the parts that are missing, plain grey linen among all the tyrian-purple-and-gold, or some ( Read more... )

I got my package from the BPAL ripoff 'Conjure Oils' today; I'd found I'd wanted an entire bottle of their 'Litha' scent that moons_storm had sent me an imp of some while ago. And unlike BPAL, they do have sensible procedures for international shipping ( Read more... )

Because the German football team was playing the Australian one tonight, the Nazgul and I went to the Australian pub around the corner, hoping to see blood. Or at least some creative crowd control measures.

We ordered a Fosters each and waited, metaphorical popcorn at the ready.


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Coming home from work just now (after a decompression stop at Massimo's, the little Italian café on the way to thee station), I saw a woman taking pictures of that incredibly badly photoshopped election poster I posted aboutI made a remark along the lines of my other post (including Vernon Dursley because, hey, Harry Potter is common knowledge and ( Read more... )

In other news: Woody Allen has completely lost his f***ing mind!!!

And not just because I am a disappointed fan of that woman. I mean, all movies she has been in so far have been soft porn at some time in the late eighties!

I felt moved to protest the discrimination of my cats, using purple felt marker at the dead of night:


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Seems that at the moment there is so little happening here (with everybody still gone for holidays), the newspapers have SERIOUS problems filling their pages.

Headline in the provincial newspaper some old guy was reading on the train when I went to work:

"Fish Attack At Bathing Lake! Little Boy's Toe Bitten!"Follows a colour picture of some ugly ( Read more... )