I love vintage images of people of color. I love vintage images, period, I've gotten extremely into period pierces that are immersed in the trappings and the zeitgeist of a different time, particularly of women. I love the differences in the way they dressed, how they decorated their homes, the music they listened to, it has this beautiful ( Read more... )

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I am so excited for the movie 42 to come out this April. I've watched the trailer about six times now, and it looks great. Plus I am a huge Jackie Robinson fan. He was just so cool. You see how truly amazing he was when you look at what that demanded from him in breaking the color barrier. He was actually not the best player in the Negro Leagues ( Read more... )

Thursday night I had the privilege of being a guest on john_in_boston's nerd culture-themed podast, Roll For It! Our topic was The Best Movies Never Made, as in, movies that were discussed by companies for production but never actually made it to the screen. I spoke about Darren Aronofsky's theoretical adaptation of Frank Miller's Year One, which would have had ( Read more... )

My grandmother certainly considered herself to be white. Her name was Julia Leone, nee Gush, and though I never had the chance to ask her about it or anything, that was still pretty clear. She had plenty of reason to. She had skin that was within the reason range of shades for a white person and no features that marked her otherwise. Her maiden ( Read more... )

For the record, the list of things I have resolved myself to in the hopes of self-betterment:

- work out six days a week

- treat my face with cleanser and moisturizer every night

- take proper care of my skin

- stay hydrated

- use only reuseable shopping bags

- buy less meat

- maintain more than my self-mandated minimum in my savings account at all times

- ( Read more... )

So I am working on my newest larp project, The Stand, and I am actually making a lot of progress. Trying to ride this wave of creativity while I can as far as I can. The Stand is a western, a cowboy game set very far north in California in the year 1848. One thing that came up for me recently in the writing process for this game is whether I have a ( Read more... )

Since I'm feeling pretty good right now, I am settling my brain onto the various things I feel like I should work on in the near future ( Read more... )

Okay, I just did something really cool-- at least, I think so. I was digging through my closet, trying to get my seasonally-appropriate stuff into the places of easiest access. In the course of digging I pulled out my "dress hanger," the large sturdy fancy hanger on which I hang my very few nice dresses. It holds the sparkly blue dress that I am ( Read more... )

One of my goals for the summer has been to work at taking better physical care of myself. It has been tough keeping up healthy habits when feeling so drained, so overwhelmed, and so depressed as I frequently have. So I have been taking advantage of having more free time to devote some of it to establishing healthier habits in the hopes of easing ( Read more... )

At last the hives have abated. The antihistimine I took seemed to clear things up within a few hours, and I managed to actually not rend every last shred of dermis from my body in the interim. Here's hoping this is the end of it. In the meantime I'm going to be avoiding acorn squash, just to be on the safe side.

Yesterday was a very good day. ( Read more... )