mostly because I don't like wearing corsets that much, and because now all the ones I've made myself don't fit since I've lost weight, which is a *good* thing even if it does cause more work, I've stuck my nose into "dieselpunk" or as I prefer it "dieselpulp", that "would have been could have been" version of the era roughly between 1920 and 1950  ( Read more... )

Yes, when you thought people couldn't be any stupider:

"An anti-gay religious group is calling for a killer whale which drowned its trainer to be stoned to death.
According to the American Family Association, the Bible says that captive killer whale Tillikum should have been put to death in 1991 after the first time he killed a trainer.
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He wrote ( Read more... )

in that I have found it ridiculously hard to meet people (doesn't help that I'm an introvert and most people who seem to share my interests are also), i've been looking around for ways to solve this problem.  I have found a website that seems like a good idea: http://www.not4dating.com/   Just ways to meet people not for dates but for finding ( Read more... )

Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia in particular, have become a hotbed of micro"stilled" spirits. I have just tried Art in the Age's Root, a very elixer-like liqueur that is somewhat like root beer but is so much more.  http://www.artintheage.com/  It is a very "steampunk" concoction.  Philadelphia is also home to Philadelphia Distilling, which makes ( Read more... )

Today, in the loverly Harrisburg Patriot News, I got to read an article about folks going over to Sudan to help the people there with medical care.  Oh, and to know Bible God.  Can't have just good acts, no, we have to scare people about going to hell.  The author of the article met a poor little kid who had a cancerous tumor on his kidney.  Now, ( Read more... )

Watchmen, the greatest comicbook ever?  Really?  Why?   Watchmen is a melodrama, like one would see on the afternoon soaps. This attempt at creating supposedly "real" superheroes is simply Mr. Moore dragging everyone down to his venal and puerile level. All people are not psychotic perverts and I rather doubt that all superheroes would be either. ( Read more... )

just another random post.  I am finding it amusing that the Republicans are whining that they didn't get their way in the stimulus package.  Guess what, ladies and gentlemen, you lost.  You failed.  Your policies FAILED.  It's time for trying something new and that does not require your approval or your opinions.  Bipartisan doesn't mean you *must ( Read more... )

Prop 8 the musical with Jack Black as Jesus singing a song called “pick and choose”

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c0cf508ff8/prop-8-the-musical-starring-jack-black-john-c-reilly-and-many-more-from-fod-team-jack-black-craig-robinson-john-c-reilly-and-rashida-jones

thanks to the greediness of Americans, a man lost his life today to a stampede of Wal-Mart shoppers, a  herd of idiots who found it more worthwhile to kill someone to get a piece of cheap trash than to act like intelligent humans ( Read more... )

Sen. Obama is now President-elect Obama.  And I am a happy girl ( Read more... )