New Lower Prices

I've lowered prices on almost all items at Damn Good Vintage and Sew-Retro Vintage Patterns.
Here are a few of the newest offerings.

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They Gave Their All

LOST 3

Great comment on Pijaba.

"LOST has always had its sympathies with eastern religious tradition, namely Buddhism and Hinduism. A big part of that religious tradition is the focus on questions and questioning and less on universal answers. The belief is that there are very few, if any, universal answers. LOST seemed to hammer that point home over and over again. Locke wants answers, thinks first the answer is in the Hatch and then with Ben and then with Jacob. Each time, those potential sources for answers prove not to have answers at all. Jacob was set up as a Jesus Christ figure and then was revealed to be just a man who had a task to do that he didn't even really choose to do. Meanwhile, the tragedy of Locke is that he couldn't simply appreciate the fact that he was a paraplegic who was now walking around. The obvious contrast was Rose, who simply lived in the moment. No need for answers. She was alive and with the man she loved. That was enough

I found that this was implicit in the LOST story, but unfortunately we have had a lot of shows that fixed on setting up mysteries and then trying to reveal them in somewhat lame ways (X-files and Twin Peaks come to mind). This may have set the expectation for LOST and the writers didn't do anything to dispel that. Let's face it - if Cuse and Lindendorf said, "Hey, LOST is a Buddhist pulp fiction." they could have kissed their shrinking audience goodbye. And so here we are. Anger, confusion, feelings of betrayal. That's what you get if you try to go subtle with a mass medium that's intended to entertain.

I enjoyed the ride, but I also expected very little by way of answers.

Posted by: eastwest at May 26, 2010 1:04 AM"

ALSO this on Little Green Footballs.

And does this look familiar?

LOST 2

I also think the writers learned a lesson from the finale of Battle Star Gallactica.
While I enjoyed it and was satisfied my one quibble with BSG was that the need to answer every question gave us an ending that was more then we needed and not as character driven as the show itself had been.

You just can't answer all the questions.

LOST 1

I loved the ending of LOST.
Just wanted to get that out there first.
This is probably the first in a series of posts as things come to me.
There will be spoilers so if you have not watched your Tivo'd show, don't read any further.
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* VINCENT! I was already tearing up when Jack laid down to die, but when Vincent showed up and laid down next to him to provide comfort and companionship I just began weeping...I'm doing it right now.

* How did they make me like Jack and Kate? That's some damn fine writing.

*In the end the show was about the people and not the mysteries. They were just the hook to get us involved in the lives of the folks on the island.

*And the show was really about Jack's journey to the point where he could let go and tell his father how much he loved him.

*Jesus I cried a lot last night. Each time someone found the person they loved and waited for caused more tears, but maybe Juliet and Sawyer was the best. Though I thought it was so sad to know that Kate must have never loved anyone else but Jack because of how she said she had missed him so much. Everyone who made it off the island alive had a chance to go on and live long lives, but Kate must have always pined for Jack.

*Hurley was always my choice to protect the island and I love that he is always able to look past people's actions and take them "in the now" even with Ben who always just wanted to be respected and special and to belong. Ben was the perfect choice for his #2. Plus Ben has super sekrit spy skills. I would watch a show about their time running the island especially with Hurley making the rules. (in the end Jacob was kind of a dick.)

*Remember that the Dharma wheel of life includes a form of purgatory.

*And since my personal question has always been "what's up with Eloise" I think that all of her shenanigans were in the end about trying to keep herself from killing Daniel and/or figuring out a way for him to have never come in contact with her on the island. It also seems like the "sideways LA" was her construct and everyone else was in her and (maybe) Charles Widmore's purgatory where Daniel is alive and happy and will soon be with Charlotte. The only question is why she was aware of what was going on and no one else was.
I need to watch that episode she was in with Desmond so long ago.

That's it for now.

Pretty Dresses

This is the Martha Manning Dress that the previously mentioned tag belongs too.
You can find it here and it is a larger size...I know I need to finish the listing.

Cute Vintage Tag

From a Martha Manning Dress I am listing later this week:

Mid Terms

Last night was a good night for the Dems.
First off they get to run against Rand Paul (hahahahaha) in KY...and you know that in the time between now and Nov. he and his Paultards are gonna do or say some crazy ass stuff to turn off the average voter.
Next Specter lost and Miz Blanche is in a run-off.
I promise you she never expected that result.

My favorite quote of the night came from Maddow who was interviewing the RNC spokesman.
She said that the RNC has now lost 7, count them, 7 special elections in a row.
He just sat there for a min and then began spewing about Scott Brown.
Hilarious.

I'm sure this is good for John McCain in some way.

Metal God RIP

The Goddess household is very sad today with the news that Ronnie Dio died this morning from stomach cancer.
My son thinks he is a metal God.

Here is one of the most fraked up videos of all time, Holy Diver in honor of Dio:

As Fat As I Wanna Be

This.
Awesome.

(I actually wish I was fat because I ate fatty tasty food all the time but I don't. Even the Mr. and The Teen comment on how it sucks that I eat so much less food then them and never lose weight.)

Smooth Petunia (Ruellia strepens)

One of my first wild flower surprises when we moved into our present home was the wild Smooth Petunias that showed up next to the house in the "shade garden".
They come back every year in May.
This year I got an even bigger surprise when one showed up in the above planter.
I have no idea how it got there, but I will enjoy it (and mark the area so I never disturb it) while the short lived blooms are there.
Here is more information on Smooth Petunias.

RIP

Lena Horne

Happy Mother's Day

Mother's Day Early

Guess what I got for Mother's Day?
An iPod Touch.
I wanted one, said I wanted on for Mother's Day and The Teen bought me an 8g one.
Me love it.Now that Amazon has a Kindle App for them I was finally able to get a device that allows me to download books and play around on the internet while sitting on the sofa.
(really this is all about the lack of a laptop/notebook and not wanting to spend more then $200...the Touch was $175 on Amazon.)

What are your favorite apps?

Photoshop Freak Hands

Jebus.
This is some photoshopping that has gone horribly wrong.
SJP and Kim Catrell look like they have some type of freaky toddler hands attached to their arms.
Or mutant limbs that are in the process of actually growing....
Listen I know I have commented on SJP's 80 year old lady hands, but for heaven's sake that does not mean they should be erased and replaced with freaky doll hands.
Adult humans, no matter what their age, have knuckles and veins.

Via both Jezebel and Projectrungay.

Truth in Politics

I've added a new set of links to the blog.
Truth in Politics.
They are Politifact, Media Matters and Fact Check.
Politifact has nice widgets to let you know if what a pol is saying is actually the truth or a lie and gives a nice breakdown of what campaign promises the President has broken.
Media Matters spends it's time truth checking the spewing of fucks like Hannity, Beck and Rush.
Fact Check is where I go whenever I hear some bullshit story about how Obama is planning to monitor all Christians and take away their dogs. It is a good tool to use when in an online argument with some ill-informed Tea Party loving relative.
Use these and you will be a better citizen.

Turban Chic

Via Bobby Pin Blog.
A short video from 1942:
Anne Edwards fashion expert and editor of "Woman" magazine shows women how to combat hat rationing by making glamorous turbans from scarves. Various shots of woman (could be Edwards or could be model - not made clear in commentary) demonstrating how to tie scarves into different styles. Flowers, feathers and costume jewellery are used to decorate the turbans.

TURBANS (issue title is WAYS AND MEANS)

You have to click on the image and it will take you to British Pathe

I'm Back

Sorry about that.
I've been fighting some nasty viruses and a hacker Trojan for the last week or so and finally had to give up and reformat my hard drive and I forgot to save my bookmarks and, well, it has sucked.
But I have also been cooking.
I got 2 new cookbooks:


Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies and Biscuit Bliss.
Excellent choices.
I've made some awesome biscuits in the last few weeks with the yogurt and cake flour being really, really awesome. Yummy and delicate. The best part is the exhortation of the author to use only flour from "southern wheat" like Martha White and the OK that you can use self rising flour. Which has allowed me to make large, fluffy biscuits without that baking powder after taste.

Pies on the other hand are something I do a pretty good job with anyway, but have found a new crust which uses vinegar and egg. Something I had never made was Chess Pie. Since I got Mrs. Rowe's Chess Pie has become my favorite with chocolate and then the lemon one being just outstanding.
I mean these are 2 of the best pies I have ever tasted.

Other news includes a teenager who went LARPing and now has a "boot" for his severely sprained ankle.
Good times.

Just Stop

The Church needs to stop with the Op Eds and the bull shit from people like Bill
Donahue.

If I was talking to the Pope right now I would tell him what I think we Catholics need from our Church.
I need to hear is this:
quia peccavi
nimis cogitatione, verbo et opere:
mea culpa,
mea culpa,
mea maxima culpa.

I want to hear repentance.
I want 2011 to be the year The Church goes though a deep and meaningful penance.
I want the Pope and the Cardinals and the Bishops to throw off their vestments and wear some form of sack cloth and ashes for that year.
I don't want the Pope to resign, I want him to take responsibility.
I'd like to see the church bring any victim to Rome who is willing and have the Pope personally apologize to them.
I want them all to say over and over again (and I don't care that it is no longer happening or that most of them were never involved or that a good amount of the perps are dead):
"We have sinned grievously"

That's what I would tell the Pope The Church needs to do to fix this.

Must Love Cats

Simon's Cat "Fly Guy"

Did Someone Say Waterloo?

I thought that Health Care was going to be Obama's Waterloo.

Republican Tears are Tasty

More Kitty Goodness

Because You Have Been So Good

I am assuming that you all have good little minions and are calling/faxing you Congress Critters as we speak.
As a reward I give you Kitty Shark Sweater:


First...the sweater is covered with fucking awesome sauce and I think anyone who has the balls to put a sweater on a cat who looks like a demon is, well, pretty ballsy.

Next...that cat is fabulous and brilliant and just so damn pretty in a demon cat way.

Last...the "I WILL KEEL U" look is priceless.

There is also a Rocket Sweater!
I wanna make a super sonic kitty of you!

Grandma's Dress

I have this fun vintage Kay Windsor dress for sale on Damn Good Vintage.


Cute, right?

I was looking though some old photographs and found this:

Yep, my Grandma is wearing the same Kay Windsor dress.
Real vintage worn by real women.
Nice bit of serendipity.

EDIT:
Yes, that is me and how awesome is that bit of end of the world art behind the sofa?

Teh!Ghey is Gonna Ruin Your Prom

See that pretty girl?
She is gay and she had the nerve to want to wear a tux and take her girlfriend to the prom.
Of course her first mistake was asking the inbred morons who run her high school if she could even wear a tux (seriously? Who gives a fuck what she wears as long as her boobs and lady bits are hidden) and if she could bring her same sex date.
Personally I think they should have just shown up at the door....girls go to dances with each other all the time.
I went with 6 other girls.
No one would have even paid any attention until they slow danced.

Can't have young women wearing tuxes and slow dancing in Mississippi. Next thing you know they will think that they have a right to get married to whomever the hell they want to.

So the school district decided to just cancel prom and blame it all on Constance so she could become the target of every redneck mouth breathing homophobe fundi who lives in her town. Plus this will make the next student who might think of getting uppity to think twice.
Nice.

But Constance is an awesome gal and she is not backing down and she won't be bullied. The ACLU has gotten involved and even if she does not go to prom (and honey, I can tell you that going to prom is an overrated "rite of passage") she is going to stand up for what is right and for the students who will come after her.

Rockabilly Beyonce

If you don't like Lady Gaga or Beyonce then move on, but if you do then I'm telling you the new Gaga video is a hoot.
A cheesy Russ Meyer homage.
Think Faster, Faster Pussycat in a women's prison.
I loved it.
And Beyonce rocking the rockabilly pinup look is very hawt.




Oh and Lady Gaga enters a prison exercise yard wearing chains and smoking cigarettes sunglasses.
Covered with awesome sauce.

The song sucked though.
NSFW

SJP's Old Lady Hands

WTF? Is up with Sarah Jessica Parker's hands?

The guys over at Projectrungay had a close-up and she has the hands of some 80 year old society gal who smokes like a chimney and has Manhattans from 3-6 every day.
Seriously, look at these:
She is only TWO years older then me and I'm sure she is rich enough to slather her hands with some crazy vile lotion made of pearls and virgin kitten tears. Maybe she actually is an 80 year old woman and the lotion works everywhere except on her hands because they are covered with the blood of the thousand kittahs that were sacrificed to maintain her mask of hardened middle age?


BTW I hated the dress front, love the back and her retro Streisand/Gary Oldman as Dracula hair is quite awesome.

Nekid Rahm

I gotta say that the idea of a Nekid!Rham standing in the shower at the Congressional gym yelling at Massa is just covered in awesome sauce.
I so hope it is the truth.



And yeah, Nekid!Rham....

I've been naugthy and need a good talking too.
In the shower.

Just saying.

Stop This Crime

Dear vintage clothing dealers,

Please cease and desist doing business with Courtney Love or one of her minions.
The woman is a crime against vintage.
Exibit A:
Now if I did not know better I'd say that CL had someone rip apart a sweet 30's dress and maybe a 20's or 30's sheer black over dress and then sewed them together to make a special fucktard dress.
Like I have said before, I really, really, really hate the "upcycling" trend because it enables shit like the above to be created.


Jesus people.
Just stop.

And Now We Are 18.

Yesterday I was waiting in line to pay for gas and standing in line behind me was the cutest little 2 year old boy holding a big bag of Cheetos.
He looked just like me kid when he was that age.
When I got in the car I just started bawling because...well, because I'm nuts and Josh was going to be 18 today.

18.

Happy Birthday!

Penis Pants

No. Words.
Via Project Rungay.

(Luckily the model got to wear a hat so his kids will never see his face associated with penis pants.)

Ceiling Cat Takes Mai Peeps

This video from, I kid you not, After The Rapture Pet Care*, seriously needs to have LOL captions.

CEILIN CAT IZ CALLIN TEH HUMANZ HOME

BEFORE U GO WER IZ TEH CAN OPENR?

DAWGS WE R NAO UR KAT OVERLORDZ

Yeah, too much time on my hands...

* I have no idea if this is just another sly way to part fundis from their money or sweet and kind or just someone making a spoof website. I actually hope that these folks are for real and really do care about pets that much to worry what will they do in case of the rapture.

The Numbers

It's the NUMBERS folks!
Right there on the ceiling of the cave.
Amazing.


Of course, what does that mean?

Robin Hood Tax

I show you this video not because I think the idea of the Robin Hood Tax is great (which I do, I do think it is a fine idea) but because Bill Nighy is in it and he is brilliant.



For more information on the Robin Hood Tax (sorry it is a UK thing):

Robin Hood Tax, is a tiny tax on bank transactions that could raise hundreds of billions for public services and to tackle poverty and climate change at home and around the world.

RIP

I know that I have, in the past insinuated that Alexander McQueen might have designed some crazy ass clothing like the snake skin on your v-jaja dress

Or the hoof shoes that creep me out

Or the styling in this show that looked like the women are the handmaidens of the Cenobites (I'm actually reading Hellbound Heart at the moment)


BUT truthfully he was an amazing designer and I LOVED his designs and my GOD I am sad to hear that he has passed away. The story is sad and heartbreaking. The loss of his friend Isabella Blow in 2007 and the death of his mother last week seemed to be more then he could live with.
Just. So. Sad.