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- Mood:
creative - Music:Bogeyman - Henry Hall
On Saturday, December 19, Design Within Reach of Adams Morgan, D.C.'s coolest furniture showroom, hosts the 4th Annual Holiday Booty Market. Shoppers can experience the modern wonders of Design Within Reach home furnishings, while getting their last minute shopping done from some of their favorite local Crafty Bastards!
'Tis the season to buy handmade and at this event you can find the best of this region's handmade gifts, sold to you directly by the local artists and artisans who make them.
At this annual event, that DCist.com deems the "winter version of Crafty Bastards", you can peruse aisles of craft vendors (indoors!) while enjoying refreshments and music.
This year's vendors bring you a wide array of gift options at affordable prices. Featured items include hand-stitched coasters and placemat sets by This Chickadee, homemade soaps made by Biggs and Featherbelle, recycled leather cuffs made from vintage belts by Fisticuffs and plush animals from upcycled sweaters by Tigerflight. You can also find hand-printed items by illustrator Jaime Zollars and all manner of Zombie Plague Holiday items from Tina Seamonster. Denada Design will be showcasing some of her famous scarves and 60bugs will have awesome hand-printed and -embroidered shirts and accessories for the hip little ones on your list. All vendors are Crafty Bastards veterans and thus awesome!
The first 100 shoppers will get a fun goody bag and there will be snacks and temporary tattoos provided all day at this free event!
The Holiday Booty Market is organized by local crafters, Tina Seamonster, Beth Baldwin and Debbie Lee. They have organized this event for the past 4 years.
EVENT: 4th Annual Holiday Booty Market
WHEN: Saturday, December 19, 10am-5pm
WHERE: Design Within Reach, Adams Morgan location (1838 Columbia Rd. NW
Washington, DC 20009)
WHAT: Indie craft vendors, handmade goods for sale, free admission, treats, music
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For more information about The Holiday Booty Market, check out http://www.craftmutiny.com or our Facebook event page for more information.
This event is free to the public and handicapped accessible.
- Mood:
stressed
- Mood:baby animals, beware!
- Music:Pixies - Into the White
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Uganda will drop the death penalty and life imprisonment for gays in a refined version of an anti- gay bill expected to be ready for presentation to Parliament in two weeks, James Nsaba Buturo, the minister of ethics and integrity, said.
The draft bill, which is under consideration by a parliamentary committee, will drop the two punishments to attract the support of religious leaders who are opposed to these penalties, Buturo said today in a phone interview from the capital, Kampala.
Ugandan lawmaker David Bahati presented a private member’s bill on Oct. 14 which sought the death penalty and life imprisonment for gay people in the country. The Ugandan government supports the bill because homosexuality and lesbianism are “repugnant to the Ugandan culture,” Buturo said. Still, it favors a more refined set of punishments, he said.
In addition to formulating punishments for the gay people, the bill will also promote counseling to help “attract errant people to acceptable sexual orientation,” said Buturo.
The proposed legislation has attracted criticism from gay rights activists, both locally and internationally, who argue that the law would promote discrimination and hatred toward the gay community.
- Mood:
frustrated
- Mood:haha
- Music:Pixies - Down To The Well
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/blog/2009/1
Buffy reruns coming to LOGO and MTV January 2010.
An online project and free pattern from Joann Fabrics, no less!
http://www.cafepress.com/guysofsteampun
hope everyone is doing smashingly well,
so i happen to be in need of some fine steampunk related help, and who better to ask then all of you! So ive gone about designing an outfit that i eventually would like to make, It was Inspired by the 1998 movie Elizabeth the armor Mary Of Guise was wearing, & by an item on Gaiaonline called La Draonne. SO already its pretty medieval-ish. My reason for the help was if any of you might be able to give me some ideas as to how to make it more....steampunk-ish appropriate.
any ideas would be wonderful! :3 thank you!
heres a quick and terrible doddle of the general idea @0@!!!
- Location:Boston
Just wanted to let you know I will be having a little sale at my Etsy shop this weekend. I will be offering free shipping on all purchases from 9am Friday through 9pm Sunday, and a few items will be offered at discounted prices. I have also just listed almost 20 new items. I ventured into making some brooches this time around. I'm definitely proud of the results and was tempted to keep all of them for myself :) Let me know what you think.
Here's the link: http://www.etsy.com/shop/DevilsAndDaffo
I was asked last week to do a custom piece by a friend and was definitely pleased with the results. I'll be posting a few pics of it soon.
Here are a few pics of the new items I've recently added to my shop:
Of all the toiletries to pop open and spill, it had to be the one that would add a fine coat of bright pink over my toothbrush, toothpaste, other toothpaste, hand moisturizer, facial moisturizer, facial cleanser, floss, another (empty) container of floss, Rogaine, vitamins, vitamin C lozenges, Listerine, acid reflux medication, old-man-bladder medication, ginko biloba, massage oil, lube, and a flash drive. All doused with thick pink goo that steadfastly resisted mere rinsing techniques.
I think between occupying the bathroom sink for an hour and then (not entirely-successfully) fighting back sobs in the middle of the night, thinking about my cat, I was pretty much the worst hostel-mate of all time.
Continuing Southeast toward Tuscon along HWY 79, I pulled over at a POI near Florence, to visit the spot where Tom Mix died.
( More photos and story behind the cut! )
- Location:Cabin John, MD
- Music:"The Trio," Ennio Morricone
http://www.tvworthwatching.com/blog/2009/1
Featuring picture of Michelle in Hello Kitty scrubs.
Here's the paragraph that mentions Michelle:
"The rest of the Mercy cast is similarly likeable, especially Michelle Trachtenberg as naive Chloe Payne, a newbie nurse who's all heart, if somewhat unbelievably clueless about certain things (like expecting to be taken seriously after wearing Hello Kitty smocks to work). I've always felt that Trachtenberg came on too strong as cloying supernatural construct Dawn on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I find her annoying in her recurring Gossip Girl role of rich witch Georgina Sparks. But I enjoy watching her balance the twin pressures Chloe faces as she tries to build both a grown-up career and an adult personal life, often flailing or failing at both but never growing cold or cynical in the face of multiple defeats."
Issue eight of YETI magazine arrived today. I noticed it because it has a Zola Jesus interview, and I am fond of Nika and her noises. But it’s a monstrous 200-page thing packed with all kinds of interesting stuff. Also, an eighty-minute CD full of rare/unreleased music by shitloads of people. Here’s Yeti’s site, with the information you want. It’s USD $11.95, or USD $19.95 if, like me, you’re ordering from outside the USA. For the amount of content here, that’s really bloody cheap.
Oh, and I got this last week., but I want to mention it: Julianna Barwick’s sublime FLORINE, previously only available as an mp3 EP from eMusic, is now available as a CD. This was one of my very favourite discoveries of 2009, and I’m so glad to now have a physical copy to hand. Julianna’s mailing these out herself, and mine arrived with a nice little note on the back of the envelope.
Thanks for any ideas.
- Music:Battles, "HI/LO"
- Mood:haha
- Music:Pixies - Down To The Well
the Argonaut in the Atlas District.
On the second Saturday of each month, you will hear the best in new indie and electro from the UK and beyond. You'll also have the opportunity to sample some of the best food in town, and meet the great bar staff.
English Beats at the Argonaut
1433 H Street, NE
Every Second Saturday from 10 pm - 2am, upstairs
NO COVER!
( Click here for flyer )
the Argonaut in the Atlas District.
On the second Saturday of each month, you will hear the best in new indie and electro from the UK and beyond. You'll also have the opportunity to sample some of the best food in town, and meet the great bar staff.
English Beats at the Argonaut
1433 H Street, NE
Every Second Saturday from 10 pm - 2am, upstairs
NO COVER!
( Click here for flyer )
Fifteen women.
Three portraits each.They Be We provides an intimate look at the lives of fifteen different women. From mothers, to Voodoo doctors, to those in the limelight, each woman has a story to tell.
Go to this link here for a set of discount codes to use.
(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/P
The Portland Mercury is auctioning off a big old comic package for charity. The pack includes a lithograph signed by Joss Whedon, a Dr Horrible comic book signed by Zack Whedon and Joëlle Jones and a page of original artwork from that one-shot.
The eBay page says "Will ship via UPS, flat rate $25. Within continental U.S. only". Previously you had to arrange to get it picked up from The Portland Mercury offices.
If there are any problems with the comic or website, or if you have any questions, comments, or complaints you would like to address directly to Randy, please email him at choochoobear@gmail.com.
curiousBesides looking and acting sort of like grunge rock, (pause) they're ripping off rap music. Seriously. Country stars are making hand gestures, rap-like stanzas, spoken word segments...this is the ULTIMATE of crossover. Country rap. I wanna decipher the gang signs...
And I thought line-dancing pelvic gyrations were odd...
I used to do this manually by simply seeking to different parts in a video file, with a player that will render before hitting keyframes (VLC, I believe). But people have gone as far as to encode purposefully “broken” AVI files just to exploit this trippy feature. Really cool:
Data Mosh tutorial:
Here’s an example of a “data moshed” video:
Mood: hungry
Music: Pixies – Levitate Me
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/43322
Also featuring music by Common Rotation (band Adam Busch is in) and trailer features brief glimpse of Mr. Busch as well.
The Dollhouse Thank You Album takes a rest on Shawna Trpcic's desk. Thank her for helping get bobw10 onto the set for the deliveries last Friday in the photo comments and here. Great photo.
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My Real Estate Law test was yesterday, but it's take-home, so I turn it in tomorrow. I think that will run similarly, though I'm still checking my answers. (I finished the test in-class, but have so far neglected the checking . . . mostly due to studying for Intro and writing for English.)
I've finished all of my assignments for English except for the "final letter" to the professor, which isn't technically worth a grade but will drop my grade a letter if I don't do it. He's already expressed that "Dear Professor Powers, I think it really stinks that I lose a letter grade if I don't turn this in" is technically acceptable, so I'm not too worried. Though I'll of course try to do better than that. (I'll also polish up one of my poems and turn it in for the class book.)
My Business Law class is weird. We have the "final" on Friday, and then come in on our "final exam" day to figure out what we got. Except rather than being cumulative, this "final" is only for the last three chapters. But is still totally a final. Weird. Anyway, I'm hoping I can swing a 100 on that, 'cause I've gotten 100s for all of the other tests (thank goodness for extra credit!), and it'd make me happy inside.
So, yeah. I'm pretty swell.
- Mood:haha
- Music:Pixies - Winterlong
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