Really enjoyed this new documentary about the great photographer. I didn't know much about his early life in Berlin and how he escaped in 1938. Did not know that he began as an assistant to Yva, one of the first fashion photographers, a brilliant woman who died in a concentration camp. Love the clip of Susan Sontag, speaking in French on a TV show, telling...
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Believe it or not, this is my happy face!
Even though I was not a huge fan of the Go-Go's I really enjoyed the new documentary about them on Showtime!
Made homemade cole slaw for the first time today. I used red and green cabbage, carrots (I'm not very good at shredding them so I cut them up finely), mayonnaise, apple cider vinegar, mustard, parsley, salt and pepper. Recipe also called for Celery Seeds but I couldn't find them in my store. Letting it soften just a bit in the fridge. Looking forward to eating...
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I've been a student of dreams for many years. Recently I was looking at a few books that claim to be "Dream Dictionaries" (alphabetical list of dream topics and what they mean) and found them to be quite inaccurate. So I am writing my own book. Here are a couple of example entries from my forthcoming "Guide to Dreams and Herbal Remedies."
I was just thinking of SG Stormy who I met in NYC in 2005 or 6 when she was staying with friends here. She was in the first SG Burlesque tour and DVD. She was funny, wild, charismatic. And then I did a search and it turns out she died in 2015 at age 30 in Portland. She was one of the first SG models...
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Name the novel in which this denomination of money is a plot point:
This photo of me and my roommate makes us look like we are part of a sex and murder cult, but we're not. We just like to ride dune buggies in the desert and listen to the Beatles White Album over and over.
A friend told me recently that she and her boyfriend have a nickname for their dog in addition to the dog's name. But, I thought, isn't the dog's name itself sort of a nickname? The dog's parents didn't name him. Any name given to someone other than the name given to that being by their parents at birth is a nickname, correct? Well, anyway, I've...
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Loving the new album by Weyes Blood! Here is the first music video from it:
