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Batman: The Black Mirror
You guys you guys you guys! This has been MY FAVOURITE Batman arc yet! Several things make it very unique: SPOILERS AHEAD! 1. Dick Grayson is Batman (not your usual Bruce Wayne) 2. There are several narrators: Dick, Commissioner Gordon, even Harvey Bullock (for a couple of pages) 3. The story covers a few different…
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Jacket Remodel
This is a story of having nothing to lose. So I pulled this jacket out of a Lost & Found bin. It had been there a REALLY long time and basically, nobody was going to come back for it. I called dibs. It’s a children’s XL jacket but I liked the material of it and…
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If My Blog Was An Outfit
This meme has been floating around the bloggyverse, thanks to Ange’s linkup at Hairspray and High Heels! You know I can’t resist a linkup, guys, even if my outfit for my blog is probably something really mundane like the clothes I wore to Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash out in Red Bank, NJ: So…
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Drinking at the Movies
In the introduction to her book Drinking at the Movies, cartoonist Julia Wertz asserts that “the last thing New York needs is yet another ‘idealistic young’un moves to the big city and really gets put through the ringer before she beats the odds and makes it big!’ story.” WRONG. Drinking at the Movies is the…
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Poppin' Tags
I first discovered the local Salvation Army in high school. I found this red dress for $16 and I was hooked. Back then, money was incredibly tight, as was my personal style. I stuck rigidly to the tomboy persona I wanted to portray and desperately tried to disappear into my surroundings. I coveted faded, neutral…
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New Things
So this isn’t so much all NEW things. I would call this list “Something old, something new, something borrowed” because the something blue is ME! Winter keeps dragging on with no end in sight and I am SICK OF IT. So here’s what I’m using to get through: SOMETHING OLD: I have become re-addicted to…
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Pumpkin Curry
You know me, you know I never cook! NEVER! That is, unless I really want to apologize impress. I meant IMPRESS! And this recipe is easy enough to accomplish with minimal skill and maximum recalcitrance. Uh, I meant PIZZAZZ! It’s a vegan adaptation of a soup I found through The Food Network. Thicker and more…
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Batman: Death of the Family
AAAAHHHHH the infamous Batman: Death of the Family !!! As you can see from the cover of this hardbound collection, this is one intense and disgusting ride. It has a dust-cover of a mask of the Joker’s face, covering the actual cover revealing all the viscera because, in case you didn’t know, the Joker has…
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Black Hole
Since it is currently Will Eisner Week, I thought I’d let you guys in on a graphic novel that I just read that absolutely broke my heart: Set in the ’70s in suburban Seattle, Black Hole follows a group of teenagers navigating the tricky nuances of young love and romance during an outbreak of an…
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Not Hiding Under The Covers
There’s been a lot said lately, for one reason or another, about how brief life is. Friends, family, all dwelling on the idea of acting now while there’s still time because nothing is guaranteed. And then somebody called me “fearless.” FEARLESS. I quite like the word. Is it fearless to chase what you want regardless…
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My Friend Dahmer
OVER the weekend, I devoured Derf Backderf’s My Friend Dahmer – almost quicker than I would have liked! This intimate portrait of the young serial killer is at once sympathetic to his unfortunate circumstances and condemning of his actions. TO be totally honest, I have been having dreams about high school for days since I finished…
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Get Lucky
During my second tattoo session last summer, I was starting to go loopy from the pain. I looked up at a statue of the lucky waving cats hovering over me like a watchful angel and mused: “I wonder what they’re called…” “It’s a maneki-neko.” my artist replied. “Maneki-neko?” I repeated. Over and over. Trust me…
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I Give Good Bedhead
Sleep troubles over! I have been sleeping through the night! And as a reward: Epic bedhead. It’s almost as if all of my subconscious worries are exiting my brain through the roots of my hair, like the snakes off Medusa’s head. Or maybe I’m trying to be super metal.
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Things I Love Thursday: Jack Kirby
If I asked you to name three famous superheroes off the top of your head… Chances are, none of those would be Jack Kirby creations. But, if I asked you to name three more, and three more, and three more…we could go on and on naming the famous faces Jack Kirby has added to the…
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Bo Knows Comedy
Bo Burnham is not only adorable. He’s also hysterical. Bo Burnham’s standup special “what.” is available to stream instantly on The Netflix. It’s also on YouTube if you’re a Luddite and don’t believe in Netflix, but I don’t want to spoil anything for you. Basically, it’s avant-garde, hilarious, and probably incredibly offensive. But it’s the…
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Charles the Great
This Valentine’s Day, Cupid brought us a little heartbreak. Our sweet family pet of almost fifteen years, Charlie, passed away peacefully at home. From Christmas – he hated having his photo taken. You have to catch him asleep! Our family just became a little smaller and a lot sadder. There is nothing quite like losing…
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We Need To Have A Conversation
HAPPY VALENTIMES DAY! I love Valentine’s Day SO MUCH. It might be my favourite holiday, after Halloween, of course! Both holidays having strong associations to candy…hmm… And speaking of CANDY, it just wouldn’t be Valentine’s Day without those chalky little hearts with tacky sayings on them! Oh, everyone loves to hate on Conversation Hearts, just…
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Things I Love Thursday: Coffee vs. Tea
With tomorrow being Valentime’s Day and all, today’s battle for beverage supremacy is near and dear to my heart. Coffee will always be my first love. When I wake up, my first act of consciousness is to start the percolation of a pot of coffee. That first warm, dark sip restores my humanity. Any reluctance…
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The Epic Shrug / Bolero / Shawl
Fee fi fo fum, Yes, I’m a Pinterest troll. While trolling the Pinterest, I saw this beautiful multi-way shawl / shrug / bolero thing in denizgunes’s Etsy shop : And it looked easy enough. ^ and those were her famous last words. But, having a shit-ton of time on my hands and with the weather…
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“Net” Your Average Love Story
Has anyone noticed that Netflix seems…a little different these days? That all of our standby romantic comedies of the Meg Ryan ouevre are suddenly missing? With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, what are we supposed to watch, swaddled in flannel and spooning Ben & Jerry’s listlessly into our kissless lips? Here are some suggestions…