October 2010
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Oct 29th
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Next week Christmas comes early for me! This book promises to be this fall’s answer to Kelly Cutrone’s If You Have to Cry, Go Outside.  I know everyone is all about Family Ties’ Mallory and her clothes, but Brenda Walsh is where it’s at for me in terms of sartorial choices. She had a flair for the dramatic and a penchant for oversized blazers, henna-hued eyebrows, and...
Oct 29th
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Last year I constructed a Halloween mix that really made me proud. I seamlessly weaved Satanic camp (“Shout at the Devil”, “The Number of the Beast”, “Hells Bells”) with hard and heavy sounds that revel in the macabre (“Monsters in the Parasol”, “Electric Funeral”, “Human Fly”). I added ghoulish classics (“Thriller”, the Misfits’ and the Banshees’ eponymous tributes to the holiday, The Lost Boys’...
Oct 29th
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One Break, Comin' Up!
What a Fool Believes: You have inspired me! What should I do when I want to distract myself from this painfully laborious task of writing a thesis on children’s literature? Look at pics of David Lee Roth! AIRBORNE DAVE! WINDSWEPT DAVE!: CLASSIC DAVE: COY DAVE: “DO NOT WANT BUT I PROBABLY WOULD IF STILL COULD” DAVE “DEFINITELY WANT” DAVE AKA LACANIAN...
Oct 7th
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Oct 7th
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The Bryan Cranston Aquarium
You have to wonder what sort of portent a dream is that consists of viewing a live performance of Bryan Cranston blithely swimming with dolphins while evading the malevolent, aquatic slugs creeping around in the fathoms of a deep and inky manmade pool. The play has no clear narrative: just Cranston wading around with these marine mammals that sometimes are made of their typical gray, slick...
Oct 6th
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