Breakfast
Monday, March 1, 2010
Birthday Wish List
I couldn't help myself....
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I've wanted this for a while now, and I don't know why I haven't grabbed one yet. This particular print is cool because it is super cheap and in B/W. But yeah, it's the closest thing to an inspirational poster that I will ever want/work on me.
WANT WANT WANT omg yes. I mean don't get me wrong, getting a new bottle of Miss Dior Cherie would be rockin, but this stuff is mad delicious cute smelling. Unfortunately it is pretty freaking expensive for a girl who is barely making rent this month.
Black lace tights... or just any black tights that I can rip up. Spring is fading in and I'll be able to wear skirts again, and believe it or not, this girl needs some more black on her body.
Storm troop Sneakers: Fuck yeah.
Although the Death Star ones are pretty rad as well....
This Tshirt would be the best re-formatted as a razor back. I gotta be gettin one. Fo raelz.
All these friggen boots (in size 7.5/8!)so I can cover them in spikes and studs....
Sigerson Morrison
Aldo
Jeff Campbell
Pour La Victoire
This top from Banana Republic... so pretty, I don't care if it makes me look fat.
A tattoo by Amanda Wachob
And I guess a cake. maybe... yeah
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I've wanted this for a while now, and I don't know why I haven't grabbed one yet. This particular print is cool because it is super cheap and in B/W. But yeah, it's the closest thing to an inspirational poster that I will ever want/work on me.
WANT WANT WANT omg yes. I mean don't get me wrong, getting a new bottle of Miss Dior Cherie would be rockin, but this stuff is mad delicious cute smelling. Unfortunately it is pretty freaking expensive for a girl who is barely making rent this month.
Black lace tights... or just any black tights that I can rip up. Spring is fading in and I'll be able to wear skirts again, and believe it or not, this girl needs some more black on her body.
Storm troop Sneakers: Fuck yeah.
Although the Death Star ones are pretty rad as well....
This Tshirt would be the best re-formatted as a razor back. I gotta be gettin one. Fo raelz.
All these friggen boots (in size 7.5/8!)so I can cover them in spikes and studs....
Sigerson Morrison
Aldo
Jeff Campbell
Pour La Victoire
This top from Banana Republic... so pretty, I don't care if it makes me look fat.
A tattoo by Amanda Wachob
And I guess a cake. maybe... yeah
Floooorrrida
My mom got a super sweet del on a condo in Daytona for last week, so my parents, my sister Bebe and I went down to the sunshine state and avoided the snow storms for a week. It was killer.
There were only a couple days hot enough to chill on the beach/by the pool for for the rest of the trip we went sight seeing.
My Mom is a big NASCAR fan, so we went to the Daytona 500 race track/museum and even though I don't really like NASCAR (it's so wasteful, this sorta thing could only be legal in the US) it was actually really fun. We watchedone of those iMaxey 3d films and all that 200mph driving in 3d made me really sick, but I can see how going to one of these races owuld be super exciting and fun, plus you get to party with all those party-tastic billies.
We also visited St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States. Apparently this Spainish dude named Ponce De Leon was all lookin for the fountain of youth over here in the swamps, and used the discovery to spurr some sort of settlement.
Another totally rockin happening was the fact that we saw a butt-ton of right whales churning up the water from our condo. Apparently they are endangered, but they will migrate over there every 20 years and sometimes Floridians can catch a glimpse of them. I don't know if yall know how much I love whales, but I do. They are rad. Right whales are prolly the ugliest of the bunch, but still rad none the less. We can't all be orcas and sperm whales, I guess.
and lastly, and totally awesomely we went to the Kennedy Space Center. I don't really know where to start with this one because it was just too filled with win to list everything, but you can understand my excitement, I'm sure.
There were only a couple days hot enough to chill on the beach/by the pool for for the rest of the trip we went sight seeing.
My Mom is a big NASCAR fan, so we went to the Daytona 500 race track/museum and even though I don't really like NASCAR (it's so wasteful, this sorta thing could only be legal in the US) it was actually really fun. We watchedone of those iMaxey 3d films and all that 200mph driving in 3d made me really sick, but I can see how going to one of these races owuld be super exciting and fun, plus you get to party with all those party-tastic billies.
We also visited St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States. Apparently this Spainish dude named Ponce De Leon was all lookin for the fountain of youth over here in the swamps, and used the discovery to spurr some sort of settlement.
Another totally rockin happening was the fact that we saw a butt-ton of right whales churning up the water from our condo. Apparently they are endangered, but they will migrate over there every 20 years and sometimes Floridians can catch a glimpse of them. I don't know if yall know how much I love whales, but I do. They are rad. Right whales are prolly the ugliest of the bunch, but still rad none the less. We can't all be orcas and sperm whales, I guess.
and lastly, and totally awesomely we went to the Kennedy Space Center. I don't really know where to start with this one because it was just too filled with win to list everything, but you can understand my excitement, I'm sure.
WISE Mission- Fuck Yeah
Kay so check it- ya know how we see stuff within this tiny portion of the light spectrum?
Visible light is a tiny section of that chart. It's tiny. Soooo the smart pants over at NASA are taking infrared photos on the space land so that we can start to see more of what's out there. Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is grabbing rocktacular images for us, and here are a few of what we are now able to see... (click to make big)
This is Andromeda, also called M31, is 2.5 million light-years away, and is the nearest large neighbor to our Milky Way galaxy. (12-micron light has been color coded orange, and 22-micron light, red).
Here is some more Andromeda.
(from the NASA webzorz): The immense Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 or simply M31, is captured in full in this new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The mosaic covers an area equivalent to more than 100 full moons, or five degrees across the sky. WISE used all four of its infrared detectors to capture this picture (3.4- and 4.6-micron light is colored blue; 12-micron light is green; and 22-micron light is red). Blue highlights mature stars, while yellow and red show dust heated by newborn, massive stars.
Andromeda is the closest large galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy, and is located 2.5 million light-years from our sun. It is close enough for telescopes to spy the details of its ringed arms of new stars and hazy blue backbone of older stars. Also seen in the mosaic are two satellite galaxies, known as M32, located just a bit above Andromeda to the left of center, and the fuzzy blue M110, located below the center of the great spiral arms. These satellites are the largest of several that are gravitationally bound to Andromeda.
The Andromeda galaxy is larger than our Milky Way and contains more stars, but the Milky Way is thought to perhaps have more mass due to its larger proportion of a mysterious substance called dark matter. Both galaxies belong to our so-called Local Group, a collection of more than 50 galaxies, most of which are tiny dwarf systems. In its quest to map the whole sky, WISE will capture the entire Local Group.
aaannd one more kuz its pwety...
Click Here to see more images from WISE
Visible light is a tiny section of that chart. It's tiny. Soooo the smart pants over at NASA are taking infrared photos on the space land so that we can start to see more of what's out there. Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is grabbing rocktacular images for us, and here are a few of what we are now able to see... (click to make big)
This is Andromeda, also called M31, is 2.5 million light-years away, and is the nearest large neighbor to our Milky Way galaxy. (12-micron light has been color coded orange, and 22-micron light, red).
Here is some more Andromeda.(from the NASA webzorz): The immense Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 or simply M31, is captured in full in this new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The mosaic covers an area equivalent to more than 100 full moons, or five degrees across the sky. WISE used all four of its infrared detectors to capture this picture (3.4- and 4.6-micron light is colored blue; 12-micron light is green; and 22-micron light is red). Blue highlights mature stars, while yellow and red show dust heated by newborn, massive stars.
Andromeda is the closest large galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy, and is located 2.5 million light-years from our sun. It is close enough for telescopes to spy the details of its ringed arms of new stars and hazy blue backbone of older stars. Also seen in the mosaic are two satellite galaxies, known as M32, located just a bit above Andromeda to the left of center, and the fuzzy blue M110, located below the center of the great spiral arms. These satellites are the largest of several that are gravitationally bound to Andromeda.
The Andromeda galaxy is larger than our Milky Way and contains more stars, but the Milky Way is thought to perhaps have more mass due to its larger proportion of a mysterious substance called dark matter. Both galaxies belong to our so-called Local Group, a collection of more than 50 galaxies, most of which are tiny dwarf systems. In its quest to map the whole sky, WISE will capture the entire Local Group.
aaannd one more kuz its pwety...
Click Here to see more images from WISE
Friday, February 19, 2010
Don't worry, baby
Someday, that ship will come in, and everything will be beautiful again.
beautiful and salty.
beautiful and salty.
Monday, February 15, 2010
ManLady.... Hawt
So I've been all pumped about this new season of RuPaul's Drag Race, btut holy crap I forgot how hot Jade from season 1 is as a boy... holy crap... so yeah, been watching all the extras... I can't stop...
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
Italian Death Tour
I seriously need to go to all these places. Anyone else got the cash and stomach for it?
Anatomical Museum "Paolo Gorini" in Lodi
Museo Storico Nazionale dell'Arte Sanitaria (Rome)
"Luigi Rolando" Human Anatomy Museum (Turin)
Anatomical Museum "Taruffi" in Bologna
Anatomical Museum "Seconda Università" in Napoli
Anatomical Museum in Modena
San Severo Chapel Museum (Naples)
"The chapel also displays two early examples of what was long thought to be a form of plastination in its basement. These "anatomical models" (macchine anatomiche) were thought to be examples of the process of "human metallization" (metallizzazione umana) as implemented by anatomist Giuseppe Salerno ca. 1760 from a commission by Raimondo di Sangro. The exhibit consists of a mature male and a pregnant woman. Their skeletons are encased in the hardened arteries and veins which are colored red and blue respectively. Previously, historians have surmised that the corpses could have been created by injecting the hardening substances directly into the veins of living subjects.[4] However, recent analysis shows no evidence of techniques involving injection. Analysis of the "blood vessels" indicate they are constructed of beeswax, iron wire, and silk."
Capucin Catacombs (Palermo)
"Over 8000 dead bodies staring back at you, that's what this unexpected destination has to offer. From the beginning of the 16th century Capucin monks started mummifying bodies of the local gentry and put them in the cave under the monastery. All the dead still wear their daily life clothes, uniforms etc which makes the place even spookier than other catacombs.
Divided into different sections according to the rank the person held in life, one of the most curious being the section of girls who died as virgin, and who for this ragion go to heaven straight away.
The 4 year old girl who died in the beginning of the 19th century is another highlight. She looks almost alive."
And of course Nautilus in Torino where they just have a buttload of medical oddity funtime equipment and whatnot....
Anatomical Museum "Paolo Gorini" in Lodi
Museo Storico Nazionale dell'Arte Sanitaria (Rome)
"Luigi Rolando" Human Anatomy Museum (Turin)
Anatomical Museum "Taruffi" in Bologna
Anatomical Museum "Seconda Università" in Napoli
Anatomical Museum in Modena
San Severo Chapel Museum (Naples)
"The chapel also displays two early examples of what was long thought to be a form of plastination in its basement. These "anatomical models" (macchine anatomiche) were thought to be examples of the process of "human metallization" (metallizzazione umana) as implemented by anatomist Giuseppe Salerno ca. 1760 from a commission by Raimondo di Sangro. The exhibit consists of a mature male and a pregnant woman. Their skeletons are encased in the hardened arteries and veins which are colored red and blue respectively. Previously, historians have surmised that the corpses could have been created by injecting the hardening substances directly into the veins of living subjects.[4] However, recent analysis shows no evidence of techniques involving injection. Analysis of the "blood vessels" indicate they are constructed of beeswax, iron wire, and silk."
Capucin Catacombs (Palermo)
"Over 8000 dead bodies staring back at you, that's what this unexpected destination has to offer. From the beginning of the 16th century Capucin monks started mummifying bodies of the local gentry and put them in the cave under the monastery. All the dead still wear their daily life clothes, uniforms etc which makes the place even spookier than other catacombs.
Divided into different sections according to the rank the person held in life, one of the most curious being the section of girls who died as virgin, and who for this ragion go to heaven straight away.
The 4 year old girl who died in the beginning of the 19th century is another highlight. She looks almost alive."
And of course Nautilus in Torino where they just have a buttload of medical oddity funtime equipment and whatnot....
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