Indications it's that time of year

So it seems to me Halloween has arrived. It really is a wonderful time of year. Everywhere you go, you can hear the howling of the season as werewolves and vampires bask in the joyfulness of All Hallow's Eve.
There is never at any other time of the year this feeling of camaraderie and unity. When else do you see ghouls and goblins mingling with slutty nurses and bloody corpses? Children and adults alike take to the streets visiting every household with a happy greeting and warm message in return.









Bags bursting with delicious and wonderful gifts become too heavy to carry. What a sight and load to behold.Did I mention the free candy? And the candy on clearance the day after?

It's time to be a man.

It seems like just yesterday when you got a copy of The Dangerous Book for Boys and finally learned how to be a proper boy, doesn't it. Now that you're all grown up and going to college, I think it's high time you learned how to be a proper man as well. While the manboys you may currently know might get secret subscriptions to Esquire which I might add no real man should ever take as a guide since it's the male equivalent of Cosmopolitan- seriously, does any self respecting woman even act like what a "Cosmo" reader seems like?- even if it has some excellent writers on staff. Anyway, I would like to direct your attention to The Art of Manliness, a grown-up version of your beloved book. There are practical articles such as Nice Guys Don’t Have to Finish Last or others that are more up your alley in the seemingly useless life skills category: How to Land a Plane in an Emergency or even The Gentleman's Guide to the Calling Card.

Here's an excerpt from the article Your Grandpas's Babes, an article celebrating the women of yesteryear-
Your grandma? That sweet little old lady that makes you cookies and sends you savings bonds for your birthday? You’re damn right. Your grandpa thought your grandma was a total babe. She was the babe of all babes. Think about it, Jack. If he didn’t think your grandma was a babe, you wouldn’t be reading this article right now. I’m sure the first time gramps saw your sweet little granny looking all cute and perky in her bobby socks and saddle shoes, he gave her the look over, thought “hubba hubba!” and immediately took her to the nearest soda fountain to sip Coca-Cola from one glass with two straws. And even as your grandma got wrinkly and saggy, she stayed beautiful and alluring in his eyes. So here’s to you grandma for being grandpa’s greatest babe.-

Now all you need is to grow some facial hair and you'll be all set.

Vampires are scary

I'm under the impression that I can handle a lot in terms of fear. Rational ones such as rats, bugs, heights, etc. I can deal with well to a certain degree but the one thing I am deathly afraid of is vampires. I would die from fright before I'd even get bitten. My sister and I used to have this joke where we would have a house made of garlic with a secret underground tunnel to a church. The walls would be lined with more garlic, crosses and wooden stakes, of course. I finally watched Interview with a Vampire last week and it showed me three things.

1) A garlic house is useless against a real vampire. We really should just live in a regular house with UV lamps on the outside like Will Smith in I Am Legend.
2) It has me convinced that Tom Cruise is a vampire and suspicions that Antonio Banderas is one as well.
3) A new understanding of the lyrics in Decemberunderground


Any way, You should always be prepared in case of a vampire attack with a Vampire Killing Kit Crosses, wooden stakes, Holy water, this kit has everything you would need if you were to encounter a vampire. Now all you need is a bigger purse to carry it all in.

Freedom to read

Banned Books Week was September 27- October 4. Did you read a banned book? Does anyone else think it's a little silly to ban books?
It strikes me as a method to limit diversity. A lot of times it's through literature that we learn about other worlds and other opinions. Its a way to spread information and cultivate the imagination. When you prevent certain pieces of literature from getting through to other people, their horizon does not expand. The right to choose is a Constitutional one and to choose what books I want to read or not read should be up to me and no one else.

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Remember Nina's pants? I recall her saying you were with her when she bought them. (Her's are white) Susie Bubble has a black pair.

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Korean Spice Girls! aka the Wonder Girls via Disgrasian

Oooh, stuff from other blogs

So I don't have time for this thing. I haven't even had a chance to flip through photos from fashion week(s) yet and it's been a month. But, since it's midterms, I totally have tons of time. I'm going to try to write a bunch of timed post for the future but for now, I bring you stuff other people have already put up.

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The Clothes Horse has recently begun taking her labbit Nasha out on adventures and taking pictures of it too. Currently, she and Nasha are in Greece having a great time. Labbits are more my thing but I guess you'd prefer something like this.

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About a year ago, pictures of a stylish girl were popping up repeatedly on The Sartorialist but no one knew who it was.Eventually, word started to spread that it was Rei, the photographer behind Fruits, a Japanese street style mook. The girls over at Fashionation ecstaticly wrote a post about her. Now it seems that Rei has started posting some unpublished photos on a new blog. The above one is my favorite. She's wearing ankle socks, yet her legs don't look stumpy at all.

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The image on the right combines two of my favorite things to fawn over: cute little boys and elephants!

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I know fashion week(s) is(are) nearly over but I think thes are too good to pass up. Trait has more here and here although I suppose you can try to see all of them at the agency websites.