• Black lace netting and gold glitter eyeshadow and whiskey and dancing at White Ghost Shivers
• Hiding my giggles when my 8th grade class recalled that David Bowie fought at the Alamo
• Eating cacao/goji/almond/energy chunks, sunflower sprouts and grape kombucha
• Putting some much needed hippy magic into my day
• Making 18 vegan pizzas from scratch for my collective and then eating them on my rooftop
• Petting the poppy blossoms in the front of the McSweeny’s reading on SoCo
• Planning to save the youth of Austin with harebrained vegetable eating schemes (anyone want to fund my restaurant idea/dream?)
• Pinpointing exactly when to have Hello Kitty (aka me dressed up in a giant HK suit) visit my job
• Bike dates… Ice cream dates… Figs/Dates… Accordian dates

“The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze,” from It Happened One Night (1934)
This movie was one of the first 1930s movies I ever saw and I instantly fell in love with the whole era! I love this clip because it’s when Claudette first starts to look at Clark with a certain *look* and the chemistry sails sky high. I also love the community knit on this bus -with everyone bobbing along to the fiddle and joining in on the singing. There’s a certain hollowness to this feeling, but I hope that paradise is a bus full of strangers heading to different destinations, all singing in unison to the maladroit lyrics.

This is a clip of Claudette Colbert in 1982 saluting Frank Capra. Isn’t she a doll?
Speaking of sassy older women, here is one of the most important fashion blogs:Advanced Style. Of course it’s easy for 22 year olds with $450 pair of Miu Miu shoes and tiny thighs take cute photos – but these Advanced Style gals have true gusto. My friend Tony once forecasted that I would grow up to be an old lady with a purple mohawk with crooked fingers and lipstick on my teeth. I can only hope so!

1. Old Snapshot School Play, 2. Claudette Colbert, 3. flapper peacock, 4. the follies sisters, 5. Vanity Fair- It Happened One Night, 6. Betty Compson, movie actress, 1922, 7. anatomical phrenology, 8. Herringbone-stitch, 9. Henry Darger Wrist Cuff