It's Prom Time !!

My neighbors are Promtastic!
I've giving a 20% discount in my shop for Prom Ticket holders........Here's a few things....lots more is coming out in the next 2 days.....






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Register to vote, Where to vote, Eat Pie

Here's where to go for Where's My Pierce County Voting Place Dude...and I need to change my address/register to vote.....links. Please notice that the WA website at the Secty of State page has a nice big graphic for online voting needs.............But...It took me more than 3 minutes to find Pierce county's website link, from the home page of P.County........ just to Get my polling place address...but I'd like to take this moment to remind you that Pierce County begins with Pie........yummmy!

hey Webmaster....Why'd ya hide the link......Once you get to the Pierce county voting page....I got there by putting "vote" in the search box from the main page, & then I got a long list of polling places, but over on the upper right hand side is the link to find your place. It's convoluted, and mappy.....so geeky. If you are old, and don't do computers, good luck finding it. Hey, not everyone is a 29 year old whiz kid. This technology is not friendly to those of us who are um, old school. Chew on dat, Chew on Dat.

Official Autumn Time....

The air is clear...the leaves are brittle jewels ....and pumpkins and chrysanthemums glow.....my favorite time of year.....Fall clothes...Halloweeeeeen !
Much new stuff in the shop.....for your body, for the upcoming holiday.....
and for your home.....

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Spend Local, Ink Focal

Yup this is what gals in their 50s do for fun!....here's some shots of me n Polly in Dreamer's Chant Tattoo.....


when the email slide comes up just click the little X on the top right side.

The prettiest Kimono.....

Found in a local estate.....I don't know how it got to Tacoma...I don't know the story.....

What Tacoman was in Japan in the 20s? A sailor? A merchant? A tourist?

Now on ebay........

Silk Floral Flapper 20s Taisho Romance Art Deco Kimono

Beautiful bright colors of hot pink, golden chartreuse, cornflower blue and black in a floral and foliage design. Taisho Romance style.

When looking at Japan’s long history, it’s easy to consider the brief 14 years of the Taisho period (1912-26) as a mere footnote. The emperor, Yoshihito, did not play an active role due to a lifetime of ill health. Yet during his brief reign, he sat as figurehead of a country reeling between the onslaught of foreign influences during the Meiji period and the radical conservatism and patriotic fervor that grew before World War II. In fact, the Taisho period was a fascinating and pivotal time,
an amalgam of contradictory social forces of East and West that saw the Japanese question their self-identity. Much of this was poignantly reflected in the lifestyles, fashion and arts of the time.
http://metropolis.co.jp/tokyo/687/art.asp

on ebay

click 70s chick to take you to ebay

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Funkoma Vintage....712 Broadway

daily -- noon to 7(ish)

What's new in the shop?
Tons! Long Angel wing 70s dress,
Mini Trench coat, Cocoa puffs coat, Adidas, bow blouse, vests, High waist jeans, Sailor jeans, plaid pants, kitchen mixers, woodsy owl and wildlife print dress,
boots boots boots, tiger coat, leopard coat, fluffy faux fur jacket, big crinolines, Prom and Party dresses….and vintage vinyl, bikes…….and more more more……..

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Arrrgh ! Talk Like A Pirate Day......

hey matey.....funkoma can never be too Pirate...so she celebrates Talk Like A Pirate Day by getting a new tattoo......at Dreamer's Chant Tattoo....





Last night, September's 3rd Thursday Artwalk,

Avast !!!!

t' music was great.....ye Folksingers In Hell

sang smartly about fancy yuppies and drug addicts Shanghai'd in New Tacoma.......ye Bilge rats that didn't crawl outa yer smelly bunks...

ye missed the Grog and the fine snackies.....Don't worry ye scurvy dogs.....and wharf rats.....ye favorite pirates on Broadway be puttin' on

another fine revue......hopin' David & Heidi will lower their standards and play for ye again............Arrrrr!!!

this has little to do with Pirates or Folksingers In Hell...I just like it......

funkoma/amocat + folksingers in hell

a repost of a post...bloggy style.....
so you blog, eh? Wish you had your own Tacoma-Centric theme song?
David Fewster has answered your call of anguish.....we know you labor in the dark....clickity everyday.....and BONUS.....he homages our beloved Exit133.......It does not get any cooler..any more Tacoma than that......
Clicky the YouTube linky and listen to David sing.....and his daughter Hannah blog.....with whiteout.....it's all very chiaroscuro.......

David Fewster and song partner Heidi Fosner are the most exciting and gritty...Tacoma doomish-cheerleaders.....if you love Tacoma, you can not call your self, your bad self a real life Tacoman or Tacomawoman.....or Tacomakid until you've listened to Folksingers In Hell.....
Just as you love Teddy and bro Leonard Haggerty, artists and karaoke entrepreneurs....extraordinaire.....who have brought Tacoma to life in scratch paper and song.......these folks are the real deal........
No faux-urban pioneers....you know.......the kind that are more Fit than Grit......
Folksingers In Hell are not Sanitized For Your Protection!
Though mostly child-safe......
And Fewster and Heidi sing of our dysfunctional families, drug rehab blues..sans ciggies...at St. Joes..........
So get busy......
Do you truck up to Frost Park to see/be/do The Big Chalk Off every Friday noonish?
I bet you do....
So don't be a Tacoma poseur....
This is the real thing.....Like Girl Trouble........
You chose Tacoma because it isn't pretentious and the real estate prices are doable....
Folksingers In Hell and Fewster and Spawn are both unpretentious and quite doable!!!
Maybe you saw them at First Night 2008.........
Maybe you saw them at the recent Train Fest.......
So see them now....Leave a comment.... Support the Local Arts..
GO LOCAL....
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