but I'd seen him many times, because this is a tiny town. But many people I love and do know...did know Brian Redman and are grieving and so so sad... Thinking of how hard death can be for the young to know.... and how music releases.... that art always soothes...and excites...and forgives....
This poem came to mind...I find it comforting....composed by a transplant who graced the Northwest as a poet... Theodore Roethke...himself an iconoclast...supremely talented..... wrote
The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know? I hear my being dance from ear to ear. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you? God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there, And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how? The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair; I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do To you and me, so take the lively air, And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go.
Mark and I went and liberated some bricks at the other end of the parking lot on Commerce...and I built a border, and filled it with a blend of chicken shit, compost and dirt...plus the dirt that had blown in to this little space from years and years ago.
It's the remnants of a parking strip, at the entrance of a building that was torn down...I don't know exactly how long ago...about 25 years at least. So, a small maple had rooted in the 3" deep soil, a few butterfly bushes, some blackberries, and those ferns that are all connected to each other trailing off to whereever they want to pop up...
I planted nasturtium seeds....maybe a bit late for them frosty-wise, but we'll see. 70+ narcissus bulbs...a few pansies, a few johnny-jump-ups, and 4 winter kale. I tossed some alyssum seeds over the dirt...I'll still add in some dusty miller...
If it's still here...if it isn't destroyed by vandals or the City of Tacoma (replacing the sidewalks for the rich yuppies)...I'll add primroses as soon as they become available...
Glen added a broken china Little Colonel...he's headless and has only one arm. I think he's just fine....a wounded veteran...spending his last days at Tressies Vets Home............ just like where I grew up..... this is what I do...Make Chicken Soup...out of Chicken Shit.
The Woman Who just won't go away...like that little paper cut at the end of your pointing finger, the one you use 1000 times a day... Yes, Sarah Palin, The Painful Hemorrhoid of Politics, Proof Positive, that just because someone is in possession of a twat, it doesn't make them... a) Smart
b)Kind
c)Trustworthy
If you gotta Do Sarah one more time this year...Please, the more we hold her kind up to ridicule the less power these morons will have over us.... You Must See This !! listed by seller buddhagouda at etsy!
and it is now 12:32 am..sept 24. wtf? totally on the natch. cause I don't do drugs. vodka is not a drug. it is elixir to make you smart. You. Smart.
K. Here is what's new in funkoma world... Amazingly ludicrisly soft. Lolita Lempicka alpaca wool blend coat..with a scarf...cape...thing... check it out!
Told Ya! yes it's on etsy. Can you tell I have a new camera and some new lights? Yes. Much better. I told you I can learn. That only took um, a few years. Man I miss my northern light ManRoom.(last picture) k. now I'm tired. back later with a story about a gal that bought a dress from me on etsy, within ......oh, 2 hours of listing it! WTG! Automne !
The heydey of the glamorous nightclub scene was the 30s through the 50s.... and Sanford and Son Antiques here on Broadway is hosting a costume prom on Saturday the 19th of September....got your tickets Tacoma?
the Copacabana was a famous New York City nightclub where many great entertainers got their start. It's a world-famous beach in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. And, it's one of my favorite films, the 1947, Copacabana,....with one of the Marx Brothers, The Sexy Sexy Sexy Sexy Groucho Marx, and fruitaliscious Carmen Miranda!
The glam styles of the 30s were a movie-goer antidote to the depressing Depression....gee, a lot like today! Movies of the 30s featured lavish sets, exotic locales, and lots of gangsters and dames! Snow White, and Bringing Up Baby, and 42nd Street and all the fantastic Ziegfeld Follies movies with stunning aerial shots of limber dancers...by Busby Berkeley. And of course, A Night At The Opera, with the sexy sexy sexy sexy Groucho, and his brothers.
The 30s were known for big puffy sleeves, slinky bias cuts that hug the body like a second skin....fitted bodices and full skirts. For the men, well, peaked lapels, pinstripes and brocade smoking jackets were the rage for fancy wear.
In my shop I have a few 30s and 40s dresses, an 80s gold gown that is a retro 40s style (a favorite theme of the 70s and 80s), and a modern peaked lapel dinner jacket. And don't forget your Pencil Thin Mustache....
In the 40s we saw long luscious gowns of lace and satin...with a fitted bodice and a long slim skirt or a full skirt.....
This red lace 40s/50s gown is a 38" bust/ 28" waist, and is in my shop by appointment. Rita Hayworth, Veronica Lake, and Lauren Bacall are a few of the glam and sexy 40s ladies whose style we can emulate today.
In the 50s men's fashion was a nice easy fit jacket and pleated slacks. A Linen suit or just a cream or white dinner jacket is always appropriate. Pair a rayon hot color Hawaiian shirt with a pair of creamy linen slacks, a pair of huraches and a straw hat and you got the luxurious tropical Rio beach rich playboy look...going on!
Tux shirts and a tux jacket are superb also. Top it with a fedora and you are stylin' !! Don't forget a fat period tie...the 30s through the 50s sported some wild geometrics, brocades and deep weird colors. Here's some in my shop...
Wanna go all out for a 30s/40s look? Add a fur coat ! Real or fake... Here's a full length paired with a 40s style 80s satin dress....and a white 40s style fake fur!
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
In just a few weeks it will be Autumn 2009....a few nights ago...was a tremendously buttercream full moon.....a preview of the true Harvest Moon...up in the sky.....
and the cold and the rains and the fogs will come........ and clear cold blue skies.... a crunchy leaves of russet, gold, burgundy, and orange.... A few fall items listed now and lots more to come in the next few days...
