A fairy tale told by a naughty girl

I am going to bundle up, wander around and stare at the sky for...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:29:26 -0500

I am going to bundle up, wander around and stare at the sky for a while. I think…I need to see something bigger than me, my holiday cookies…my mother. I need something vast and unfathomable that may or may not even see me blinking at it from lifetimes away. Some perspective. Or maybe something that will creep into my bones and distract me with freaky thoughts of cosmic horror. Until tomorrow, then.

Boundary Waters Blogger: 1/1/09 - 2/1/09

It is brutally cold this evening. I had big plans to get...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:17:00 -0500

It is brutally cold this evening. I had big plans to get started on a Christmas cookies extravaganza, but I seem to be dragging my feet…lost in thought. I suppose these cookies won’t bake themselves, so I’d best get started. Although…sometimes I wonder if it even matters, anyway; I have been doing this since my early twenties - baking cookies for family and friends every holiday season …one week-end in December, from sun up to sundown…100s of cookies, and you know…I bet most of them get thrown away anyway. Who am I really doing this for, I wonder?

Winter night sky image by Jaxom92 on Photobucket

I had a conversation with my sister today, in which the subject...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:55:00 -0500

I had a conversation with my sister today, in which the subject of our mother came up (or “your” mother, as we refer to her when speaking with each other). She is…troubled. She is the crazy cat lady that you see on the anytown 11 o’clock news, she is a recluse who does not drive, and in other news…it turns out her liver is shot. She is a recovering alcoholic - 11 years sober - but it’s really too late. No one is saying that, yet that was the entire unspoken thread of our conversation. I feel like I’ve been prepared for this since I was 11 years old, and yet I still feel like I can’t catch my breath, I can’t breathe. I hardly ever speak with her, but so much of her is wrapped up in who I am.

I feel like my heart is breaking for her…she’s become so pitiful…this woman who never got to be the best version…or even a good version of herself. And I hate myself for even thinking such a thing.

image viaWinter stars Photobucket (this photo has nothing to do with my thoughts…I just wanted to see something beautiful

(ghoulnextdoor says) Oh my sweet lord, I have not! ...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:36:47 -0500

(ghoulnextdoor says) Oh my sweet lord, I have not! “BLOODTHIRSTY PIANOS! This sounds like a trip, thanks for bringing it to my attention!

reblogged from:kittyflop:

GhoulNextDoor - have you seen this?

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Nobuhiko Obayashi, Japan 1977, 87 min

“How to describe Nobuhiko Obayahshi’s 1977 movie House? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby Doo as directed by Dario Argento? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home, only to come face to face with evil spirits, bloodthirsty pianos, and a demonic housecat. Too absurd to be genuinely terrifying, yet too nightmarish to be merely comic, House seems like it was beamed to Earth from another planet. Or perhaps the mind of a child: the director fashioned the script after the eccentric musings of his eleven-year-old daughter, then employed all the tricks in his analog arsenal (mattes, animation, and collage) to make them a visually astonishing, raucous reality. Never before released in the United States, and a bona fide cult classic in the making, House is one of the most exciting genre discoveries in years.”

-C.

Lady Time mandates that I eat an entire bag of cheddar kettle...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:20:00 -0500

Lady Time mandates that I eat an entire bag of cheddar kettle corn and wash it down with three glasses of white wine. I am maybe or maybe not going to curl up and cry about that now. Sorry to be such a cliché.

image via 584: ; I think the artist is the Tsai-Fi folks or Junko Mizuno or someone like that. The blogger didn’t list an image source.

(ghoulnextdoor says) I would love to be wrapped in a blanket, in...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:41:47 -0500

(ghoulnextdoor says) I would love to be wrapped in a blanket, in my pajamas with a hot toddy, peering through those windows at this very moment.

reblogged from:crashinglybeautiful:

Kawase Hasui, Farmhouse Under Snowy Trees At Evening - Christmas Card, 1946 (from The Blue Lantern)

The doctor is in. reblogged from: nitescence: lacontessa:...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:51:00 -0500

The doctor is in.

reblogged from:

nitescence:

lacontessa: (via)

True marrow and meaning, revealed

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:00:12 -0500

madame says …

THE river’s tent is broken: the last fingers of leaf
Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind
Crosses the brown land, unheard. The nymphs are departed.

What say you?
Ask, tell, and all will be revealed…

Just The Ghoul Next Door - The moon wishes for a giant star...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:26:59 -0500

Just The Ghoul Next Door - The moon wishes for a giant star cocoon

For a kindred spirit, flutterby3

Lovely! レディライクなアクセントをプラスする、総レースのハンドバッグ－eruca.[エルーカ]－アイテム詳細

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:59:09 -0500

Lovely!

レディライクなアクセントをプラスする、総レースのハンドバッグ－eruca.[エルーカ]－アイテム詳細

Ooh la la! ladywimsey always finds the best scanties! Fleur of...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:51:57 -0500

Ooh la la! ladywimsey always finds the best scanties!

Fleur of England Bow-Tie Brief

You can just barely make out our favorite feature of this pretty bow-tie bikini - and that’s the strip of sheer lace down the back, ruched ever so slightly for the perfect shape. Trust us, this piece is pretty indulgent feeling… pair it with the matching babydoll chemise or boudoir bra.

(via Underwear - Bikinis - Our Favorites - New - Gift Guide - Seriously Sexy - Fleur Of England Bow Tie Brief - Elle Macpherson, Chantelle, La Perla, Huit, Princesse tam tam at Journelle)

“I can’t believe she’s just going to sit there...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:47:12 -0500

“I can’t believe she’s just going to sit there and ignore me…”

Franklin Booth 1874 ~ 1948 Franklin Booth Published by Robert Frank ~ 1925 (via Golden Age Comic Book Stories)

Tee hee! This dude is totally riding a chocobo! Land of Terror...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:44:15 -0500

Tee hee! This dude is totally riding a chocobo!

Land of Terror ~ 1963 (via Golden Age Comic Book Stories)

I bought this book maybe a year and a half ago…I sold it a...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:27:00 -0500

I bought this book maybe a year and a half ago…I sold it a week later because the cover photo creeped me out so much that I could not stand to have it in the house. GAH! Can you just imagine that thing…looking up…and making eye contact with you? I don’t mean… if you were the photographer up on a balcony taking the picture…I mean you, as the reader, seeing that thing, maybe from the corner of your eye, slowly glancing up at you from the book cover.
It had to go!

Ghosts Caught on Film: Photographs of the Paranormal?: Amazon.co.uk: Melvyn Willin: Books

Tee hee! Revenge of College Ghost Stories: Three Final...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:19:14 -0500

Tee hee! Revenge of College Ghost Stories: Three Final Thrillers

Not sure of the image source, if you know, please feel free to clue me in.

A revelation of true marrow and meaning

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:50:00 -0500

Ask, tell…whisper, scream….queries, statements, fears & dreams…

…When I was nine, the starling pecked outside her window ...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:35:06 -0500

…When I was nine, the starling pecked outside her window a whole week.
Somebody’s gonna die, she said -

Judy Jordan

Starling (via Tony Tanoury)

“The north wind doth blow and we shall have snow.”...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:20:11 -0500

“The north wind doth blow and we shall have snow.” Fine Art Print by ElsT

…Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky, That does not bite so...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:13:33 -0500

…Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky,
That does not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As a friend remembered not.

-William Shakespeare

winter wind (via saicode)

Just The Ghoul Next Door - I hope in darkness we can...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:11:09 -0500

Just The Ghoul Next Door - I hope in darkness we can see

…And you’re not blinded By the light from me