Jane

I discover that Mark Twain has a rather intense dislike for Jane Austen, and in turn I feel a little happy. Does this constitute as 'Cause and effect' ? 


Mark Twain on Austen: 


"Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity they allowed her to die a natural death."


"Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it."

Monday, yeah.

Me Judy has been trying to get to put my emotions on paper, for about 2 years now.
So here I go.

This one's entitled: “Oops, may I get my 2B pencil back. Please”.

Friday dreaming and scheming

 

So I have a wedding of one of the bestie's coming up the 1st week end of November. I was over the moon when I read the dress code is VINTAGE FORMAL. The most favorite dress code of this bearded lady.

Being a vintage girl I have a rather large collection of vintage  from hand stitched 1940's to crimplene 60 large print dresses - so outfit choice should be easy right? Well sadly no.

All the vino imbibing (most of it with R.Brown) has left me far from a flat tomboyish tum & peach tight arse. So back to the wardrobe drawing board. Do I make something up? Or do I buy? A lengthy Google search for vintage Chanel, then Dior, Westwood, De La Renta, (you get the general idea) the decision is to perhaps buy a rare vintage dress.

Every time I think I've whittle down the choices, enter a few  more...
Choice will have to be made according to wallet.

Finance plan 1: Lap Dancing

Blue Dior

Then red Dior

The black Dior 

 

 Black De La Renta

Vivi Westwood

DIe Antwoord's latest vid: Evil Boy

 

Fabulous production.

Die Antwoord is doing us proud on the international scene. Yolandi Visser was asked to be the skinny-arsed-bitch Slander character in the movie version of "Girl with a Dragon tattoo", which she turned down - I guess it wasn't zef enough.

More Miso works: Tchusse

Love this installation piece.

 

Pedo Religion...

I saw this sign on the way home. Had to double back to get a shot of it. How much did Jesus love the children?

Oliver Tambo

Oliver Tambo is a South African icon. Someone who's life inspired millions. And now we can add a fashion inspiration...he is my new gog inspiration. He really knew how to rock a pair of gogs!
Maybe I'll find my frames now if I ask for Oliver Tambo looking frames...

Dear Wish list please would you send me this book?

 

I have a very extensive wish list on www.loot.co.za. 

It's a South African site with really great books at VERY reasonable prices. And they send you mails whenever their is a price change on anything on your Wish List. I like this feature of this site, but sometimes it acts as a annoying reminder of what I can't afford, yet. Sigh.

This book features the works of: Abbas, Reza Aramesh, Shirin Neshat, Parastou Forouhar, Abbas Kiarostami, Kaveh Golestan, Amirali Ghasemi, and Shadi Ghadirian.

World Kindness Day

Yes, can you believe that there is a World Kindness Day? My kind friend Cyndi, who has a lion act at the Dog And Pony, has just informed me of this. About 15 Countries and various companies have joined and they are doing all sorts random acts of Kindness all over the show.

What will you be doing on the 13th November to make this world a little kinder? 

http://www.worldkindness.org.sg/

"Come 13 November marks the World Kindness Day, and many member countries are organising Kindness activities to celebrate this day. The idea behind the World Kindness Movement (WKM) crystallised at a conference in Tokyo in 1997 when the Small Kindness Movement of Japan brought together like-minded kindness movements from around the world. The WKM was officially launched in Singapore on 18 November 2000 at the 3rd WKM Conference. The mission of the WKM is to inspire individuals towards greater kindness and to connect nations to create a kinder world."  For further kindness inspiration also see  http://1000umbrellas.org/ Have a good day

On rejection...

Honeybunny happy news

This little bit of happiness flickered off 19h00 news last night. So I thought "what a jolly thing to get involved in". 

Mary Honeybun is a duckie from Noordhoek, Cape Town,  who founded & organizes the charity  'Bread Tags for Wheelchairs'.

It's a project through which people collect those pesky plastic tags found on top bread bags, to raise funds for this charity project. Dosh from the recycling goes towards buying wheelchairs for the less fortunate.

 

The amount of bread tags collected for a new wheelchair varies, but we are aiming for 800 000 – 1 million which equates to the value of a basic wheelchair. That’s 270 kg of breadtags.

Currently Mary Honeybun has joined forces with Polystyrene Packaging Council of SA, an NPO.

To Date Ms. Honeybun has helped sponsor 29 wheelchairs. Not even several new hips can stop this lady it seems

So if you'd like to help folks become mobile and gain their independence here is what YOU can do: 

• Collect bread tags from family, friends, colleagues and neighbours

• If you're in the Noordhoek area you can drop them in one of the collection boxes at Noordhoek Farm Village. 

• You can also post your bread tags to PO Box 215, Noordhoek, 7979 or call her on 

021 789 1831

 

A quick thought for the day...

How alright is it to lap dance at somebody's wedding for extra cash? 
Nooo, don't worry you won't gatecrash or any such thing, you're and invited guest.

Makiwa Mutomba

 

Makiwa Mutomba is a Zimbabwean artist living in South Africa. He paints using his palette knife only.

He went on a trip to India recently came back and painted all fifty plus canvases in 6 weeks. The guy knows beauty. He is exhibiting at the KZNSA Gallery with Conrad Botes.

Double treats for the ear missing art lovers.