Author: Faith

• Travel: Marceline and Happy Mother’s Day

  Well, despite a few awful arguments with my horrible mother (alright, alright, happy mother’s day lol), Laota and I had a fairly good day yesterday. We went with the rest of the campaign to Marceline, Missouri – boyhood home of our beloved Walt Disney – for a meet and greet at a car show and [...]

• Video: Suzy (1936)

  So far on VG I haven’t dedicated an entry to one of the most talented women to ever grace the screen, the gorgeous, charismatic and quite tragic Jean Harlow, one of Hollywood’s first blond bombshells who had the ability to make you feel what her character was feeling and empathize with her, which is a [...]

• Doggy News: Little Lilly’s Growing Up

  I’m sure you remember the post I made about a month and a half ago concerning the arrival of an adorable, slightly awful white shepherd pup named Lilly who came to stay with us. The first pictures I posted of her were of a tiny, fluffy white puppy who was scared of her own shadow [...]

• Video: James Franco as Allen Ginsberg (Howl)

  Anyone who knows me knows I’m a huge fan of beat poetry and novels. They had such interesting, sometimes tragic (sometimes not) lives, especially those like Ginsberg who were targeted and marginalized during their lives for rubbing society the wrong way – even if that wrong way seems innocent to us now. Of course there [...]

• Video: Fat Bettie Plus Sized Rockabilly

  I stumbled across a video, and ultimately a website, that piqued my interest today. I think the title of this blog post is misleading, because Fat Bettie can’t be summed up as Rockabilly and it’s not quite Goth. It’s a little retro, a little vintage, very modern and just gorgeous. She’s even coined the term [...]

• Film Reviews: Midnight (1939)

  One of my all-time favorite films is one I’d never seen until this month – a film from 1939 called Midnight, starring the incomparable, hilarious Claudette Colbert and the dashing, handsome and talented Don Ameche as a broke necessity-induced con woman and a love sick cabbie who’s affection leads him on a wild goose chase [...]

• Oh, Lilly Bell – Puppy Extraordinaire

  Yes I know I’m obsessed with Gene Autry, you don’t have to keep bringing it up! Hmm? What’s that you say? Oh, I mentioned a puppy! Right, right, no I was getting there… really. Our little family was just joined by the rowdy-est, sweetest puppy you’ve ever seen, ever. Her name is Lilly (oddly named [...]

• The Case of Cracking The Nutcase – Lesbian Couple Cancel’s Prom?

  Well, there’s some extra crazypants going on in Itawamba County, Mississippi. Apparently Constance McMillen and her girlfriend wanted to attend the prom, and this being Mississippi (where I’m sure you can still find Jim Crow laws on the books if you look hard enough), the school was so appalled by the idea of lesbians attending [...]

• Rant: ‘Pin-up Hair in Under Five Minutes!’

  I’m having an issue. So, what else is new, Faith? You always have something to bitch about! Listen, voice in my head! I’ve got a legitimate gripe here! And that gripe is about the fact that 1940s vintage hairstyle tutorials are as numerous on the internet as grains of sand upon the earth, but precious [...]