I’m late on the draw for New Year, which is the point of the year when everyone seems to be talking about weight loss and physical fitness. I have every excuse in the world, from 17 hour workdays to grown family who have to be taken care of like they’re children. From no gym membership (or gym), to no sidewalks… (more…)
Tag Archives: 1950s
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 were those who lived common,… (more…)
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"These are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen...these are memoirs of another kind." ~ Sayuri, Memoirs of a Geisha
Welcome, Chickadee's, to Victory Girl: The Life and Times of a Modern Patriotute. I'm your Ghost Host, a 30 year old vintage lady who walks the line between jazz baby and khaki wacky.
I'm new to this whole vintage thing, but I'm a big fan of homework and that's all I've been doing for the past three years - homework. Everything from silent films to vintage books, old and new interviews, tutorials on the web and plain old common sense. Once I know anything at all I'll be posting my own tips, tricks and tutorials, but for now this is just my mad, mad life in 1941.
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