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[gwydion]

* I hate when the phrase "Kabuki Theater" is applied to anything except literal Kabuki theater.

* Toy Drive for kids effected by Hurricane Sandy: https://secure3.convio.net/tft/site/Donation2?4440.donation=form1&df_id=4440&JServSessionIdr004=ihhxm38fs1.app304b

* You know, I went something like a decade since my last car accident (Also a rear ending, this time right before the merge point at the bottom of an off ramp when a tailgater decided my break lights were a bluff). Could people stop rear ending me now? Two in a few months is way too many. It's exhausting, time consuming, and it really hurts.

Seriously, if I want my ass rammed, all ask.

* Dogs Learn to Drive in New Zealand:

* In honor of my rear ending:

* "Literary Fashions for Serious Book Nerds:" http://www.flavorwire.com/352812/literary-fashions-for-serious-book-nerds

* "The History of the Little Black Dress:" http://www.refinery29.com/little-black-dresses

I am finding this inaccurate.

Actually, black was the colour of mourning from at least Roman times, so the English nobles would buy black outfits for villains and have them come to mourn loudly. The pay for the elaborate mourning was they got to keep the clothes. The black dye was usually cheap on the free clothes so they quickly faded to grey. Also, some orders of monks and nuns had mostly black clothes. Medieval people did sometimes wear black. They are making that entry up.

Similarly, in most places black for mourning in the 19th century was custom, not law. Oh, it would be bad if you broke the custom and there would be social consequences if you didn't follow the customs regarding levels of mourning in dress over time, but no one would arrest you for switching to gray too soon or wearing deep mourning for distantly related cousin of whom you were fond.

Also, trust me, in the 1980's you could find simple LBDs similar to the ones in the millennial picture. Yes, you could find more exaggerated examples, but if you stepped into one of my dances in high school, more than half the girls would have been in simple LBD variations.

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[deepseasiren.livejournal.com]

I hate it when the word 'geisha' is used as a generic term like for a prostitute, when they are highly-trained women who take seven years or more to study Japanese art and culture. Thanks to the American GIs, they bastardized geisha into a generic meaning: whore.

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

I agree.