Entries from July 2009

July 31, 2009

Take Five Friday: Cool, Weird Gifts Under $20

(Editor’s Note: There are more than five things on my list today; but in this case, it’s worth your while.) I am waaay obsessed with giving my friends strange, eccentric and confusing gifts, so it comes as no surprise a lot of them ask me for ideas about what to get their friends. Well, thankfully for everyone’s [...]

July 29, 2009

Review: The Dead Weather’s “Horehound”

You know how when you hear whale songs, they’re so soothing, and beautiful-all echo-y in the water? Imagine how it would sound if it was on land. I’m thinking AWFUL, screeching. Submerged in their niche, they are absolutely perfect. Such is the Dead Weather. I really liked the album, don’t get me wrong. We’ll get [...]

July 24, 2009

Take Five Friday: Healthy Foods That Are Actually Tasty

5. Couscous and quinoa photo credit You know you wanna cook it David Lynch style. 4. Spicy guacamole photo credit tasty recipe. 3. tortilla instead of breadphoto credit 2. Edamame- photo credit yum x2 when it’s cold and sprinkled with a minimal amount of salt. 1. Olive oil. (Sorry, I could not find an olive [...]

July 22, 2009

Ladies to Love: Katelan Foisy

Self-portrait goddess, empowerer of women, muse to many, Katelan Foisy is a an artist with a true beautiful heart. What started as pictures for references and her own art became a way for her to get others to look into themselves, maybe even heal, as well. I got a chance to interview her, and here [...]

July 21, 2009

Philo-Philatelic Museum: For the Love of Stamps

I had the most amazing luck to get to go on a tour of the Postal History Museum and Philatelic Library and Children’s Areas. As a letter-writing nerd (I’m sure you’ve seen that i am a member of the Letter Writers’ Alliance, non?), it was seriously like going to Graceland. They have a working Post [...]

July 19, 2009

Summer List, It Begins

I have decided that instead of making a zine of “things I want to do this summer” like I did last summer, of things to do, I would draw the (not-in-any-way-artistic) pics and place them in a spot I would always see them! First one to mark off the list: tubing down the Salt River. [...]