halloween costume inspiration strikes when least expected, author feels vaguely pleased

(from silhouette masterpiece theatre)
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yes, i'm leaving the high-concept or zeitgeist-capturing to others without shame in favour of greater subtlety than even last year's last minute french maid. a new confidence for my waning twenties, these years of interpretive blindness to mutual exclusivity - still claiming the refusal to suspend disbelief is a failure of imagination

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ooh, but maybe my fascination with science in thrall solely to teh awesome (fig 1; fig 2) would be better expressed in some sort of moth-to-the-flame halloween haberdashery?





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another day, another dilemma! fiddle dee dee!

i am on yr friends page/distorting yr layout

1) don't look too good
2) nor talk too wise

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i used to cross-stitch when i was a little kid. it's easy to draft your own patterns on graph paper. enamored by pixels, always.






(it's a still from the security tape from the columbine school shootings - putting the 'domestic' back in domestic terrorism)

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one drafter-of-patterns that i'm partial to manages radicalcrossstitch.com:




(yeah, it's ballard)

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and, like, once you have an idea graphed, it's multiply realizable!







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impending winter is inspiring stencil/screenprinting/sewing/baking project-oriented thinking. also forcing encouraging self-effacing, broke, talented friends onto etsy. let's get merry and chubby and inkstained, i say, isolation be damned. there's something to producing things you don't have to think too semantically/analytically about....must functionally replace a few of the million hours of video games that were so fulfilling last winter.



..you know?