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Purple, Day Last Maybe

We went to Kansas City again this weekend. We love small trips. Very helpful for stress and super fun!

It’s also fun to watch your boyfriend wash your car.

If you go to Kansas City, Gates Barbecue is fine and all but for the first-timer a bit confusing. CANIHELPYOU!!! is screamed constantly at no one in particular. You only give bits of your order at a time and it takes about ten minutes of CANIHELPYOU!!! to a crowd, versus a line, to get all the bits of your order to the nice CANIHELPYOU!!! lady and then maybe you can figure out where to pay. I tasted all right. It’s no Arthur Bryants.

Sir liked Jack Stack.

Still no Arthur Bryants. You can’t beat the atmosphere in that place.

Also, if you head to Kansas City you will want to see the World War I Museum. It’s beautiful and very well done.

You can go to the top of that lovely art deco tower. We did.

You can maybe skip the Jazz Museum. We didn’t know what to look at or where to go. No order to be found. I wanted to like it, but it was difficult. We walked around in a state of befuddlement.

In the middle is the Negro Baseball League Museum. Go see it. But it’s got a lot of randomata going on. Text, text, interesting text, PICTURE OF SOME DUDE, text, random text. See it because it tells a story you don’t really hear, but expect some curveballs (heehee!).

I took this in the hotel (HOTWIRE!) bathroom for you. Warm lighting does not show you that the entire bottom half of my hair is virtually white.

Why yes, I AM wearing a purple shirt with purple hair.

Posted by Melissa on July 22nd, 2008 under Boyfriendlies, Silly Hair Blogging | Comment now »

Agreed

“If Planned Parenthood, the Family Research Council and the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unwanted Pregnancy really want to reduce unwanted teen pregnancies, they should study such factors as poverty, the older ages of male partners, the advantages having children afford poorer young women and the plunge in births among married teens and adults, among other realities. That would be easier if the stigmatizing concept of “teenage pregnancy” was not part of our health-policy deliberations.”
~ Males, LA Times.

I found this link on Bitch, Phd and thought, “Hey, look, sense!” Go, READ, I’ll wait here.

We’ll get back to riveting hair blogging tomorrow.

Posted by Melissa on July 21st, 2008 under Boyfriendlies, Flaming Ovaries | 4 Comments »

Purple, Days 8 and 9. I smiled in these for my sister.

Day 8:

Day 9 with still damp hair:

Posted by Melissa on July 16th, 2008 under Bliss, Silly Hair Blogging | 7 Comments »

Purple, days 6 and 7. This is lasting longer than I expected.

So, the purple is now a lovely still-purple at the top of my head and a blue-gray at the bottom.

Not that my lying bathroom pictures would tell you that.

Day 5:

Day 6:

I’m soooo cool in pictures, bleh.

In that bathroom, in THOSE shots, my hair is all, “Look at my lavender loveliness. Oh my gosh, so pretty!”

Here’s this blue/gray I’ve been talking about. My lying bathroom won’t give this up, but natural light will.

Day 5:

Day 6:

(I know that’s a weird shot, am genius at the fotoz.)

I still like the color, though, but the ends are going to be skanky hell soon when the blonde starts to show turning it blue/yellow/gray. Mmmmmm.

Seriously, hair blogging, are you at the edge of your seat or what?

Posted by Melissa on July 14th, 2008 under Silly Hair Blogging | 3 Comments »

Purple, Day 5

By my roots, still pretty. The ends are starting to get ashy gray/purple.

Posted by Melissa on July 11th, 2008 under Bliss, Silly Hair Blogging | 1 Comment »

Purple, Day Four

I need a category for stupid hair blogging.

Huh, it looks more blue today in person. Not so much in the picture. Maybe this time it’s going to stay purple longer!

Posted by Melissa on July 10th, 2008 under Bliss, Silly Hair Blogging | 7 Comments »

Purple? Blue? How about I show you my bum?

When I asked Brett to pick out my next fun hair color, I expected him to choose a color I really LIKED.

No, kid went for that stupid Ultra Violet rolling around in my bathroom cabinet. (See #81 of my 100 Things: 81. I tried purple. It turned to gray pretty quickly. Do not want.) Do not want!

But you know you can’t ask your son to choose your hair color and then tell him, “No, not that one. Pick my choice.” So you dye your hair stupid Ultra Violet anyway, because you love the boy.

And it’s pretty on day one or two, but it will quickly - AND I MEAN EVERY TIME YOU WASH YOUR FOOL HAIR - fade from a deep lovely shiny dark violet on day one to an ashy ass gray by day seven. Thankfully, I think my Hot Hot Pink covers anything. It’s freaking burgundy in the jar.

Here’s what it looks like today, on day three before it starts sucking, when it’s still a decent lavendar color:

The hell? What am I being all wistful about? Somedayyyyyy my prince will come!

(Hopefully, not on my person.)

(Ahem.)

Here is another shot. A blurry one.

I’m tryin’ hard to think
And I think that I want you on the floor
Uh huh, yeah on the floor!

Well, maybe on my person…depends.

Uh, sorry.

Oh hey! I was trying to see if I could get the purple hair from the back view. And I got a back view, indeed. This one is just so you know how I’m dressed when I work and blog and read.

I’m not lying when I say I’m in my underwear all day.

Posted by Melissa on July 9th, 2008 under Bliss, Silly Hair Blogging | 11 Comments »

Twat

A few Thursdays ago, NB and I went out for trivia with friends at a St. Louis bar and grill. After the trivia, we may have possibly gone for martinis. It was there I learned that NB’s grandmother uses the word, “twat.”

As in:

“Stop talking out of your twat.”

“Stop showing your twat.”

“Shut your twat!”

If there is a god, please let her say this around me at the next family function. Please.

Posted by Melissa on July 7th, 2008 under Boyfriendlies | 7 Comments »

Mademoiselle Lange as Venus

Ahoy!

I’ve changed the design a bit, yes again. As you can see, I’ve included a background from the link from yesterday. I chose a Mooresque design.

Oooooooooh.

The header image is a return to my usual pilfering of images from wga.hu. This one is by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, called Mademoiselle Lange as Venus, painted in 1798.

I chose the image because of my simple gut reaction of: PRETTY! It’s what I believe most of us do with art or other stuffs. We like it. We look.

But naturally, like most images I tend to go for, this one has an awesome story. Lucky me, lucky you!

According to the Minneapolis Institute of Art,

“Miss Lange was a talented actress known for her beauty and wealthy lovers. Girodet had painted an earlier portrait of her that she found unflattering.

“When she refused to pay the agreed-upon price and insisted that the painting be removed from public view at the Paris Salon, the enraged Girodet sought revenge with this second, satirical portrait.

“Eighteenth-century artists sometimes portrayed people as mythological characters to highlight their virtues. Girodet inverted this convention to defame Miss Lange. Danae was one of the mortals loved by the Greek god Zeus, who transformed himself into a shower of gold and fell upon her.

Girodet shows Miss Lange greedily catching the gold coins. All of the painting’s details are scathingly symbolic. For example, the turkey wearing a wedding ring represents a man the actress married for his fortune. The cracked mirror denotes her inability to see herself as Girodet saw her—a vain, adulterous, and avaricious woman.”

Kick ass, no? Art is never boring.

Posted by Melissa on July 3rd, 2008 under Histoire d'Art | 9 Comments »

Shudder!

Holy moly, fellow artsy bloggers! I just ran into THIS:

Patterns based on historical architectural designs.

Now, some are based on historical designs in a VERY LOOSE AND FAST way…so be aware, but still so fun. So right up my alley.

Prepare yourselves.

Posted by Melissa on July 2nd, 2008 under Histoire d'Art | 2 Comments »