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Archive for October, 2008

The Art of Costuming

Filed under Art and Photography  

Costuming people is very much an internal process for me. I don’t do characters from television or movies,  they don’t really express anything. I like challenges, creating wearable art even if it’s something that will be worn  for just a single season. I do witches however – a common October creature  but only if  I’m [...]

Bailout and Freddie Mac – the Children Are Running Amok

Filed under Financial Crisis  

There was absolutely no need for Freddie Mac to secretly pay a Republican consulting firm $2 million to try and kill Chuck Hagel’s regulatory overhaul bill. I would have openly taken the money. Got more, Freddie? Send it my way. I wont even be sneaky about it. I’d use the money to buy health insurance [...]

Financial Meltdown, Oh Yeah, It’s Personal

Filed under Financial Crisis  

I had this really fabulous plan ten years ago. Plan A was to get us out of the townhouse and into a single family home well before the meltdown. Yes, I knew the meltdown was coming and I also knew that just before the meltdown we would have one chance to save ourselves and our [...]

Fifi La Poop

Filed under Humor  

We thought we had the dog poop situation well under control before we took possession of our Dream Debt. Buying the house was contingent upon the owners’ cleaning up the horrendous piles of stinky, sticky globs of brown goop that carpeted the side yard. It was so bad that even the building inspector complained at [...]