Carousel -- Week Ending 7th November 2008
[ 7 November 2008 ]
Doing what you love can lead to more than just happiness & Wine Guy Gary Vaynerchuk Takes on ‘Yes We Can’ Attitude for Startups. Thanks, Gary!
Sex-related news! Overweight women have more sex. Woman’s gait predicts sexual pleasure. Huh! & Couple wants global orgasms for peace. Get ready, December 22nd!
Answerbag.com is completely fascinating. I spent many hours here the other day.
Make sure spouse has the ‘right’ faults from CNN by way of Oprah.
“He’s often late, which is inconsiderate = I fear not being sufficiently appreciated. Thanks, Dad. He thinks about his needs first, and mine second = If you express your needs, no one will love you. Thanks, Mom.”
Also, beware catching this from your spouse. If you’re in a crappy relationship, read this & take action! I’ve written about mirror neurons here before, but it’s always good to be reminded…
I am obsessed with Plasterdoll.
Steve Pavlina is juice-feasting as part of his new raw food experience. Juice-feasting has always seemed a bit extreme to me, & doesn’t interest me all that much, but what he has to say about how it’s going is really fascinating.
Sweetiepie opens at the start of December… & when I get back to the States, I am so there. (Coolhunting interview!)
Cary Tennis forever! Attractive men scare me, so I only date ugly ones!
Among the index cards you might want to use at this time are ones containing the addresses of various bars, instruction phrases for the cab driver, and things to say to the attractive man sitting next to you in the dark, such as, “Take your hand off my knee,” or, “Put your hand on my knee,” or, “Let’s play Twister.”
By the way, for those of you who went ga-ga over my sequinned hoodie the other day, you can buy them online! $27.80, quelle steal!
I just discovered this yesterday! Dear Americans, if you have to call someone but you don’t want to talk to them, try Slydial! It will put you straight through to their voicemail so you can leave them a message. Perfect for calling in “sick” & skiving out of family occasions! Woohoo!
Punk rock cookies are good for what ails ya!
Want an introduction to delicious, mind-warping dark breakcore? Of course you do! I love Bong-Ra very much (& would die to see him live someday)! Check out Darkbreaks Vol 1&2 for FREE! Oh, you’re very welcome. He has also posted a whole lot of hour-long live mixes. Mmmm, delicious.
Vampire jokes: so good they’re bad. Oh, I am such a nerd.
This is the best wedding dress I have ever seen. As Jasmine said in her email to me, “Looks like My Little Pony and Tinkerbell totally got it on nasty-style in a magical rhinestone shop and this dress was their sparkling bastard love child!” That’s my kind of dress!
This link is NOT safe for work but it made me laugh so hard I almost… Well, you know. It’s many, many years old, but is a review of a fake vagina, by Hug Nation’s John Halcyon Styn. Seriously, it is unbelievably hilarious. You will enjoy it, I promise.
I don’t know what the hell happened with Prop 8 (other than nothing good), but this video from milkfat is too funny not to post.
Finally, How To Make A Virgo Fall In Love With You. It’s almost completely accurate, hahah. For me, anyway!
Love letters & feather headdresses,
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That wedding dress is simply amazing! It just shows that traditional white weddings aren’t always the best.
I want to start designing my own glitzy dress now!
dude, I had JUST finished reading every last article on my google reader, clicked on every link, commented on everything I wanted to, about to make my dinner… then blink.. up comes Carousel! another half hour gone. and I’ll be the first to admit that most of that time was spent reading the plastic vagina review. heh.
Gala your Carousel post always makes my Friday go that little bit quicker! There’s some really interesting articles this week, especially the relationship ones. I may have to buy one of those hoodies too, I’ve been accused of being a bit of a sequin fetishist, and they may have been right!
Your Carousel is always much better than anything I could come up with! How do you find so many links??
Also, not so sure about the health-ness of the Juice Feast. We’re meant to eat solids!!
Your sequin hoodie is fab too.
Dear Slydial,
Please come to Australia!
Love Ms Polka Dot
The How To Make A Virgo Fall In Love With You video is insane! How do they find out that stuff?! Most of it is pretty accurate with me, too. It’s kind of scary.
Also, that sequined hoodie is fantabulous! I have never really been into sequins, but I’ve found myself looking at sequin-everything lately! I even bought a silver sequined dress! It makes me feel like one hundred dollars. Actually, probably more than a hundred dollars! Ten hundred dollars, at least!
After a long discussion at work with my best friend about wedding dresses, that link came at the right time (not that I am going to get married any time soon, although we are tempted to go to a wedding shop and try on dresses anyway!)
And I really want a sequinned hoodie for work, if only there was somewhere in the UK selling them!
punk rock cookies? ;)
Steve Pavlina’s discussion regarding juice feasting and colour-blindness is really intriguing! It almost convinces me to try going raw… almost. ;)
Gah! Tha wedding dress is AMAZING.
Want to know something odd? The girl in the wedding dress is a friend of an older girl I used to hang out with when I was about 14 and we used to be friends on myspace balh blah blah. Well, she keeps popping up in my life! I saw her on a rerun of a game show and now this!
Bizarre! Even more so because I am 99% certain she has no idea who I am anymore, but what can I say? I have a knack for faces.
Maybe I’ll get married again just so I can wear a dress like that. Or maybe I’ll buy it to just wear around because I LOVE IT!
The How to make a Leo fall in love with you video is spot on too. At least for this Leo!
As a “fat woman,” I never feel guilty when I know I’m having more sex that my “normal sized” friends.
And if that’s wrong, I don’t want to be right.
That wedding dress is pure glee!
so apparently im a nosy child, but when the author of the wedding dress article linked to her wedding dress…
omg i love her wedding pictures?!
www.flickr.com/photos/ariel/20…
the whole set, even tho ive linked you half way through
Random question! How come you have a thing for Virgo men? Is it because your star-sign (what star sign are you, by the way?!) and Virgo men are highly compatible or…?
I’m so ahead of the crowd, I ordered that hoodie… yesterday!
And that dress is rad. A little too rad.
The Virgo Vid is right on! Completely. laughs
Offbeat bride! I love that site as a bride-to-be, haha. Also, I’m now addicted to howcast. :)
Aimee Marie — It IS amazing! I love it so much.
Ali-bell — Honestly, I think the fake vagina review is the best thing I linked this week ;D
Vixel — There’s nothing wrong with being a sequin fetishist!
Bouncing Evil Ginner — Well, whenever I’m not outside my house having a life, I’m usually on my computer. Haha. That might explain it ;>
young — I have no idea. It’s pretty cool though, huh?
orinoco — Haha. You should try it sometime. Honestly, it’s amazing.
Indira — Ah, the $1,000,000 question! Uh, I haven’t met a lot of Virgo men, but they have this tendency to spin my world around. It’s pretty incredible. I like people who have the ability to shake me up, it’s rare! & yes, I’m a Virgo too, & totally biased, I think Virgos are the best star sign by a long shot ;D
Me and my boyfriend are Virgo :)
some things in the video are accurate, but we are both messy….
a least we are both so no fight for this ! :P
I am also a virgo (so I thoroughly enjoy all your astrology stuff, haha) and you’re right, that video is pretty accurate. The only thing that I didn’t completely agree with is the meticulously clean thing. I like MY space to be clean, but when it comes to others I mostly don’t think or worry about it. I dated a fairly messy guy for a couple years and we were okay. :D
I found some website about virgos a few years ago, and it was so dead on that I printed it out and annotated the thing (hahaha nerd alerrrrt). Anyways, if I can find it again I will send you the link!
I don’t mind messy so much, but visibly dirty or unclean? Cannot cope! CANNOT! COPE! Haha.
Thanks so much for the video Gala! I’m here in CA and my neighbors across the street are two married women from Canada who have been fighting to get their out-of-the-country marriage recognized here. They’ve been fighting a legal battle here for two years. When I saw them taking down their prop 8 sign Wednesday morning it broke my heart.
That reminds me of the origami vagina on youtube! NSFW!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Co2JE…
That thing about mirror neurons is so fascinating. I notice that when I hang around people for a long time, I start developing their mannerisms… we really do have to be careful who we hang out with!
lol- fake vagina + “quelle steal” = cutie + hilarious
Oh my God that dress. Amazing and perfect, although I just don’t think a traditional wedding (ceremony, reception, blah blah family stuff) is for me. But I want that dress!
And yes, with that plastic vagina review, you put my list of the day to shame. Except I did find a weird video for this crazy opera called shock headed Peter which I think you would find interesting: fishnorfowl.net/?p=234
We put Bong-Ra on in our city 2 weeks ago, he sacked of going to the hotel and came and partied instead. He’s such an inspiring character and makes all sorts of amazing music! Servants of the Apocalyptic Goatrave is my favourite :)
i HATE making cold calls at work! that slydial came in right on time— i knocked out half my list!
SLYDIAL???!!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gemini > Virgo ;)
Hi Gala, thanks for yet another wonderful post :) The images are gorgeous!
I did want to quickly make sure that you realize the quote you received about the wedding dress from reader Jasmine was not written by her. It’s awesome that Jasmine sent you the link, but the description is, word for word, taken from Offbeat Bride:
offbeatbride.com/page/4
Ariel is a writer by trade as well, so you probably want to credit her for the quote :) Oh, and you could easily spend HOURS browsing her wonderful site, so enjoy!
Respectfully,
C
Randomly, I just came across a short sleeved version of that black hoodie (this one also comes in gray) www.gojane.com/28112.html
Yes, I used the same description of the dress in my email subject line to Gala that Offbeat Bride did! Not trying to steal anyone’s words! (Maybe should have put it in quotes?) Gala may not have read the whole article and therefore did not see that it had already been written. Offbeat Bride IS a great website, it helped me a lot when I was getting married!
Not sure if you’ve seen this site Gala labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr# (maybe you were even the one who linked it – I’ve been known to look poorly before!) but it’s awesome. You can browse Flickr by colour and it’s perfect for finding the right photo to finish off a post or anything really!
x
OMG I just made a Pandora station for Bong-Ra and I am hooked!! I have been in a downtempo mood and needed something new and slightly livelier and this was perfect!!