Gendy Alimurung

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Give the Gift of Despair, Inc.

There are more. So much more. So many you can build your own calendar out of them. Give the gift of Despair (i.e., "It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black")......
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Shop With Your Neighbors on Saturday & Sunday

Hey. My lovely Style Council colleague Lina just beat me to it, but I wanted to again remind you to buy local this weekend at Unique Los Angeles. It's on Saturday and Sunday, at the California Market Center (110 East 9th St, Downtown). There are going to be 200 vendors......
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Cat Riding a Roomba

  This cat is either deaf or very much at ease in the modern world.And how about kittens riding a Roomba? Not to be outdone, here is a bunny rabbit riding a Roomba. Oh my god, has it come to this? Yes. Yes, it has. A lot of the time......
Music man Shane Gudlow; Credit: Orly Olivier

Timewarp: Where Old Instruments Go to Live Again

Each time you walk into the aptly named vintage musical instrument shop Timewarp, that same old-timey gearhead guy will be behind the counter, brow in perpetual furrow, up to his neck in guitar guts. That’s Shane Gudlow, Timewarp’s owner. Another paradox of time-space: A good portion of the rock &......
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Urban Owl Pellet: Raptor Vomit Has Never Been So Hip

In college, my friend Ryan who had a mild crush on me gave me a mouse skeleton. He assembled it out of an owl pellet. An owl pellet is basically what the owl throws up (which is a lot, apparently, because FYI, owls don't chew.) It's all the undigested bits......
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Presidential Wrestling Christmas Tree Ornaments

Fifteen presidential candidate ornaments for your very own tree. In this, an election year, perhaps consider doing a White House themed tree. I'm all for themed Christmas trees. I did a Goth tree one year with skeletons and spiders, essentially repurposing the decor I couldn't let go of from Halloween......
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Marie Antoinettes and Other Rococo Craziness at Royal/T

Click on the photos for the Rococo Rendezvous slideshow. So I went to Rococo Rendezvous at the maid cafe Royal/T in Culver City a couple nights ago. There was a lot of this action going on. The whole Rococo thing is a subset of the multi-faceted Japanese cosplay subculture, in......