If You’re Lonely & Wistful This Valentine’s Day…
February 14, 2010 by Alessia
Filed under Breakups, Reality Self-Check, Romantic Fantasy
If the holiday of romance has you looking backwards, remembering a love you once had, a first love, instead of celebrating a romance of today or eagerly looking for the romance of the future, I ask you to limit your indulgent trip down memory lane to just this one day…
Anything longer, anything more than a [...]
Whatjamacallit Wednesday For Bibliophiles
October 7, 2009 by Deanna
Filed under Pulp Bitchin'
Every book holds a Valentine for book lovers. Every day.
Photo credits: baby, just say yes. by ~iPaintedtheskies.
No Valentines, Red River
March 26, 2009 by Deanna
Filed under Advertising Sado-masochism, Curator's Notes
I found this vintage Valentine’s Day card at Cherryland Postcard Auction (lot #1667, if you’d like to bid online), and fell in love with it because it’s clearly an old promotional item from True Confessions magazine.
I love (and therefore collect) past issues of the publication & am dying to see the illustrations on the inside… [...]
Cross-Eyed Ape Joke Still Works After All These Years
February 20, 2009 by Deanna
Filed under Don We Now Our Gay Apparel, Heavy Pet-ing
I paid 50 cents for this fragile old piece of paper mocking a woman for the way she dresses. (At first glance, I was certain it was mocking the man; but the ape proffers a red dress with white hearts.) I’m not sure why I had to have it; but I did.
when you walk by
people [...]
Alone Today? Valentine’s Day For Singles
February 14, 2009 by Alessia
Filed under Breakups, Relationship & Dating Humor
You didn’t think I’d ignore you today, did you my lovelies? Of course not. Real friends don’t ignore their friends just because they are one part of a couple, and years of being alone on Valentine’s Day, my birthday, and other holidays has left me ever-sensitive to the needs of my single friends on [...]
You Can’t Cover Your Fingernails In Velvet, Even When You Want To
February 13, 2009 by Deanna
Filed under Bric-a-Brack Ric Rac, Red Velvet Crush, You Outta Be In Pictures
I thought I was going to have this fab-u-lous Valentine’s Day beauty project for you, but I ran into a few problems along the way…
I had the concept: Wrapping your fingernails in red velvet.
Ridiculously impossible sounding as far as living with them goes — they’d be sure to get full of gunk and even showering [...]
Valentine’s Day Dating & Relationship Tips
February 5, 2009 by Alessia
Filed under Advice, Friends, Relationship Rules & Wisdom
Thirteen Thoughts About (& Some Gift Suggestions For) Valentine’s Day
For The Single:
1 Do remember your friends! It’s still fun to send & receive Valentines — even if they are silly, they are sweet.
2 Don’t be bitter -and go ahead, buy yourself something you want. Not to cheer yourself up, but to treat yourself. Hey, [...]
Send Mixtape Messages
February 2, 2009 by Deanna
Filed under Oddiophiles (Oddities for Audiophiles)
Looking for the perfect Valentine’s Day trinket for the one who makes you mixed tapes? Check out these marvelous engraved audio cassette tape cufflinks made of pink mirror acrylic with silver-toned cufflink mountings, by Crimson King.
Just be sure they have the proper shirts for wearing cufflinks.
so eloquently put it, "Two can be as bad as one, It's the loneliest number since the number one." So find the right someone with a 
