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Friday, October 29, 2010

Find Yourself Here tonight!



TONIGHT! SCARY MARY
IT'S TIME TO GET ALL SPOOKY ON YOUR ASS.

$1000 in costume prizes!!!

The promoters are:
Eric Adams (Rooftop Love & Sausagefest), Cody Bayne (Trannyshack LA, Duke, Fuzzy & SML), Mario Diaz (Full Frontal Disco ,Fuzzy, Brutus & Big Fat Dick), Victor Rodriguez (Shits & Giggles & Cub Scout), Mike Uljanic (Otter Magic)

The performers are:
Kelly Mantle, Miss Barbie Q & Nina McNeely & Co.

The DJs are:
DJ Chris Bowen (Shits & Giggles, Bears in Space), DJ Matt Cornwall (Drai's @ The W, Fubar), DJ Pandamonium (Par Avion and Outré), DJ Victor Rodriguez (Children of the Sun, Cub Scout), DJ Susan in Accounting (Otter Magic)

Other things we have in store:
* Marky Make Up (Amer. Next Top Model, RuPauls Drag Race) will be there to do airbrush body painting AND will be assisting folks with their make up needs including Beauty, Gore & More! * Two photo booths to document your fabulous costume! * Roaming photographers * Fortune Tellers * Palm Readers * Aerialists

If you've never been to The 740:
It's huge! There's three rooms for dancing, including a very dark basement...
It's in Downtown L.A. near the corner of 8th & Spring. Venue is 21+. Parking is available adjacent to the club for $10 or nearby for $5. Sometimes you can find street parking, but watch signs for "No parking after 2am" etc.
We want you to beat the lines and get there early and will have early drink specials to encourage you!

Tickets are $10 advance, $15 at the door. Arrive early to avoid the lines!
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/133224

200 rooms of scare


I am obsessed with old abandoned buildings!Much to my delight today on the WOW Report James posted this great building! It looks to be in pretty poor shape! But cross your fingers that it gets saved! Slap some paint and new windows in there and we might have something!

Fabulous Bennett College in Millbrook, New York was originally built in 1890 as a luxury hotel designed in the elaborate Victorian Queen Anne style by James E. Ware, and consisted of 200 rooms in 5 stories, plus a basement and sub-basement. Despite the grandeur, Halcyon Hall (as it was called) failed to catch the popularity it had hoped for. It closed in 1901, and stood vacant until another a buyer was found eight years later. The Bennett School for Girls founder Miss May Bennett decided Halcyon Hall was quite suitable as a new home in 1907. The school had 120 students, most from prominent families. These women took a six year course of study - four years of high school and two years of higher study. Bennett School for Girls saw its enrollment decline in the 1970s as coeducation became more popular, and went bankrupt in 1977. Several attempts to develop the property have failed since then, and despite a petition to enter it into the National Register of Historic Places, the town of Millbrook has been working with developers to demolish the gorgeous building. See pictures of it back in its heyday here, and absolutely GORGEOUS pictures of it now here. And be sure to click on the image above to see it in all it's looming glory.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Echo of hot air!

I was not in California when Arnold was elected as governor but I often wonder how he ran his campaign. What did he promise? How did he convince enough people, not having held public office before, to vote for him?.... and now I know!.... courtesy of Meg Whitman! Thanks Meg!


Friday, October 15, 2010

17 Gigapixel Camera



This is where technology is headed! Ohhhh man! It will take up your computer hard drive real quick but it will all be worth it!