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Friday, March 30, 2012
Little bundle of burden
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
Incomplete list of influences
Hayao Miyazaki, Richard Scarry, Townes Van Zandt, Hieronymus Bosch, Kate Bush, Roger Duvoisin, John Harrold, Current 93, Bill Cosby, Jessie Oonark, Saul Steinberg, James Flora, Tomi Ungerer, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Laurie Anderson, Robert Filliou, August Walla, Oswald Tschirtner, Blackavar, William Steig, Salvador Dali, James Hampton, Marc Bolan, Charles E. Martin, Syd Barrett, Alice and Martin Provenson, Incredible String Band, Larry David, Ivor Cutler, Leonard Weisgard, Jandek, Martin Ramirez, Ray Johnson, Charles Schulz, Bill Watterson, David Shrigley, Half Japanese, Dorgam Hideib, Albert Cullum, Yoko Ono, Adolf Wolfli, Kath Bloom, Kraftwerk, Roedelius, Reiko and Tori Kudo, Leonard Cohen, AAPC, Rene Magritte, Mark Hollis, Piet Mondrian, David Bowie, Chuck Jones, William Blake, Dante Alighieri, Italo Calvino, David Berman, Francisco Goya, Sun Ra, Ammi Phillips, Baby Huey, Agnes Martin, Emily Post, William Hogarth, Richard Dawkins, J.I. Rodale, Strunk and White, Sigmund Freud, Michael Hurley, Michael Gira, Scott Walker, John Stezaker, Jonathan Richman, Edgar Degas, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Whistler's Mother, Andrew Wyeth, Robyn Hitchcock, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Rousseau, Paul Gaugin, Pablo Picasso, Brian Paulson, James Ensor, Edward Munch, Nico, Howard Finster, Tom Rapp, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Shirley Collins, The Shadow Ring, Giorgio De Chirico, Kazimir Malevich, Marcel Duchamp, Adrian Williams, Washington Phillips, Burl Ives, Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, Paul Klee, Errol Morris, Werner Herzog, Pee Wee Herman, Joanna Newsom, Guy and Susanna Clark, The Rutles, Paul Simon, Mayo Thompson, Simon Hughes, PJ Harvey, Richard Youngs, Marcel Dzama, Rob Wakshinski, Roger Miller, Michael Klein, Edward Hopper, William Eakin, Jackson Pollock, Tal R, Joackum Nordstrom, Wes Anderson, Morrissey, Will Oldham, Neil Hamburger, Willem De Kooning, John Lurie, The Kinks, Jean Dubuffet, Mark Rothko, Friedrich Kunath, Francis Bacon, Suicide, Mark E. Smith, Bill Fay, John Glyns, Christopher Guest, William T. Williams, The New Creation, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Tuttle, Joe Jones, Pip Proud, Beatrix Potter, Genesis P. Orridge, Nina Simone, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Francesco Clemente, Anselm Keifer, George Baselitz,Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Claes Oldenburg, Donald Judd, Perry Thompson, Louise Bourgeois, Ed Ruscha, Christo and Jeanne Claude, Edward Keinholz, Gary Larson, Nam June Paik, Joseph Beuys, Karel Funk, Nick Drake, Creative Growth, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Walker Evans, Curtis Mayfield, Jimmy Stewart, Man Ray, Tadonori Yokoo, Mingering Mike, Tim Gardner, Hollie Dzama, Simon Rodia, Herve Di Rosa, George Brecht, Drue and Myles Langlois, Todd Martin, Paul Cherwick, Brigitte Fontaine and Areski, David Wilson, Tom Wilson, Jim Davis, The Go-Betweens, Bryan Ferry, Reverend Charlie Jackson, Jim Henson, Donovan, Paul Van Kooy and Wendy Gomoll, Ella Jenkins, Jon Pylypchuk, Fred Neil, Bert Jansch, Anne Briggs, Peter Gabriel, Alastair Galbraith, Sol Lewitt, Ricky Gervais, Jeff Funnell, Moebius, Harmonia, Dave Hampton, Michael Jackson, George Burns, Sammy Davis Jr., Guy R. Lefrancois, Jim Copp and Ed Brown, Norval Morrisseau, Pudlo Pudlat, Garrett Van Winkle, Frog Eyes, Lee Hazlewood, Terry Corrigan, Bela Legosi, Martin Creed, Bram Stoker, J.K. Rowling, George Harrison, Laura Owens, Steve Martin, Steve Earle, Cyndi Lauper, Prince, P.I.L., Bruce Springsteen, The Simpsons, Neu, The Melvins, Bill Hicks, Amon Duul II, Animal Collective, Antony, Fiona Apple, John Frusciante, Baby Dee, Devendra Banhart, Bathory, Marc Chagall, Bauhaus, Brian Wilson, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Beastie Boys, Beethoven, Lewis Carroll, Beck, Bjork, Steve Albini, Diana Thorneycroft, Steve Higgins, The Rolling Stones, Sheila Spence, Tony Visconti, Gloria Jones, The Cure, Tom Devlin, Jessica Campbell, Neil Young, Travis Bean, Bob Dylan, Hennesy Youngman, Bob Dorough, Buckminster Fuller, King Krule, Wayne White, Wanda Koop, The Velvet Underground, Sara MacKillop, Chrome, Johnny Cash, Cat Power, Can, Captain Beefheart, The Residents, Lindsey Buckingham, Kim Deal, Glenn Danzig, Darkthrone, Jello Biafra, J. Mascis, Destroyer, Tom Elliott, Enn Erisalu, Dylan Carlson, Kurt Cobain, Einsturzende Neubauten, Gabriel Orozco, Albert Ayler, Roky Erickson, Jim Linderman, Flaming Lips, Stevie Nicks, Garnet Gillies, Michael Koop, Mick fleetwood, Peter Green, John McVie, Lyle Lovett, Steven Wright, George Carlin, Richard Prior, Willie Nelson, Vincent Gallo, Portishead, Faust, Ken Nicol, Caetano Veloso, Peter Hammill, Nick Cave, Emmylou Harris, Richard Harris, Howlin' Wolf, Mars Volta, Vashti Bunyan, Mayhem, Rasputin, Mastodon, Melanie, Metallica, Ministry, Mike Patton, Randy Newman, Neurosis, Meredith Monk, Joy Division, Ice Cube, INXS, Edith Piaf, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson, Jesus Lizard, Killdozer, King Crimson, Kittens, Shawn Fedorchuk, David Kelly, Kurt Vile, Dave Dyment, Roula Partheniou, Glen Baxter, Leadbelly, Led Zeppelin, Blinky Palermo, David Lynch, Pink Floyd, Matt Pike, Sara Magenheimer, Folk Art paint, Melt Banana, Mamma Andersson, Funkadelic, Al Green, Ferdinand Cheval, Bruno Munari, Enzo Mari, Tears For Fears, Cino Zucchi, Roberto Nardi, Andrea and Anna Peruggi, Fergus Feehily, Jason McLean, Amy Lockhart, Joy Walker, Keith Richards, Marc Bell, Jeff Ladouceur, Link Wray, Painter's Mate Delicate, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Buffy Sainte Marie, Sandy Denny, Silver Apples, Sigur Ros, Slint, Sly Stone, Elliott Smith, Sonic Youth, Allen Ruppersberg, Spinal Tap, The Stooges, Supertramp, Bob Somers, Matt Sweeney, Thin Lizzy, Federico Garcia Lorca, Wu Tang Clan, Old Dirty Bastard, RZA, Tom Waits, Tortoise, Raymond Pettibon, Kanye West, Lucinda Williams, White Stripes, The Wipers, Neko Case, Dwight Yoakam, Radiohead, Stephen King, Stephen Fry, Francis Alys, Weird Al Yankovic, Terry Zweigoff, Alan Zweig, Southpark, George Lucas, John K., REM, Mike Judge, Akira Kurosawa, Jack Webb, Wim Wenders, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert E. Howard, Ernest Hemingway, Emily Bronte, Arturo Herrera, Charlotte Bronte, Antoine De Saint Exupery, Stan Lee, Daniel Johnston, Jack Kirby, John Burningham, Frank Miller, Walt Simonson, Sean Landers, Catherine O'Hara, The Maysles, Takashi Murakami, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Andrea Martin, Martin Short, Bill Murray, Chris Johanson, Greg Allen, Stephen Merchant, Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McLanahan, Estelle Getty, Kip Jackson, Jake Kosciuk, Burgin Streetman, Dan Dueck, Sharon Alward, Lykke Li, Dolly Parton, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, David Simon, Fred Rogers, Mr. Dressup, Marlene Milne, Dan Miller, Isla Touchette, Hank Williams, Doug Mclean, John Ford, Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Forrest Bess, Hal Ashby, Karla Kuskin, Ed Emberly, Alvin Lustig, Gustave Flaubert, Ernie Coombs, Fritz Freleng, Gene Roddenberry, Pokemon, Jason Dumontier,Charles Addams, Biff Rose, Kiki Smith, Tomland, Steiff, Seinfeld, King James, Charles Thorson, Rumiko Takahashi, NisN, Albert Einstein, Daniel Barrow, A Sound Awareness, Edward Gorey, Jay Ward, Bill Scott, Stephen Hawking, Charles Darwin, Hermann Hesse, James Joyce, L. Frank Baum, John Seares Riley, Ben Graves, Aleister Crowley, Franz Kafka, Jean Cocteau, Henry Miller, John Steinbeck, C.S. Lewis, Tove Jansson, James Castle, George Orwell, Albert Camus, JD Salinger, William S. Burroughs, R.D. Laing, Jean Paul Sartre, B.F. Skinner, H.P. Lovecraft, Paul Feyerabend, Haruki Murakami, Alain Biltereyst, Matt Olson, Jonathan Borofsky, William Wegman, Sigmar Polke, Bill Callahan, Dieter Roth, Chris Dumontier, Charley Harper, Leo Lionni, Remy Charlip, Alfred Hitchcock, Herman Melville, Ruth Krauss, Robert Dayton, Erwin Wurm, Charlie Tweddle, Lisl Weill, Christian Marclay, Lou Reed, Julian Cope, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joseph Cornell, Fluxus, S. Gross, Berke Breathed, Micah Lexier, Tom Friedman, Heinrich Anton Muller, Robert Wyatt, Tim Burton, Henry Darger, Miranda July, Fischli and Weiss, Moondog, Paul Butler, Temple Bates, Frank Capra, Danielson Family, Paul Rand, Bobb Trimble, Saul Bass, David Dunlap, Emmett Williams, Bas Jan Ader, Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Pavement, Margaret Keane, Isamu Noguchi, Theodor Seuss Geisel, Seymour Chwast, John Pangnark, Alex Chilton, Edward Lear, Reference Library, Charles G. Shaw, Hans Arp, Maurice Sendak, Gyo Fujikawa, Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan, Alchemy, Abnormal Psychology, Hugh Scott Douglas, Tim Buckley, Rob Reiner, David Noonan, Galaxie 500, Gaston Bachelard,Tim Hardin, Max and Dave Fleischer, Enn and Fay, Josephine Foster, Hanna-Barbara, Eastman and Laird, Richard Heller, Suzie Smith, Sylvia Matas, Gaston Chaissac, Esphyr Slobodkina, Bruce Winstone, J.P. Williams, Iela Mari, Luke Anguhadluq, Vija Celmins, Josef Albers, Bruce Haack, James Marshall, Roald Dahl, J.R.R. Tolkein, Noam Chomsky, Andy Kaufman, Arthur Russell, Charles Bukowski, Alan Lomax, William Eggleston, Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Wise Brown, Wayne Baerwaldt, French and Saunders, Eric Satie, Paul Rand, Jubaliness, Krista Gowenlock, Frank Frazetta, Steve Ditko, Francoise Hardy, Jeanette and Maurice Dzama, Steven Spielberg, John Buscema, Rick Farber, Mitchell and Webb, Paul and Delila Farber, Boris Karloff, J. Krishnamurti, Zachery Vex, Tom Savini, Alf, David Chase, The IT crowd, Humphrey Bogart, Liliput, Dave Chappelle, Art Spiegelman, Ritsuko Kawai, Shakers, Stan Winston, Norm and Arlene Dumontier, Skip Spence, Joseph Yoakum, AJD, Fredun Shapur, Carlo Zinelli, Robert Breer, Mitchell Hurwitz, Paul Feig, Arnold Lobel, Alison Norlen, Eddie and Steven, H.W. Janson, Erica Jong, Pepe and Luis, Joseph A. Smith, Jeffrey and Humphrey, Steve Benson, Francoise Adamsbaum, Connie Gardner, Francis Picabia, Guy Bartschi, Oprah Winfrey, Hans Prinzhorn, Conny Plank, Joseph Spence, Alison Garwood-Jones, Coleco, Zooey Deschanel, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, The Knife, Frank L. Baum...
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Labels: influences, works in progress
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
weather log
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Unfinished painting #59
Unfinished painting #58
Unfinished painting #57
Unfinished painting #56
Monday, March 26, 2012
So I'm up on the roof and I fall off
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Sunday, March 25, 2012
Unfinished painting #55
Unfinished painting #54
Unfinished painting #53
Unfinished painting #52
Unfinished painting #51
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Unfinished Painting #50
Unfinished Painting #49
Unfinished Painting #48
Friday, March 23, 2012
Unfinished painting #47
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Unfinished painting #46
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
Unfinished painting #45
Unfinished painting #44
Unfinished Painting #43
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Unfinished painting #42
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Unfinished painting #41
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
Unfinished painting #40
Unfinished painting #39
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Unfinished painting #38
Unfinished painting #37
Unfinished painting #36
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Unfinished painting #35
Unfinished painting #34
Unfinished painting #33
Unfinished painting #32
Unfinished painting #31
Saturday, March 17, 2012
The Middle of the Air
MKG127 in Toronto.
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Labels: exhibitions
Unfinished painting #30
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Friday, March 16, 2012
When I was a baby
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Unfinished Painting #29
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
The Caution
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Dear Bill and Henry,
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
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Friday, March 9, 2012
On Your Own
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|"Is this all real? Or has this been happening inside my head?"
The subject of this article is a real-life person, company, product, or creative work that has been mentioned "in-universe" in a canon source. The Harry Potter Compendium is written from the perspective that all information presented in canon is true (e.g., Hogwarts really exists), and, as such, details contained in this article may differ from real world facts.
|Location information
Great Britain, Western Europe
Scotland is a country on the island of Great Britain in Western Europe that is part of the United Kingdom. Its only land border is with England, to the south. Its capital city is Edinburgh.
Scotland is the location of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the magical village of Hogsmeade. The more remote, mountainous terrain of Scotland makes it a more likely choice of place for an institution that must be disguised to keep it invisible to Muggles. Its location is unknown, though Hermione says it is close to Dufftown. Though it is more likely in the North West Highlands (probably Sutherland) due to the more isolated landscapes and the lack of nearby towns.
Scotland is one of the most frequent breakers of Clause 73 (this is the clause that ensures the secrecy of magical creatures) of the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy of any nation. This is mostly due to the world's largest kelpie residing in Loch Ness.
Magical games and sportsEdit
- The Banchory Bangers were a Scottish Quidditch team noted for their poor skills and post-match parties. After a match against the Appleby Arrows in 1814, the Bangers allowed their Bludgers to zoom off into the night, and set out to capture a Hebridean Black to be their mascot.
- Creaothceann originated in Scotland, and is regarded as the most dangerous of all broom games. Creaothceann players were equipped with a broomstick and wore a cauldron strapped to their head. At the start of the game, a hundred rocks that had been charmed to float a hundred feet (30.48m) above the ground began to fall to the ground. The players then zoomed around the field, trying to catch as many rocks in their cauldrons as possible.
- Montrose Magpies
- Pride of Portree
- The Scottish National Quidditch team is the national Quidditch team for Scotland competed in the 1994 Quidditch World Cup.
- Wimbourne Wasps
Known Scottish wizards and witchesEdit
- Andrew Cleveley was an unnoticed wizard that appears on the Marauder's Map around the Grand Staircase on the last day of term. (possible)
- Ernie Macmillan was a Hufflepuff student in Harry Potter's year at Hogwarts and member of Dumbledore's Army. (possible)
- Guthrie Lochrin was a wizard who lived in 1107 and made a broomstick flight from Montrose to Arbroath.
- The McGonagall family and Ross family of Caithness. Isobel McGonagall (née Ross) was a witch and mother of Minerva McGonagall, Robert McGonagall Jr. and Malcolm McGonagall. Minerva was a Professor of Transfiguration and later Headmistress of Hogwarts.
- Oliver Wood was a former Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. (implied)
- Prudence, Modesty Rabnott's sister, was from Aberdeen, Scotland sometime around the 13th century.
- The Quintin family was a Scottish wizarding family who manufactured Quintin Black.
- Rowena Ravenclaw was a witch of Medieval Times and one of the four founders of Hogwarts. She was noted for her cleverness and creativity, and was described by Xenophilius Lovegood as "beautiful." The Sorting Hat introduced her as "fair Ravenclaw, from glen," suggesting she was from Scotland. (possible)
Known Scottish MugglesEdit
- Angus Fleet was a Muggle who lived in Peebles, Scotland. On 1 September, 1992, the Daily Prophet reported how he spotted a Ford Anglia in flight and told the police about it.
- Robert McGonagall Sr., (husband of the witch Isobel McGonagall, and father of their magical children Minerva McGonagall, Robert McGonagall Jr., and Malcolm McGonagall) and his parents, possible siblings and extended family.
Magical creatures and plantsEdit
- Aconite
- The native range of the Banshee is Scotland, as well as Ireland.
- Blast-Ended Skrewts were illegally bred in Scotland by Rubeus Hagrid.
- Blood-Sucking Bugbears
- Bubotubers can be found in Scotland, in the Forbidden Forest.
- Devil's Snare
- There is a Giant Squid residing in Black Lake.
- The Hebridean Black Dragon, is native to the Hebrides Islands.
- Nessie, the world's largest Kelpie, can be found in Loch Ness, Scotland.
- The Moondew is a flowering plant found in Scotland, and possibly Ireland.
- Possibly ogres, as one was seen drinking in the Three Broomsticks Inn.
- The Quintaped can be found on the Isle of Drear.
- The Scottish stag, known for its impressive horns, is native to Scotland.
- There is a Thestral herd residing at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
- The Vampyr Mosp may be native to Scotland, as they are frequently found in the sewers, pipes and greenhouses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
- The Weetimorousbeastie is a fabled creature that allegedly lives on the banks of the River Clyde.
- The Wiggenbush
Food and beveragesEdit
- The source of the sparkling beverage McSpratts is in the Vale of McGowan in the Scottish Highlands.
- Quintin Black was a brand of alcohol produced and sold in Scotland by the Quintin family.
Known locationsEdit
Exclusively magicalEdit
- Hogsmeade, Scotland
- Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Scotland
Muggle and magicalEdit
- Aberdeen
- Arbroath
- Argyllshire, was a county of Scotland until 1975
- Banchory
- Dufftown
- Dundee
- Edinburgh (captital city)
- Glasgow
- Hebrides Islands (a group of islands located off the west coast of Scotland)
- Inverness
- Loch Lomond, a famous lake in Scotland
- Loch Ness, a large freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands
- Lowercroft
- Montrose
- Peebles
- Vale of McGowan, Scottish Highlands
- Wigtown
Behind the scenesEdit
- A number of the scenes in the films were filmed in Scotland.[citation needed]
The following people involved with Harry Potter came from Scotland:
- Catherine Balavage, who portrayed a Death Eater in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.
- David O'Hara, who portrayed Albert Runcorn in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.
- David Tennant, who portrayed Barty Crouch Jr. in the film adaptation of Goblet of Fire.
- James Runcie, the director of J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life.
- Katie Leung, who portrays Cho Chang in the Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince.
- Kelly Macdonald, who portrayed Helena Ravenclaw in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
- Lewis MacLeod, the voice actor who voiced Albus Dumbledore, Boris the Bewildered, and an unidentified Ministry Wizard in the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
- Patrick Doyle, composer of the score for the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
- Peter Mullan, who portrayed Yaxley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Part 2.
- Robbie Coltrane , who portrayed Rubeus Hagrid in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince , Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Part 2 and so is one of the 14 actors to appear in all 8 film adaptations.
- Sean Biggerstaff, who portrayed Oliver Wood in the film adaptations of Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets.
- Shirley Henderson, who portrayed Moaning Myrtle in the film adaptations of Chamber of Secrets and Goblet of Fire.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Book
External linksEdit
- Scotland on Wikipedia

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Joined: 23 Nov 2004
Posts: 450
Location: a Dutchie in HongKong
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 2:48 am
Post subject: The ultimate Bolognese...
so, my dear friends, one of my last homecooked meals in Holland was pasta with a ragu bolognese, a recipe I saw once on the BBC, by Antonio Carluccio, I tried it, liked it for its pureness and simplicity, but now I'm very curious about your own succes-bolognese-stories.
Reading ' the travellers lunchbox' story of her ragu-compromise made me think of adding more variations to this basic sauce - but also hesistating. Should we mess with a good Bolognese? Or should we just give it another name to give the bolognese-soul peace?!
Here's what mr. Carluccio told me. A very simple, basic, good ragu. No herbs, no spices, no garlic. He did say that using (a little) pork in this ragu ( maybe 1/3 if you want less pork or even just 1/4 does add a lot of flavour. The only cheating I do is, sometimes, add a tiny bit of sugar.
(as always, mesures are not very strict, you can make as much or as little as you like!):
- 25 gr butter
- olive oil
- 1 medium white onion, chopped
- 250 gr minced beef
- 250 gr minced pork
- a good splash of white wine (about 1 glass)
- 1 teaspoon concentrated tomato paste
- 2 cans of pulpa di pomodoro or chopped tomatoes
- pepper and salt to taste
In a large pan melt the butter and olive oil together and sautee the onion. Add the meat in smaller portions and stir well while browning, so that the meat breaks up.
Add the wine, tomatopaste and canned tomatoes, some salt and pepper.
Leave to simmer for as long as possible, taste before serving (add some more salt if needed) and serve over tagliatelle or spagetti.
Parmesan could be added to taste.
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Location: Berkeley, CA
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:17 am
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I'm addicted to the bolognese recipe in the Best Recipe Cookbook, which is similar to this but has a bit of finely chopped carrot and celery for sweetness, and which also calls for simmering the meat in milk before the wine.
An awesome variation: venison bolognese (or, as I like to call it, bambi bolognese). One of my friends shoots a deer every year and occasionally hands out some of the meat, and he and I have both made this recipe with his ground venison. It ends up very lean (venison has much less fat than, say, beef), tender, and tasty.
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:37 pm
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I've recently discovered canned cherry tomatoes and they make the sauces just a tad sweeter, and the visual of the little toms is quite lovely!!
Vivant Linguae Mortuae!!
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Location: a Dutchie in HongKong
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 4:18 pm
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That sounds good David!! I just found out that canned (and fresh ones for that matter) tomatoes, as wel as some other day-to-day groceries, are very expensive here!!!
Which will not keep me from doing some cooking ofcourse, but it does explain all the eating out here!
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Location: Gold Coast Australia
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 8:41 pm
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srk wrote:
finely chopped carrot and celery for sweetness, .
Sauteeing carrot and celery with the onion is a standard base for many sauces but especially bolognase.
Regarding canned tomatoes - read the labels. Some Italian canned tomatoes are actually from China.
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Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 4:10 am
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I know!!! I prefer italian tomatoes. Good thing there's lots of Brittish stuff here is most supermarkets so that makes it easier. It is Australian food week btw in one of the more upscale supermarkets. Timtams and all. Fun!!!
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Location: England
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:32 pm
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no garlic.
But... but... surely that's a criminal offence in Italy?!!!
Confusion comes fitted as standard.
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Posts: 236
Location: Madison, WI
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 7:56 pm
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I was in Hong Kong recently for just a week, but one of the most fascinating things for me to do in my free time (I was at a conference and didn't have a lot of free time) was to go grocery shopping. I couldn't cook, but I still loved to look at the selection in the various grocery stores and markets, as well as the little bun shops. There was also a really beautiful (especially visually beautiful) bakery that I visited in this extremely upscale mall in Shatin. I still have multicolored shopping bags from City Super that I use regularly. I am having fun imagining you food shopping in Hong Kong. I also really enjoyed going for the fancy style of English tea in the afternoon, even though I was shocked to find so many people drinking strong tea with Coffee Mate, a substance I find foul, and would not voluntarily ingest no matter how lactose intolerant I was. For some reason I did not think I would like Hong Kong (and I think the crowding would still be problematic for me, despite the fact that once you are out of the city center there was more green space than I imagined) but I think it would be a fun place for a "foodie" to explore. Are you having fun? Do tell.
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Location: Lerné, France
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 1:20 pm
Post subject: Sauce Bolognese
If you can, grind your own meats, and put them through the grinder twice. Or ask the butcher to do this, it will make a difference in the end product, making it a little finer. Try adding some pancetta to the meat mix before grinding. I always include carrot and celery too, and once the meat no longer looks raw, but before it starts browning, try adding a dry white wine instead of red. Let the wine evaporate, then add a cup or so of whole milk into which you have grated fresh nutmeg, about a quarter or half teaspoon for 3 pounds of meats. When the milk is almost evaporated, add the tomato products and simmer slowly, the longer the better. If it gets too dry, add hot beef stock and continue to simmer. 3-4 hours on a slow simmer makes the best sauce.
Hope you all are enjoying the debut of spring!
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Location: Cambs, UK
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:42 pm
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I'd definitely start with finely diced carrot, onion and celery (if it's a slow bolognaise)
If it's a quick one however, I just use garlic and onion as the carrots take too long to cook.
A grating of nutmeg is nice, or a splash of balsamic vinegar if I feel it needs a lift.
I like to add frozen peas too -- they give a nice freshness.
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no garlic.
But... but... surely that's a criminal offence in Italy?!!!
absolutely not, but definitely a crime in Italian-American and perhaps Anglo-Italian cooking when most emigrants to English-speaking countries came from Sicily and the poorest regions of Southern Italy.
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IMHO (shared w many), the best recipes for ragu bolognese published in English are from Lynne Rosetto Kasper in
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So funny to think of such a hearty dish here in the summer heat, but in Australia...
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:35 pm
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Re: garlic and 'poor sicilians'!
Huge huge stereotype. I am proudly of Sicilian stock; my parents were not poor, nor did they emigrate due to financial hardship.
My mother makes the best pasta sauce - my children are addicted to it and everyone who eats it rates it very highly.
No onion, no garlic.
She fries her meat/meatballs/etc in olive oil then removes them. She then adds good quality tomato paste to the oil and fries it, then adds canned italian tomatoes, salt, pepper and basil. Meat is added back to the sauce and simmered slowly for a while. She used to add bones but I don't think she does anymore. She generally uses meatballs (made with minced beef, pecorino cheese, breadcrumbs, eggs, parsley and garlic chives) and stewing beef; occasionally she will add her own home made italian sausages (pepper and fennel) or involtini (meat wrapped around a filling of bacon or prosciutto, breadcrumbs, parsley and garlic chives). She also makes a bolognese in the same way, using minced beef instead of pieces of meat.
She ends up with a very full-bodied, rich, red sauce - due to the amount of tomatoes and the long, slow cooking time which allows the meat to really flavour the sauce without the need for any extra additives.
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 3:33 pm
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In all due respect to your family, Archer, let's not confuse stereotypes with facts. And Deste is stating a documentable fact.
Note the key word: most.
All you need to do is look at the records from Ellis Island and Castle Garden to confirm. The huge waves of "Italian" immigrants were primarily poor, and primarily from the south, with Sicily and Calabresse contributing more than than their fair share.
Nor is this unusual. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, no matter what ethnic group was involved, it was
poor people who came to America. That's not a slur, by any means---my grandparents were numbered among them.
Nor is this unreasonable. Except during times of intense political upheaval (pre-war Germany, pre-Castro Cuba), well-to-do people have little reason to move. They certainly don't emigrate in large numbers.
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History and politics aside archer61's description of his beloved sauce has me salivating beyond belief!
Vivant Linguae Mortuae!!
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My favorite Bolognese has pork, veal & pancetta for the meats. And a cup or so of milk to soften the acidity a bit.
I've also seen recipes with wine - either white
or red.
L'appetit vient en mangeant. -Rabelais
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- 1-2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 large onion chopped
- 1 clove garlic crushed
- 4 rashers/125g bacon chopped
- 2 large or 3 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
- 600ml/1pt vegetable or chicken stock
- 300ml/1/2pt milk
- 500g peas, frozen or fresh
- 4 slices/125g cooked ham cut into small pieces
- Heat the oil in a large saucepan. Gently fry the onions, garlic and bacon over a low heat for about 10 mins until the onions are soft and the bacon is browned.
- Add the potatoes and stock to the pan, bring to the boil, turn down heat and simmer for about 10 mins until potatoes are cooked.
- Pour in milk and tip peas into pan, simmer for a further few mins until peas are done. remove from heat.
- Add chopped ham to the pan, then blend until smooth. season with salt, pepper and a little sugar if needed.
- Serve with big wedges of homemade crusty bread.
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I had all the ingredients except the Potato, however I did have one of those ready mash potato servings from the Supermarket, so scooped that into the pan and viola.... it worked! Absolutely gorgeous soup for Pea & Ham fans and I'm delighted with my improvisation which worked a treat...
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Absolutely delicious soup recipe, in fact, one of the nicest soup's I have ever tasted. It is a big hit with my family, inc the children. We have it at least once a week with some home made bread. We eat it as a main meal as it is very filling. I add more garlic and milk to my recipe, lovely (",)


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Do people still give slide shows? Is there any chance ... like ... any chance at all ... of going back? To slideshows, black and white teevee, the milkman, 'zines, etc?
Wait. NEVER MIND ... I couldn't ever go back to 1995 for real because ... if it was 1991/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9 ... there'd be no Uh Huh Her. Who would be Tinkerbell's new number one band? Would you still believe in something?
I don't have a brand new inventive post in me right now so I'm gonna ramble instead. Honestly, it's so fucking weird to think about how from now on I'll never be posting from that little cave I lived in until yesterday! The cave where I lost my mind and lost ahold of like -- ME! I mean ... wtf? That space ... that room ... that emo-cave ... has been so central to a certain phase of evolution and similarly to a certain phase of solitary self-destruction.
You get into a routine. You're up up up up up up up and more up up up up up up and then down. There's the computer, radiating possibility of connection without having to face anything, really, face to face, and what if I don't like your face? and if you dare to go outside I was proven right right away -- yes, you're right, people are annoying, and they talk too loud, and want all the wrong things.
Speaking of the nineties ...
So I felt anchored in that emo cave like I've never felt anchored before. As in; not at the port. But drowning. Anchored by the weight of books, hundreds of books and the shelves that held them. By running to the hospital with photocopies while my limbs wondered if I'd ever eat or feel again. Anchored by an empty bank account, that silly meaningless determined vessel.
Anchored by the weight of moving in at a low point and never really recovering and this week has been a blur of wishing just once I could move without mourning and then remembering how often I used to. How many times I moved not only without mourning but WITH determination.
How I used to move with pride, violently alone.
When in doubt: go. Did you hurt me? Time to go. A fight? Let's fight for the door except that wait just kidding, I'm already there, and that do you hear that sound that it is the sound of it shutting.
I knew, after all, the danger of depending.
Because, speaking of the nineties, one day I dared to write in my diary that my Dad was the only good thing in my life and the next day I woke up and went to school at Pioneer and then during 9th hour because I didn't have a 9th hour I went to McDonald's with my theater friends and I ate two cheeseburgers and french fries and a Coke. We came back to school and there were messages for me.
I read the messages & waited outside alone for the woman who'd left the messages to come pick me up. She drove me away from school 'cause what had just happened while I'd been eating cheeseburgers is that my Dad died. I'd told my diary he was the only good thing in my life and so then he died.
So. At 14 I became fierce, cold, and mean. Violent without touching. Violent 'cause when I said "fuck off" I meant it and I stayed that way for years and years.
This thing where I depend? That thing? That's new to me. I mean, I'm so new at it. There's not many things I'm new at anymore but I'm new at: being broke, not going to a physical workplace every day and also I'm new at depending.
Because back then? You'd never catch me caring. Like in public. Alone: alone I could do anything! I could cry, cut, starve, fuck, try try try to feel something -- ANYTHING -- anything else.
And this brings us to the part where I'm trying to roll up my own carpet to leave the dorms that semester and I have to ask an RA to help me 'cause I realize suddenly it's a physically impossible task and per ush I'm the last one in the dormitory, determined to do it alone, because that's what I DO, that's what I DO! I do it alone. I don't want help. Help is for people who can't hack it on their own, help is for losers and I, I, I iiiiiiii am a winner. mememememe.
I had my own money from my Dad and on top of that I always worked as often as I could so I had more than enough so I can pay for you and you and you and then ultimately memememe. And the RA says "Sure," surprised of course that that girl (the only first year student to actually request a single, the girl who didn't wanna meet new people and at 19 had already lived away from home for four years, like in a CITY ) (that girl who liked to dissappear on walks to places the other kids didn't know about and for a few weeks had to disappear to her home and stay with her Mom even though she hadn't done that in years. That girl who'd locked everything in SO TIGHT that it made her too sick to move) was talking to him at all, let alone asking for something.
"Why are you doing this alone?" he asks, squinting his eyes like I'm crazy.
I say, "My Mom's at work," even though she's not. My Mom asked if I wanted help and i said No, No, No, NO! I will do this alone.
I'll be Little Orphan Annie despite the facts. I'll beat you to the door, I'm telling you, don't fucking test me, when I run out it'll be like a slammed the door in your face but FYI my face is so over your face it needs a whole new word for Over, and Face.
read this, and call.
Those whom I've hurt:
I wanted everything, or not enough.
It was all my fault.
-Stephen Dunn, "Loves"
So this lead me, ultimately, to 2004, moving out here (alone) and busting a tire at 3 A.M. in New Jersey. My whole life was in my car and I was fucking determined to make it out alive and alone. I was saved, ultimately, by a good samaritan in a serial killer van. But before he came I don't know if I was ready to disappar or determined to keep going.
Natalie says; "You know, you always do things I'd never do 'cause I'd be too afraid it'd kill me and maybe that's just 'cause you're not like --" and then [the pause].
Chelsea says; "Marie, aren't you? Afraid?" when the topic of death comes up one afternoon in the dorms (the one I couldn't move the carpet out of). No, of course not, I say, paying only half attention. How silly. Here, is here, and here is okay. And there is with my Dad, and so that's okay too, and so what's the big deal? Death is not THIS but that doesn't mean it's not okay.
When did this change? When did I change? When did I start caring so hard that I had to stop caring even harder?
And where's the middle ground, between me and not me, between anchors and flying, between leaving and refusing to leave? The line between love and hate isn't all that thin, but the line between love and love? It's a gulf. It's a terrifying gulf and as you try to leap across it, hate will grab you by the horns and it will hurt and if you make it to the other side ... that's love. And now you've earned it after all.
I don't know. I don't know the answers to these questions. Right now, thanks to Team Crisis (A;ex, Stef, and -- for the very very heavy stuff -- A;ex's friend Eric, with his man-muscles), all my shit is now in a storage unit. Or in the trash or at the salvation army or sold or donated.
With me: I've got a suitcase and my heart and a desire to move into a middle ground where I can be on a Team without needing a Team Crisis.
Right now I'm in A;ex's basement in Long Island. I have abso-fucking-lutely no idea where I'm gonna live or really what I'm gonna do, like with my life, and that fucking pisses me off, and will probs gaurantee at least ten more panic attacks this week, but my Mom always told me that thing about lemons and lemonade. Like how you should make lemonades out of lemons if that's what you get. And another thing my Mom taught me is that people can fuck you up but people can change. People will change, no matter what the stakes. People CAN change.
And who doesn't like lemonade? Assholes, that's who. People who can't spare a nickel. Look. If I can spare a nickel, you can spare a nickel.
I hope I win the calendar contest, I'd love to know what day it is, how time passes, you know. how we go on.
So anyway here I am in the middle of wherevs in the basement 'cause there's no wireless upstairs and a;ex made me dinner. We sat outside on the back porch and I thought oh my god it is so quiet. And I thought, if I'm gonna do this, I mean really do this, I mean get back to the mememememe I was before I somehow lost it ....
I don't know if you've ever had this experience, but sometimes when I trust someone else with gravity it's like my heart looks at me and is like, "really?" and then before I can answer it goes, it flutters away like the happiest bird of all time. It goes before I answer, like it has wings I'd never noticed before, I'd just thought "what nice shoulder blades you have."
I mean that first my heart drops to my gut, and then directly to the sky. And then it disappears. And I watch it go and I nod because I'm okay with that.
And I guess what I'm saying is; everyone I love, I need you now.
I need you because I don't. I need you because I want you, because I want to choose who I want close to me. Because ... actually, ultimately ... like you've shown me a million trillion times ... I can't really count on anyone but me.
And so I know that. And so after that, I mean after learning that again ... I've chosen to count on you. And you, and you, and you. I want to love you all and I can't let anyone else tell me what to do or who to love if I'm going to just be true to myself. And so I've chosen to count on you and you and you and you and you and you and you and you and you and you and trust me, you know, I've got my back, and I'm sorry, for what I said, but I've got it, I've got my own back, here's the trust fall, and here's my trust, and let me, because, it was my turn to decide and all I know is that I should.


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Jeffcoat comes to DC from the nationally syndicated news-talk show "The List," where she served as co-host. Prior to that Jan spent 5 years anchoring Good Day Chicago and Fox Chicago News at noon at WFLD in Chicago.
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Friday, July 11, 2008
My New H**ker Shoes
And they even had them in my size. However, apparently, these were the very same shoes that Megan was muttering about. I bought them anyway. I even wore them to church...without the ankle straps, of course, 'cause that would be pushing it. So I ask you, my friends. Are these h**ker shoes?? Tell me the truth. I'm a big girl.
26 comments:
- Lacey said...
I think they are adorable and I would have bought a pair.
- July 11, 2008 at 9:50 AM
LOVE EM"!!! I think it makes a difference what you do in them. Going to church makes them innocent and adorable. I don't think you have anything to worry about.
- July 11, 2008 at 11:23 AM
- The Brough Family said...
Like I said on Sunday... the brown saves them. Enjoy them, as long as you're not standing on some corner with fish net tights and a leather skirt, I think you're good!!
- July 11, 2008 at 11:47 AM
- Camie said...
HOT HOT HOT!!! Totally lovin' them...
- July 11, 2008 at 12:02 PM
- Ashlee said...
Hookers don't do frilly. Not that I know from personal experience...
You are safe with these. They are so cute! Where did you get them?
- July 11, 2008 at 12:09 PM
- Cherie said...
So Funny!! I think they are cute!
- July 11, 2008 at 1:20 PM
- April said...
You two are CRAZY!
- July 11, 2008 at 1:26 PM
- Rosanne said...
You are too cute - and so are the shoes! Love them! Sometimes you gotta make a purchase like this to make you NOT feel like a frumpy mom...and more like a sexy mama! ;) Good for you! What does Tony think? I'm sure he loves them - and his and your opinions are all that matter. :) (or maybe even just yours - ha!)
- July 11, 2008 at 1:33 PM
- Amber M. said...
Ashlee, I got them at Maurices. They had WAY cute shoes and accessories, but I don't usually go in there. I guess I'll be popping in more often now!
- July 11, 2008 at 1:46 PM
- Jeni said...
This is funny. I bet you looked cute in them. I love the color.
- July 11, 2008 at 6:33 PM
- Albanie said...
Ok, totally saw those same ones and was going to buy them. You've got my stamp of approval! Smokin' hot!
- July 11, 2008 at 9:10 PM
- Kathleen said...
i only wish i would've seen them first.... :-)
- July 11, 2008 at 9:23 PM
- Kyndra said...
Totally cute! A way good purchase. Yesterday my friend and I walked past a store and they had Playboy shoes with scalloped edging along the sole and they were pretty cheap I thought. It's hard to see it in the picture here, but look closely http://www.shoes.com/Shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?p=EC1000443&pg=5067800 When I saw the title of your post I thought those were the shoes you were going to talk about!
- July 12, 2008 at 12:15 PM
- V and Co. said...
hahaha! hooker shoes! i love them! they would only be REAL hooker shoes if you wear a little teddy and hang out on your corner while wearing both!
- July 12, 2008 at 2:59 PM
- Jeni said...
I made Pizza Salad for dinner...yum yum! I used McCormick basil leaves it was delish...but is that what you use or do you use fresh?
Are you wearing you new shoes again tomorrow?
- July 12, 2008 at 10:51 PM
- Shannon said...
Very sexy! Now you have something to wear out for dinner and dancing :)
I don't think I'd wear them to church though...
- July 13, 2008 at 6:55 AM
- Ice Cream said...
It depends, was your g-string showing over the tops of your jeans, or was your skirt less than 24 inches long? If not than you are ok. =)
Kudos to you for buying these lovely things even after what your sister said. (did she laugh at you?). I like them.
- July 13, 2008 at 8:33 AM
- 4funboys said...
if they are (which they're NOT)...
Hook-us-up I say!!!
- July 13, 2008 at 11:36 PM
- Montserrat said...
If these are h**ker shoes than what are my 3 1/2 inch red high heels that I just bought?
Thought so...
- July 13, 2008 at 11:44 PM
- Scribbit said...
Well probably depends on what you'll be accessorizing them with--I'd not recommend the fish nets and spikey collar :)
- July 14, 2008 at 12:54 AM
- just jamie said...
Not h**ker shoes. Very, very cool shoes. They look like something Oprah would wear.
- July 14, 2008 at 12:58 PM
- zakkalife said...
No, those are not even close to h**ker shoes. Plus I thought the cardinal rule was they have to have clear heals to qualify. Well, at least according to Chris Rock.
Anyways, they're adorable and I would have purchased them too.
- July 16, 2008 at 10:55 PM
I have those same exact shoes... in bright pink!! I wore them for my wedding last year... with and without the strap!! So if the black are H shoes... what about bright pink? Honestly I don't think we have anything to worry about!
- July 22, 2008 at 9:30 AM
- Amy said...
I love them and would have totally gotten a pair. I think my husband would have even liked them.
You go girl!
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