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Sunday, August 21, 2011
Jack Mackenroth has a CALENDAR
The calendar begins in January 2012 and continues through May 2013. Each month features a different photographer with a very different style.
Photographers taking part int the project include Adam Bouska (NOH8), Rick Day, Carsten Fleck, Frank Louis, James Franklin, Karl Giant, Tommy Synnamon, Mattheus Lian, Richard Gerst, Ray John Pila, Sonny Tong, Thomas Evans, Krys Fox and Preston Cros with over 17 amazing images in total.
The calendar’s dimensions are 8.5 x 11 inches, and are available online for $14.95 (plus tax and shipping). Please allow 2 weeks for shipping as Jack is signing and shipping them all personally. Please be patient.
"Body Escape" by Mustafa Sabbagh
Well I think I amback and hopefully full tilt too. I have been really sick since late Wednesday night and in that time I got to thinking that if anything I am a writer, everything else is secondary. True I am gay, a middle age "queen" if you will, a long term AIDS survivor, a boyfriend, a student but above everything like I said I am a writer.
Well I did some searching this morning and found this lovely little gem of a video...not necessarily fashion but who can resist a naked man rolling around on the floor, lord knows I can't. So needless to say this is NSFW but ever so fun. Hope you enjoy.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Painful post
I know I have been really bad about posting here and I guess I lost my groove, maybe even my inspiration behind what I was blogging about. It is painful to admit it but it seems like and maybe I am worng but nobody was really caring. I was doing all the talking for the longest time and then I fell into just picture posts with no text and that seemed to work for a while and then I missed a few days and then a few days became what it is now. I was posting 6-8 posts everyday and my readership has really suffered because of it and now it makes me feel even worse.
Like I have let all of you down, I lost the one clear voice when it came to men's fashion on the interente and I am beginning to wonder if I will ever find it again. Some of it is very personal, so much so I don;t even want to talk about it here, some of it is not and I guess that is what this post is about.
I really wonder if I was providing a viable voice in men's fashion, was it just wonderful eye candy, what made me at the start of the year have 50,000 readers in a month and now well it seems like I have lost my way. Some of it has been because of my work load at school, some of it has not. Some of it is personal things I am going through and some of it is not. Some of it is that my mom has been very ill with 4 strokes within a 5 month period that have left her wuiet frankly a shell of what she once was. That has been very hard.
Some of it quite frankly is I was hoping for feedback and it just never really happened. I wanted to provide something no one else was and for a while I was, now lord only knows. Maybe if I start posting again I will get into the groove of it.
Like I have let all of you down, I lost the one clear voice when it came to men's fashion on the interente and I am beginning to wonder if I will ever find it again. Some of it is very personal, so much so I don;t even want to talk about it here, some of it is not and I guess that is what this post is about.
I really wonder if I was providing a viable voice in men's fashion, was it just wonderful eye candy, what made me at the start of the year have 50,000 readers in a month and now well it seems like I have lost my way. Some of it has been because of my work load at school, some of it has not. Some of it is personal things I am going through and some of it is not. Some of it is that my mom has been very ill with 4 strokes within a 5 month period that have left her wuiet frankly a shell of what she once was. That has been very hard.
Some of it quite frankly is I was hoping for feedback and it just never really happened. I wanted to provide something no one else was and for a while I was, now lord only knows. Maybe if I start posting again I will get into the groove of it.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
An Enormous Oz Thank you to IWOC
Dearest Jane Albright:
First and foremost I need to deeply thank you for e-mailing me asking why one of Oz's most favorite fashion people was not attending IWOC and its very own fashion show. From that initial phone conversation about why IWOC and why Banner Elk and leading me to talk with Karen Owens more about what makes this convention different than others I have attended.
Jane, you completely and utterly outdid yourself and I am forever and humbly indebted to making this last weekend one of the very greatest moments of my entire life. From the beautiful spaces where each event was held, to the guests hotels, to the Convention events, displays, lectures, goody bags not to mention the absolutely delicious catering each and every step you kept wowing us and out doing yourself time and time again. Your dedication to not only Oz but to the IWOC, its members and those of us as fans made me feel the immense love of not only this great movie, the timeless stories that have been written but the very true and very deep and personal relationships that I made this weekend all because of you.
I would have never had this experience if you had never asked and for making this event and for making me so at home. I am deeply moved. Thank you.
Dearest Karen Owens:
From the very first moment I met you, now almost I believe four years ago, you have done everything within your power to make me feel truly loved. Your dedication to every thing Oz related is overwhelming, your thoughtfulness in keeping your eyes open for something you knew I would love and would want in my own collection, well that just stunned me. To take the time out of your schedule not even three weeks before this convention started to speak with me about IWOC is something I will never forget. If you ever need anything in any way shape or form I am here for you---just ask. All of my love.
Dearest Sean Barrett:
From the very beginning I arrived in Banner Elk I knew I was in for something life altering and your dedication and love for the Wizard of Oz is VERY obvious from the second I got to finally meet you. For taking the time out of your personal life and making the entire "Land Of Oz" day even possible; as I tried telling when I left to come home to Ohio, I was and still am eternally in indebted to you, your incredible kindness and undying generous nature for making my life long dream of being in Oz possible. From the minute I met Dorothy in front of her home in the theme park I knew I was in for something entirely magical that would never leave me the same.
Words can not begin to describe to you what you did for me this weekend and making me fall ever more deeply in love with Oz. I know we hardly had any time to talk but your kindness is something I will never forget. Sean, your one in a trillion and I just need you to know how much I appreciate everything you did.
Dearest Micheal Siewert and his Parents:
Michael, your parents are some of the most amazing people I have ever met. From the minute your mother took me under her wing and made me feel like part of your amazing family I knew how utterly blessed you are for having them in your life. I have never laughed so hard in my life, from your mom and Dad trying to walk in that eschewed Dorothy house to your mom literally pulling Dorothy out of her sleep in the Poppy field "Time to get up Dorothy, that's enough sleep were hungry" to just every kindness they showed me I am at an utter loss for words. It goes beyond that for me.... Michael you treated me the entire weekend like royality and your kindness, humor, generosity has been your most endearing qualities. To take the time to show all of the dresses you own, plus items you have never shown anywhere else, left this fan as always overwhelmed. I can not begin to describe how overwhelming blessed I feel to have you and your parents for even just 2 days in my life. After the months of health issues I have had, the depression I have felt since April: and other minor things I have had to face you and your parents made me forget every last bit of it.
I'll love all of you all of my life and your kindness to me is something that I will forever cherish--as always all of my undying love.
To Deb Dwyer, Karen Owens, Barb Evans and others who asked about me:
As some of you might have known I was slightly under the weather this last weekend and you three ladies along with some others ,whose names I have forgotten somehow, took me to heart and kept asking me how I was feeling/doing and just plain old "mothering" me. The last five months have been very hard with my own mother having had 4 strokes in that five month period and to have you gals embrace and "coddle" me just made the weekend that much more special to know you three were always asking about me. You gals are just great thanks again.
There are so many people to thank for so much:
Scott and Walter: the decorations were amazing and your giveaways drawings was very kind of both of you. The two of you are just incredible guys.
Freddy: For sharing your birthday with all of us and your Ticktock cake.
Mike-- for being the emcee for the incredible fashion show and to everyone that participated. What fun that was.
Billy-- for all of the work at the park, the displays and all the other leg work that seemed to keep you so busy. With all that in mind you still were just one of the sweetest men I have had had the privilege to meet.
And to everyone else who had anything to do with this incrediblle weekend-- al of you are just amazing---Thank you all so very much for every second of it.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
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