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Please Bury My DisappointmentFor as long as I can remember, I've considered “old” a term of endearment, even a compliment, rather than an insult. When I was little old folks enchanted me with their tales of yesteryear. Instead of rolling my eyes when my grandmother flipped through her high school yearbook, I scooted by her side and listened to her quips about every member of her graduating class. Talk about a serious Hallmark moment. The 1940s clothes and hairstyles looked perfect to me, a child of '90s gaudiness. (I type that with a dash of irony, considering I'm clad in glittery pink Jellies this very second). Just the everyday language and activities printed in classic types seemed so quaint. My high school would never have a sewing club. Our yearbook committee also wouldn't think twice about using Comic Sans. Grandma giggled at the serious expressions on some of the young men's faces, boys just young enough to escape death in World War II. Then her pale, lined finger jumped to her senior portrait and lingered there. I'll never forget what she said about her sixteen-year-old self:
“Everyone thought I was some kind of artsy bum, really. But I had class because I was so cute. Sure my teeth were crooked, but look at those eyes!” “Tweety Bird eyes,” I said. Grandma nodded approvingly before returning to decades-old gossip: “Yeah, they were swingers.” The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
If XOJane existed 150 years ago...By Starling Root QuailBellMagazine.com Let's take a minute and pretend that the Victorians had Internet. (Such anachronisms are part of the glory of Steampunk and Steampunk is awesome, so I want no complaints about absurdity. Save it for your thesis.) Your average Victorian twenty-something lady would of course be scrolling through QuailBellMagazine.com. But let's be honest. She's probably going to hop on over to XOJane.com at some point, too. Here are some of the headlines this corseted chick experiencing her quarter-life crisis might see: • 7 Things I Couldn't Get Anyone to Write About This Week, Including The Mythical Female Orgasm
• My Last Three Fiancees Died of Cholera And Now I'm Headed for Spinsterhood • It Happened to Me: I Gave Birth to a Deformed Son Because Of My Whalebone Cage Shifted My Precious Organs/Fetus. FML! • How to Get Gibson Girl Hair in 10 Minutes Flat • Um, Did You Hear About This Thing Called the Civil War? It's Not Cute. My Thoughts. • This Edgar Allan Poe Guy Was So Dreary – How To Turn His Books Into Tea Cozies • Ten Signs Your Father Is Sleeping With One of His Slaves • You Guys, I Don't WANT to be a Governess in the Countryside; That's So Vanity Fair! • My Beloved and I Want to Kiss So, So, So Badly, but My Chaperone is Always There • What Happens in Atlanta STAYS in Atlanta The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Next Saturday at the James River Filmmakers ForumBy The Quail Bell Crew QuailBellMagazine.com © Kate Fowler Quail Bell, like a number of our readers, is based in the gritty and darling Richmond, Virginia. As such, we thought we'd look out for our neighbors and give you a heads up on the James River Filmmakers Forum. It hits town on Saturday, June 8th at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. Care for deetz? Check out the James River Film Society website. While you're at it, find out more about Nitro, a documentary by the up and coming Kate Fowler, which will be screening that evening. Here's the official film description: Nitro, West Virginia, is a small boomtown, nestled in the heart of America’s ‘Chemical Valley’. Formed, maintained and entirely reliant upon the chemical and rubber industries, this humble town embodies many of the environmental issues West Virginian’s currently face. Having housed a Monsanto Plant for over 70 years, residents of Nitro have simultaneously relied upon this company for economic stability, while battling the repercussions of the toxic chemicals it produced. Elevated cancer rates, high levels of Dioxin in local water ways and homes and rare auto-immune disorders have disrupted the lives of long term residents, and have rendered the fertile valley and river surrounding this region unusable. Three other filmmakers will be presenting and screening their work. Plus, the event only costs $3! GO, RICHMOND, GO! Film lovers should also check out Quail Bell Production's The Persistence of Poe and Richmond's Dead and Buried.
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Faces of Shanghai and BeijingOur ardent shutterbug, Alexander C. Kafka, visited the PRC this spring, capturing street portraits in Shanghai and Beijing. Take a gander at this mini gallery full of our top photo pics: The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Welcome back...By The Quail Bell Crew QuailBellMagazine.com Thank you for bearing with us during this strange molting process. We're so happy to be ALMOST DONE with it. If you've stumbled across this post, then you're one of those sneaky types who's discovered that we don't *ahem* password-protect everything. Now for the real test--one of your honesty: What do you think of our make-over? Dramatic enough for you? Take our poll (and look at dem Art Deco buns): |
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