Sorta off topic but not really. I was just wondering if any of you ladles and jellyspoons here have these life-swallowing soapboxes, er, things. :soapbox:

I have one. I gotta warn folks that I do lots of swearing and whining and stomping around. Mine's http://www.livejournal.com/users/moonjaguar if anyone's bored-- er, I mean curious.

My golly gosh, the smileys have had grandchildren since I've been here last!

:seeya:

Every once in a while, in my rare moments at the computor desk, I do some ranting and raving over at the Sean Hannity message boards! :bash: :explode:

BTW, Moon, I love your avatar! Who is she? She looks like a silent film star; I've always been fascinated with old silent film stars!

Originally posted by Karen64

BTW, Moon, I love your avatar! Who is she? She looks like a silent film star; I've always been fascinated with old silent film stars!

That's Theda Bara (I've dressed as her for Halloween countless times). This was from costume stills from Cleopatra (1917). Looking through those are a hoot because some of them look like they were made of leftover curtains and this one, she looks like they recycled a lampshade for headgear. Of course it's all pre-ratings pre-Hays office so there's a lot of sheers and pasties :eek: :groucho

I did hear that A Fool There Was is on DVD. I may acquire it. I've seen footage from it and there was a lot of film speed weirdness where everyone looks like they're running around. I think my favorite silent movie is It with Clara Bow (technology had somewhat advanced in the '20s as opposed to the '10s).

--P.S. I wasn't wearing sheers or pasties when I dressed as Theda for Halloween. I was usually underage and once I was of age that kind of costumery at the end of October in Illinois climate is impractical and I didn't want to scare people :eek:

I hang out on some other places too like Arlo Guthries message boards & 2 fan message boards on him, and my cousin Jason Mraz's message boards, a couple of message boards on free internet, all the Freddie Prinze boards/groups etc & some YAHOO groups like on Freddie Arlo, The Monkees, John Travolta, Shaun Cassidy, diabetes, dulcimers & autoharps (2 instruments I play), plus all of the dulcimer & autoharp e-mail lists, & some e-mail lists on diabetes...