Remember the Tartans!!!

Fourscore and nine days ago, our forefathers brought forth this post on my blog - erm, ok, there were no forefathers involved, it was just me, and it was only nine days ago that I started this post. You’d think with that much time behind it, this would be the most detailed, wondrous post ever, but nope….par usual, I got distracted by shiny things….*purr* But, not wanting to be the last kid on the block to blog this coat, I realized I better get back to it and - - - oh bloody hell, I am the last! Oh well, at least I’m the only kid on the block with a testicle named “George” to blog it (thanks Pie!). Anywho, a coat this ace deserves a little more time in the limelight, so I’m happy to do my part. Masaru Raymaker’s new tartan wool coat is a great looking addition to your burgeoning closet, with awesome detail and texture work, prim collar, skirt and sleeves, and a texture change muffler to help you add color to your outfit if you so desire (and all this time, I've been adding color by carefully dropping the occasional four letter word into my chats….who knew?)



To help me clean up my image is my new Ross hair from MADesigns - rich, black, sleek, I liked this hair, enough to even slightly modify my head to make it fit more better and less worse (plus I just want Maddox to like me...and drop the stalking charges). If this particular hair isn’t your cup of tea, go check them out anyways, because they are spitting out new ones faster than I go through Dove's money - ok, maybe not that fast, but they’re only human. Also, If Winter is an eye whore, I’m not sure what that makes me…perhaps an eye concubine?? Either way, while you’re at MADesigns, check out the eye selection…my pics don’t really do them justice, but would I wear them if they were shite? After all, I have a bad reputation to protect!!



Finally, I wore the John Doe jeans from Kari…and not just cus John Doe was the guitarist in one of Americas first-ever homegrown punk bands (though it helped)...nice, kind of heavy looking, black denim texture and a cool cuff with some funky white stitching all worked for me. I left my Pornstars in the closet, and they didn’t even have to be pried from my cold dead fingers…wonder of wonders - Hoorenbeek is to blame, specifically their Patagonia Boots. They’ve made a nice, simple looking work boot, perfect for the winter, or for kicking blog editors who nag you for nine days to finish your post…though I wouldn’t want to scuff the richly detailed toe caps. Hmmm, where did I leave those steel toed Doc Martens I bought the other day?

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Hoorenbeek - Patagonia Boots - Black Leather
M.R.M. Factory - Wool Coat (Tartan Gray)
MADesigns – Natural Eyes (blue water blue eyes), Ross Hair (black)
Kari – The John Doe Jeans

Bringing Shabby Back!

Get it? Cus I’m back, and yeah, sexy was taken, and I figured I may as well stick with what I know. So, yeah, apparently its been a few months, how time passes when you’re growing a Playoff Beard ™ (it’s a Canadian thing, eh)….and it totally failed, as my beloved Denver Broncos are now either on the golf course or hanging with Jessica Simpson in Cabo, but hey, dare to dream! This Lodur beard is my very first facial hair purchase, and while it's not going to win Vain Inc. scrubby beard of the year awards, it's fairly decent…I mean, I’m wearing it, aren’t I? Plus it's named after a Norse God, bad arse enough for you?



Some other Canadian staples at this time of the year are boots and jackets - I always thought it was more of an Eastern Canada thing, but three feet of snow in three weeks can't be wrong… (although it's so, very, very wrong). What better start than a down jacket, in this case the quilting down jacket from M.R.M - jet black, awesome textures, nice prim hood, and sleek enough to wear out after you’ve finished shoveling the driveway for the third time in the same day….not that I’m bitter. After a few months off the grid, I headed straight to Primitive Design, my port in this winter storm. My Riot jeans are incredibly detailed with great cuffs, although I’m generally loath to buy torn up jeans, there was enough going on to make me pause and then spend Dove's lindens greedily. As a bonus, this particular version are called Little Bastards, it left me pining for simpler days growing up with my gram and her foul words of endearment.



These boots were made for walking…maybe all the way to Florida so I can room with Nic until the sun finds its way back to the Northwest (I promise to put the lid back on the toothpaste). The Ashige Heavy boots from Dirty Linx are pretty damned cool, what with the textured flames and metal toe plates - plus I’m a shoe bitch, so yeah, it was going to happen. For men’s boots, they were a little on the small side, which means I had to mod the hell out of them, but nothing like fitting my hair under a hat, so no worries!



I mean, if you want to worry, worry about how the hell I’m going to get the ladder set up in three feet of snow to knock the snow off my fechin satellite dish…any takers? In the meantime, if you need me, I have to go convince Dove to shave the Playoff Beards she’s been growing under her armpits before she starts making me braid them….heh, she’s such a good sport…...I hope.

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Dirty Linx - Ashige Heavy Boots
Emo-tions - Lodur Beard (black)
Sole - Croco Belt 2 (Cross & Dagger)(black)
Belleza - Ewan Skin (1-E)
M.R.M. Factory - Quilting Down Jacket (black)
Black Maria - Tiara Hair (black)
Primitive Design - Naughty Piercing Set, Riot/Little Bastard Jeans (black)
Skanks-R-Us - Earlines Piercings

Hottest Male Ava - WHOA!

It's me, Dove. I'm stealing control of Law's blog for a moment to direct your attention to this:

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/10/which-male-avat.html

If you could go there and at least cast one vote for Law, I'd love you forever. Law wouldn't normally post something like this on his blog, or use it for this purpose - so shhhh this is top secret. heehee.

Okay, I promise I won't do this again ...unless he's in the "Hottest Male Who Wishes he was an Elf 08 Christmas List" ...then I might.

Blame it on the Rain...

No, this is not my incredibly epic ode to Rob and Fab, but a nod to the changing of the guard in Vancouver - as the sun prepares to go wherever the hell it goes for the next four months or so and we do our best impression of the UK. Yes, sadly it's time to fold up my well-worn tangerine speedo and break out the trench coat…or in this case, go buy a trench coat. Making that purchase more than easy was SF Design, with one brilliantly detailed piece of work. The coat has some very sweet texturing, and prim cuffs, shoulder straps, with a flexi bottom in small and large sizes - my favorite part is the collar though... standing up at just the right angle (I was going to say “standing erect," but then Winter would be distracted all day tomorrow and not get any work done…see how I have your back?).



Having come into some money lately (Dove's), I decided to take the plunge and go to Redgrave to get some new Fall footwear! My new black leather boots are nicely detailed, and the best part is that I don’t have to shine or waterproof them…..ever....not that I do that in RL, but it’s on my voluminous list of things to do. While I was on my spending spree, I dropped in at Muism to get me some jeans…the Vintage Jeans come in several variations, and though I'm usually shite with choices, it's always easy when one of the choices is “dirty.” The jeans are great, but I already knew, cus I saw Nic rocking a pair last month…don’t tell him though, lord knows his head is big enough already…or was that his feet?...shrugs…



The very best thing about summer's end in Vancouver is that your hair care = wearing a toque for four months…think of all the shampoo and conditioner you save!! Panache and Kari obviously understand this philosophy and thus provided me with a new beanie and hair, can't you just feel the love? Appropriately messy and black, it’s the cap stone to my gloomy alley “hey mate, do you want to buy a watch ™” look! Yeah, that’s right, I trademarked that look, so step back you poaching bishes! Last but never least, Lurvebite’s Sofia London gave me my Toasty Thermal Shirt...if you’ve never checked her out, go for the following reasons; she's cute, she makes different things (in a good way), and I said so!!

And on that note, I'm off to watch people fall out of their underwear on Survivor….does it get any better than that?

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Redgrave - Boots (Black Leather)
Muism - Vintage Jeans (rolled up cuff/dirty)
Panache ZF & Kari - New School Hair – Blacks
SF Design - Trench Coat (charcoal)
Belleza - Ewan Skin (1-E)
Primitive Design – Primitive Cigarette, Studded Belt
Yabusaka – 09 Flare Ring
eXcess - Shaded Eyes (blue)
Lurvebite - Toasty Thermal Shirt (plain)

Mr October

For those of you keeping score at home, baseball playoffs are just around the corner - of course, being in Canada, I'm far more excited about the upcoming provincial sled-dog championships and igloo building extravaganza, but that’s another post. Realizing no slugger is complete without a bat, Primitive Design brings you the “action bat," blood, spikes and all!!



Yeah, that’s right, the Yankees might not be swinging any bats come next week, but I sure as hell will be! This bat is fully functional in RP sims, if that’s your bag of marbles - after chasing Dove all over the tree house for a few hours, I can vouch for its functionality…they say you only hurt the ones you love, right? As much as I've sort of had my fill of camouflage pants, I've got far too big of a man crush on Geyer Schnyder to leave the store without buying a few pairs of his new Camo Pants...bedecked with prim cuffs and side pockets, they come in both long or short versions and I won't judge you if you get some too!



Speaking of crushes, my crush on the store name Skanks-R-Us led me back there following a fashcon notice, where we met Poe Tatum, the skank herself! If you're looking for somebody to swoon over, you need to go there and behold her in all her glorious skankiness, you won't be disappointed (unless you really expected her to be a skank, then you're shite out of luck, but yeah…). Either way, I found some more trinkets of lovely delight there, two of which I'm about to share your way. First, the steampunky “Biker Goggles”…great detailing, with a futuristic bad arse flair, and scripted to boot! Next on the Skank's list is my Grungy Boots, perfect for sliding into home plate feet first…it takes a special kind of catcher to brave the steel toe caps! All of my shiny things came from Yabusaka today…do I really need to break it down for you? I mean, look at those pictures…wicked details, unique in a good way, and the dragon has a glowing stone in its mouth! All those reasons and more are why Yabusaka is like crack to me.

And now, speaking of crack, I'm off to try to pry Dove off of Plurk.....pray for me.

Oh, and go Cubs!!

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Yabusaka – 03 Bracelet, 03 Necklace, 09 Flare Ring
WMD- Sugoi "Skull of an Oriental Bastard" Long Black T
Uncle Web - Hibiki Hair (cool black)
Skanks-R-Us - Earlines Piercings, Grungy Boots, Biker Goggles (V4)
Primitive Design - Studded Belt , Primitive Cigarette, Action Bat, Camo Pants (grey/clean)
Muism - Mu Mei Do Tattoo (ink)
SiniStyle - Faded Black Nails

Grimly Fiendish

Hooray September!! Although it means the end of another summer, for me personally, September means my community service is over and I can hang up the orange coveralls, trash picker and get back to blogging! So, I took a fashion dart and randomly threw it at my burgeoning inventory, I wasn’t surprised when I hit a Bare Rose outfit (*cough* homeawayfromhome*cough*)….in this case, their new Grim Boy Outfit. I really love the fact that their prims are getting better and better as time progresses, considering they already had me at “hello” …this outfit is definitely proof positive.



The outfit comes in three colors (blue, grey, and brown), the jacket, shirt and skirt basics have a dozen various prim attachments to play with (and I thought 3 balls was fun!). A standout to me would be the leg straps, just because I've not really seen anything like them before…even though they would make running from my parole officer a total shite endeavor. The belt and bag are brilliantly detailed, and the feathers look real enough to tickle someone's arse with (looks for any takers…)..plus, it has skulls on it!! Yeah, I'm easy, didn’t we all know?



Of course, I discovered this cool hawk all on my own, do you even know who I am?? .......Or maybe it was Winter, all that trash picking in the hot sun has withered my memory down to nada - either way, the Double Duster is black and wild and definitely right up my alley. My skin is one of the Adam skins from Fallen Gods…seriously, I was around two years old when he was relevant, but in retrospect, I decided Adam Ant was one of the coolest guys to wear a pirate outfit and sing about fetish and sex - so when I saw this skin inspired by him, I was on it like an ant to sugar. While it won't be displacing my FNKY anytime soon, I love the face makeup and the gothy pale hues…and with that, I return to the world that is blog, farmer tan and all!!

And now for something completely different, my SL avatard of the week award! This week's winner is for one particular so-called “SLebrity” hanging around in the new “it” club with her “it” clique making snide remarks in third person about people who aren’t blessed enough to be one of her crowd…all those things don’t make you cool, they just prove that another RL asshat figured out how to make a pretty avatar…here's hoping that in the future, you can figure out a way to be a blip on the radar without being a twat…cheers to you, donkeyfresh wateveryournameis!!

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The Stringer Mausoleum - Double Duster Hair (black)
Skanks-R-Us - Earlines Piercings
Primitive Design - Insurrection Piercing Set
Fallen Gods Inc. - Adam Skin (Stand and Deliver)
Bare Rose - Grim Boy Outfit
Monogrind - Combat Boots

Samurai Smackdown!!!

Nope, it's not the WWE’s latest pay-per-view extravaganza, it’s the hottest off the press Express Zenovka's blogging brain child - two bloggers, one cup…erm, no, that’s not right, one cage, two bloggers enter, only one blogger emerges…hmmm, not quite right either…I think I'll let him do the splaining. Basically the gist of the matter is I had to build an anime samurai warrior on a *gulp*…limited budget!!...and yes, it was as painful as it sounds. I mean, to get me all excited about shopping for samurai coolness and then limit me to 3,000 linden is both cruel and unusual punishment…it’s the kind of depraved idea that could only be born in a mind as dark, perverse, and discombobulated as Mr. Express Zenovka - but being the good sport that I am, I bravely pressed on, lindens in hand.



I was going to just mimic the samurai outfit that I blogged a few months back cus it was cheap as borsht but Dove said I wasn’t allowed to jump on the bed anymore during my photo shoots. Bloodied but unbeaten, I decided to keep Aoharu's Samurai hair and start anew. As much as I like the hair, when I saw this Samurai hat at Hanzo Blades Armory, I knew it was a winner…bad arse and lending a definite air of mystery to my future warrior, it was my first purchase…coincidentally, we ran into Express there as well…stalk much buddy??



The bulk of my outfit is sort of a mix and match, but I'd venture to say that you could buy either Discord's Kou-Ga outfit or Traum's Cyberpunk Ninja outfit as stand alones and you'd be pleased as punch. The color scripted boots are from the Kou-Ga set, with a heap of different color options and some great detailing, in my never humble opinion. Realizing that all future samurais know how to rawk cyber wings, the Cyberpunk outfit had just the right set to help me release my inner ronin. Now, while it is true that a samurai could kill you with just a fierce sneer and a rose petal, they also realize that chicks dig guys with skills and swordplay is way up high on the list…which leads us to my Devil Crow Swords from Discord. I'm not sure I've ever seen a Devil Crow, but holy hell, if they look anything like these swords, I don’t want them picking around in my garbage bags at the curb anytime soon…and just incase I don’t want to get blood on my samurai threads, my Shuriken belt is chock full of throwing star and knife goodness!!



So yeah, that was my Samurai 3,000 linden adventure in a nutshell. I even listed the prices to prove I didn’t cheat. Of course, that doesn’t mean I'm not going to go back to some of those stores and break the damned bank…and while I'm doing that, you should break your damned finger voting for me in this contest…and not because Express doesn’t wash his hands after he pees or because he has a hairy arse, not even because my outfit looked better than his, no, mostly I want you to vote for me because every vote for me is a vote for Free Tibet!!....unless you're happy with the situation there, in that case a vote for me will be a vote for things to remain unchanged….oh, that and the fact that every vote for Express = a dead kitten somewhere in the world…do you really want that on your conscience? Help me, help you!!....Lawless.

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Dragon Claw Clan - Hoe Shuriken Belt (380 linden)
2C Eyes - Spotted8 Super Real Red Eyes (93 linden)
Discord - SCC Devil Crow Sword (70 linden)
Hanzo Blades Armory - Death and Life Samurai Hat (150 linden)
Traum - Cyberpunk Ninja Outfit (500 linden)
Moonlight Sindrome – Syounen Outfit (Jacket) (80 linden)
Discord – Kou-Ga Outfit (Boots) (300 linden)
Aoharu – Japanese Samurai Hair (150 linden)
FORM – Skin Pale Hair No Facial Eyeliner 1 (750 linden)