Fashionista Friday - In Case Anyone Wants To Buy Me A Present...

*Sigh!* The worst part about Christmas shopping is NOT buying so much stuff for myself. I mean, I still do... it's like dieting. You can't just DEPRIVE yourself! You'll just fail and get fat! I can't have that. Most of my underwear are XS! What do you want, for me to have to buy an all new underwear wardrobe?! SEE my logic?! But anyway, I have found a couple of very hard to resist websites that I will now share some selections from:

http://www.girlzlyfe.com/
I didn't realize I had a "thing" about food, but apparently I do, as food stuff is the cutest stuff.
1. One of my top NEEDS is this:
A PB&J pouch! It appears too big for me to carry around as a wallet, but how much fun is that?! It totally looks like a REAL PB&J! I could keep all my lip balms and pain relievers in it! (Yeah, that's about all I have to carry around.) Speaking of sandwiches...

2. Metal Sandwich Lunchbox:
I love a good tin lunchbox... and this one is shaped like a giant sandwich! How ironic and clever! I kinda wish I could have had this as a kid or a disaffected teenager.

3. Speaking of Sandwiches:
A sandwich shaped cake pan! Who DOESN'T want a giant PB&J cake! Get the ice cold milk ready! (Maybe I don't so much have a thing for "food" as I do "sandwiches.") Speaking of baking...

4.Ninja cookie cutters... although I actually plan to use them to make super hero and villain cookies! Aren't you dying for a Black Manta cookie? (As I will be making one, fer sher!)

5. And finally on a non-sandwich, non-baking note...
Unicorn Corn holders! So much more magical than corn-shaped corn holders!

Next, I found this great site with these quirky hip looking tees called http://www.threadless.com/. Not only are their shirts really neat, they're dirt cheap! It makes me wish I wore tee shirts out in public and not just to sleep in.

In Case of Zombies

YEAH! (This one is SUPER KEWT! I NEED IT!!!)

Everyone knows how much I love the Wizard of Oz! This is so clever!

This is tiny stick people in peril... it's hard to make out in this image, but on the site you can view it close up.
Ha ha! I THINK this is mocking sports. If so, sign me up!
"Libraries Are The Number One Place Where SHH happens." Ahhhh nerd humor.
Fuck you, shirt!
I'm not sure I get the whole mustache thing, but I like this design.
This one too, although this is clearly a summer shirt.
Yeah, back to the cute food stuff... HA HA!
HEE HEE!
Awwww!
Laser Cat!
Not funny, just neat-looking!
Paisley Ghosts!
A Beheading Marie Antoinette hoodie... it's clever and cute, but I think I'm drawing the line at the gimmicky hoodie. Here are two designs I couldn't resist and went ahead and bought for myself:
Know Your Nerds, once again, you can see a larger version on the site.
And "Movies: Ruining The Book Since 1920." Well said, shirt!

And finally, these are from a site called Mighty Fine. I'm including some girl shirts, just to show them off.This is actually the most clever Spider-Man shirt I've ever seen.This one is also pretty cute. Ahh Facebook humor! Speaking of...
These are shirts you KNOW you can't wear for years, but for now, they're topical.

I'm just showing this one because it features a pretty obscure character, Marvel's Medusa. But not as obscure as Squirrel Girl!

That's right... comedic Marvel hero Squirrel Girl has not just one, but TWO shirts on this site!

Narrow market.

Also, do you LOVE Marvel Comics AND LSD?! Because this site has just what you need!

Man! ANY one of those images could have been put on a black light poster in the 70s! Those are way too scary for me!

If I were still single, this would totally be my "Going Out Shirt."

Also cute!

I'm just showing this, because I think it's the first time I've ever seen a Hello Kitty shirt for men! But it's based on a property I'm not at all familiar with so... meh!

I'll just stick to squeezing myself into a junior sized shirt with Kitty rocking an afro!

I love that this shirt is a Twilight reference, yet she's wearing that adorbz bat costume which is the anti-Twilight vampire look!

I feel like buying all of my straight guy friends this shirt!

Well, hopefully this helped with your Christmas shopping for the nerds in your life!

Throwback Thursday - Janet.

Tee sent me this link. A Janet Jackson Barbie doll?! Exquisite! Real eyelashes! And it really looks like her! Except... well, it looks like her NOW. Don't get me wrong, she still looks phenomenal and the short hair is super chic, but... I mean, doesn't she have a billion more iconic looks that they could have based this doll on? Yes. Yes, she does.

Exhibit A:

Couple thoughts:
1. I don't care what anyone says, Chunky Janet is ADORABLE!
2. I wish this weren't so house-y.
3. The male love interest in Es-Ca-Pade? Now a woman.
4. Did anyone else spend HOURS trying to learn the Rhythm Nation dance only to completely FAIL?!
5. "If" is the THE. BEST. VIDEO. EVZ.

But wait! There's more! Exhibit B:

1. How old was Gurlfriend when she did "All For You?" Because look at those biceps and abs?! She's in better shape in that video than The Situation NOW!
2. The "So Excited" video just reminded me that I need a urinal installed in this house. I mean, how convenient is the urinal?! It uses way less water than a toilet! I'm just being green!

Wait a sec?! No "That's The Way Love Goes?!" Awwww HELL naw!


Man... I love a megamix!

Wonder Wednesday 12-01-10 Mohawk Storm

From the moment I saw her, guest-starring on an episode of Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends, Storm has been one of my all-time favorite super heroes!
She and Wolverine were introduced as the two newest members of the X-Men, essentially replacing Ice Man and Fire-Star, former X-Men who had gone off to college and adventures with Spidey on the show.
I pretty much gotta admit, I loved her because she was pretty! I mean, sure she was a drawing, but she was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen!
Striking and exotic, she was black, but had crisp blue eyes, capped with brows that arched upward and long, flowing white hair that whipped around all sexy-like when she summoned wind storms with her mutant weather control powers. And hello, hooker boots!The X-Men comic at the time was too advanced for me. I was still on the Super Friends and getting into Justice League and other mainstream titles. I wasn't ready for X-Men until a few years later and then...Storm got the worst makeover, possibly in comic book history. Gone was her mane of long flowing tresses. Gone were the hooker boots and bikini and cape and that unique headdress. She's traded that in for a mohawk and black leather "punk rock" gear. TRAGEDY!!!
The move was part of an extended storyline in the book. The X-Men had spent almost a year adventuring in outer space and upon returning home, Storm found herself feeling disconnected from the Earth, problematic in possessing elemental powers. Then, she had to conquer her claustrophobia by journeying into the sewer network below New York to rescue The Angel who'd been kidnapped, and "unfortunately" stripped naked and strung up.Ahem. Too bad it looks like he's wearing a diaper. Anyway, in order to free him, Storm battled Callisto, the leader of a pack of ugly mutants who lived below the streets. No, seriously, they were ugly, unlike the X-Men who, if they wanted, could blend into polite society. Even Nightcrawler, via a holographic image inducer. The duel was a no-powers, knife fight and to win, Storm stabbed Callisto and in doing so, became the new leader of the Morlocks!
So, a few issues later, bye bye beauty. I suppose, honestly, she was still beautiful, but I was not feeling this darker, edgier new image. They didn't seem to get it, though. She kept this look for YEARS! It wasn't until Jim Lee's revamp of the book in the 90s that she returned to her former glory.But I guess everything comes back around. It's the 25th Anniversary of Secret Wars and this was how Storm appeared in that series, so among the other SW merch released this year was a mohawk Storm Minimate:
They also released a Minimate of Captain Marvel, although they refuse to call her Captain Marvel, even though that was her name!
And with no real explanation, she returned to the mohawk in the current X-Men series! And feather earrings! Huh?! Oh well, for whatever reason, I don't mind so much anymore. Sure, I prefer the long flowing tresses, but she's rocked that look for like 20 years now and every girl has the right to mix up her look now and again. Plus, I guess I also have a greater appreciation for edgier looks now, right Rihanna? And she's still Storm. She still has the elegance and grace she's always had. Just with a funkier hairdo now.