Happy Monday! So I really could not BE more geeked about some of the new GCs - yay Mad Tea Party!!!

Anyone interested in hopping onto a group order? I'm thinking I need to get some imps for myself. I'm in the US and willing to tack on stuff for other people @ $2.50 for shipping from me to you, plus $1 Lab shipping chip-in.

I'd probably place the order by say, Friday. Anyone?

Okay...so this is a strange request. I was wondering if anyone shared the same hairstyle as the girl in this sketch?

Thanks :)

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Madison, WI - Transport 2020 project manager David Trowbridge needs the fingers on both hands to count all of the mass transit and rail studies completed in Dane County in the past 30 years. Like clockwork, a study seemed to crop up every few years, with paperwork accelerating in the late 1990s as Trowbridge's work on the Transport 2020 project began.

On June 29, however, the Madison area saw arguably the biggest single step toward getting a regional transit system when Gov. Jim Doyle signed a state budget that included approval for Dane County to form a regional transit authority (RTA). It would have taxing authority within federally set boundaries, and discussion so far has centered around the idea of the RTA enacting a half-cent sales tax that would raise some $38 million annually.

But while Dane County leaders say there are still many details to figure out about what an RTA would fund before putting a referendum before area voters, critics say that the RTA has always been about trains and that they will be gearing up opposition accordingly.

( A lot of tl;dr but maybe it'll be interesting to some of you. )

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I don't know how I feel about this. Madison can't even run a bus service properly, I don't know how badly they'd fuck this up. Chicago's fail has infected us before we've even gotten started.

Bumping my imps & decants sale, with new scents added! Very low prices and a deal on 5 GCs. Everything must go, I need the money more than I need to store scents I'm not wearing.

sale here

I just received my firefly necklace in the mail and when I put it on, it immediately fell off.  Upon closer inspection, the clasp is broken.  It has been bent and won't even close all the way.  My dad said that he *might* be able to fix it but I don't know if I want to risk breaking it further since it wasn't cheap (the necklace was a little bit out of my budget).  Art Star is closed today so I can't call them but how friendly are they in regards to making exchanges?  Am I going to be expected to pay to ship it back to them even though the merch was defective when it was sent out?
Has anyone else experienced this problem?

 I am running a Berry Moon and Stinky decant circle HERE!

Please check out that page in order to sign up! Order will be placed within the next two days! 

by Paul Krugman

The Congressional Budget Office has looked at the future of American health insurance, and it works.

A few weeks ago there was a furor when the budget office “scored” two incomplete Senate health reform proposals — that is, estimated their costs and likely impacts over the next 10 years. One proposal came in more expensive than expected; the other didn’t cover enough people. Health reform, it seemed, was in trouble.

But last week the budget office scored the full proposed legislation from the Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP). And the news — which got far less play in the media than the downbeat earlier analysis — was very, very good. Yes, we can reform health care.

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Trying to buy a house and some other issues creepying up has caused me to add a bunch of bottles and decants to my sales list that I never expected to add. This includes some of the Thirteens, more of the Bards,  Velvets, CDs, CTs and more.

Please come take a look, I'll send them out asap (usually same or next day). I'm even shipping world wide now!

I know it's a bad timing for a sale so I've marked down prices and even marked down my shipping costs just to get these out!

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Thank you for looking,

- M -

Also, Linky to my Berry Moon and Stinky Decanting Circle.

Trying to buy a house and some other issues creepying up has caused me to add a bunch of bottles and decants to my sales list that I never expected to add. This includes some of the Thirteens, more of the Bards,  Velvets, CDs, CTs and more.

Please come take a look, I'll send them out asap (usually same or next day). I'm even shipping world wide now!

I know it's a bad timing for a sale so I've marked down prices and even marked down my shipping costs just to get these out!

Clicky for Smellies

Thank you for looking,

- M -

Also, Linky to my Berry Moon and Stinky Decanting Circle.

Free shipping when buying 3 or more bottles. :)


Strawberry Moon (full back up) $25

Ashlultum (full back up) $18

Invasion of the Flesh Eating Reindeer from Uranus (full, back up) $20

Lick It Like You Mean It (full back up) $16

Rose Red 2007 (full) $16

Shango (aged beautifully from 2006, just under shoulder) $14

Schwarzer Mond (2/3) $12

Manila (just a bit under top of label) $10

Upa Upa (2/3) $12

The Magi (2-3 imps in the bottle) $5

On Darkness (half bottle) $7

Feau Boulanger (top of label) $10


Velvet decant set (all full) $20
Velvet Bandito
Velvet Clown
Velvet Cthulhu
Velvet Kitty
Velvet Panther
Velvet Tiger
Velvet Unicorn




Sniffie Imps: (free, just ask)
Cytherea
On Darkness
Eden
Hades
Himerus
Vice
Jezirat Al Tennyn
Tenochtitlan
Chimera
Eden (small amount left in imp)


Empty Bottles:

Egg Nog




Make-up lot: $12 including priority shipping and DC# and no pp fees (pp is now charging fees for all sales) and about 10 or 11 sample sized baggies of various other mineral colors. I am not trying to make a profit, just trying to recoup a bit of what I paid for the full size, plus shipping expenses, etc. I was trying to offer these up individually for shipping cost, but I guess that wasn't right. Sorry for not being clearer before.


Everyday Minerals Natural Reflections Fair (not a sample size) 3g

Everyday Minerals Buff-Fairly Light Neutral orginal glow sample (in small sifter container) x 2

Everyday Minerals Buff Light Neutral original glow sample (in small sifter container)

Everyday Minerals Fair Medium original glow sample (in small sifter container) x 2

Everyday Minerals Buff Ivory semi-matte sample (in small sifter container)

Everyday Minerals SunKissed fair Semi-matte sample (in small sifter container)

Everyday Minerals Cool Multimasking neutral Semi-matte sample (in small sifter container)

Everyday Minerals Fair Semi-matte sample (in small sifter container)

Everyday Minerals Fair Matte sample (in small sifter container)

Everyday Minerals Fair original glow sample (in small sifter container)

Everyday Minerals Light Pink blush sample (in small sifter container)

Everyday Minerals Splendor blush sample (in small sifter container, label on the bottom smeared)





Shipping will be $2.50 for the US (includes dc) and to Canada, $4 everywhere else. I can accept both funded and cc paypal, as well as RME.


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All orders from Will-Call, The Ladies Of The Grindhouse Decant Circle and the Happy Hoarders have been shipped! If you would like your DC# please send me a PM with your shipping address and I'll send you back your DC#. Unfortunately, international packages are unable to be tracked, but rest assured, they should make it to Australia and Germany just fine!

All orders from Will-Call, The Ladies Of The Grindhouse Decant Circle and the Happy Hoarders have been shipped! If you would like your DC# please send me a PM with your shipping address and I'll send you back your DC#. Unfortunately, international packages are unable to be tracked, but rest assured, they should make it to Australia and Germany just fine!

Ex-Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara Dies at 93



Robert S. McNamara, perhaps the most influential defense secretary of the 20th century, who helped lead the nation into the maelstrom of Vietnam and spent the rest of his life wrestling with the war’s moral consequences, died early Monday at his home in Washington, the Associated Press reported, citing his wife, Diana. He was 93, and according to the news agency, had been in failing health for some time.

Serving Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, Mr. McNamara oversaw hundreds of military missions, thousands of nuclear weapons and billions of dollars in military spending and foreign arms sales. He also enlarged the defense secretary’s role, handling foreign diplomacy and the dispatch of troops to enforce civil rights in the South.

“He’s like a jackhammer,” President Johnson said. “No human being can take what he takes. He drives too hard. He is too perfect.”

As early as April 1964, Senator Wayne Morse, Democrat of Oregon, called Vietnam “McNamara’s War.” Mr. McNamara did not object. “I am pleased to be identified with it,” he said, “and do whatever I can to win it.”

Half a million American soldiers went to war on his watch. More than 16,000 died; 42,000 more would fall in the seven years to come.

The war became his personal nightmare. Nothing he did, none of the tools at his command — the power of American weapons, the forces of technology and logic or the strength of American soldiers — could stop the armies of North Vietnam. He concluded well before leaving the Pentagon that the war was futile, but he did not share that insight with the public until late in life.

In 1995, he took a stand against his own conduct of the war, confessing in a memoir that it was “wrong, terribly wrong.” In return, he faced a firestorm of scorn.

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If you haven't seen The Fog Of War, DO IT! it was really influential to me when it first came out, and it's still a powerful documentary. Also it has a sweet Philip Glass soundtrack.