Smile Your Way Into 2012!

Facebite Graphic By Leslie Tucker
FaceBite By Leslie Tucker

As we slide into the New Year, remember all of the things you were grateful for in 2011 and visualize abundance to come in 2012!

Recommended Reading: Queen Unseen By Peter Hince

Queen Unseen Cover

Earlier this past summer, British music journalist Mark Blake published his book Is This The Real Life?, an engaging biography of the band Queen. Blake’s book is crammed with amazing personal information on the band’s members – Freddie Mercury, John Deacon, Roger Taylor and Brian May – in addition to chronicling their success as a group. Blake had a good deal of assistance in gathering his researched material from a guy named Peter Hince, who was a member of Queen’s road crew for over a decade, in addition to also being the personal roadie to both Freddie Mercury and John Deacon.
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Happy Birthday, Patti Smith!

Cover Art for Patti Smiths Outside Society CD

Singer Songwriter and Author Patti Smith was born on this day, December 30th in 1946. Read my review of Patti’s recent Career Anthology CD, Outside Society at This Link. Happy Birthday Patti, and many more!

HR Giger-Inspired Sunglasses by Doktor A

HR Giger Artwork Inspired Glasses
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In the above photo you can see artist Doktor A modeling his hand-crafted Safety Pin Sunglasses inspired by HR Giger’s late ’70s painting, Illuminatus II (seen on the left in the above photo). While these would certainly get you noticed on the beach, I bet they would have also been all the rage in the late ’70s London Punk Scene! More information on the glasses – which were a one-off project and are not for sale – is available at This Link.

Pink Thing of The Day: Assorted Pink High Heeled Shoes

I never learned how to stand or walk in heels this high, and that is just a shame, because if I thought I could wear any of these gorgeous pink shoes and not break an ankle immediately, I would buy the whole lot!