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Vintage Fashion Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center
West Hall B
1201 S. Figueroa Street
Downtown Los Angeles, CA 90015
Main Entrance at 12th Street & Figueroa
Please note we are now located in “West Hall B” – same entrance, different room.
Parking available at the Convention Center and adjacent lots.

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Take Me Down — An Essay by Corrie Dibble

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I wake up every morning to the sound of blaring alarms. The lights flip on and the guards start their rounds, waking the dead with their screeching doors and microphone voices. Those who decide to rebel against the morning call for the showers and breakfast will find themselves in a dark, cold, hungry room. I have been there. However, it was not for missing breakfast but for strangling the new guy; it was gunna be me or him.
We are here because we have crucified the innocent, the weak, and the poor fucking bastards who got in the way. I will be here for the rest of my life, wasting away in this dump. I bunk next a man who is a crazy pedophile, and steals my porn magazines. He cuts out the pictures from newspaper articles of the children he molested, raped, and murdered. He pastes the pictures onto the faces of the whores who are posed on the pages. He likes the images of 6 year old girls. Poor fuck, he doesn’t know when it will come, but he knows it will happen. I will snuff his breath and choke out his life — he will be asleep, but I will wake him. He will know he is going to die. Justify my actions by knowing that I can never leave here, so what is the fucking point. I bet the mothers of those kids will thank me. Then again, I slain a whole family for their trip money; fucking idiots.
My actions that I vomit upon this world and that poor family will send me to my grave in this shit hole. The men next to me who are waiting their deaths are even more evil — Hitler’s sons. The news reports called me a monster, but I am angel compared them.
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We rot in here shackled to our own guilt. Knowing that each day to pass will be even more dismaying, and I detest the fact you people on the outside have to pay money for my way — how do you live with yourself, how do you let the government take your money to support me? My tolerance for this place is beginning to dissipate, and I will kill again. You think you can reform me, don’t you know the time you keep me in here I am planning my revenge. I would rather die than stay in here one more day of my life. I can say that my jailed friends feel the same way. So we make a proposal: put us all down like the sick dogs we are. Euthanize us, give us the shot, and be done with us all.

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Do you really need to carry the baggage for those of us serving a life imprisonment, or for those fucking shits on death row? We laugh at you, paying our way. Your money is not wanted, and it should go to your loving, fake family. Killing us will save you a buck. It will provide more space for criminals who think they actually have a chance to change and become an uptight, law abiding, horses-ass citizen.

I may be a murderer, but I know how to read. We have a library and I have done my research. There are over 3,000 inmates nationwide who are on death row. Some of these guys have been here for ten years waiting for their peach pie. Image   There are over 140,000 inmates who have a life sentence without parole. Do you know what we have done to acquire such sentences, we are some sick bastards, and it’s ironic you pay to keep us alive. It is as if you are all waiting for the sadistic motherfuckers to get out and strike again. Your bleeding hearts will just bleed out. Just kill us already.
The price for the shot is $10.00. Think about it, you pay $60.00 dollars a day for 143,000 inmates. That is a total of $8,580,000.00 dollars each day per inmate for a lifetime. There is no end to this cycle. The day one of these guys leaves another one arrives. You people on the outside are so foolish for continuing to allow your government to tax you in order to save our sadistic asses.

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It is time we all took control of our situations. The minute that the judge hits the gavel, The Man should take us to the morgue. Each inmate will then cost half the amount of one day in prison, and the tax payers will have to pay a one-time fee only. This will bring down the grotesque living expense from 8 million to 1.5 million. The criminals get what they really deserve, and you all can save money and put your precious kid through college; who will one day surprise you with a bastard son, and has dropped out of med school to open a medical marijuana dispensary.
It is now time that I take care of the situation with my cellmate. The others are waiting for me.

Holy Frittata

Fiesta Friday turned into Siesta Saturday… My honey and I started late. Work, work, work is all he does and I try to make the weekends a haven of relaxed house and easy days. We have a blast together, however because he is putting one child through college and supporting the other three — our time is spent doing activities that are low in costs. We trim dollars with home meals and coupons, although half the time they don’t work — it’s me, I don’t know how to coupon cut yet!! We hike a lot and watch movies, I cook new recipes, and we get silly — dance funny to the Monkeys and run around the house playing catch or hide and seek, adult version — use your imagination.

We love to get up late and have coffee and tea on the porch in the sun, walk the dog and eat food. Image

This weekend we made frittata, so delicious and so easy to make. Really, it is baked eggs with whatever you want to add. It can be vegetarian, vegan or meat lovers.

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Heat the skillet super hot, and add your garlic, onions and peppers, mushrooms (any veggie is delicious and bakes well), meat, whatever you prefer. I use olive oil for everything or coconut oil. They are better in taste, and healthier for your diet.

Then I add some cut potatoes to the mix– about 3-4 little ones (I cut into quares and boil before adding them to the frying pan)

I beat the eggs in a separate bowl with a couple of tbsp of water — this fluffs the eggs.

Place the mixed ingredients from the frying pan into a casserole dish, then add the eggs to the HOT frying pan and sear for a minute. Add eggs to the casserole dish covering the other delicious items and top with cheese. Bake at 350-ish for about 20 minutes. I like to sprinkle parsley on the top and add salsa and sour cream.  Image

Using an actual casserole dish (glass, porcelain) is better looking and sticks less to the bottom of the pan.

REMEMBER this dish can be prepared with egg substitute and fake cheese. ADD any and all spices you like at any time during the prep. The whole family loves to eat eggs this way, they are filing, healthy, easy and quick to make. From start to finish about 40 minutes until eat time!! A happy tummy equals a happy disposition ending with special thanks to the cook!!

 

INGREDIENTS:

Eggs – about two per person

Veggies: garlic, onion, peppers, mushroom, spinach, broccoli, potatoes, anything really

Meat: your choice

Olive/Coconut oil

Have fun!!!!

 

 

When Do I Sleep

Image is my worst pain, and I call it a pain because it tends to make me feel bad inside — there is nothing I can do about it, just stare at the ceiling and cry, praying to some unknown divine that I may close my eyes and sleep. The Doc hears me calling and begging for mercy, he gives me drugs. I have been prescribed Xanax now for three years running, five years off and on. It is a small dosage, .25mg, however remaining a dosage. I don’t believe this habit is truly the kindest method of controlling my sleep. After reading many journals confronting insomnia I have drawn the conclusion, unless I am manic-depressant (which of course is diagnosed by a doctor…), I am able to self-control my insomnia. Through meditation, healthy diet, exercise, and – most important – a nightly routine I may attain sleepiness without the drugs.

The downside to taking control of my insomnia is the withdrawal from the Xanax.   I have heard many gruesome stories. My dosage is low and will therefore reduce the symptoms. Unlike others who possibly could have a seizure. The symptoms for the withdrawals are mild to severe — headache, dizziness, cloudy thinking/headspace, vomiting, uncontrollable shaking, seizure, and death…(Da Da Da Dum)   Insomnia is a very real disease, and should be taken seriously. The treatment however should not consider a class 4 narcotic. In most cases sleeplessness can be dominated by self control.

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I have been advised to continue the medication case by case — panic attacks seem to be a prime factor in my sleeplessness. I become afraid of sleep in fear of the attack, my mind begins to race and the whole night becomes a struggle. I am not alone, it’s disturbing how many others are sleepless as well. Statistics taken from the national sleep foundation found women tend to be more restless than men. I found the number of insomniac’s to be quite high. I ask myself why? Is it in the water, is it because of all the stress we are put under, the pressure of sustaining life by disguise of societal needs? Are we all neurotic? Why do so many suffer from insomnia?

I have just begun the process of regaining control over sleep and weaning myself from the drugs. I am not sure how this event will end, but I do hope it will end with Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz’s. I’ll say goodnight for now… Image