Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe

by Helen Hills

Invisible City
The Architecture of Devotion in
Seventeenth-Century Convents

edited by Helen Hills

Sadie the goat + Gallus mag = True Love?

Cool Hx of a N.Y.C. pirate.
Cool art....

Quote: " By far the scariest bouncer at the Hole-in-the-Wall was Gallus Mag—a six-foot-plus Englishwoman with a truncheon tied to her wrist and a revolver tucked in her belt. Mag had a unique way of dealing with rowdy drunks: smacking the lout with her truncheon, dragging him to the door with his ear held firmly in her teeth and, if she was in the mood, biting off the ear before tossing its owner into the street. The ears were added to her collection, which she kept in a pickling jar behind the bar. One spring night Sadie ran afoul of Mag, and the next ear in the pickling jar was Sadie's...."

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I heart Shaye St. John.

Quoted: Nerve fiber surgery is in order after spending 24/7 on the evil internet. I am legally blind.

Genderbending Bloodsucking Freaks!

A delightful, nauseating, admirably obsessive blog about bedbugs.
Don't forget to vote for their Bloggers Choice award. They are in the running in the "Blogs About Stuff" category. Quote: "Do You Love Bedbugger? PROVE IT! I hate to bother you with this, but I am going to make a shameless plea for votes.."

Don't let them down. They have earned it. damn....I feel itchy.......