Vintage Compacts

This is a sterling silver powder compact I did buy from a local seller, but passed on the larger one, as posted below. In the 1950s "modern art" became too closely identified with Communism, so Hollywood & the fashionable crowd turned to Mexican, Aztec, & other New World art styles. Think about the film "Bell Book & Candle", & Vincent Price's Gallery he collected alot of Ancient Mexican art & eventually, with his wife donated at least some of this to a gallery/community college. Los Angeles has the street address for it.

All this means when I saw that Aztec calendar on it I had a good idea as to when it was made, it has no maker's mark, it only says sterling silver. It has the lid that was common back then, between the mirror & the powder, & it also has the powder screen BUT no puff. So I just put a modern one in. I have searched the Net & I haven't been able to find another compact like this, needless to say I mostly keep it at home, except for special occasions.

Vintage Compacts

So here are 5 pics of a compact that has a small comb, a tube of lipstick-still has some of the original-a powder compartment, & the mirror flips down so you can store money, id, etc. behind it. It has its' original black carrying case, which is a stiff, black, moire-type material. That material resembles the lining in many vintage purses except for the color, most of the vintage bags I have are lined in cream or champagne colored fabric. I did buy this compact on ebay, a vintage shop has one for several hundred dollars, this one was only close to $100.

The Nightmare in the Mexican Gulf

In early 2009, it was the horrible things coming out about the banking sector, & I really needed a pleasant distraction, to relieve my growing distress over the mess.

Now the nightmare has worsened, with the BP oil rig explosion.....& I have very little in the way of stress relief. I was TimeWitch only on the Def Leppard message board, & I had heard a New Years' Eve talk of an interview with the lead singer, Joe Elliott, that was "coming soon". So as the months went by, I started a thread requesting a transcript of that interview; there were endless excuses & delays throughout 2009, then I heard it had been transcribed but was being edited. I eventually left the board altogether, after I had popped in to see how that "editing" was done. Turns out, the guy who has close contact with the band members was now belittling anyone actually expecting that interview, that it "never happened".

Then I posted a warning about a popular pain medicine, oxycontin; my Mom had been taking it for a month & it was finally the med that controlled the pain from rheumatoid arthritus, bone spurs, & a few other problems she had. BUT she started sweating profusely from her scalp-in the winter-& her hair was thinning, it would come out when she brushed her hair. There were no bald patches, it just evenly came out all over her scalp, & she said her scalp felt feverishly hot, & she was embarrassed by the profuse sweating running down her face in winter. She decided to go off oxycontin & with her doctor's advice try a different medicine. Mark Senff belittled my warning, saying he has male pattern balding, so maybe that was the problem with my Mom, among other things. Since he is friends with the band I consider it to be sanctioned by Def Leppard. I knew alot of people on that board were dealing with chronic pain conditions & had felt I was doing a good thing by mentioning this rare but real side-effect. I know Joe Elliott himself has a bad back & was wondering if he had been prescribed oxycontin.

There is a possibility that Lyrica-a pain medicine used for Fibromyalgia, & other painful conditions, CAN have an effect on eyesight. I wonder if this or some other pain med has been responsible for Joe's comments on needing glasses now, but I didn't post this info on defleppard.com because of the very hostile-& sanctioned-remarks of those in charge of that message board. I do know that some people on that board have fibromyalgia, or chronic fatique syndrome, but I was such a misfit there that I just don't want to endure belittling remarks when I was only trying to be helpful; I guess no good deed goes unpunished.

As far as I know, that interview Senff was claiming to have been editing-because of some kind of 'negativity' that "Joe" didn't want printed, never materialized.

And I still don't have something to take my mind off the horrible direction the world has taken. And Mark is still Sneff to me, arrogant idiot.

As above So NOT Below?

I was listening to an astrology podcast & was just floored when I heard where they were saying the planets were located-not even the moon was actually in the astrological sign they said it was in! The Moon is in Pisces from June 5th thru the 8th. After Neptune helped make a gigantic mess(when it was in Capricorn, NOT Sagittarius) in the banking & real estate areas, Nep is now in Aquarius, undoubtedly trying to pass off its' dystopia as the 'real thing', instead of Utopia , from Uranus-effects.

Jupiter & Uranus are like twins in Pisces, I think Jup & his Grandpa are having a real, long conversation about the currect state of planet Earth. Saturn just recently left Leo & is now in Virgo, & will be for some time; same with Jupiter & Uranus in Pisces, although the podcast said both will be in Aries til 2011. Venus is in Gemini, Mercury & the Sun are in Taurus.

The Spring Equinox is Sun into Pisces, astrologers desperately need to update to the current calendar & quit pretending the time is 10 BC. Really. All those strange & unexpected revelations coming out of the Catholic Church, too many gay Pastors on the down-low being revealed? The shocking breakdowns of respected institutions-doesn't it sound like Uranus is somehow involved? Why fight it? It's easy to just switch over to astronomy software.