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Unofficial pre and post parties, and it is also my birthday! Even if you never show up on Friday, tonight will be loads of fun. Come say hi. -Lex

I will be there Fri for sure & Sat. depending on the ride situation. Friday is my birthday! Come say hi!

Haha, totally. Hey when is drag queen bingo? There aren't any before I leave town are there? Is it like a weekly thing?

Haha, I probably should have just cut and pasted them into my original entry, but I didn't see them all over the place until afterI posted [because I am a bad forum newb and do not lurk, lurking is for sissies] Current location? Wayne until June 1st then it's off to the wilds of Baker, NV Where from? Taylor/Allen Park/Wyandotte I am a downriver girl. Gender? All woman, sort of. I think I'm actually only 20% woman, 20% filthy old man, and 60% drag queen. Work? Freelance photographer also, menial labor when I can find it. School? Some college. School just does not work for me. I don't "work well with others" in groups of more than like 3-5, and I learn faster on my own. Not as much, but definitely faster. Kids? Not yet Married? Might as well be Single? Obviously, no Hobbies? Entirely too many to list. I read a lot, and I like to make stuff. Networking is my new favorite hobby. How Did You Find DGN? I think I specified in my sign up "paperwork" that I seriously can not count how many times I've been asked "Are you on DGN?" when meeting new people at the club and various events. I think I was also a member of an email list EONS ago that DGN may have spawned from, but that just be my brain making stuff up. Other Stuff? I am all about art, design and fashion. I have a deep love for zombies, ghosts, cute monsters and anything steampunk. I'm a very beginner level belly dancer [mostly I just writhe around all drunken on the dance floor] and have accepted that I have absolutely no rhythm and will never be great at it, but I LOVE bellydancers. Almost as much as I love cheap beer.

Cute! I like your eye make-up.

Aww, thank you! I wish you could see the whole outfit. I think it's my fave outfit right now, and of course I had to leave that one on the RV with Emmymau [so it's out in NV now] because it had too much stuff that would be a bitch to try to get on the plane with me.

Thanks

Self portrait, drunk in the bathroom at Elysium in Austin, TX Clubbin in Nashville, TN at Salvation. Photo by Ray + Wendy Nikki and I at Luna ages ago.

Hello! Thanks!

Hello! Hey, yourself. And thanks!

Lots of great suggestions in this thread already. You've got a great start. I don't think you need different stockings, I LOVE my stripes with my steampunk. Nor do I think you need to lose weight, but that's not on me to say. I would embellish the jacket or switch it for another with a more victorian shape or military style, thrift stores are good for that just look for black jackets with poufy shoulders or epaulets and you'll find one eventually. And maybe try adding a long shredded black tulle skirt under the bustled skirt. That way you still get the stripes and the leg, but look a little less bare and more balanced. You could try a pair of bloomers, but they're harder to find/make quickly. Goggles or hat would help it look more complete. GypsyLadyHats are my favorite hats. Totally worth every penny.

The White Ghost Shivers at SXSW this year, hands down. My face hurt from smiling. What is the weirdest thing that's happened to you this year?

Yes, please! What's your favorite article of club clothing?

They're not a "big deal", they're just tiresome. I'm here to talk to people and have conversations, not read quotes or look at animated gifs. And granted, that's just me, but I'm pretty sure that "messages" are the point of the board. I don't mind there being a place for the quotes and gifs and things, I just don't like them breaking up thread content. I think the point of sig files is sort of lost around here. It's a signature. It shouldn't really contain much more than your name and some relevant links and maybe a single quote if that's really your thing, but ultimately it should be treated like a signature, not a bulletin board. There seems to be a lot of "they discovered they could and didn't stop to think if maybe they should" sig files here. That said, I really like the apparent trend of logo style names [because I am a font/logo dork], but still, I think some of them are just a little too big. Additionally, the board interface is really graphics intensive, so that doesn't help the spacial issues. I'm on a 14" laptop with a max res of 1280x800 and this is what this thread on my screen looks like: And even then that's actually a little more than what I can see, because I disabled a couple of toolbars before I captured those. I'm on a lot of message boards, and the giant sig file practices around here are not by any means the standard or norm, and seem a little out of control. You guys are actually really lucky to have so much flexibility in your sig files. But I think it's being abused just a little. A little consideration is all we're asking.

Thank you! And we get that a lot, lol. So do a lot of the people like us [there are more of them than you would think!]. The folks over at technomadia.com have put together an informative series of "You can!" responses to the oft heard "You're living my dream, I wish I could do that!" Even if it's not a lifestyle you would consider for whatever reason, it's a pretty fun read. [though they're sort of backwards read from the bottom up] And right now we're loving it even more because while practically everyone we know is jobless and struggling, we have the freedom to go where there is work. We have our photography and writing careers, but we've also accepted a part time summer "workamping" job that will provide us with a spot to park free for a few months as well as pay us a wage. Not to mention the fact that it will probably be an experience. So yeah, right now, it makes the most sense for us and we love it. It has it's pros and cons, but the ability to accept jobs like this and lower our monthly expenses drastically if we need to, is a big plus at the moment. Imagine being able to just move your apartment into a new building, in a new place, that wouldn't charge you rent, and then getting paid to be part-time superintendent for a month or two. That's kind of our summer scenario, lol.

Okay, I've only been here like 2 days and I'm already weary of scrolling past sigs to get to actual thread comments. Also as a newb that has not been reading the same sigs for months, it's sometimes difficult to see where a response ends and a sig begins. When you've seen them a million times, it gets easier for your eye to just skim over them, but frankly I feel like I'm being "tricked" into a reading a whole bunch of irrelevant content and it's wasting time I'd rather be spending reading and responding to threads. It might be a better idea to limit the sig sizes further and provide a place on the user profile front page for people to go crazy with quotes, name logos and animated gifs. That way everyone can still express themselves creatively, without the majority of thread content being cluttered up with sig files irrelevant to the conversation. The advantages of having sig files [instantly recognizable, people get to know your name, shameless self promotion links] won't suffer at all, but then our eyes won't either. In the mean time a good general rule of thumb might be: if your user name graphic font is bigger than the DETROITGOTHIC.NET at the top of the screen, it's too big. Likewise the overall sig height should probably not be larger than the default height of a one line post. If your sig is twice the size of your response, it's easy to miss what you said. Just my .02 Take it for what it's worth.

Hallo! I might have to see if I can make it out to that burlesque thing on Saturday at the Elbow Room. That sounds like a ton of fun. And yes, Myke is the shit. I pointed him over here, and then realized I wasn't a member myself, lol. So here I am.

I was JUST off digging through my art links for this, lol. I love his stuff so much.

This is amazing. Someone needs to make me a tentacle skirt. Now.

I can probably swing both. I have a shoot on Wednesday. So it will depend on how that goes and how tired I am.

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No, I don't think you can top the squeezin I got when we showed up at CC unannounced. Are you back in town? I'm thinking maybe necto tonight? Any interest? I should just text you, lol.

Thanks, and cool, I'd love to see some of your stuff. I debated over linking to mine in the intro for like a whole day, lol. I'm in the process of redesigning my portfolio site [i switched my business name to something a little more commercially viable] so my shit everywhere is sort of in limbo, with old watermarks and whatnot. But, since you asked, I'll just share the big old mess of me everywhere links: flickr deviantart model insider modelmayhem myspace twitter elepent lexmachinaphoto