positivelyBLEAK Grinning back into the abyss.

7Sep/101

All Things Horror Made My Day

Fun is telling your coworkers that you have to head out to catch a screening of “Dead Hooker in a Trunk.” ♠ Continue reading…

31Aug/100

Metal Millionaire

Ever play that game with a pile of look­books and a Sharpie, cir­cling stuff like a kid cre­ating a fan­tasy Christmas list? I do, prob­ably more often than is healthy. I call it playing Millionaire. ♠ Continue reading…

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27Aug/103

Knitted Sweater, Claws of Steel

I’ve been backing off of outfit posts lately, but SteffMetal recently posted a piece on why they’re impor­tant and it moti­vated me to break out the camera again. ♠ Continue reading…

16Aug/104

Chop It Off!

If anything’s going to kill this blog, it’ll be my rabid need to climb the cor­po­rate ladder. (My new job’s going really well, though…I’m elbow-​deep in CAT-​6 all day, every day!) ♠ Continue reading…

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27Jul/1010

Fast Fashion & The Easiest-​Ever T-​Shirt Surgery

My friend Grimlocke posted a few links in my com­ments about “fast fashion” as it relates to eth­ical shop­ping; they touched on a number of sub­jects, from sweat shops to cre­ating garbage to thrifting when you’re an odd size or pressed for time. I’ve read up a little on the sub­ject but am hard-​up for new ways to improve my shop­ping habits – I’m pretty util­i­tarian with my money and I’ve been checking the “Made In…” tags on my clothing since I was in high school. ♠ Continue reading…

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19Jul/103

And the Last Known Survivor Stalks His Prey in the Night

I ran for twenty min­utes straight on Thursday, which prob­ably doesn’t sound like much to most of you, but I’m a smoker with a desk job, so it’s an accom­plish­ment to me. My awe­some dad and I are going to run the Falmouth Road Race together come 2011, so I have a real incen­tive to keep picking my feet up off the ground. ♠ Continue reading…

Filed under: C25K, Geekery, Hair, Horror 3 Comments
30Jun/102

Non Conductive Negative Reasoning

Someone, either a stranger or someone close to you, says some­thing neg­a­tive about you. Months or even years later, you’re still hung up on it, even if you refuse to admit it about your­self. Meanwhile, someone pays you a com­pli­ment, and you forget about it as soon as the first blush wears off. What the fuck are we doing? ♠ Continue reading…

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16Jun/101

Buzz Cuts

It’s been a little crazy over at the Bleak Haus, so this week you’re get­ting a pile of tid­bits instead of a full article! ♠ Continue reading…

8Jun/102

Run To The Hills (Take II)

No-​makeup week went so swim­mingly that I dragged it out another week! (In no way did this have any­thing to do with the fact that I’m crazy busy…ffff.) ♠ Continue reading…

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25May/106

Viking Treks & The Bare-​Faced Challenge

It feels like summer’s smacked Boston square across the face, so in the interest of indulging my inner bar­barian woodswoman, S. and I hauled our­selves out of bed and out to a hell of a hike at one of our local con­ser­va­tion areas. ♠ Continue reading…

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