Great Song by Jarryd James

Love this song by Jarryd James: 'Do You Remember'.  Can't get enough.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u-_4nXkJtNo

Fabulous Victorian Fashions

Just love this blogpost showing Victorian fashions in varying levels of elaborate casual or dressiness. Veeery beautiful.

http://americanduchess.blogspot.com/2013/06/mme-demorests-illustrated-portfolio-of.html?m=1

Jennifer Rardin's Strangely Mysterious Cause of Death

Jennifer Rardin is the author of several novels that I have been recently interested in reading. "Once Bitten Twice Shy" is the one I'm most interested in.  I am a huge fan of the kick butt chick vampire killer novel genre.

 They were not available on the free online site I use so I was about to buy one on Kindle when I noticed that she had already passed away.  She died at age 45 when she was about to go on tour.  I realize that it is nice not to bother families of the bereaved, but  Jennifer Rardin passed at the ripe old age of 45. I would want people to be a little curious if I passed that early too.

Wikipedia suspiciously does not even mention a cause of death, and usually you can depend on Wikipedia entries to be pretty thorough.  They only have five sentences on Jennifer Rardin, however.  It's just weird - usually you can find ANYTHING on the internet, but all that I saw was a few comment line entries.

Does anyone know how Jennifer Rardin died? I read on one site a comment whose author claimed that they had read a police report that listed her death as an “apparent suicide” when she had just been happily blogging the day before and was about to launch a new series, “The Book Club of Death.” Seems a little weird. If anyone has any information on this I would like to hear it.

I love this song

Jarryd James "Do you remember"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ7XJG0Z2ho

Love it so much

Manga to Read that you haven't heard of

Everyone knows "Orange Marmalade," "Skip Beat" and "Vampire Knight," but there are so many lesser known manga out there.  I want to aide the seekers of incredible and innovative reading material.  Some lesser known ones bring a bit of fascinating difference to the shoujo/josei manga scene and definitely should not be overlooked.

"Kuragehime" ("Jellyfish Princess" - left) is about a late teens early twentys girl who lost her mother at an early age and is obsessed with jellyfish.  She meets a cross-dressing beautiful boy by chance who falls in love with her.  This boy manages to be beautiful as either a boy or a girl, which interestingly, is a common theme in manga.  As far as I am concerned, he does look good as a boy, but I am not so interested in seeing him as a girl and the mangaka does seem to draw girls more better than she does boys.  A little more bishounan in this manga would be preferable.  Overall, the manga is outrageously funny and romantic.

Another manga that I have not heard much about is "Kirikagohime to Mahoutsukai" (below right) set in what

seems to be mideaval Europe about a highly skilled magician-collector who saves a rare fairy.  This manga is very beautifully drawn and has lots of romantic comedy.

Lastly, "City of Dead Sorcerer", a horror-action style shonan manga.  I know that's unlike me to recommend a shonan manga, but I find this one particularly interesting.  It is a detective-type manga set in the future with some people with superhuman powers.  It has a very mysterious air, and continues to interest me.

I hope that this helps some of my fellow manga questers who seek manga beyond Ouran and Fruits Basket.  Thank you and goodnight! Lol

Voyager is still going through space after more than 30 years

Gatsby trivia

Lands End, supposedly the house Fitzgerald used as his inspiration for the fabulous house in "The Great Gatsby" is set to be demolished. Why is it such an American thing that we just must tear down everything and build something new?  They are replacing it with a bunch of McMansions. Just what the world needs. Anyways, this article has a lot of interesting historical info.