Special Edition Eleven Eleven Eleven (November-December Horoscopes)

CAPRICORN
Go ahead and do that in the bedroom. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. You don't have to let precedent dictate foreplay.

AQUARIUS
As your walls get torn down remember that you don't need to fear. They aren't tearing your walls down to build a strip mall. A garden will be planted where your walls once stood. It is for your own good! You will see that soon enough and then you will lend a hand in the destruction of the walls you built to protect yourself. At the same time you will tear down the walls of one close.

PISCES
Let yourself experience pleasure you silly masochist!

ARIES
Give them a break. Cut them some slack. In the near future you will need them to do this for you.

TAURUS
Be happy that they want to spend time with you. You will see that everything is a perfect fit.

GEMINI
You can always leave.

CANCER
Get your hair done and get some new luggage pimp.

LEO
Like the dynamic hermit crab you are changing shells. At first it might feel strange, but soon it will feel like home.

VIRGO
Bust out the flannel pajamas because you need to warm that icy ass of yours honey.

LIBRA
Free at last!

SAGITTARIUS
What do you think you are doing? What are you doing? Do these two match?

February Monthly Horoscopes

CAPRICORN
No one likes a frenemy or an aquatancemy. Avoid both of these types like the plague - and certainly don't be one!!! Cattiness, like envy, is quite unbecoming and it does nothing for your figure. Watch a movie with your sweetie. Sit in the back row and sneak a feel or two. Or three. <3

AQUARIUS
See how much fun you can have living in the moment and not worrying about bs? Do I smell a party?

PISCES
You know those plastic horses suspended by cables that kids can bounce on? Those penny rides are fun but you don't really go anywhere. Take a ride that gets you somewhere this month. And make sure your jeans aren't too tight.

ARIES
You are a velvet rabbit under your bristly defensive bitchiness. Get ready to cuddle up.

TAURUS
Have sympathy and respect for someone close. It is easy to be kind to strangers. The test is being kind to those closest.

GEMINI
Get crunk.

CANCER
Adapt yourself to the change at hand. What doesn't bend gets pulled out by the roots. Rock!

LEO
Things will improve soon - you are the cool cat with nine lives remember?

VIRGO
Stumble into some magic. Avoid imaginary webs.

LIBRA
Take the time to smell a bunch of essential oils and pick one to be your signature scent for the rest of winter.

SAGITTARIUS
Remember when it used to be fun? Make it so again.

2011 New Year Horoscopes

CAPRICORN
Better Late than never... that is a good adage for 2011. Better to fall in love late than never to fall in love. Better to be good to your body late than never. Better to end harmful addictions and harmful relationships late than never. Better to tell the truth late than to tell lies to yourself or others forever. Better to keep in touch with loved ones late than never. Better to donate to your favorite charity and get rid of all the crap cluttering up your life late than never. Better to stop judging and blaming others now than never. That doesn't mean to procrastinate. Better to let go of negativity now than never. That means NOW is the time and now is all we have: 2011. Do it now, it's later than we think.

AQUARIUS
You can think you are superior but that doesn't mean it is true. You can think you know things about someone else but that doesn't mean that you really do. We all fall prey to thinking things about ourselves and others that aren't really true. You might think something you want to go well will go wrong - but that doesn't mean that things will actually go wrong. Don't worry so much! Don't worry about what your neighbor is doing - just be happy and know you are lucky to be you!

PISCES
The flame is burning and it is lit now by you. The intention was right and true. Summon from within the courage to see it through.

ARIES
Revamp your relationships. Reduce the amount of time you spend gossiping. This year will be a steady climb to zen for you. Give yourself a crash course in being fabulously you. Retain only the essential.

TAURUS
Hearts on fire: the world's most perfect love starts with you. This year surround yourself with smells and tastes that you love. Rub a bit of Mexican vanilla extract on your wrist and smell it throughout the day. Heavenly bodies will heal you this year. Avoid your tendency toward priggishness. Make a list of 101 odd things about you. The stranger the better. Channel your inner Diane Arbus, but turn the lens away from others and focus on the beautiful freak in you.

GEMINI
Kissing twins live inside you -- the only trouble is sometimes they rip eachother's hair out. You may feel on the edge of the world just now but I promise you won't drift off into anti-gravity. Remember that computers can't feel. When it comes to love keep interactions real. Make sure to pay attention to the emotional feedback your lover gives you. Pay attention to the unseen, the unsaid, the MOOD.

CANCER
This year you will tap into an infinite inspiration. This will exhilarate you to the point of orgiastic spurts of expression. This is the year you get your groove back. This is the year you will finally learn to give yourself head. Just kidding!!! But seriously you will learn how to be more self-reliant when it comes to entertaining yourself. You'll learn that just spending time alone and creating from you new well of original creativity will be better than any party.

LEO
Many people never thought you could do it. In fact at times, neither did you. But indeed you shall. And this isn't about love or other people. This is about real accomplishment.

VIRGO
Oh virgins, you seem so innocent to many out there, but I know you better than that! Let your freak flag fly Virgo. I know that is hard for you. If you had a 11th toe that you chopped off in the morning and it grew back at night, you'd wake up before the rest of the world and chop it right off before anyone else even knew. But the problem is there'd still be a bit of blood on your little white bobby socks - so observant people would have a little clue about the freak in you, so all that pain an worry about trying to hide that extra toe would be for naught. Everything comes out eventually and it is better to embrace the strange in you.

LIBRA
Will this be the year the sunshine comes back into your life? You'll have to move that crap out of the window first if you want to let some real fresh light in. I promise if you do the nether-regions of your heart will be warmed.

SAGITTARIUS
Home, sweet, home... this is the year you make your little room a soft place to fall.

New Year's Eve with Jim Jarmusch, a man and some rabbits

Mystery Train makes me long for Memphis.
Down by Law makes me long for you know where - home.
Stranger than Paradise makes me long for something intangible.

2010 was a wonderful year and I am filled with gratitude. I hope 2011 is even better. My guardian angel tells me it will be the best yet. For everyone I have ever known no matter what passed between us I hope 2011 is full of joy for all of you.

xoxo
Starcake

End of Year Quote from Henry Miller

“And the more I looked at it, the less interesting it became. It only goes to show you there’s nothing to it after all, especially when it’s shaved. It’s the hair that makes it mysterious. That’s why a statue leaves you cold. Only once I saw a real cunt on a statue- that was by Rodin." - Henry Valentine Miller

lost and delirious: if you've never fallen, if you have never jumped you have never lived...

And if you have fallen and if you have jumped and pulled yourself up by the straps of your stupid heart and lived to tell the tale... if you have done this you are a queen no matter what they say or how they paint you.... the story is yours





all you have to do is tell your story and you will live forever

Scenes from An Antique Mall

It's A Wonderful Life

Jackson Square and you were there...

Oh my...

Take the Quiz here!

beautiful inconvenience

photo from AP


painting Rooftops in the Snow, Paris by Gustave Caillebotte

As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed
even a small cough
even a small love
- Anne Sexton

Song for Winter ... Not as Sad as it Sounds

An Apple a Day...

I wish Fiona Apple would release another album.

I have been posting a lot of random stuff. Must be the weather.

Musical Time Machine to 2004 (if you want to go)

Sunday Snowy Sunday: Time Machine to Destiny's Child

December Monthly Horoscopes

(I didn't shoot these. I found them on photographyreview.com and britishlarder.co.uk.)

CAPRICORN
There is prettiness in some sadness, sexiness in rage, and glamour in languor, but the most stunning beauty is in forgiveness and joy... tis the season after all... light into the darkness like a prairie star.

AQUARIUS
Surround yourself with those who love you. If you don't have people who love you at least you won't be disappointed because it is usually when we have the expectation that someone loves us that they can hurt us the most. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

PISCES
You have the ability now find the discipline. Books are friends that always talk to you.

ARIES
You may travel far this month but remember as Proust said that the true voyage takes place in the mind.

TAURUS
Don't fear the cold... see how the snow glitters.

GEMINI
What should one do in a world so full of betrayal? Dance, smoke and laugh.

CANCER
Pay attention to the details and do it yourself if you want it done right. Carry on.

LEO
Let yourself fall on the softness of the season. There is no reason not to enjoy every minute. Relax. Make mochas at home.

VIRGO
See those people struggling? Lend them a hand. There is an angel living inside you.

LIBRA
The people who are close enough to touch are the ones who deserve your time and attention.

SCORPIO
Feel like the walls are closing in on you? Take a walk under the open sky. Listen to some Songs in A Minor by Alicia Keys.

SAGITTARIUS
Reconnect with those you've lost touch with. You can grow in different directions without growing apart.

Lost and Found (the rescue)

(I did not paint this, but I wish I did. Either William Hunt or Albert Schneke painted this.)

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November Monthly Horoscopes

CAPRICORN
What is the main thing you'd like to change about yourself? Is it something that is part of your very fiber? Is it something that does no wrong but that you feel a strange shame of? If it does no wrong and is truly part of you you must reconcile with it. Self loathing is pase my dears. If it is some bad habit though that does harm and or is extractable from you, toss it!

AQUARIUS
My darlings what a special nook exists in my heart for you. How confused you get at times... and other times so crystal clear. Just remember one thing my dear: life is nothing nothing nothing but smoke... blue smoke, brilliant blue smoke, blessed blue smoke, breathtaking blue smoke.... poof! It all makes sense now doesn't it?

PISCES
Who gonna check you boo? The only voice you need to listen to is your own.

ARIES
Yes some people have more luck then you. Don't dwell on it and don't blame them for it. There are some who look at you and wish they had what you have. Don't gloat and don't rub it in. Peace and thanksgiving as the leaves fall where they will.

TAURUS
Reach out to someone close who is confused as hell right now. Throw away your dildo. Dildos are just another marketing scheme like secretaries day. Sitcoms and so forth love to make it seem like women love their dildos so much. What a load of crap. Nothing can replace real flesh you know. And what you need to do most this month is keep it real,,, I know that can be hard for you because you get nervous and you love to play pretend.... but do try to keep it real.

GEMINI
Are you scared you might have bit off more then you can chew? Even if that is true you can always spit it out. It is how you spit it out that makes a difference. If you gag and bang your fists on the table before spewing it all over the guests gathered round, well you'll probably feel like crap and regret doing that. HOWEVER, if you discreetly spit that too big bite into your napkin before quietly excusing yourself you'll make it just fine.

CANCER
In a way my little crabs you are much like a snake that every so often sheds its skin. Don't let others make you feel bad for that. You are under no obligation to be consistent. And if you happen to feel you still fit the skin you are in, don't shed it just for the sake of change. Progress for the sake of progress leads to problems. Listen to the voice within.

LEO
Life is both testing you and blessing you. Seize the reins and don't let go. This horse won't buck you.

VIRGO
Yes you were too hard on them, many of them, hundreds of them. You have learned to be more accepting. You have learned to be sweeter. You still make jokes at other people's expense and you need to work on that. You are beautiful and you need to let that someone praise you like they should.

LIBRA
Underneath it all you are scared. Are you scared of losing or scared of winning? If your intention is good and your heart steadfast you have nothing to fear. You have been repressing your sweet and sexy side lately. Don't do that.

SCORPIO
Step it up a notch. Try drinking a hot toddy when you feel under the weather.

SAGITTARIUS
You think you have to have a safety net for a lot of your endeavors, but in life that is not always possible.

TREATS & TRICKS i did not take these pictures (but i wish i did)