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PENNY DREADFUL 

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1)      What is your Nickname? Penny Dreadful

2)      Where are you from? Boston, Massachusetts, USA

3)      Gender? Girly-girl

4)      Age? Approx if you wish :o) 28th birthday this month, upon which I turned 24, as usual.

5)      Marital Status? Married to stand-up comic Tim McIntire since 1/99

6)      What is your current occupation? co-propritress of Tart Blossom; part-time secretary at Harvard University (to pay the bills)

7)      What dreams do you have? If you have loads stick to the nicest one.  "I'm all alone...I'm rolling a huge donut, when a snake wearing a vest--"
Oh, wait, that's Pee Wee's dream. Um, lately I have been dreaming about an apparent race of super-intelligent, Uber babies, all of whom I am baby-sitting and all of whom can talk just as well and as grammatically as you or I.

8)      What is your favourite colour/combination of colours? Blacque, purple

9)      What is your favourite item of clothing that you own? My leather bike jacket

10)  What item of clothing would you most like to own? platform, high-heeled boots that don't hurt my arthritic feet

11)  What is your ideal look that you hope to achieve when you get all dressed up? Varies every time, depending on my body-image mindset (good ass day? bad hair day? bloated tummy from too much pasta? lovin' those premenstrually swollen boobalas?), how much effort I'm willing to spend, how much time I have, where I'm going, and what the weather is doing. Most often, I am sophisticated, cold, unapproachable. Sometimes floaty-swirly, Stevie-Nicks-type GothEarthMother. Sometimes vinyl-mini-skirted flirty girl in impossible shoes.

12)  What do you like seeing on the opposite sex? Or possibley the same sex, depending on which you normally take a liking to, or if you like both, give 2 answers :o)(Take this question how you like <weg>) I don't much care how guys dress, so long as they don't smell bad. I have a soft spot for what I call "dirtyboys"--artsy types in paint-smudged, wide-wale courdoroys, t-shirts with flannels over, and skinny as rails with messy hair. My "type" is tallish, blondish, baldish, wearing glasses (a la hubbi Tim or Anthony Edwards [of "ER"]). I am not even a little bit attracted to goth bois, as they tend to be fey and fragile. I want a man to be a man. I am attracted to lots of differently-styled women, but as I learned recently at the "B&D Ball," and told hubbi next morning, "If I were a guy, I'd be what you call an 'ass-man.' I just love girls' behinds." A body-positive attitude is the most attractive thing a woman can wear.

13)  What message would you like to send to the world? Please keep it under 100 words. "Drink up. Have fun. Don't suffer. Don't feel guilty. You are the perfect and holy Child of God and he loves you no matter what you do." --Bill Hicks
also:
"Hello, babies! Welcome to Earth! It's big and wet and crowded. It's cold in
the winter and hot in the summer. At the outside, you've got 100 years here.
There's only one rule that I know of babies:--Dammit, you've got to be kind."--Kurt Vonnegu 

14)  What’s your ideal night out? Drinks and dinner with hubbi and a few close friends at a fabulous restaraunt; taking in a performance by Blue Man Group; dessert and coffee in Boston's North End (the Italian part of town--heavenly tiramisu and cappucino). Maybe some monkey-lovin' to cap it all off (w/ hubbi only! ;}).

15)  What do you like most about the alt.gothic.fashion newsgroup? The fact that it is a real, organic, internet-based community (those
companies that are trying to create online communities in order to cash in Just Don't Get It[tm]). It is like my coffee klatch. Everyone on there is my homegirl (even the bois), and I miss them when we don't chat for a few days. I get a real sense that we care for each other as people, and the willingness to care and to help each other in times of need--as well as to celebrate personal joys--is astounding. Beautiful. The make-up tips are, like, gravy!

16)  Do you wear make-up? Hell, yes.

17)  If so, what colours do you normally use, and what style? Pale face with dark lips and at least a little black liner/mascara. Bold
lips are my main "thing," make-up wise.

18)  What colour is your hair? Black

19)  When did you last dye it? As in, permanently change the colour? I went black about 9 years ago, after having cycled through about 10 other colours during my punk days as a Rock Chick. If you mean when did I last touch it up, then the answer is last week. I do my roots as soon as seeing all the grey ones gets the best of me.

20)  If you could have it any colour, what colour would it be? deep dark purple, like an eggplant

21)  And what style? It's long (mid-back), which I love and would never change drastically. However, it's very straight and very heavy, so it doesn't do much except just lie there. I have always envied women with that sort of medium-big curl to their hair; not too corkscrew-y, but more than wavy. Perms can't make that kind of curl. I know, I've tried. You have to be blessed with it naturally.

22)  Do you think it’s unfair that girls/grrls have a much better choice of clothing? Sometimes I do feel bad for bois. They don't have much to choose from. Norm bois/men have it worst. Suits. ugh. However, my feeling bad for bois' limited choices in clothing doesn't always translate into thinking guys should wear dresses. A lot of guys just *can't* wear dresses--not and look good, at any rate.

23)  What do you think the cutest thing in the world is? lawdsy, I dunno. I saw a really cute little girl in "Victoria" magazine last month, and said to hubbi "This is the cutest thing I've ever seen in my whole life." I guess it has to be her, until I see another cute thing.

24)  Do you hate filling in pants questionnaires? So that would make me "Penny Pants"? If I hated filling in questionnaires,
I'd not have bothered to answer the previous 23 questions now, would I?

25)  What is your favourite item of jewellery? My wedding ring. (all together now: "AWWWWWWWW....")

26)  Is there any item of clothing that you wear at any chance you get? A good bra. Nothing in the world is as wonderous as a truly good bra. It's the first thing I put on in the morning and the last thing I take off at night.

27)  Is there any fashion advice you would like to pass on to any goth? No white face. No, really. You don't look like the Crow--you look like the Insane Clown Posse. Also, no eyeliner designs unless you want me to automatically hate you. Accentuate your best features and cover up the not-so-hot ones. Few things are less sexy than bellychub under a mesh shirt.

28)  What 3 words would you use to describe yourself? Generous. Patient. Fabu-fucking-lous.

29)  What appeals to you most about Gothic fashion? Black is slimming. ;) I jest. Seriously, I just think gothgirls are dead sexy, and I have always thought they were the prettiest kind of girls to be--they get to dress creatively all the time.