Poetry & Verse

VoTe for SaYnT, Even if you Don't Know Him...

MizzCherryPie — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:37:06 GMT

Take the time to get to know him... because .. Yer Carnie Uncle Saynt has gone and got his fool self entered into this DJ Competition. Should He win, He will get a spot on an internet radio show, Some stellar PR, and he gets to be in the esteemed arena of previous winners ( Such as Ms. divaDanielle ) BUT UNCLE SAYNT NEEDS YOUR VOTE! YOU CAN VOTE ONCE A WEEK!!!!! HELP A BROTHA OUT! THE CONTEST IS ONLY DURING FEBRUARY SO HOP TO IT! www.djnicalvarado.com/listen_...dex.html 1) Click or paste the link 2) Scroll down and you'll see a place to vote on the left and a place on the right to listen to any of the 34 mixes that I'm up against. 3) Vote For Saynt 4) Click VOTE at the bottom of that section 5) Tell Saynt you voted for him, so he can buy you a beer, or hookers, or cracker jacks, or whatever. It'll only take a minute and He'll love you forever. Seriously... like FOR-EV-ER

Grand Opening of my Design Studio @ Ray @ Night. THIS SATURDAY February 9th, 6pm

MizzCherryPie — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:03:29 GMT

Hello All my Lovelies! So as many of you know, I have just moved into my very own Design Studio Space! My studio is fully Loaded for Sewing and Painting! Getting into the Studio Space on Ray Street is incredible, and I have only just begun to get started. I invite you to come and celebrate in this amazing new space of creation! I am a lover of beautiful objects. I love the senses, I want to awaken yours. Whether it is with color, or texture, visually or with the touch of my fabric whimsies on your skin. I invite you to come on Saturday February 9th, and awaken your senses and play with me in my studio. I will be showing my new Frames and my very cool, Vertical Steamer! It's just so naughty! I am beginning to delve into making black light reflective clothing. And can't wait to show you what is coming next! Now, Let's Review. 6pm-10pm February 9th, *Stop by on your way to the Pajamuary or the Mustache Birthday Extravaganza* (I won't be far behind) 3830 Ray Street @ The San Diego Art Department, 92104 Come and Play with your Mizz Cherry Pie ala mode Thank You Very Much! Love p/s how many of you would be interested in an eat pie t-shirt? Pre-orders begin now

Burnign Man Pictures

MizzCherryPie — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:07:03 GMT

Hello Everyone. I am writing because I do not have any pictures of myself from the Burn, and I am wondering if any of you might have some pictures I haven't seen....or if you have seen me anywhere... please forward me the links. Thanks A Bunch Love. Cherry Pie ala mode Above is a picture taken by cake, that I edited in photoshop of Thing one and Thing 2 (Recognize them?)

Creative Infringement? Knock -Offs? or Business

MizzCherryPie — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:05:36 GMT

I found this article on www.villagevoice.com I found this article very interesting and I think it brings up good points about people's inspiration and straight up knocking off someone else's design. Please read and Discuss. Article "Sui Generis? Anna Sui, others sue Forever 21: How original are you?" by Lynn Yaeger September 25th, 2007 7:34 PM Elena Dahl models the "Forever WANTED" T-Shirt "Did the prisoners at Leavenworth consider suing Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel for ripping off the saggy belt-less trousers they wear in the prison yard? Did hundreds of anonymous graffiti artists sue Stephen Sprouse for printing tags on Louis Vuitton satchels? OK, you're not going to believe this—but you know Anthropologie, that place where you just bought that thick, knit, flared sweater exactly like the one Dries Van Noten showed on his runway last year? The store where you purchased all those puffy jolie-laide fake Marni dresses in charmingly hideous prints last spring? The shop that currently stocks those ersatz Marc Jacobs jackets with all the military bells and whistles that you're trying to make up your mind about? Well, that very venue is currently pursuing a lawsuit against Forever 21 for—get this—knocking off Anthropologie clothes. It's the season, it seems, for such litigation. More than 20 other designers are also suing Forever 21, including Diane Von Furstenberg—she of the famous wrap dress—who claims that the 21'ers knocked off not just her styles but the very prints she employs: in one example, a rather overwrought pattern of blue-and-white triangles that she calls "scattered stone," and which actually looks a lot like an old Marimekko design. And in her capacity as president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, the glamorous Diane has descended on Washington, attempting to get federal legislation passed that would make clothes-copying clothes a criminal offence. Anna Sui, who based an entire career on resuscitating, revamping, and rethinking the vintage fashions of the 1960s and '70s, the decades when she was young, is also livid about Forever 21 ripping off her designs, and she's suing as well. So incensed is she that for her spring '08 show (a collection that style.com described in part as "pure Barbara Hulanicki," citing the designer of the iconic 1970s label Biba), Sui stuffed each gift bag with a T-shirt depicting the owners of Forever 21 on a Wild West–style poster with the legends "Forever Wanted" and "Thou Shalt Not Steal." Asked to comment on her pending litigation, Sui's spokesperson said, "Anna isn't doing press on this (we gave one quote to the Times only). . . . The shirt is her statement." (Actually, nobody is very anxious to get back to me about this—repeated calls to Anthropologie were not returned.) It's easy to see why Sui is so mad—after all, Forever 21 did replicate her stripes-and-giant-roses print. Still, when it comes to fashion, who can claim to be original? I took a spin recently around Sui's Soho store to see if this could be a case of a very chic pot calling a fashion-forward kettle basic black. And here is what I found: many garments that appeared to be line-for-line copies of clothes from the '70s that were clearly purchased from flea markets; a newspaper print that is startlingly similar to one touted by John Galliano a few seasons back; a ribbon-trimmed badge pinned to a sweater exactly like the ones employed by the Fake London brand on its sweaters. But let's be fair: Galliano wasn't the first guy to do a newspaper print either, and lots of designers spend Sundays at the flea market. (They are, in fact, notorious for sweeping through the Manhattan Vintage Clothing Show-—the next one is October 12—and buying like wild animals.) And just a few weeks ago, Marc Jacobs was furious with Suzy Menkes, the critic for the International Herald Tribune, who took apart his most recent runway collection, accusing Jacobs of borrowing rather too liberally from Comme des Garçons, Martin Margiela, and John Galliano. Jacobs fired back in the September 13 issue of Women's Wear Daily: "I've never denied how influenced I am by Margiela, by Rei Kawakubo, those are people that inspire my work; I don't hide that. . . . Of course there are comparisons to other things. I'm a designer living in this world who loves fashion . . . I'm attentive to what's going on in fashion, I'm influenced by fashion, that's the way it is. I have never ever hidden it. I have never insisted on my own creativity, as Chanel would say. I have my interpretation of ideas I find very strong. Jil Sander is influenced by Comme des Garçons, Miuccia Prada is influenced by Comme des Garçons, everyone is influenced by Comme des Garçons, Martin Margiela. Anybody who's aware of what life is in a contemporary world is influenced by those designers." Well, all right then! So it's OK for Marc to rip off Comme, but somehow shady and vaguely reprehensible for Zara to do Prada or Bebe to do Versace or Forever 21 to do practically everybody? It's telling that Jacobs should invoke the name of Coco Chanel, who had her own personal revelation about copying when she visited the S. Klein department store in Union Square in 1933. According to her biographer, Axel Madsen: "Chanel proclaimed that knockoffs were nothing more than 'spontaneous publicity.' It was at Klein's that she decided that it was hopeless to try and fight it, that piracy was the flattering result of success." I hope Lanvin designer Alber Elbaz will be similarly flattered that I am sitting here in my fake Lanvin H&M black smock dress with its jaunty oversized zipper halfway up the back and its $59 price tag. I can assure him that it has generated plenty of spontaneous publicity. Not that owning it will stop me from purchasing an authentic Lanvin full price at Barneys any day now—just as soon as I have an extra $3,500 floating around."

Marcel Marceau 1923-2007

MizzCherryPie — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:16:24 GMT

One of my hero's Died This weekend. Please take a moment to honor the great Mime, Marcel Marceau Photo Essay on TIME http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1664876_1451112,00.html Marcel Marceau and his Art ~Article written by Timothy W. Ryback "Paris: Marcel Marceau died this past weekend in Paris. He was 84 and had been anticipating his death at least since July 1997, when he spent an evening on the terrace of a palace near Salzburg talking about his concern that when he passed the art of mime might die with him. He had a right to be concerned. His name became synonymous with his art. In the 1950s and 1960s, Marceau elevated this finely nuanced silent form of art, L'art du silence, as he called it, to a form of mass entertainment. He won an Emmy for his performance on the Max Lieberman Show, and appeared with Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas. In 1976, he made a cameo appearance in Mel Brooks's "Silent Movie." When Brooks asks him, in subtitle, if he is willing to appear in the film, Marceau provides the only soundtrack line in the movie, a tart, distinctly French flavored, "Non!" In the summer of 1997, Marceau came to Salzburg for a single performance and was scheduled as part of the public events preceding the major operatic and orchestral productions that would follow in the month ahead. Marcel was somewhat annoyed, as I learned from his agent, that the festival had booked him in the small festival hall, that seats 900, rather than the sprawling Grosses Festspielhaus that accommodates more than three times that number, but he performed brilliantly that evening. Dressed in his signature striped suit with his battered silk opera hat and single red rose, suggesting the fragility of human existence, he was buffeted by the invisible vicissitudes of life in "Walking against the Wind." He explored the full range of human emotions in "The Mask Maker" and took us through the stages of human life in "Youth, Maturity, Old Age and Death," a performance that had once left an awed critic to observe that Marceau accomplished in "less than two minutes what most novelists cannot do in volumes." The small festival hall was at most two-thirds full. After the performance, Marceau withdrew to Schloss Leopoldskron, a rococo palace on the outskirts of Salzburg that had once belonged to the Festival founder Max Reinhardt. Silent on stage, Marcel was a natural raconteur. Sitting on the palace terrace on a warm summer evening with several bottles of wine, he mused late into the night about his art and his career. He claimed he had learned the power of illusion on a sun drenched afternoon toward the end of World War II while fighting with the French Résistance. He and a companion had entered a clearing and suddenly found themselves face-to-face with a unit of German soldiers. Startled, Marceau acted as if he was the advance guard of a larger French force and demanded the German surrender. As Marcel related the incident, he suddenly sprang to his feet and struck a predatory pose. The night air filled with menace and, an instant later, triumph. Though it was well past midnight, I still see the helmets of the surrendering Germans glinting in that sunlight meadow. Mostly, though, Marcel spoke that evening about the fragility of his art. He observed that "ars long, vita brevis" was a verity that did not apply to "l'art du silence." Unlike novels or plays or operas, which could be printed, recorded, preserved, the art of mime was a transitory and ephemeral art. It existed only in the moment. And more unsettling still, essentially in one man, Marcel Marceau. For Marceau, this was not a point of artistic conceit but of pragmatic concern. If the man and the art form were essentially one, he said, then when the man died the art form died with him, and with it his own legacy. He had therefore established a school of mime in Paris to mentor protégés, and had scripted "The Bowler Hat," a multi-character theatrical "mimodrama," that was to premier in Munich that autumn. Marcel also talked about a system of notation he was developing for mime, similar to music notation, that could be "read" by performers in future. When asked why a video of a mime performance would not suffice, he mused in response: Would a video tape of a performance of Beethoven 9th Symphony suffice for musicians in the future? Marceau worked relentlessly in the intervening decade to secure the future of the art of silence. "The Bowler Hat" went on to performances in Paris, London, Tokyo, New York and elsewhere. Marceau himself held triumphant comeback tours to packed houses and extended engagements in Europe and America, but he never succeeded in finding a successor who commanded the stage the way he did. Now he is dead and a part of his art has died with him."

See you in the Dust.

MizzCherryPie — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:09:18 GMT

Yeah!! we leave in 15 minutes!

Where are you Camping?

MizzCherryPie — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:10:24 GMT

I know everyone has been posting everywhere.... but if you are so kind to let me know where you will be here... I can make a cohesive list and come visit.. Now that I am going to burning man!!! I almost forgot... I'll be on 4:30 and "C". "C" is for Cherry!

Please Spread the Dusty Word

MizzCherryPie — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:49:07 GMT

This is from my friend FERAL KID... he is with the DPW and has been on the playa for at least the last 2 weeks. MORE DUSTY THEN EVER Tue, August 21, 2007 - 5:32 AM "The dust this year has been worse than anything I've seen in the past 7 years BY FAR. There is a dune a foot deep outside the radar shack that formed in just 2 days. There was a complete white out INSIDE the staff's mess tent (about 40x100 foot). It takes both wind and dust to make a storm. We obviously have the dust, so hope for calm winds when you arrive. With it this dusty now, it has the potential to be dustiest year ever once record numbers of people arrive. Come prepared." photo by Feral Kid

Trunk Show This Saturday!!!

MizzCherryPie — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:30:24 GMT

Hello everyone! I will be vending at this event as well as many other amazing people you will surely recognize. I will have available: Hand Sculpted Horns, Jewelry and head to toe outfits, that fit, feel good, and make you look sexy as hell! Come and Join our Day of Fun, and Let me dress you up! Get outfitted for the playa! Join us for a day of pre-burn shopping for costuming, art and other gorgeous handmade items! You'll be able to savor some delicious libations at the Kava Lounge bar including a selection of organic wines and local beers! After blissful browsing there will be a viewing of "Journey to the Flames" at 6:00pm, a documentary about Burning Man by Doug Jacobson. Katherine will be hosting an LED workshop at 12pm - 2:00pm for $15 per person. Please join her for that! We have LOTS of great vendors and artists signed on! Here's what you can expect: Find irresistible objects and attire such as: Faux fur coats, boot covers & hats by Alexiis, DaBomb & Nine Deep Illuminated accessories by Blue Moon Designs Handmade Playawear by Danielle Delia Men’s & women’s costuming, boots, accessories & lingerie by The BronShop Adult hoola hoops by Carly & Ilanamous One of a kind fine watercolors by Sinclair Stratton Handmade jewelry by Jeanne-Marie Feather headdresses by Tonya Fire performance tools by AnJa’s Treasures & Whirly Girl Hand dyed silks by Church of Silk Funky handmade camel packs by Lisa Fine art by Sarah Grubb & Tylr McPherson Beautiful flower hair clips by Wendy Funky clothing for all your party needs by Stephen Hues Designs & Eion 2013 Breath-taking metal sculptures & doggie beds by Rebecca Goodman

Dear Hang Man-

MizzCherryPie — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:19:34 GMT

It seams like this may have been the longest winter of my life, since I lived on a snow covered hillside in upstate New York when I was twelve. I have been going through so much this winter, internally, that I have not been spending as much time out and about. I have missed you all so much,and as you spend the weekend at Alma, I prepare myself for a summer of Fun, Sunshine, Dancing and Design. I was sitting here this morning, sipping on coffee, and taking in the quiet of the day. All my roommates are gone at least for now and I have spring cleaning to do. Time to ready myself for the next part of this journey forward. And with that, I opened up to dictionary.com to look up a word, and found myself playing hang man. I LOVE words. I love writing, and like so many of my crafts, I feel I owe more time to writing, like I owe time to my silks, and my clothing designs. So I am playing hangman and as if a note was sent from the universe, this is the phrase I solved for.... "I make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes." -Sara Teasdale I was compelled at last, to sit down and write this love letter to you, my friends and contemporaries. For this has been my lesson to learn all winter. And there are so many opportunities coming for all of us! I I am reminded that we can have what ever we set ourselves to task to accomplish. I am dedicating the rest of my thirties to developing my master of focus, and to mastering my abilities. I have been pondering many questions this winter... as I come face to face with the reality of the world around me, and the one I have created, both consciously and unconsciously. So this is what I want to know, and these are real questions I am asking myself. and now you... How do you balance the mundane of life with creative passions? How do you handle yourself, when all around you, life is moving faster then you? What daily practices do you have in place that keep you centered? What areas of your life are working, but not as well as you'ld like them to be? what are your goals? What do you want to accomplish? Are there people in your life that you have not told you love them? Are you holding a grudge or being stingy? Are you complete with your family? When was the last time you called your mom or anyone for that matter, just because you wanted to hear their voice? Are you incomplete with anyone and need to find a place of forgiveness? do you forgive easily? Do you know what your deal breakers are inside of relationships? and do you know what you need to be well and to continue to grow and be nourished? What do you want to be acknowledged for? What do you want to be known in the world as? Who do you want to live with and where? If you could change one thing about yourself, that is a weakness and make it a strength what could you accomplish? If I don't ever make it...(insert big dream here) will I regret my life? Who Do I have to BE today, to love every minute of what is to come? I am profoundly moved by so many in our community. And often wonder, how we will impact the world. Individually and together, we are faced with many challenges along the way, that require our own sense of self, to determine our way forward, and a world in turmoil, still about who has the bigger balls of them all, and we are here, working, growing, playing, fucking, dreaming, and yes, partying our asses off. I have to say, we have got some amazing talent, so much so, that I sometimes forget that there is another world out there, and that there are people, who are going through their reality, without any thoughts to Garter Belts and Fishnets. Seriously?! When I first discovered people in the Burning Man Community, I was awestruck by the self expression and the colorfulness of each person, and being around a group of my peers and contemporaries, is almost more then a girl can stand. This past year, has been filled with opportunities to grow, and develop, and I think I am learning great lessons, but the weight of the learning has me feeling like I need to seriously lighten up. Develop a more complete sense of humor, and keep on keepin on. Anyway, if you have hung in this long.... Thanks and I love you. Intimately, and without reason. with only good wishes and great respect. love. Mizz Cherry Pie a la Mode oh and yeah... it's dance season baby, I better see you on the dance floor!!!! (my next big party is elysium)

One Word

MizzCherryPie — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:49:28 GMT

Please leave a one-word comment that you think best describes me -- it can only be one word long. Then copy and paste this in your journal so that I may leave a word about you. (I found this on Gaia's blog). I'm only following instructions...

A BIG MAC

MizzCherryPie — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:37:48 GMT

Well, I have less then a week before my audtion for Project Runway. I still have a ton to do and a brewed pot of coffee to consume. I sent my application out on Wednesday, and I am now in the process of putting together my portfolio. Fortunately, I have a very supportive family and my mom sent me a box I have been storing in her house since college. It has all of my info from the shows that I have designed and old photographs. This image above, I scanned from a negative. I didn't even bother to clean it so it's spotty, but I wanted to share this one with you. I was taking a photo class... Black and White Photography 300, or an independant study maybe. I had the best photo teacher ever, but he gave really annoying assignments. For this assignment we had been instructed to take photographs of a big mac sandwich.... you know from McDonalds... Of course he didn't say the big mac from mcdonalds, but certainly when he said..."I want you to take photographs of the Big Mac." It's what we all heard." I did shoot pictures of the big mac too, and fries and a coke. I was so dissatisfied... but I thought it would be good tongue and cheek to use an american flag, given that we are a fast food culture.... but somewhere in there my inner burner came out and I was stripped down, wearing a hat with a star... When I handed this in, Terry, my professor, wanted to know what was behind using myself for the image and I told him this true story... My two friends Jon and Joe used to MAC on girls... you know, aka HIT ON... anyway,... before we were friends, they used to call me the Big Mac... ahaha. And that's no Joke. True Story right here. Oh, and I got an "A".

Project Runway Update

MizzCherryPie — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:10:14 GMT

Well, here we go. I just got back from fuente eterno, What an amazing time! Thank you so much to all who loved me up so well. I am consistantly meeting wonderful new people. truly, I am blown away. And each event is an opportunity to also develop further knowing with such good friends. woot woot. And NOW Project Runway... Auditions are being held in only 4 cities. LA is going to be the first city, and NY the last. To get on the show, I have to be at the audition in LA. weekends of March 30,31 and April 1. Which means, that I may not be able to attend the RLD fundraiser "A Fools Paradise" unless I can get in to audition the first day. So, wish me luck and if I'm not there you will know why. I am currently working on a few new designs that I will be showing when I get to the audition. if you want to know more about the casting process, go to http://www.bravotv.com/Casting/index.shtml Please send your good thoughts my way, and I promise to represent. I am looking for a few of my friends to go with me and be my models for that weekend. If you are interested.... you could wear one of my pieces home. that means I will make it for you in exchange of you being there with me. Anyone interested in being model please send me a private message. I would like to take 3 to 5 people with me in my wear. I also appreciate your support. This is something I have always wanted. I have been sewing since I was seven. The first thing I ever made was a christmas stocking. I announced to my mom that I thought I needed a bigger stocking for santa. She told me if I wanted a new one, I should make it myself. I said ok, how do I do that? and she told me to get some fabric and make a pattern. so I picked out some colors, blue and red, and some lace for trim, and I sat down and traced my leg for the pattern. lol. much like I did just last week. *giggles*. Anyway, thanks for listening, and I will keep you abreast of my progress. I love you all! meow. P/S I made the skirt that cake is wearing in this picture.

It's My Birthday!!!

MizzCherryPie — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:44:57 GMT

Last Night I had the distinct pleasure of going to Club Marquee in NYC to celebrate. I was flanked by Rick (in picture above), from our SD contigency, AND my best friend Jason Kitty Conover. I was the only one there in Burner Gear. Talk about shaking it up on the dance floor, I got pulled to dance on the go-go stage.. woot woot. You'ld think that people living in NY have never seen a live and fleshy ass in December. ;P sooooooooo I missed the Misfit toy Party, but I was still dressed to be a misfit. I danced until 5am NY time to stay in tune with you all in LA. Love you all. Kisses. Danielle

Wild Women

MizzCherryPie — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:20:57 GMT

" A woman's issues of soul cannot be treated by carving her into a more acceptable form as defined by an unconscious culture, nor can she be bent into a more intellectually acceptable shape by those who claim to be the sole bearers of consciousness. No, that is what has already caused millions of women who began as strong and natural powers to become outsiders in their own cultures. Instead, the goal must be the retrieval and succor of women's beauteous and natural psychic forms. " "Once women have lost her and then found her again, they will contend to keep her for good. Once they have regained her, they will fight and fight hard to keep her, for with her their creative lives blossom; their relationships gain meaning and depth and health; their cycles of sexuality, creativity, work, and play are re-established; they are no longer marks for the predations of others; they are entitled equally under the laws of nature to grow and to thrive. Now their end-of-the-day fatigue comes from satisfying work and endeavors, not from being shut up in too small a mindset, job, or relationship. They know instinctively when things must die and when things must live; they know how to walk away, they know how to stay." " A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life sforce, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving. Yet, separation from the wildish nature causes a woman's personality to become meager, thin, ghosty, spectral. We are not meant to be puny with frail hair and inability to leap up, inability to chase, to birth, to create a life. When women's lives are in stasis, or filled with ennui, it is always time for the wildish woman to emerge; it is time for the creating function of the psyche to flood the delta." From Book: "Women Who Run With the Wolves" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.

i carry your heart

MizzCherryPie — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:15:33 GMT

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart) ~ee cummings

Gratitude gobble gobble

MizzCherryPie — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:09:31 GMT

It is 2:53pm, I am sitting on my floor contemplating the last 18 months of my life. Thinking about the first time I met Steven Jay on the cruise around San Diego, which lead to meeting Justin, which lead to meeting Cake and James; then the dam just broke! I am in awe of each of you, you who are fullfilling your lifes mission, work, play, and dreams. It is a pleasure to know you. I am humbled by your gifts. I am in awe of your light. I love you. danielle= big mush head. I have grown so much because of each of you. Thank You for your love, kindness, and friendship. Thank you for not only speaking your truths, but living by your words. Thank you for challenging me to have integrity and teaching me the value of community. Thank you for your hugs, and your laughter. Thank you for making sweet music for me to dance to. Thank you for challenging me to become even more refined within myself. Thank you for your truth that keeps you steady in the center of yourself. Thank you. Thank YOU. Thank you for all that you are. I love you. May this season of short days and long nights, be filled with love, snuggles, and intimacy. In deepest love and respect Danielle

LOST

MizzCherryPie — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:08:52 GMT

Hi all. I'm not sure if you saw me this weekend, I was wearing flowing silks. I lost one of my hand painted pieces that I made and I miss it badly. It is red, gold, green, with a slight hint of pink in the red. it is Rasta Color stripes... someone said it looked like like the stripes gum package. The scarf is in the picture above. Please, if you have seen it, have it or what ever, I will be grateful to have it back. Love. Danielle aka calliope

Don't lose your VOTE.

MizzCherryPie — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 05:34:42 GMT

hey everyone. I wrote this response to Mario's Blog .... http://people.tribe.net/stilgar/blog/feab9226-4ca9-4bd0-8b71-857ac0e8f56c .... I wanted to post it here, because I think that this is an important issue. it goes beyond The terminator for governor. Genocide is Genocide no matter what we call it I love you what you have to say Mario. Very insightful. I don't understand why people continue to look the other way when people are dying. period. what is happening outside of the US, all over the world.; In Darfur, people are being killed. The United States has the opportunity to show humanity around the world, to be the bigger person, to show people a better way of living, we have enough man power in the united states to rebuild Lousiana, but there it sits, since the levees broke. Nothing being done to care for our own. This country isn't oganized around the care and well being of people. The country is oganized aound money, oil, politics, and movie stars. We are a Fat Filled sit on our asses, watch tv nation. WTF? Now, I know that we don't all choose to live this way.. but the over all look to America? Hell Yes. I think the numbers of Death US: IRAQ is so obviously one sided in our favor... do we have to kill all those people to be RIGHT? that doesn't make us any different then the terrorists. Mis-information is the worst. that and misrepresentation. Our Government doesn't care for it's people, no, our representatives don't represent us. WE have to use our voices or we lose our rights. it's just that simple. and you know, it doesn't matte if we want the same thing. Freedom is just that. Freedom. Freedom to choose with out consequence of religious beliefs to live a life of our own design. No matter who you are or what you do, your Rights are being taken away as surely as the next person, if you don't stand up and say what's on you mind. Express yourself. Stand up for your rights and the rights of others, VOTE Dammat!!! I value each PERSONS life as there own. I might not want a traditional life style, but I want people to be able to choose the lives they want to live. I want all people to have the opportunity to be educated. and to fall in love, and speak their minds. I can see a world beyond the ego. I can see a world where government leaders aren't committing genocide for the sake of their own pockets and calling it being president. For the Record, I think that George W. Bush is no different then Hitler. So what if he's killed less people. he has the same mentality. He doesn't value human life. He allows genocide to happen at the hands of other leaders and for the sake of OIL he kills the Iraqie people. He is constantly taking away women's rights, refuses to acknowledge the rights of Gay People (marriages and such). It's Bullshit. I call Bullshit. When "in god we trust" was written on the dollar bill, the GOD that was being refered to? Gold, Oil, Diamonds. George is taking what he wants for his own legacy, and gets away with it, because the safe measures of democracy are failing at the hands of governmental agencies working, out dated and close minded. Unless we begin to stand for what we believe in, our future will be no different then our present. Vote. VOTE. VOTE> VOTE. please. Register Now. Vote in November.

What's Everyone Up to these days?

MizzCherryPie — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:44:43 GMT

Speak Up... I have been working so much, and the work doesn't seem to be coming to a close anytime soon. This is a good thing. VERY Exciting! However, I miss all my peeps. ALL OF YOU. This is a letter to all of you who call me, and send me emails whom never hear back from me. I LOVE YOU. Life is so good, it's ridiculous. fuck yes! ok... so what I'm up to is... I moved in with Storm in August. I went to the Burn... I'm not a virgin anymore. I am working for Real Doll, with Hand Chop. check it out.. www.realdolls.com/dolls.asp Buy some boobie balls, you can't go wrong with them. I also am now working freelance for a toy company up in Malibu thanks to HandChop and now I owe him about 3 thousand massages. lol. oooh and I am getting ready for Heather and Jason's Wedding... yes, that's right... Fierce and Gecko are getting married and we are going to celebrate our asses off! The world isn't slowing down. seems we are all speeding up in the direction of our dreams and intentions. woo hoo. so that's what I want to know about... how's it going for you out there? what's up? are you in love? working? playing? laughing? healing? dancing? loving? learning? growing? I want to know. Other than that, I love you I love you I love you.

Perspective- I found this article in the Village Voice

MizzCherryPie — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:19:10 GMT

Stoning Women to Death Coming soon to the United Nations: Iran's chief executioner of women by Nat Hentoff September 17th, 2006 7:29 PM Photo of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Bringing back the 'dark ages' photo: AFP/Newscom On . . . June 29, 2006, a court in the Islamic Republic of Iran sentenced Malak Ghorbany, a 34-year-old mother of two, to a brutal death by stoning after finding her guilty of adultery. . . . Two men who were found guilty of murder in the same court were only given jail sentences of six years. . . . The size of the stones used during the execution are required to be . . . not so large that they would kill a woman too quickly, nor so small that they would fail to cause serious injury or pain . — A letter, unanswered, to George W. Bush from John Whitehead, head of the Rutherford Institute, one of the nation's premier civil liberties organizations. The part about the stones is from Article 104 of the Iranian penal code. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, has become an international celebrity, brandishing his nuclear program—and his yearning to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. He is visited by such personages as U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan and Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes. In their conversations with him, neither has asked the swashbuckling leader about "honor killings" by the government of women charged with having committed "adultery." As human rights lawyer Lily Mazahery, president of the Legal Rights Institute reports, "in 99 percent of these cases, the accused women have received no legal representation because, under the Shariah legal system, their testimony is at best worth only half the value of the testimony of men." And there is no single executioner. These are mass murders by stone-throwing members of the community, having the kind of festive time common among American mass lynchers of blacks, when the murderers brought their children to join in the fun. In Iran too, kids are present to witness the sinners' redemption. The capital crime of adultery, Mazahery has explained to World Net Daily, "includes [under Shariah law] any type of intimate relationship between a girl/woman and a man to whom she is not permanently or temporarily married. Such a relationship does not necessarily mean a sexual relationship. "Further, charges of adultery are routinely issued to women/girls who have been raped—and they are sentenced to death." (Their unpardonable crime is to have been raped.) During the continuous coverage in this country of Iran's nuclear threat and its crucial support of terrorists in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East, there has been scarcely any mention of this horrifying dimension of the culture of Iran: sangsar, the stoning to death of women. Mazahery, the Persian American lawyer whose mission has long been to save Iranian women from this and other brutal treatment, tells me that sangsar, "dating back to the dark ages," was, for a time, suspended by the pre-revolutionary regime due to pressure from international human rights organizations, combined with protests from civilized persons around the world. But when the mullahs took over in the 1979 revolution, they brought back Shariah law, and when this president came to power, he reinstituted public stonings, as a "religious principle," against women. As of this writing, President Ahmadinejad is on his way to address the United Nations in New York. There will be heavy press coverage. Will any reporter ask him about the stoning of women in his country—and the particular case of Malak Ghorbany? And while former "moderate" Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has been in the United States—lecturing at Harvard, among other prestigious venues—I know of no reporter who has asked him to discourse on the stoning of women under his successor. Mazahery, who was recently invited by students and faculty to respond to Khatami at Harvard, has written and circulated an online petition, "Save Malak Ghorbany From Death by Public Stoning," addressed to Kofi Annan; the U.N.'s commissioner of human rights; and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran; as well as to the head of its judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi. So far, there have been more than 11,000 signatories—from around the world, including this country, China, and most tellingly, Iran. For Iranians to sign took much courage. As Ali Afshari and Akbar Atri—founding members of Iranian Students for Democracy and Human Rights—revealed in the September 2–3 Wall Street Journal: "Satellite dishes are being collected to cut off public access to the . . . news of the global community. Women's groups, labor organizations, and student groups are not permitted even the more peaceful acts of protest." As a result, however, of growing international concern about Malak Ghorbany, partly from Mazahery's petition, the Islamic regime has stayed her execution until she gets a new trial. But as Mazahery points out, Iran has used this three-card-monte trick before. As she told World Net Daily: "It is quite possible the Islamic regime will schedule a rush sham trial and reissue the same sentence [and] even with a new trial, Ghorbany would still receive the same sentence or be sentenced to death by public hanging instead." The pressure to save Malak Ghorbany must continue. The direct link to Malak's petition, where you can sign on, is petitiononline.com/Malak/petition.html. For related topics, and to link to videos of actual public stonings, click on savemalak.googlepages.com/home. Keep in mind, Mazahery warns:,"There are no scheduled dates for such killings in Iran. A prisoner can be executed at any time with little or no notice at all. Needless to say, that makes matters that much more complicated and urgent in these types of cases." I shall return to this ongoing story and to Mazahery, whose own personal story illuminates the barbarism of the rulers of Iran—where scores of student dissenters are in prison and, as Ali Afshari and Akbar Atri report, "the noose has been tightened around the neck of writers, journalists, and bloggers in the past few months."

Costumer Available for Hire before the BURN

MizzCherryPie — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:35:41 GMT

This is a first come first serve opportunity. It takes time to craft and design.... I have my Bachelors Degree from SUNY Fredonia in COSTUME DESIGN. This means I can make anything with my hands and have the skills/experience to cut, paint, sew, upholster, build, use power tools and pnuematic guns. I won best costume design at the TANYS Festival in 1994 for my costume design of Tissue, a story of a woman with breast cancer. I am available for: ~PATTERN MAKING- those difficult costumes you want to make yourself. Give me your measurements and a design and I will give you back a working pattern you can make yourself... examples: Fur Coat. Dresses. Pants. Shirts. Chaps. etc. really, I can draft anything. For those of you who were at Elysium I made the Giant Mushrooms that stood around the main stage area shown above, talk about a large pattern!!! I can also design something that is just a concept in your mind... I can do the drawings until we get it right. Want to use black light reflective materials or colors... no problem!! ALSO- I am a highly skilled crafts person, I have worked for the Old Globe Theatre and The San Diego Rep Theatre as a Crafts and Props Artisan... this means I am also available for hire for: LEATHER WORKING: Cuffs, chaps, arm guards, light armor pieces, belts, etc. HORNS: available in a variety of sizes. prices start at 20.00 a pair or 2 pairs for 30.00. EARS: TAILS: made from leather or cloth fitting against the sacrum. can be worn with only panties and stockings or with pants... would you like a devils tail? or perhaps a fluffy tail? WINGS-including angel wings, bat wings, butterfly wings and anything else you could possibly dream up. MASKS: Custom made for your face using a mold making process. style examples: punchinello or mardi gras HANDPAINTED: NOT TIE DYED- Silks and SIlk Objects..... Flags and Sarongs and long flowing pieces of silk... up to 4 yards... great for making one of a kind dresses or outfits. Good for making any kind of japanese style objects as well... Kimonos and Summer Kimonos. Now, here is the thing time is limited.. I am very open and available and ready to deliver your very hearts desire.... I am $30.00 and hour plus the cost of materials. for all custom designed objects a deposit of at least 50% will be due at the beginning of the project. Thank you for understanding. All orders placed will be delivered before burning man. please send me a Private message or reach me at info@danielledelia.com I am taking orders until my schedule is full.... don't miss out on getting what you want... contact me now. I am at your service. All work is satisfaction guaranteed!!! love calliope

it's the monday after elysium

MizzCherryPie — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:09:18 GMT

what more do I have to say? I had the best fuckin time ever. I feel refreshed and relaxed from an amazing weekend. I have several favorite moments and met so many beautiful beings. props to the entire liquid-o crew for throwing us the best party we have seen! @ this event I got to have some first time experiences: I was flogged on the whipping post, and left want more. mmmmmm. I was witness to Eka performing for the very first time on the arial silks. WOW. there are no words to express the joy and happiness I felt at watching her climb those silks. I have goose pimples just thinking about it. I think that is my favorite moment. this was my very first pool party in a camp ground with 400 hundred of my closest friends and there closest friends. I think I didn't stop swimming for the whole day. I also for the first time saw Juniper spin fire... and wow, she spins and dances the way I aspire to do someday. thanks for the inspiration grrrrl!!! I got to meet Saynt for the first time. what a privilage... and yeah, you've got some horns coming! I double fisted Ice cream at least twice *lime and strawberry* and *lime and coconut* I think this weekend was the hottest weekend of my life. I think the temperture got up to 116. and those are only a few of the many wonderful firsts. that doesn't include all the amazing moments with all my closest friends. I love you all so much. I'd like to also acknowledge the kick ass crew from LA. you undid me at every turn. oooh, let's do it again soon!!! love you all so much. big kisses and love calliope P.S. Elysium: E·ly·si·um Audio pronunciation of "elysium" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-lz-m, -lzh-) n. 1. Greek Mythology. The Elysian Fields. 2. A place or condition of ideal happiness. Indeed!!!!

I rock

MizzCherryPie — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 02:09:47 GMT

Danielle left her tribe account open on my computer so I find it necessary that I post a blog about how much I love her. She is my super fabulous soul little sister, wondertwin, cohort in all things too much. So I just want to give a shoutout for my bee-ach DD, whaaahoooo shout out!!!!!! xo, Sarah

Acknowledgements

MizzCherryPie — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:50:35 GMT

First, I want to say THANK YOU to all who have contributed to my growth this week. I have learned so much about communicating and although I have for a long time understood that anything can be transformed through communication, I have never been so public in my communications and I have to say that my sadness from what I thought was the weight of nasty public opinion in the form of gossip has turned to joy and happiness that I can say what is on my mind and be so blessedly received. So again, I say thank you. Thank you for being who you are. Thank you for taking me seriously and for still having a sense of humor at the same time. That’s why you guys Rock My World!!! See you Saturday Night @ Alma!!!!! Love Calliope