Dorian's Parlor and Steampunk Works Fashion Show

                                                                

I have so much to tell you, dear readers. I had the best time attending Dorian’s Parlor on Saturday night.

As always, Gil Cnaan and his staff put together one of the best kept secrets held in the city of Philadelphia. What secret do I speak of?

                                                                                                                                                 

Dear lovelies, it’s all about the world of Steampunk, yes I’ve written about this event before and I’m encouraging you to attend the next affair.

                                                                             

This time around, I was asked by the owners of Steampunk Works to model one of their creations and to be part of the fashion show.

                                                                                                                       

                                          Lady Eleeza and Commander Cobert

                                                           
                                picked out this outfit for me to wear. I love it, don’t you?

                                                                        

We arrived early at the Doubletree Hotel located at 237 South Broad Street where we met with the models. For the next few hours that little conference room was as busy as a beehive.

                                                                                                                 
 The models, who were the most amazingly friendly and helpful people I have ever met, studied their scripts and prepared for the fashion show. I’m not too sure of everyone’s name and was only able to find some of the photos. If you were one of the models, please send me your name.

                                       This young lady played the mad patient at the circus
                   

                                                          This young lady became the

                                                         Gothic Ballerina                                                                       
                                                                  

I felt like I was on the set of Project Runway as Lady Eleeza and Commander Cobert worked like magicians

                                                              
                        pulling from their collection of Steampunk clothing and accessories

                                                              
                      everything they needed to create the Circus theme fashion show.

                                                                           

The talented people who did the makeup and hair styles worked feverishly to do their own type of magic.

                                                                                                                      
 I watched as they miraculously changed the very appearance of each model so that the girls became the character that they were to play on stage. 

                                                                            

I, my dear readers had a bit part on the show. I was the Steampunk granny who was entertained by beautifully dressed circus performers.

 

                                                                                                                                                                       

 

                                                               
             Steampunk is becoming more popular, not only for young adults, but for people my age.

I’ll let everyone know when the next event is so that you can join me for a night of wonderful music, dancing, stage acts and fashion shows. I’ll be there with my friends in all our Steampunk finery.

                                                  Just ask for Steampunk Granny

                                                                    
                                                               

Vampires, Ghosts and The Cabin in the Woods

                                                           

So Friday night, my ghost hunting friends and I took our two fledgling ghost hunters to the Vampire, Sex, and Ghost Tour. This is a tour offered by Joe Wojie for Grim Philly. It lasted around 90 minutes and Joe dazzled us with tales of the City’s past.

       Starting from the left, Blanche, Rita, Suzanne, ReRe, me, and Jean                                 

We know where the bodies are buried!! What the connection is between Bram Stoker and Philadelphia and many more interesting and fun facts. Sorry there weren’t any handsome vampires around for the sex part. I’m team Eric and no, he wasn’t there.

                                                   

                                                                                                    

Joe also offers a Blood a Beer Tour, which my group will be taking soon. Joe is a University Professor who has done extensive research on all the sites we had visited. I’ll be interviewing him in the next couple of days and will post this as soon as I do, but here is his picture.

                                                    

Okay, so I promised my teenage grandson I would take him to see The Cabin in the Woods.

                                                         
He promised me it wasn’t a slasher film. My definition of slasher and gore may differ from Joshua’s point of view,

                                                       
but this said, I’m glad I went to see this. This is a great movie with generous helpings of fright and comedy and it has lots of conspiracy tech stuff. Something like Chainsaw massacre meets the Geek Squad.

                                         Josh and I watching the film.

                                                    

There was a brief nudity scene, so Granny that I am, I told Josh to cover his eyes.

                                                   
Yeah right. He was peeking between his fingers forcing me to re-enact a scene from the Exorcist.

                                                

Our favorite character in the movie was Fran Kranz.

                                            
     You’ll need to see the film to find out why. So if you have a free weekend coming up, go on a tour with Grim Philly and head out to the movies to see The Cabin in the Woods.
     Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that on the way home, I got in trouble with my daughter again for talking to strangers while riding the PATCO.

                                                 
   
                      

 

Another Great Weekend

I had two of the grandsons sleep over on Saturday after we saw the movie, Hunger Games. It was great and it lived up to the five star reviews it has been receiving. Now I need to get the books.

                                                Josh and Nathan, the two from the left.

After dinner, the boys tried to find something fun to watch on T.V. Well we did find something new, but it was quite by accident. Nathan and Josh were arguing over what they wanted to watch and each had a death grip on the remote. By the time I wrestled the remote from their hands, we had pulled up, The Cutting Edge on demand. I then scanned down to the sci-fi section of the Cutting Edge and pulled up a show called Mercury Men.

This show is a hoot. We loved it. It’s a throwback to the old black and white cliffhangers they had in the 50’s, where you had to tune in each week to find out if the hero made out it alive. This show was created and directed by the very talented Chris Preksta

 and you can find it on Syfy.com, Hulu, or itunes. You can also go to the site http://www.mercuryseries.com 

Each episode is around ten minutes and there are ten episodes. The boys and I watched all ten and we want to see more episodes. There are two main characters, Edward Borman played by Mark Tierno and Captain Jack Yaeger, played by Curt Wootton.
                                        
                                          

You need to see this for yourself, we loved it.

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My Ghost Hunting group and I found a new adventure to go on and it’s right over the bridge in Philly. A friend from my writer’s group suggested that we would like this. Grim Philly Twilight tour is located at 6^th and Market and right now they are offering two tours. One is the Vampires, Sex and Ghosts tour, which my friends and I will be going to in a few weeks and the second is the Blood and Beer, a Cemetery, serial killers and beer tour. University professor, Joe Wojie, leads both tours. Go to Grimphilly.com, and go on your own adventure.

See you next weekend with a new addition to my Lilith’s Escape series and what other new adventures I tumbled into.