Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts

Sunday, November 16, 2008

PMS AVENGERS!!!!

PMS AVENGERS!!!!



My friend Ashes had a Super Hero Birthday Party. Dakota and I decided to be PMS Avengers. The idea was taken from a song called PMS Avengers that a friend (Leslie) made up. We decided to also perform the song for everyone at the party. Our costumes/performance made such a big hit that we decided to wear the costumes again for a friends halloween party. We won Sexiest Costume and Dylan won Best Costume....he was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Cowboy. Everyone LOVED his outfit!

Anyways, this song is really fun to sing and I recommend singing it especially when you are on your period and RAGING! :)
Enjoy!

PMS AVENGERS:
Don't
Don't reach
Don't reach for that Midol
It's your power time
Just let your anger take you for a wild ride

PMS Avenger, don't take that Midol
Let your anger take you down to the shopping mall
Tear up the make-up counter, rip the heads off the Barbie dolls
And get a can of spray paint and put the writing on the wall

Don't
Don't expect
Rhyme or Reason
This bitch is in season
And when I'm on the rag
I don't use Kotex, I use the American flag

PMS Avenger, don't take that Midol
Let your anger take you down to city hall
Take the mayor's necktie and wrap it around his balls
Then sneak down there late at night and put the writing on the wall

Don't
Don't explain
Yourself to anyone
Just have yourself some fun OW!

PMS Avenger
Blow up the Pentagon
PMS Avenger
Dismantle a nuclear bomb
PMS Avenger
Telephone your mom

PMS x3

PMS Avenger
Hold up the porno store
PMS Avenger
Kick your boyfriend out the door
PMS Avenger
Dare to want more

PMS x3
Everybody
PMS x3
Celebrate it
PMS x3
Proud of my
PMS x3
Men get it too
PMS x3 AVENGERS!

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Portland's Undergound Shanghai Tunnels

Opium Den

Halloween AKA Day of the Dead is definitely my favorite holiday! Besides how beautiful the trees are when the leaves change their color, I love dressing up in costumes, eating vegan junk food, decorating with spooky stuff, and celebrating the people/animals that have passed on.

This year we started celebrating Halloween by going to the Underground Tunnels in Portland. Portland's Underground Tunnels are the 10th most hanunted place in North America and #1 Most Haunted in Portland. The evening on Halloween was all booked up so we went the Tuesday before. REALLY SPOOKY!!!! I defintely recommend going on the tour. We went on the Ghost Tour. They took us to a few places above ground where ghosts have been reported....like Skidmore Fountain. A woman has been seen there several times crying by the fountain. There of course is a story to go along with that.

There is a deep creepy history of Portland and the Shanghai Tunnels. The "Portland Underground" tunnels, also known as the "Shanghai Tunnels", were basements of buildings that connected to other buildings through brick and stone archways that were intersected with tunnels that connected under the streets, linking block to block. These "catacombs" or "tombs", as they were sometimes called, created a unique network of passages and thoroughfares that were used by unscrupulous individuals called "shanghaiiers" or "crimps", in addition to "white slavers" who grabbed women and sold them into prostitution.



Women, in early Portland's history, had to be cautious when venturing into certain areas of the city. They were warned not to go to dances and to stay out of restaurants, saloons, and other establishments of the evening. Women just seemed to vanish and were never heard from again.

It was for this reason that Portland was considered the most "dangerous port in the world" because of the "Shanghaiing Trade" that existed. Stopping for a drink in such notorious establishments as Erickson's Saloon, the Snug Harbor Saloon, and the Valhalla Saloon, people became unsuspecting victims who found themselves beneath the streets in tunnels and being carried out to the waterfront and sold for "blood money". Portland, Oregon, the Victorian-refined "City of Roses" along the Willamette River, earned the reputation of being the "Shanghai Capital of the World" because of the uncontrolled shanghaiing of unsuspecting men.

Shanghaiing was an illegal maritime practice where able-bodied men --- sailors, loggers, cowboys, sheepherders, ranch hands, construction workers, and vagabonds, in addition to other hard workers who were either employed or who frequented the waterfront, were grabbed or kidnapped and sold to sea captains who forced them to work aboard their ships for no pay. Portland was unique because trap doors (known as "deadfalls") were used to drop the unsuspecting victims into the "Portland Underground", where they were forcibly held in cells until the ship was ready to set sail. A sea captain who needed additional men to fill his crew notified the shanghaiiers that he was ready to set sail in the early-morning hours, and would purchase the men for $50 to $55 a head. "Knock-out drops" were then slipped into the confined victim¹s food or water. Unconscious, they were then taken through a network of tunnels that "snaked" their way under the city all the way to the waterfront. They were placed aboard ships and didn't awake until many hours later, after they had "crossed the bar" into the Pacific Ocean. It took many of these men as long as two full voyages --- that's six years --- to get back to Portland.

If you would like to experience the Shanghai Tunnels you can take a Portland Underground Tour. The tours take approximately an hour and a half, and participants are with a guide at all times. The tour-goers receive an above-ground orientation, and then the guide will lead participants into the "Portland Underground", where they receive the majority of the historical and oral history about this infamous maritime practice that gave Portland a notorious reputation throughout the world. On these tours you will see a segment of the once-hidden world of shanghaiing. You will venture into the "Portland Underground" to see remnants of this shocking maritime history --- unique architecture, underground holding cells, a "deadfall" trapdoor, unearthed artifacts of this terrible, misguided labor practice, and more.