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LeslieAnn — My Life As a Boy — Chapter 1 —

October 21, 2014Uncategorizedarmy, boy, ejgold, gender, girl, gorby, gorebagg, leslieann, men, sex, sexes, womengorebagg

AUTHOR’S PREFACE

Relaxing as myself on summer vacation -- the rest of the year was spent as a boy. — Relaxing as myself — LeslieAnn — on summer vacation — the rest of the year was spent as a boy.

I didn’t like life as a boy; oh, sure, you got all the rights and privileges and perks of being a boy in a man’s world, but I had to constantly hide my gender. I bound my breasts down, wore socks to make a bulge and luckily or unluckily, my voice was naturally deep, like a 60 year old cigarette smoker — like, really deep.

My girlfriends used to make fun of my voice, and even though I could sing high harmonies in a perfectly fine soprano voice — and I can still hit the high notes today — I couldn’t make myself speak comfortably in a high squeaky voice, and I never did. Continue reading →

Donner Collection Notecards & Postcards

June 28, 2014Uncategorizedambrotype, animals, antique, cats, children, dag, daguerrotype, dogs, ejgold, festive, goldenwest, gorby, gorebagg, greeting, greetingcard, holiday, hollywood, horses, locations, men, note, notecard, oldtime, oldwest, photo, photography, places, postal, postcard, reincarnation, tintype, vintage, wildwest, womengorebagg

It suddenly occurred to me the other day that trading cards are a very limited market…but the same images that produced those little trading cards could be used to produce larger items, such as greeting cards, notecards and postcards, all featuring real antique photos.

My notecard and postcard series are printed in full color, even though many of the photos are black & white, because the effect is that of seeing the original. Black-ink printing simply does not carry off this effect. In addition, most of the so-called “black & white” photographs are actually brown, sepiatone and some hand-colored with oil paints or watercolor tinting.

The notecards and postcards relate specifically to the Donner Party, Donner family, Nevada County residents, a few notorious Old West characters, and some very rare photos of world-famous Old West Lawmen.

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