#retrim

[uhhhhmanda]

Weather permitting, my husband will be gone all weekend at another music festival. This would create optimal writing conditions. (Less schedule than I even have now, which is minimal.)

But will I take advantage of them?

Your guess is as good as mine!

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Fiat Panda 4×4 Piccolo Lusso, 2023 (1983), by Niels van Roij Design. A one-off Panda to celebrate the 4x4’s 40th anniversary by the Dutch coachbuilder. The car is based on the Sisley special edition Panda (hence the canoe graphics) and has been finished in Azzurro Blu to pay homage to the Italian Mediterranean Sea. The interior has been retrimmed in leather and cloth to help justify the Piccolo Lusso (little luxury) name.

[gargoyleandgremlinpress]

Renegade 2023 Bound Exchange: Strike Anywhere by Mad Lori

My recipient for the annual @renegadepublishing bound exchange this year was @sits-bound, which gave me the chance to explore some new Schitt's Creek fic!

Strike Anywhere by @madlori is a Schitt's Creek AU, where Patrick is a firefighter in Toronto, and David is a municipal engineer called in to consult on structural issues at fire scenes. They HATE each other on first sight, fight constantly… and inevitable end up secretly hooking up… and then secretly dating… and then secretly married, too embarrassed to admit it to their coworkers.

I had fun with the theme for this one, and used a blueprint image for the endpapers, and so many flames. So many! I'm really happy with how it turned out in the end, but there was a moment where things VERY MUCH had not gone to plan.

I like how the case turned out in particular! Too bad that I then had to cut the entire text block out of it and add sixty missing pages the day I planned to put it in the mail.

So let me set the scene. It's Dec 28. Exchange books are due in the mail Jan 1. I have spent several hours the day before finishing off stenciling the cover and spine of both books I'm sending, and am taking pictures before I package everything up. I flip to the back of the second book, and… huh. I know I formatted the AO3 metadata at the back of the book. Did I miss a page somehow?

It is then that I realize that something has gone badly wrong. On checking the typeset… my printed book ends at page 216. The typeset ends on page 277.

I got the textblock out of the case, sacrificing the endpapers, but with everything else intact. Realized that my pre-cut textblock paper was still sitting on my desk at work. Decided fuck it, I need to reprint the endpapers anyhow, and skulked in to use the big colour copier, even though I was on vacation.

The signatures fit into the case! Some funky cutting and gluing was required to take out the few duplicate pages and the blank pages from the original, make some tabs out of the edges, and glue it all in.

The mull did not come off as well as the endpapers, but it DID come off.

I cut off the sewn endbands, and the bookmark, glue everything back together, and trek back into work the next day to use the big guillotine and retrim the textblock.

The edges are re-speckled! Sewn endbands would mean forcing the needle through multiple layers of glue, and time is tight, so I made endbands out of bookcloth to match the case.

And! It! Fits! Casing in actually went better the second time.

I DID get it into the mail by the deadline, and it safely arrived in @sits-bound's hands, so now I can share the saga. I still can't believe it fit back in the case.

[heartbeetz]

This gif is BAD but I don't feel like retrimming the video clip I took for it to make it better. Just look at his goofiness. My sillyguy.

[princess-of-the-corner]

Toontown: Rewritten Recap: March 2003 (The Elephant Out of the Room)

March 26, 2003

Another 26th, another strange blog post.

This time, FX-CLIENT0001-HOME made an encrypted blog post.

Decrypting revealed the following:

Doctor Surlee learned that the Trolley-Bots had been debugged, and as a result were sending encrypted messages to Toons who played the Trolley games that included them.

Horrified, the Scientoon contacted Sir Max and told him to issue a recall. He also sent over another blueprint.

This one was for the Manufacturing Machine. It can make ANYTHING, as long as it’s made of metal. It will overheat if left running for too long, and has an internal Laff Meter to ensure sufficient tooniness of everything it built. There was a warning NOT to let the Laff get too low.

In the patch notes, the recall was announced.

March 30, 2003

Sir Max decided it was time to address the elephant in the room. No, not the delayed election, he’s being literal.

The elephant’s name is Paul.

Basically, Toon HQ had been running experiments on heavy things, and brought in a 3 ton elephant to do so.

Unfortunately, similar to the 300 pound ape Sir Max decided to play hide and seek with after getting arrested and put in time-out for stealing a hockey rink, Paul smashed through a wall and ran through town. Toon HQ installed new telescopes and periscopes in all of their buildings to try and track it down, and the chase was on.

It turns out he busted a hole in a fence in Donald’s Dock, which was FINALLY fixed (after 11 years, if we count the years that collisionless fence wasn’t patched in Toontown Online), as well as one in the Party Hat in Minnie’s Melodyland (which had allowed Toons to glitch out of bounds ever since parties were added in TTO, which these hobbyists managed to fix).

After that, Paul jumped through a portable hole, and the Toon Troop lost his trail.

So, there was now a 3-ton elephant on the loose in Toontown, and nobody knew where he was.

The only leads they had was that he kept breaking holes in the wall that lead into the gray, meaning that any area where collision wasn’t properly implemented to keep toons within the boundaries of the game world was a possible lead as to the elephant’s location.

(Added context: the elephant isn’t even something that was invented for Rewritten. The chalkboards in TTO’s Toon HQ’s already had drawings of a device that had a live elephant as one of the components, plus evidence that the elephant had escaped. All Rewritten did was tie it into some glitches, like they did with the ape in the banana-unpeeling device.)

March 31, 2003

The final post of March was 35 minutes late, and posted by McQuack, where he gave a status update on the Paul situation (not sure where the elephant’s name came from).

They found he had smashed through the bedpost by the fishing pond in Donald’s Dreamland’s Playground, and then jumped over one of the hedges in Daisy Gardens. Or, well, halfway over. Elephants aren’t famous for their jumping ability, so the poor gardener had to retrim that hedge.

Finally, they were on his tail in Toontown Central, screaming for dear life as he smashed into various buildings. They were all fine and dandy, until it smashed through the side of the “Silly Stunts” building, and all the explosives went off in McQuack’s face.

Paul then dragged them all the way to Punchline Place, where McQuack fell off RIGHT outside the Funny Bone Emergency Room.

Also, a shopkeeper was angry about Paul knocking a piano off his roof (I can’t remember if there’s an actual piano on the ground in Punchline Place or not).

Regardless, they lost Paul’s trail in Acorn Acres when he smashed through a hedge towards a golf course, they were retrimming the hedge and fixing all the collisions so Toons would no longer glitch out of bounds in those spots in Toontown, but the elephant was still at large to provide a Watsonian explanation for later glitches into the Gray.

Also, Sir Max was missing, and given what kinda trouble he gets into when nobody’s around to keep an eye on him…

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the image of a bunch of Toons sprinting after an elephant needs some Yakety Sax

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

This 1970 Pontiac GTO convertible was first delivered to the A.C. Morris Garage of Summersville, West Virginia, and during prior ownership it underwent a body-off rotisserie refurbishment that was completed in 2006. The car is claimed to be one of just 241 examples that were ordered with 455ci V8 and an optional automatic transmission for the model year, and it is finished in Burgundy over red vinyl upholstery. Other equipment includes a four-barrel carburetor, a Ram Air hood, a power-operated convertible top, power steering, front disc brakes, and a 12-bolt rear end housing a Safe-T-Track limited-slip differential. Acquired by the selling dealer in 2013 out of Arizona, this GTO convertible is offered in Missouri with refurbishment photos, manufacturer’s literature, build sheets, a reproduction window sticker, documentation from Pontiac Historical Services, correspondence with the GM Heritage center, and a clean Missouri title.

The car was finished from the factory in Burgundy, and the body was stripped, mounted to a rotisserie jig, and repainted during the refurbishment, at which time a replacement convertible top was installed. Features include a color-matched Endura front bumper, a chrome rear bumper, a Ram Air hood, and quad exhaust outlets with polished finishers.

Rally II 14″ wheels are mounted with 215/70 Firestone Wide-Oval tires. Braking is provided by power-assisted front discs and rear drums, and the car was optioned with power steering when new.

The cabin has been retrimmed with red vinyl upholstery (2254) as well as color-coordinated carpets and interior trim. Equipment includes front bucket seats and a rear bench, a woodgrain steering wheel, an AM/FM radio, and an 8-track player. A pre-delivery-style instruction tag is attached to the steering column, and Pontiac-branded rubber floor mats line the front and rear footwells.

The turned metal and woodtone trim-accented cluster houses Rally instrumentation consisting of a 140-mph speedometer, a tachometer, and a combination gauge. The five-digit odometer shows under 96k miles, approximately 50 of which have been driven by the seller. True mileage is unknown.

The optional 455ci V8 features a four-barrel carburetor and a Ram Air hood, and it produced a factory-rated 360 horsepower and 500 lb-ft of torque when new. The engine stamping shown within the gallery ends in 0P121234, which matches the final eight digits of the car’s serial number. Additional identification numbers are presented in the gallery.

Power is sent to the rear wheels through an optional Turbo Hydramatic 400 three-speed automatic transmission and a 12-bolt rear end housing a Safe-T-Track limited-slip differential. Additional photos are provided in the gallery to illustrate the underside, drivetrain, and suspension components.

Photos showing various stages of the refurbishment are depicted above.

Additional items accompanying the car include manufacturer’s literature, build sheets, a reproduction window sticker, documentation from Pontiac Historical Services, and 2012 correspondence with the GM Heritage center confirming the car’s specifications and equipment, photos of which are provided in the gallery.

[vixenzorra]

Diary Entry: Celeste: 1974

1874 

Dearest Diary 

I do not think that Lily is taking this seriously. Our family is in desperate  need of furthering in society and we have always known that it would be our duty to make advantageous marriages. I do not understand why she is taking it with such anger. But then, she always has refused to acknowledge what we must do. 

Our family is struggling. Father is trying his best to keep us afloat but it is not easy. The ball is approaching and yet we have no new dresses, only refitted and retrimmed ones from last year. I can only hope others will not notice. Marrying Lucien would change this. 

And it is hardly as though he is sore to look at… He is as handsome as the portrait of him that hangs in Panemeta. The chances of one of us being picked are slim. There are so many girls who we will be pitted against. 

[sammyloomis]

cut my hair the other day and kinda hated how it looked, so i tried to retrim the top today and fucked it up beyond belief so had to go buzzcut again hhhh

[automotiveamerican]

Survivor 1969 Mercury Montego Lovingly Maintained - Matt Litwin @Hemmings

Remember when Mercury tried to sell the Milan? You know, the division’s entry-level intermediate sedan named after the Italian city? Unveiled in 2005, it was available as an ’06 model later in the year. Unfortunately, the only memorable aspect was Jill Wagner leaning against what was basically a retrimmed Ford Fusion, fitted with plusher accoutrements, stating “You’ve gotta put Mercury on your…

[blodhundrr]

gogshgshghshdjfjhgggg i love bloodhound so much im going to combust

thinking thoughts about them generally shaving their head like that’s their Usual Haircut but they’re not very consistent with retrimming it so a lot of the time it starts getting shaggy. maybe even a short mullet at times. or they try to get the top bit out of the way and tie it into a little ponytail on the top of their head bc it’s too short for an actual half up ponytail. they occupy approximately 75% of my brain right now and i haven’t drawn in ages so im justimagining this in my head and rotating them around like they’re in the microwave

[techietheshit]

Funniest thing I ever did was tell my family I was jsut getting my bob retrimmed THE DAY before my graduation and instead came back with “a boy’s cut”

[petermorwood]

Illya Kuryakin was my favourite of the two Man From UNCLE heroes; for one thing I could imitate his accent far better than Napoleon Solo's - and did my best to imitate his dry snark, too, despite parental disapproval.

"Sarcasm," they used to say, "is the lowest form of wit."

That, BTW, is yet another quotation normally heard incomplete but which has an entirely different meaning when whole.

"Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.” (Oscar Wilde)

I gained no credit when I found this out courtesy of a library Book of Quotations. "Being smart" was not a compliment in 1960s Northern Ireland, and I suspect that may not have changed.

There was a period - I was about 11, maybe 12 years old - when if I wasn't at school, I wore black polo-neck (turtleneck) sweaters for preference, and that summer I even persuaded Mum and Dad to let me get The Haircut.

It was retrimmed to something a bit more ordinary before the start of new term, which is just as well. What was cool on an UNCLE agent wouldn't look half as cool on a First Former in school cap and shorts...

:-P

illya is so dramatic oh my god i love him

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Land Rover Defender Works 90 V8 "Islay Edition," 2023. A special edition restomod project by Land Rover's Classic division that celebrates 75 years of the iconic 4x4. The work can be carried out on any 2012-2016 Defender 90 and includes a comprehensive restoration, fitting a 400hp 5.0 V8 with an 8-speed ZF automatic gearbox and interior retrimmed with  ‘Windsor Ebony’ leather. The vehicles are all finished in Heritage Grey and reference the 1965 Series IIa owned by Spencer Wilks - one of the founders of Land Rover. Wilks used the Scottish Island of Islay to test Land Rovers, hence the name. Restorations will be limited to 13 vehicles that will cost £245,000

[leninqrad]

retrimmed my bangs (front part of hair, is it still called bangs if you have short hair idk) over the bathroom sink...i am quite bad at it and yet i keep doing it

[obeyfeline]

Items I wrote about for sale on teh internets

A few rarities by makers of vanishing style that I wrote about in my book about the most evocative Paris bespoke (available at Swan Songs: Souvenirs of Paris Elegance: de Mans, Réginald-Jérôme, voxsartoria: 9798468506516: Amazon.com: Books) are for sale on the net (as always, not by me unless I expressly state otherwise):

A cornucopia sculpture in shagreen by retired master artisan Jacques Robin of Cuirs d'ocean, which closed its doors when he retired.

For sale at Objet d'art Corne d’abondance en forme de Jembiya en galuchat ,socle parchemin | eBay

A mirror that he framed in shagreen, at Miroir en galuchat art déco gris | eBay :

Both Robin and Michel Haillard had their creations exhibited at the "15" concept shop I write about that was the most amazing store I ever visited. Haillard reclaims and retrims old furniture in horns and exotic skins. Here, a zebra skin stool:

For sale at RARE real authentic ZEBRA skin CHAIR Michel HAILLARD STOOL tribal french artist | eBay

[magdelenafae]

The reason for this, for the curious, was because everything was hand spun and hand woven. The clothes you wore were literally sole of the most expensive things you owned. You would will them to people when you died. By not cutting the fabric, you allow for changes due to pregnancy, illness, weight gain, growth, etc. You allow them to be handed to another family member and to have them retrimmed for a new style.

In the Western world, we were solidly into the medieval period before cutting fabric to fit became super common - especially on female presenting persons as they were often pregnant and then nursing.

Costume. Chitons.