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How to dress as Veronica Sawyer from the movie Heathers.

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The meanest Mean Girl.

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favorite goncharov character

Goncharov! Holy shit I haven't thought about Goncharov in YEARS!

I remember seeing it at the Vista theatre downtown in ... I want to say 1983? It was either 82 and I was 10, or 83 and I was 11. Now that I think about it, it must have been Spring of 83. I remember that Kimmy Mendini was my babysitter, and she drove my friend Ahmed and me all the way downtown to see Goncharov. She would have been at least 16, but I feel like she was a little older. I remember that she LOVED movies and just never stopped talking about European cinema.

Ha! I can still her her sort of roll "Cinema" out of her mouth. Movies were for the masses to watch, while sophisticated adults experienced Cinema. I'm just realizing now that she absolutely pronounced it with a capital C. She was like "you are so lucky to see a clean print of Goncharov!"

I had no idea what a clean print was, but I understood it was important and impressive.

She had read about this screening in the LA Weekly, which I didn't know at the time was TREMENDOUSLY subversive in our suburban part of Los Angeles County, and we were going to an old theatre in maybe not the greatest part of town, but Kimmy had been watching me since I was in second grade and was like my big sister. I knew we'd be safe with her.

That old theatre (which is now a fucking swap meet) was just so beautiful inside. 100 foot ceilings, box seats, gold paint and murals. It felt like a place you went to experience Cinema, but, like ... it had absolutely seen better days. I remember that I felt kind of bad for the place, a little embarrassed, like when I got a good grade and accidentally made eye contact with a friend who got a D.

Okay. This clearly hit a memory artery, and I appreciate you staying with me this far, when we finally get to the fireworks factory. We're walking up to the box office, and she tells Ahmed and me that we have to wait on the sidewalk, because *technically* it's rated R, and she's not our legal guardian, but what does this guy making two bucks an hour know about art anyway?

So we wait. She buys the tickets, and then we all walk in as casually as we can.

I remember how scared I was that we were going to get caught and they'd call the cops (that's how it worked in my anxiety-ridden brain), but literally nobody cared. The theatre wasn't even half full, and everyone there was a dude at least as old as my parents.

You know the story, so I don't have to recount all of it, but I can at this very moment remember how shocked I was when Bruno was shot. This was the first time, ever, I had felt an emotional connection to a character. I didn't cry when Bambi's mother was shot, I didn't cry when ET died, I didn't cry E V E R.

But when Bruno died? I didn't make a sound. I just silently wept. Tears just poured down my face and I wanted to roll back time, rewrite the movie, and get him out of that room.

I obviously understand now, all these years later why I connected to him and why his story meant and means so much to me, but at the time I had no idea. I just thought the actors were that good.

I can't believe that guy who played him died so young. I think he was like 40? I remember thinking that was old. Now I know different.

When the movie was over, Kimmy asked us how we liked it. Ahmed was obsessed with the photography (he grew up to be an illustrator), and I obviously had my Bruno Moment.

We got Thrifty ice cream on the way home and listened to Donna Summer in her Datsun.

I haven't thought about Goncharov or Cinema or Kimmy in FOREVER. Leave it to Tumblr to boost my nostalgia check to a natural 20.

tl;dr: Bruno. I know he's supposed to be that character we all hate, and there are so many valid reasons for that. But when I was 12 ... well, I was a different person.

Oh! And now that I know what a "clean print" is, having seen so many "dirty prints" in revival houses before they all turned into swap meets or churches (hey, two places where people sell you stuff and take your money!), I retroactively appreciate it in a way that would make Kimmy happy.

Thanks for the trip into the crumbling mall that is my childhood memories. I haven't been here in awhile and it was nice to visit.

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I have an entire pinterest board that collects terminology like this to help!

i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

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If the United States has respected its Constitution and law, the United States has not torn four multilateral and the thrifty-seven bilateral treaties signed with its close Republic of Vietnam and so many international relations protocols because the United States has not only abused the mighty to bully many weak foreign nations but also contorted its Constitution-in fact, the Fourteenth Amendment, Article Third, and thirteenth, which didn't have allowed any the United States Congress that has self-enacted the law to invasion, subversion, and assassination to the foreign nations like the United States has done in Vietnam which is why the United States Congress has approved the sovereignty and the right-to self-determination when the United States enacted H.R, 7885 Pub. L. 88-205 Approved December 16, 1963, to seize the Republic of Vietnam to build the 30 years in war- and then, the United States has not only betrayed the Republic of Vietnam but also sold the Republic of Vietnam to mainland China to let the United States subtract  one thousand and four hundreds trillion from mainland China when the United States has been sold its  treasury bills from 1945 to-now-a-day to let the United States have been built the forty eight invasion and subversion wars on the whole world. Therefore, Secretary of State Kissinger declared and said, "Vietnam failures we did to ourselves," and he quoted," The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural, and that is why we didn't make it." On the other hand, President Nixon and Kissinger have carried out the selling Vietnam to socialism from President Johnson and General Westmoreland in 1967, That is why General Westmoreland is perfectly working in Vietnam, but President Johnson has quickly recalled Westmoreland to the United States to let him testify hearings before the United States Congress-as we, the Vietnamese people and the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, should understand about the United States Congress has secretly playing the game of hoaxes in war because one side of the United States Congress self-enacted H.R. 7885, while the Congress of the Republic of Vietnam has not ratified this indigenous law. That is why the United States Congress has allowed President Kennedy to let him send 400 Armed Forces to highland of South Vietnam within a day -when the Section 2, of Article III of the United States Constitution has allowed the American Ambassador that it signed the bilateral treaties with the foreign nations like the Republic of Vietnam-when the American Ambassador signed a bilateral treaty on April 4, 1961, to approve the Sovereignty of the Republic of Vietnam which is why President Kennedy has secretly ordered to Center Intelligence Agency to let it assassinate President Ngo Dinh Diem. Ironically, President Johnson has recalled Westmoreland to the United States Congress when he testified hearings and said, "Both invasion and subversion war...can't win and therefore, President Johnson created his doctrine as " mansallsship  campaign." and then, the United States Congress has gradually betraying for the Vietnam War by it has torn all four multilateral treaties and the thirty-seven bilateral treaties and international Relations of protocols-therefore, in 1974, mainland China strongly attacked on islands of South Vietnam, so president Nguyen Van Thieu carried out the Mutual Defense Security was signed in Saigon on December 23, 1950, which approved by the United States Congress by 22 US Code 1571_1604. Pub. L. 329-81 St Congress, 63 714. December 23, 1950. What is 22 US Code 1571_1604. Pub. L. 329-81 St Congress, 63 714. December 23, 1950, meaning for international law to sign with three nations' Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam of the great powerful America? Finally, the United States Constitution has not allowed the United States Congress to enact law to betray the allies of the United States like the Republic of Vietnam - which has the United States contorted its Constitution to seize its close Vietnam ally? Why didn't the United States compensate any pennies after selling the Republic of Vietnam to socialism and why did the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces have become to enslaved war of the United States during the Amendment thirteenth Ratified December 6, 1865, said, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a convicted for crime whereof the party shall have been duty convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." That is why the Constitutional Court has not yet resolved his settlement case while the United States has approved his petition in June 2019 to now. Therefore, we, the Vietnam people and the Vietnamese American prisoners of war would not believe any treaties of the United States which treaties are less valued more than toilet paper. That is why President Bush's son has not only defamed us but also dishonored us when he said, " South Vietnam didn't fight for their freedom which is why they do not have it today." If we, the Vietnamese people and the Vietnamese American prisoners of war, have kept our  sense of decency and national honors, we should kindly struggle for justice in the United States because the United States has not only sold us but also betrayed us when one million excellent soldiers were killed by the United States' Human Rights and three hundred thousands were murdered in many concentration camps without having judged by the American Justice. If we are the same as the Vietnamese officials, we passed a way - what do we struggle for justice in the United States? Bright Quang

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Consumer Reports joins the revolution

You might think that Consumer Reports' mission - objectively reviewing products and services - is a politically neutral activity, but reality has a left-wing bias, so anyone who tells the truth is intrinsically political.

That's why Consumers Union - publishers of Consumer Reports - was on the House Un-American Activities Committee's list of subversive organizations.

Objectively reporting on the activities of corporations IS a subversive activity.

In recent years, CU/CR have become more explicitly political, doing deep and groundbreaking work on privacy and other issues of moment in the digital era:

https://www.consumerreports.org/mobile-security-software/glow-pregnancy-app-exposed-women-to-privacy-threats/

But the magazine grows more radical by the day. This week, they published an excellent guide to staying safe at protests:

https://www.consumerreports.org/coronavirus/how-to-stay-safe-while-protesting-during-a-pandemic/

While there's nothing in here that you wouldn't find many places elsewhere, the fact that it comes with CR's imprimatur of objective technical excellence, and that its inclusion in CR automatically makes protesting police violence into a consumer issue, is amazing.

Beyond that, CR also wants to explain to you have to safely record video at protests:

https://www.consumerreports.org/audio-video/how-to-record-video-during-a-protest/

CR's audience skews older and more conservative - both because of its origins as a print magazine and because thriftiness and fixed incomes go together. I don't claim to know the editorial calculus behind this move, but the outcome is incredibly heartening.

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*~Planets~*

Sun: Personality, ego, life force, consciousness, creativity, power, individualism, expression, energy, vitality, self, potential, father - creation source - fathering energy, recognition, self-integration, self-interpretation.

Moon: Emotional self, inner self, instinct, compelling, deepness, family, connections, fluid, emotional reactions, fluctuations, cycles, receptivity, reflection, habits, childhood, responses, the mother, maternal instincts, the past, ancestry, roots, inheritance, the subconscious.

Mercury: Communication, decisions, intellect, messages, learning, thought, reasoning, knowledge, opinions, possibilities, rationalizing, travel, mind, logic, eloquence, perception, cunning, coordination, writing, speech, gossip, wit, tricks, expression,memory, adroit.

Venus: Relationships, pleasure, love, romance, emotional attachments, harmony, friendship, art, culture, music, happiness, partners, lust, desire, sociability, aesthetics, attraction, eroticism, female sexuality, charm, vanity, intimacy, rivalry, beauty, gratification, greed, sensuality.

Mars: Passion, energy, drive, determination, competition, conquest, sex, confidence, aggression, power, will, action, assertion, virility, self-preservation, lust, male sexuality, heat, anger, angst, rage, wrath, impatience, burning, vigor, machismo.

Jupiter: Abstract, learning, intellect, spirituality, values, optimism, physical activities, luck, traveling, karma, purpose, expansion, faith, philosophy, rituals, hope, knowledge, excess, abundance, indulgence, inflation, creative visualization, generosity, waste, wisdom, cornucopia, opulence, conscience.

Saturn: Career, responsibilities, challenges or trials, maturity, life lessons, karma, discipline, time, the father - authority, status, conquest, limitation, control, consolidation, structure, boundaries, thrifty/frugal, conservation, strength, toughness, direction, wisdom, resilience, shadow self, self-condemnation, fear, denial, hardship, mentor, failure, success, doubt, laws.

Uranus: Change, rebellion, revolution, originality, the unexpected, freedom, humanitarian ideals, chaos, vibration, non-conformity, deviance, higher mind, intellect, intuition, transformation, liberation, research, breakdown, technology, genius, invention.

Neptune: Destiny, illusion, dreams, change, mystery, art, spirituality, awareness, perceptive, unboundlessness, dissolution, inspiration, ecstasy, romance, escapism, enlightenment, addiction, nebulousness, glamour, deception, mysticism, disintegration, impressionability, guilt, confusion, intangible, sacrifice, victim, martyr.

Pluto: Vibes, mystery, secrecy, darkness, coldness, transformation, obsession, intensity, power, abuse, birth-death-rebirth, regeneration, elimination, taboos, pollution, transmutation, metaphysics, subversion, compulsion, unconscious mind, decay, dictate, orgasm, psychoanalysis.

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How Cut-Paper Silhouettes Ensured Portraiture Wasn’t Just for the Rich

Probably Moses Williams or Raphaelle Peale, Moses Williams, Cutter of Profiles, c. 1803. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery.

Auguste Edouart, John Quincy Adams, c. 1841. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery.

Even before photography emerged in 1839, there was a quick and thrifty way to create black-and-white portraits in under six minutes. No artistic training was necessary, and you could produce multiple copies simultaneously, on your own, with a device called the physiognotrace, an 18th-century version of the selfie stick. By comparison, painted portraits could require hours of sitting for a professional artist using costly materials, making them unaffordable for most people.

This populist art form was the silhouette, produced by a variety of cut-paper techniques resulting in a black profile of the sitter against a square, light-colored background, measuring roughly three inches. “Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now,” a recently opened exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.—a museum generally devoted to opulent oil portraits of historical figures—takes a look at historic and contemporary examples of this underappreciated medium, spotlighting lesser-known people whose legacies have been as vulnerable as the paper medium that once preserved their likenesses.

Unidentified Artist, Flora and Bill of Sale, 1796. Courtesy of the Stratford Historical Society and the National Portrait Gallery.

Unidentified Artist, Flora and Bill of Sale, 1796. Courtesy of the Stratford Historical Society and the National Portrait Gallery.

“We are really trying to express the vibrancy of portraiture, the necessity of it, the relevance of it, and the ways that it can cut across class and different races and genders,” said Asma Naeem, the exhibition’s curator and the National Portrait Gallery’s curator of prints, drawings, and media arts. “We are moving forward to tell a fuller American story.”

The peak popularity of silhouettes coincided, notably, with the beginning of that national story, during the early years of the newly independent American republic in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. “We have, I think, with the silhouettes in America, a merging of the right moment and the right art form,” Naeem added.

Mirroring the country’s newly founded democracy and foreshadowing how photography would soon make portraiture accessible to all, silhouettes depicted everyone from presidents and the first Hispanic U.S. congressman to dwarves, the handicapped, enslaved African-Americans, and same-sex couples.

Moses Williams, Mr. Shaw’s Blackman, after 1802. Courtesy of the Stratford Historical Society and the National Portrait Gallery.

Auguste Edouart, Josephine Clifton, 1842. Courtesy of the Stratford Historical Society and the National Portrait Gallery.

In maintaining a uniform two-tone format and size, silhouettes made sitters appear to be cut from the same cloth—or, at least, the same black paper. And almost everyone could buy one: For a penny, you could cut your own silhouette (with a physiognotrace), or, for a quarter, you could have your profile professionally cut and mounted in a wooden frame.

Though it was most popular in the early 19th century, scholars have traced this profile-memorializing art form back to the ancient world. Roman author Pliny the Elder once recounted how a young woman, Butades, outlined her lover’s shadow on a wall. Ancient Greek black-figure pottery showed human and animal figures in profile, contrasted against a red clay background; ancient Egyptian wall paintings showed pharaohs and gods in that (slightly awkward) side view, as well. The “head” sides of ancient Roman coins were ornamented with bust profiles of important rulers (a practice that has continued to this day).

But the earliest known paper silhouette is most likely a double portrait of British monarchs William and Mary, made by a woman named Elizabeth Rhijberg in the late 1600s. As Anne Verplanck, a silhouette scholar and professor of American studies at Penn State, explained to Artsy, silhouettes originated in Europe and were very popular there, with many surviving examples in England and France.

Kara Walker, Auntie Walker’s Wall Sampler for Civilians, 2013. © Kara Walker. Photo by Angus Mill Photography. Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.

Kara Walker, Auntie Walker’s Wall Sampler for Savages, 2013. © Kara Walker. Photo by Angus Mill Photography. Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.

In those countries, silhouette-making was originally a salon activity for the privileged, carried out with a pair of embroidery scissors favored for their long shanks and extra-sharp points. In 1786, the invention of the physiognotrace by Frenchman Gilles-Louis Chrétien created an easier and more precise drawing of a sitter’s outline. Physiognotraces held two writing utensils together, so while one manually traced the cartography of a sitter’s shaded profile on a screen, the other automatically mapped out a miniaturized version on a piece of paper, to be cut out later.

This allowed silhouette production to venture outside the upper-class salon and into popular entertainment venues (such as taverns and bathhouses), ushering in a whole new population of silhouette cutters.

Two inspiring examples of unlikely silhouette cutters featured in “Black Out” are Moses Williams (an African-American once enslaved by painter Charles Willson Peale) and Martha Ann Honeywell (a woman born without hands and only three toes on one foot). The exhibition also features the work of Auguste Edouart, a highly sought-out profilist who traveled around England, France, and the United States producing thousands of full-body silhouettes, which he mounted on lithographed backgrounds.

Photography, however, changed everything. Edouart tried to compete with the medium for a while by adding hand-drawn details to his silhouettes, but to no avail. Photography and silhouettes overlapped for about 10 years until around 1850, at which point the black-and-white profiles that once hung proudly in living rooms began a slow migration into historical society museums and antique markets.

Untitled (from the Silueta Series), 1976. Ana Mendieta Richard Saltoun

Contemporary artists, though, have continued to explore the possibilities of the empty corporal outline, such as performance artist Ana Mendieta, who imprinted her body in various natural environments as part of her “Silueta” series (1973–77). Contemporary artist Kara Walker, whose large-scale mural silhouettes are exhibited in “Black Out,” noted in a 2007 interview with The New Yorker that she “had a catharsis looking at early American varieties of silhouette cuttings,” finding themes that evolved into her own subversion of the medium, which shows the stark realities of racial stereotypes. Another contemporary artist participating in “Black Out,” Kumi Yamashita, uses an assemblage of letters and numbers to create a shadow profile on the gallery wall—literally illustrating how people are reduced to symbols in our digital age.

The paper silhouettes of the 19th century similarly reduced sitters to a flattened black void, with only a loosely traced outline of idiosyncratic identity. But for a time, and despite its limitations, the medium offered people—who would have otherwise faded into history—an opportunity to leave their self-fashioned, black-and-white mark.

from Artsy News

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“Make me an offer,” says Jeff Yeager with a sweep of his arm, taking in the sylvan Accokeek, Maryland, spread he’s putting on the market and is eager to unload. Because this man is getting out of Dodge. Leaving the United States. Escaping Donald J. Trump.

Yeager, a self-employed writer, and his wife plan to spend the coming year roaming the globe in search of a new home where they will live for four years. Or possibly eight.

“Trumping out,” Yeager calls it. Sort of like extended political camping.

Jeff and Denise Yeager are heading to Central America, the Far East and Eastern Europe in search of a new place to live out the Trump administration. Photo: WASHINGTON POST

“When the devastation of the election hit,” he says, “we thought, ‘Let’s just leave and travel, travel, travel and see where it takes us.’ “

Remember all those celebrities who were going to quit the country if Trump was elected president? Samuel L. Jackson (bound for South Africa), Amy Schumer (Spain “or somewhere”) Lena Dunham (Vancouver) and Cher (Jupiter).

Perhaps you had a cousin who threatened to leave. A neighbour, too. And all those Facebook friends who offered posts of parting, invariably mentioning Canada, O, Canada, I could drink a case of you, so nice, so close.

Talk, talk, talk.

They all appear to be here still in our notably less United States. Not a one has followed the example of Lyndon Johnson press secretary Pierre Salinger, who famously said in 2000, “If George Bush is elected president, I will leave the country” – and then did, for France.

In fact, finding people who are actually leaving is a challenge.

Many toying with the idea – who, mind you, have yet to make a decision – declined to speak on the record for fear, they said, of potentially enraging Trump supporters. One man wouldn’t give his name, instead choosing to be called “Martin” and communicating through a temporary and untraceable email account and cell number.

He did, however, send a multi-page manifesto of 30 indicators that could prompt him and his wife to change their country of residence. (He said he has “hundreds of friends” considering a similar move.) “Warning Indicators of When It’s Time to Flee aka Don’t wait until Kristallnacht” include the creation of “a national registry for Muslims or other vulnerable groups” and Washington “unilaterally withdrawing from free-trade agreements (as opposed to following amendment procedures within those agreements).”

The truth is, leaving the country for extended periods of time isn’t easy, especially if you have school-age children. Or aging parents. Or need to earn a living. Those sorts of things.

Many countries warmly welcome American visitors and their money. They’re somewhat less enchanted with Americans taking their citizens’ jobs. (Where have we heard this before?)

“It seems very sexy to move to Canada these days,” says immigration lawyer Elizabeth Wozniak of Halifax, Nova Scotia. “What’s not sexy is the amount of paper involved. We have a ridiculous amount of bureaucracy.”

Such obstacles are not stopping Yeager. The 58-year-old is a man of his Salingeresque word. Even as others face challenges entering the country after the president’s new travel ban, he is determined to depart. He and his wife, Denise, met with a real estate agent the Monday after the inauguration. Or, more important to the Yeagers, after the Women’s March on Washington, for which they hosted nine fellow demonstrators.

“Make me an offer,” pleads Yeager again, showing a visitor around the airy compound – a two-bedroom house with a separate office and a guest cottage – overlooking a creek and a mile and a half from the Potomac. Actually, he says it four times.

Jeff and Denise Yeager are determined to leave the United States now that Donald Trump is president. Photo: WASHINGTON POST/Michael S. Williamson

The Yeagers dwell in that special demographic of people who are able to leave. They have no children. They’ve paid off the mortgage. Denise, 65, retired as a health and physical education teacher at Prince George’s Community College and collects Social Security and a small pension. Jeff, who was a fundraiser and administrator of nonprofit groups until he quit to write in 2005, can work anywhere.

Also, he is famously, prodigiously and professionally thrifty, the self-proclaimed “Ultimate Cheapskate.”

Yeager has written four humorous books on the joys of thrift. He has appeared on “The Today Show” more than 20 times and travels the country lecturing, a couple of times by bike. In a subversive twist, he makes money by preaching about not spending it.

Tall, earnest, with a Twainian moustache, he believes that happiness has very little do with money. Also, that you can reuse anything. (He has a dozen uses for eggshells.) He amasses junk, uses five dusty computers because “they all do a little something, it’s just that not one of them does everything.” He and Denise plan to store, sell or trash most of their belongings.

The Yeagers live on less than $40,000 a year. When they travel, they spend $100 a day. Or less – less being a mantra. “I am violently opposed to debt,” Yeager says.

A die-hard liberal, he was long apolitical in his writing, but Trump’s election left him despondent and vocal. He received a sewer of “virtual vitriol” from his 3,500 Facebook followers.

“You’re just whining. You need to suck it up,” they told him. And more. Genial in manner and prose, Yeager wasn’t used to such venom and removed himself from the social media platform in November.

“Listen, I’m a fourth-generation American. I come from the heartland, northwestern Ohio. I am a deeply disheartened, concerned individual,” he says, chatting in the sitting room that he remodelled. “I consider Trump a dangerous, unstable person.”

After the election, the Yeagers spent a month in Ireland, their first visit. They liked it very much. So, Ireland is on the list of places to land.

“I’m committed to being out of the country for just as long as we can,”says Yeager. “I don’t see us coming back on a permanent basis.” That is, until Trump is out of the White House. “What we’re trying to escape is the disappointment of my homeland,” he adds.

When they’re abroad, the Yeagers use public transit, bike, crash in hostels, inexpensive hotels or with locals whom they find through couchsurfing.com. They don’t frequent restaurants much, preferring to cook wherever they happen to land. The Ultimate Cheapskate knows how to travel cheaply. And he’s been smart about saving.

Their next country-hunting adventure will be to Panama and Costa Rica. Spain and Portugal are on the list, also New Zealand and Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand. They love Eastern Europe, particularly Croatia and Poland, countries where Americans can live relatively inexpensively.

“I love the raw, real feel of a place that you can’t find with a lot of tourists there,” says Yeager. Would he consider Russia? Jeff would like to ride the length of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, not in luxury, but like ordinary Russians with chickens. Denise is having no part of that. Otherwise, she’s game. “Many people tell us they wish they could do the same thing and leave,” she says.

They’re looking for countries that offer good health care, affordable housing, friendly people, limited paperwork. (So no Canada for them.)

“I’ve never felt this strongly, not even with Nixon,” Yeager says. Rather than seeing themselves as prodigal Americans, “we see ourselves as citizen ambassadors.” The goal is to represent a different, non-Trumpian America, their America, to the world.

Yeager finds that he’s happiest when “I can’t speak the language of the country where I am. I can’t possibly speak politics.” But, he adds emphatically, “We have no intention of giving up our U.S. citizenship.” They’re just giving up, for a while, on their residency.

So it’s urgent to find someone to rent or buy their home. “Make me an offer,” he says again.

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How to dress as Nancy Downs from the movie The Craft.

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How to dress as Sidney Prescott from the movie Scream.

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How to dress as Magenta from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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How to dress as The Mayor from the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas.

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How to dress as Allison from the movie Tucker and Dale Vs Evil.

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How to dress as Regina George from the movie Mean Girls.