Posts in the “DRAMATIS PERSONÆ” category
DRIVE ON, BRAVE CHARIOT
by angeliska on August 1, 2012
Yesterday, I crossed a milestone that has been waiting for me for half my life. At the age of 33, I passed my driving test, and at long last – got my driver’s license. It’s an odd feeling: at once (…)
Eastertimes
by angeliska on April 5, 2012
It’s almost time for our annual Easter Egg Hunt and Garden Party! I’ve always loved this holiday, ever since I was little. I don’t think I ever absorbed the religious implications – I was raised Episcopalian (aka. Catholic Lite) and (…)
Goodnight, Grampa
by angeliska on March 25, 2012
Tomorrow is my Grampa’s public memorial service. It’s been a month since he left this world, left his body and all of us behind. It’s hard to fathom, still. That vacancy, a lacuna where there was once such a big (…)
Buckskin + Diamonds
by angeliska on March 7, 2012
This year, Miss Allyson Garro of Coco Coquette and I were invited back to be part of the team that creates one of Austin’s most fabulous events, The Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards. We have been busy bees getting (…)
Charles Lessing Polacheck, R.I.P.
by angeliska on February 29, 2012
Charles Lessing Polacheck, R.I.P. born January 19th, 1914 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – died February 27th, 2012 in Austin, Texas How do I begin? How can I possibly encapsulate a life so broad, so full of incredible achievement, tragedy, drama and (…)
A Labyrinthine Masquerade
by angeliska on February 8, 2012
I’m still reeling from the magic of our Labyrinthine Masquerade Ball. My goal of recreating the ballroom scene from Labyrinth was realized, not only for me, but also for the scads of costumed revelers that braved stormy weather to come (…)
As The World Falls Down
by angeliska on February 3, 2012
Exquisite Corpse Presents: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN A Labyrinthine Masquerade Ball Friday, February 3rd – 2012 10pm until 2am SWAN DIVE 615 Red River A night to enter the labyrinth and become a member of the fairy court – (…)
Exquisite Corpse: TEEN GOTH part II.
by angeliska on December 1, 2011
I keep finding more and more amazing photos from my errant youth that I’d still never managed to get scanned in after all these years. Irritatingly, there are a few of my favorites that are still eluding me, though perhaps (…)
Exquisite Corpse: Teen Goth!
by angeliska on November 30, 2011
This is Cinamon. I remember seeing her on the very same day, though I didn’t take this photograph of her. I was probably 12 at the time, and as I passed by her on The Drag down by Sound Exchange, (…)
Magic Windows #25
by angeliska on September 21, 2011
All dolled up in mermaiden pearls for Enchantment Under the Sea, Dances of Vice’s 4th Anniversary Celebration. It was my very first time to attend Dances of Vice, though I’d been wanting to go for years! Shien (the mastermind behind (…)
