Posts in the “DRAMATIS PERSONÆ” category

The Witches' New Year

by angeliska on November 3, 2009

Our Halloween began at twilight, as the last meager trickle of trickertreaters drifted off, leaving us well stocked with gummi body parts + mini almond joys for life. Or at least a little while, knowing the sweet-tooth of certain fellas (…)

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Midnight Honey

by angeliska on October 22, 2009

“Gypsy Interiors is a series of portraits capturing the private world of these outwardly loud, vivacious people. Here he finds a rich and profound intimacy, hidden but exhibited among antique furniture, tapestries, paintings, religious images, china, staircases and mirrors, set (…)

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Rest, then

by angeliska on October 21, 2009

(via paperlilies) Fever dreams, strange passages, sleeping all day. Oh, I’ve been so ill! Again, a nasty bug has knocked me down- an unfortunate casualty of my poor candle, burnt at both ends. I’ve been flattened like a pancake under (…)

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GADJO DISKO – Glamour + Sickle

by angeliska on October 15, 2009

Here we go! Time for another Gadjo Disko! Are you ready? I am! Or I will be, just as soon as I make my headdress! The next one is this Saturday, October 17th 10pm-4am at The Cockpit, 113 San Jacinto (…)

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Magic Windows #4

by angeliska on October 9, 2009

Summer’s dwindling has brought the storms: this one was coming for me before I began my journey. I outran it in high-heeled boots, the wind lashing at my leftover locks, head newly half-shorn, walking through the drive-through at the bank. (…)

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Balsam Honey

by angeliska on October 2, 2009

Well, not really! I’ve been hard at work and doing a lot of thinking, my friends- and so I do apologize for the quiet. Exciting things are soon to be revealed! The season is turning, and in these liminal states (…)

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R.I.P. Noah + Colby

by angeliska on September 29, 2009

The season turns, and I return home to find the scarlet hurricane lilies abloom and two friends dead in New Orleans. I don’t even know if they were acquainted, but they both died in the same week, probably within blocks (…)

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Languishing in New York

by angeliska on September 16, 2009

(From the collection of Mark Dion and Dana Sherwood) I arrived in the city soundly, despite Mercury’s meddlings (delays, insane turbulence) and headed straight from the airport to the Hungarian House where my beloved Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band and (…)

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New York Redux circa 2006

by angeliska on September 13, 2009

Oh my. It’s been a while since I was last in New York. I just dug up these pictures from the last time I was there, and I’m flooded by memories of how much fun we had.. Now I’m even (…)

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Laudanum Honey

by angeliska on September 9, 2009

This past weekend, we made a quick jaunt to San Antonio to see Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey at the McNay Museum. It was truly everything I could have wished for and more- completely worth the trip. I (…)

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