Posts in the “FASCINATIONS” category
Family Vacation – Hank Williams' Grave
by angeliska on August 8, 2012
When I was six years old, my mother and father and I drove from Taylor, Texas to Montgomery, Alabama to make a pilgrimage to Hank Williams’ grave. This was to be our first, last and only family vacation. At the (…)
FLORALIA
by angeliska on May 1, 2012
I am alas, not out a’Maying, drinking rose cordials in meadows or naked night-swimming under the moon. I am not laughing and dancing around a Maypole, or jumping over bonfires, like a fleet-footed fairy over the flames. Instead I am (…)
Springtime Scents
by angeliska on April 5, 2012
This springtime in Texas has been truly glorious – we’ve had a very mild winter with only one or two minor freezes, and more rain than anyone’s seen in ages. It truly feels like an earthly benediction, after the brutal (…)
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 (…)
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 – (…)
An Epically Epic and Fairly Tardy Year in Review – or, HOLY SHIT: 2011!
by angeliska on January 23, 2012
My goodness, but 2011 was a whirlwind – I feel like I’ve barely caught my breath from it all, though we’re weeks into it now. For a lot of reasons, it feels like the new year didn’t really begin until (…)
NOW WITH 100% MORE GOAT!
by angeliska on January 13, 2012
I’m getting excited for my ersatz birthday party – VOTE FOR THE GOAT – Exquisite Corpse presents A Capricornian Celebration! Here’s an onslaught of goatly inspiration for your ensembles and general amusement: Ghost Goat from Andrew & Matt McCracken of (…)
FUCK THE PLAN 2012
by angeliska on December 31, 2011
So. 2012 is upon us, the juggernaut peeping out coyly from behind the broom-closet door. I barely have time to glance at it, really – my hair still wet from the deluge of 2011, my arms full of projects, my (…)
Wintry Hexmas Snippets
by angeliska on December 24, 2011
Evil gnomes + eldritch elves + poisonous mushrooms! This is what Hexmas means to me. Amanita muscaria = holiday cheer! Soma mushroom spirits are truly the reason for the season. Unsere Tannenbaum The Roches – Hallelujah Chorus 1982 ✶ Happy (…)
11.11.11 – Eleven Eleven Eleven – A wish.
by angeliska on November 11, 2011
(Photo of us by Chip Warren) 11.11.11 – the day we intended to be our wedding day. For reasons beyond our control, we decided that it would be wisest to postpone the celebration, and hopefully be more ready to do (…)
