Posts in the “FASCINATIONS” category
Summer Reading Wonderland
by angeliska on July 19, 2011
As you might imagine, our summer here in Austin has been ferociously, brutally hot. The kind of fierce, dry heat that sucks all the air out of your lungs as soon as you step out your door. The kind of (…)
Justine's 1937 – Marquis de Sade et cetera
by angeliska on July 13, 2011
“Paris Calling” Bastille Day at Justine’s is imminent, and given how much fun we had last year, I can’t wait to see what kind of magic this year’s celebration will hold… Justine’s is so, so special – an amazing French (…)
Exquisite Corpse – Serpentine Gallery
by angeliska on July 6, 2011
We are the witches who bring you Exquisite Corpse: Lau – brain-melting hex projections Angeliska – hostess priestess Norah – door-empress gatekeeper Charlene – DJ Pasht – song sorceress! All photos by Devaki Knowles of www.funlovingphotos.net Beautiful Monika and Nemesis (…)
Summer Solstice – A Lush Green Wish
by angeliska on June 21, 2011
I kneel in the night on a high hill in the back country, I bow my head, and make this fervent wish, with the memory of green tendrils wrapped around my heart, squeezing there, holding me fast against the earth. (…)
Belljar Honey
by angeliska on June 8, 2011
(Photograph courtesy Jérôme Mondière) ✸ Battle of the Frogs from the collection of Louis Mantin. His majestic late 19th-century French mansion was shuttered for more than a century, but opened its doors to the public in February, to reveal “an (…)
Queerbomb 2011!
by angeliska on June 2, 2011
Our annual Queerbomb rally, procession and party is tomorrow, and I’m just taking a minute to reflect with amazement at this beautiful phenomenon that I’ve had the honor of being a part of for the second year running now. To (…)
Exquisite Corpse – Cinco de Mayo
by angeliska on June 1, 2011
For this month’s Exquisite Corpse, we will be dedicating the evening’s festivities as a special memorial to some of our friends and heroes who have died this month: Ramon, crazy-cat extraordinaire, Leonora Carrington – the surrealist sorceress, and to Nefairia (…)
Sweet Violets
by angeliska on May 25, 2011
Earlier this month, we took a journey up North, where it is still spring. Little green fiddleheads are just starting to poke their drowsy heads up from the dark earth. The air was sharp and green, the black branches of (…)
Flammarion's Firmament
by angeliska on May 18, 2011
So, I’ve been meaning to write about this for a little while, and as tonight is particularly celestially auspicious, I might as well. When I was a child, from the age of perhaps 2 until I was 7, I had (…)
Sakura Honey
by angeliska on May 16, 2011
✸ I love these vibrant illustrations by A. Alexeieff for Russian Fairy Tales, from 1945 This bit from Eudora makes me want to track down a copy of my own: “These Russian tales are rambunctious, full-blooded and temperamental. They are (…)
