A few days ago, I got to witness my first solar eclipse. A strangely gentle and peaceful experience, all over too soon. The sun set below the horizon before we could see it fully obscured, alas. The ...
It’s almost that time again, y’all – time for Austin’s very own homegrown glittery juggernaut of a rogue queer pride parade takes to the streets and lets out a joyful noise! We̵...
Tonight, as I wait for this epic Supermoon in Scorpio to rise above the treetops, I want to take a moment to write about some of the thoughts that have been buzzing around my head recently. Ever sinc...
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-foo...
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 –...
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 earthl...
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 w...
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...
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 o...
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 r...
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 ...
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...
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 ensem...
Photo of the memorial altar at Esme’s gate by Laura Skelding / AMERICAN-STATESMAN A week ago, in the wee hours of the new year’s dim beginnings, a girl was murdered. She was a friend of m...
This month we are throwing the mother of all Saturnalias: A Capricornian Celebration to honor all my favorite sea-goats! I’m a Capricorn too, so this will also be my de facto birthday party, as...
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 projec...
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...
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 sti...
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 Exchang...
(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 mor...
This Halloween Season was a flurry of fancy parties, fabulous shows, and numerous costumes – a few of which I will attempt to recount in the following snaps from a week of spooky fun. Coco Coquette&#...
Alas, this year’s flurry of activity and happenings left me entirely wrung out, and in a state of disrepair, having been bogged down with whatever malaise has got everyone around me likewise gr...
Inspired by both elaborate historic costume and animal architecture, Tintinnabulation Station’s shape is reminiscent of a beehive or igloo. The piece is a tipi-canopy created to resemble a meti...
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 ...
♥ Lisa Bettany shot this amazing photo of a Double Rainbow Over Manhattan after a recent storm in NYC. In order to counter some of the disaster-fraught gloom looming ’round these parts of late,...
More than 60 fires have erupted all around my city. Over 500 homes have been consumed by flames. Recently, I dreamt of fires erupting in my ancestral home, the home that my great-grandmother, and my ...
I’m just back in from my travels, and getting ready for Exquisite Corpse tonight, but thought I’d take a minute to post some photos from last month to amaze + inspire… Also – holy s...
This year there’s just too much, too much to write, to say, to show – it’s all disjointed fragments that don’t quite fit together, scrabbled here and there over the last few days of...
Post photoshoot glitter & grime – from a beautiful adventure with the marvelous Darla Teagarden. The Tiger’s Wife, by Téa Obreht – I’m almost finished with it. It’s so good it ...
Today marks twenty-five years since my mother died. This last winter solstice, I had a profound vision during a ceremony: an old black telephone appeared before me, hunched in celluloid, with a rotar...
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