Peacock Spider Honey

by angeliska on June 29, 2011

✸ I’ve become very obsessed with Peacock Spiders recently. Certain experiences have been contriving to teach me to look very closely at the tiny wonders in our world: the mysteries of minutiae, the infinitesimally small and complex creatures who might (…)

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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. (…)

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Orlando

by angeliska on June 17, 2011

Oh today, today. I don’t really want to write about what today was like, because it was quite awful. Instead, I’ll write about something that makes me happier: my favorite film. I know, I know – just one? Is it (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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