Category Archives: COVET

Magic Windows #24

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 makes me kind of sick. Ramona, my love – won’t you be mine? I want this, I want this, I want this – but [...]

The Left Eye of Horus

Horus was the ancient Egyptian sky god who was usually depicted as a falcon. His right eye was associated with the sun Ra. The eye symbol represents the marking around a Peregrine Falcon’s eye that includes the “teardrop” marking sometimes found below the eye. The mirror image, or left eye, sometimes represented the moon and [...]

Happy Birthday Pandora!

Today marks a very special holiday indeed – the birthday of my dearest darling, Miss Pandora Gastelum. In lieu of getting to celebrate her whelping with her (the travesty of why this cannot be is detailed below), I am writing this here, so those of you who do not know her can begin to, a [...]

Exquisite Corpse + Charm School Vintage

The other night, Miss Shari Gerstenberger of Charm School Vintage and I joined forces to style an inspiration shoot for Exquisite Corpse, and to kick off a lookbook to guide anyone seeking ideas on what to wear. As a young gothling (eee, back in the day!) I had no access to expensive fetish-wear, and Hot [...]

Big Blessings Poppin’ – The Devil Can’t Stop It!

It’s almost that time, y’all… My mind is already there, steeped in chicory, dusted in powdered sugar. Hungry for those sweet faces I ain’t kissed in so long. My heart quickens up when I think of riding down my old bumpity streets, turning onto Piety and seeing my favorite tulip magnolia shivering with blossoms. Ready [...]

Sylphide Treasures – Gypsy Honeymoon II.

This flock of blue morpho butterflies seems to be exploring… Gypsy Honeymoon is one of the special spots on my list of pilgrimages whilst visiting San Francisco. I met the ravishing owner, Gabrielle Ekedal the first time my grandfather and I dropped in, and we instantly felt a deep kinship. She is a very magical [...]

Magic Windows #20

More Magic Windows photos from my New Orleans adventures: This house was decorated so wonderfully for Hallowe’en + Dia de los Muertos, I had to stop and gawp at it for a bit. I wonder who lives there? I like them already. A view from the back of Rusty Lazer’s trusty minivan, on the morning [...]

Tail of the Yak

There is a very special place, tucked away in the blossom-bedecked avenues of Berkeley, California – a little boutique where you must ring the bell to gain admittance, where you will find yourself surrounded by the most wondrous, most delectable, most glorious treasures imaginable. Tail of the Yak is one of my most favorite places [...]

Magic Windows #19

“I alight at Esplanade in a smell of roasting coffee and creosote and walk up Royal Street. The lower Quarter is the best part. The ironwork on the balconies sags like rotten lace. Little French cottages hide behind high walls. Through deep sweating carriage- ways one catches glimpses of courtyards gone to jungle.” – Walker [...]

Magic Windows #18

A perfect lady. White hair and red roses please me more than I can say. This is a real thing that exists somewhere, this rabbit. He’s almost four feet tall. Can you handle it? Real rabbit fur, and composition. I wish he was mine. Oh Gaga. This shoot from Vanity Fair a month or two [...]

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