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"Where have you been?", originally uploaded by OhChiik.

Sarah’s off to Europe on tour with Parts & Labor. We had a toodleloo dinner at Pearl Oyster Bar in the West Village last night. Lobster Rolls and [...]

So after the Mermaid Parade last weekend Simon,  the auteur (is that the right term when applied to theater instead of film? i have no idea) of Witch Prison, and I headed over to to the New York Marble Cemetery to meet up with Sarah, who was already involved in a Solstice Ritual with Dame [...]

As a requirement for my (perpetually tardy) forthcoming graduation from Hunter College, I’m taking a Weather & Climate lab this summer. The theoretical aspects are very interesting, but I loathe the labs. In my ideal universe, we’d get graded on storm hunting.

I can’t even fathom what it must be like to stand in a field [...]

I marched in the Mermaid Parade last weekend with the Cast of Witch Prison. Here I am holding a Spider Crab from the Nightmare Before Time

And don’t forget to reserve your tickets for the world’s offiest broadway comedy play about witches. in prison.

If you’re losing your mind at the scorching temperatures and finding your thoughts tending towards the negatory; environmental and economic collapse got you down, etc. Wintry Escapism is they key. Two movies I could recommend to take your mind off of the heat:
My Winnipeg, a “docutasia” by Guy Maddin, combining archival footage, private home videos [...]

John Koetpnickger, thirty-four years old, of 42 Scholes Street, Willlamsburg, attempted suicide yesterday morning by cutting his head with an axe. He only succeeded in inflicting a scalp wound. He was taken to St. Catherine’s Hospital.
Koetpnickger has been out of work for six months, and he told his wife last week that unless he obtained [...]

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I’ve always been a little prone to spacing out, but the idea that space tourism could be a viable option in my lifetime is really exciting. While the prospect of wearing diapers during re-entry after a steady diet of nothing but Dippin’ Dots isn’t really all that appealing, I’m more drawn [...]