vegan pumpkin cheesecake. if it sounds weird, it's because it is. first draft. homemade graham cracker crust is incredible/easy as are carmelized pecans, but the filling tastes like tofu - sort of.

because the world is cruel!

remember 1985? i don't, but "first and last and always" came out then. i love the sisters of mercy. how i love andrew eldritch's ridiculously deep voice, tremulous with feigned emotion in an eventually heart-rending song about a casual encounter with someone whose name he'd rather never know. VLAH

"i could wait a long, long time before i hear another lovesong." tell it. is this guy even alive still? wait - i don't want to know.

poor angry man.

equal parts magic and tragic

as they say.

it never ceases to amaze me how selfless parents of children are, or can be. so amazing to me. the strange link between family members is so coiled and corroded, but also profound and irreplaceable.

i can't write about my mother. it's too complicated. that bothers me.

Josh T. Pearson

so glad people like this exist.

turn like a finned thing

I thought someone else had written it.

Taken from here. See more of the artist's work here.

slap me on the patio

I used to wear craft glitter like this on my face; eyes and cheekbones. Oh, how the neighbors looked. Things were easier then, I would laugh at them. I thought it looked fantastic.

I was going to make a post about my friend Anita's incredible photography after being inspired by another shot of Albuquerque, but it looks like she's let her flickr lapse and so I can't link my favorites. This iphone shot will have to do. I love storms and goldenrod AND zinnias.

I am all about druzies right now. There's so much incredible stuff on etsy. I kept trying to narrow my choices to 10, 5, 3. I wish I knew who made this ring.

Terribly celestial, no. Here. More incredibleness,

Here.

Amazing. Here.

Augh! Here.

Party like it's 1899

I embroidered this little calaca last year for my friend Anita. One day I will finish another, but not soon.

poor quality photo, but recently i noticed that there are flocks of tiny parrots living in my neighborhood. love this.

Blood for Dracula

Guess who's friends with Joe Dallesandro on Facebook. Jealous?

I love Udo Kier's little baby lisp German accent. "I don't have to teach you anysing!" Favorite Dracula.