It's quite an elaborate scheme

lesser_celery got me a Jill Tracy and the Malcontent Orchestra corpse cooler T-shirt. It seems to have arrived with a pair of ancillary postcards and a sticker for The Fine Art of Poisoning, which are rather cool in their own right. Thank you. My life can always use more black T-shirts.

In political news: well, thank God. I'm still revolted that it even came to a vote. "We're making progress, and we're not going to stop until marriage between a man and a woman is protected . . . protected in the courts, protected in the Constitution, but most of all, protected for the people and for the future of our children in this society," Senator Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, said after the vote. Protected from what? The only marriages I can see under threat right now are, what do you know, the same-sex kind. Or anything that isn't the standard heterosexual pairing. I really would like to live in a country that hasn't outlawed the ways in which most of the people important to me love one another. Although frankly, I'm not sure where I should move to at this point . . . I don't know if I'll ever marry. If I do, it might well be the kind of marriage of which Senator Brownback would approve (although for reasons other than gender, I rather doubt it). And just as likely not. And it shouldn't matter, should it? This is a strange planet.

(Cut for Arachne, because who doesn't love Greek myth and spiders?)
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Zig et zig et zag, la mort cri cadence

I am in love with Cornell. They have entire sections on the Grotesque and the Danse Macabre. There's a class I took at Brandeis that would have loved this site, too.


The Tale of Lohengrin.

(Cut to avoid further computer breakage: werewolves and a theatrical Totentanz.)
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