The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum courtyard at night

Our father was navigating, Mr. Flowers was driving. We were in the back, I in the middle, and where was our mother? Oh, we were in Boston as she was in Boston as the The National Spore Symposium (NSS) was in Boston, so she was there and we [...]

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We saw this in the new issue of Giant Robot and fell in love. We want a cake hat too…

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“His vocal writing is awkward and pointlessly angular, and he seems to have consciously tried to avoid cinematic flourishes, striving instead to compose a dutifully serious contemporary opera, complete with whiffs of pointillist atonality.”
- New York Times opera critic Anthony Tommasini writing about composer Howard Shore’s operatic version of The Fly.

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The very wonderful Dame Darcy, North America’s first Gothic Lolita girl, recently published her illustrated post-apocalyptic novel Gasoline: A Rock and Roll Apocalyptic Fairy Tale. The plot synopsis runs thusly: “In a post-apocalyptic world, the search for precious gasoline pits a family of orphaned witches against conniving nihilists who lurk in the decaying urban sprawl. [...]

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Sometimes we wish we were friends with doona bae
Sometimes we wish we were moon kana
Sometimes all we want to read is the first 100 pages of Love in the Time of Cholera
Or the last 100 pages of Franny & Zooey
Sometimes only a vampire film will do
Sometimes we wish we could sip a cocktail with Nick [...]

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On the weekend we take turns making the family breakfast. The menu rarely varies no matter who makes it, but each of us like to do things a little differently. One breakfast item that has evolved and refined over the years is our tofu breakfast scramble. It first started as the mix in a box from [...]

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More flora and fauna on the beach near Hubbards

We all went in to the very large sitting room. It was near dusk and after placing the coffee pot on a large ottoman our hostess began switching on lights. There were three large couches set up in a U in front of an ornate stone fireplace. [...]

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Here is our friend Pixie from Wisconsin looking quite lovely in our Beatrice, Lost At Sea Sailor Suit. We wish we could all look as magical.

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Lina Leandersson in Let The Right One In

To be honest, who wouldn’t swoon? So much scholarly press, conjecture, theorizing. The sex, the death, the non-physical, sex = death, the outsider, the night, the plague, fear of things foreign, eternity. Our theory is this, vampires are the only lovers who can use the word forever and [...]

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Last night we were playing our favourite game of charades, How The Cute Poet Died, when we realized that we haven’t told you about our Nova Scotia trip!

Photo of flora and fauna on the beach near Hubbards

You have to forgive us, we’ve been so busy being moody and despondent, which takes up a lot of [...]

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