He’s not here. I fall asleep and then wake up and he is gone. He always leaves a note, he tells me not to worry, but he never stays the night. I am left in hotel rooms, I sleep through the days, then he shows up again, just before I panic, just before I leave. [...]

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We’ve been working on a “sports” line as we are so sporty! (are you laughing?!) Naturally this will involve as much coverage as possible. We’ve just finished our Haunted Beachwear OverCoat. So although we haven’t added the bows or the pouf (!) and it is not a very good photo, we’re just so excited and have to [...]

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The films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
The soundtrack to Somersault by Decoder Ring
The hours between midnight and 3 a.m.
Our cat Monster
The sound of bells
Moon Kana
Bicycles
Crisp elegant fiction written by super smart women
Super smart women
Blood+
Found beautifully bound books on arcane topics
Chandler Burr writing about scent (or gay holiday cruises)
Makiko Sugawa
People who aren’t “normal”
Stripy stockings
Gray tights and short black [...]

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White is the absence of colour, black is all colour combined. Colour is pigment. Pigment is a material that changes the colour of the light it reflects as a result of selective colour absorption. Red food colorants cochineal and carmine are made from ground beetles. (Vegan’s take note!) Prussian blue contains animal remains and blood. [...]

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How To Keep A Vampire At Bay
Important steps in avoiding unpleasantness in the future
1. Rub windows, doors, keyholes, chimneys and pets with garlic.
2. Do not invite alluring strangers in, no matter how attractive, well dressed and/or buxom they are
3. Strew thorns, poppy seeds, grains of salt, or grains of rice on the floor; a vampire [...]

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It’s just past midnight, and I’m a ghost haunting our house while my parents and Elizabeth sleep. Uncharacteristically my parents are a-bed, betraying their elder-goth creed of not giving in to the night. Alice is not home. Although we don’t talk about it, she is with her new boyfriend (see poem posted a few posts [...]

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“NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee”
-Carrion Comfort by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Forward
There are a gazillion earnest “histories of” out there on the topic of Gothic and Lolita and it’s fashions and origins, just Google, you will see. So rather than recap, rewrite or plagerize from them, I encourage you to go for [...]

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At first we heard wrong and thought Apple was coming out with a Hello Kitty iMac! But Hello Kitty MAC cosmetics is almost as fun. Yes please!

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