I feel like my life has swung around in so many incredible ways as of late that I couldn't possibly let it slip by w/o blogging about the experience. I went from Unified Underground, among my Goth Family, to London and Norway, among my Metal Family, to the Cemetery Potluck, to the largest attended event in those_who_mourn history (and people traveling the ( Read more... )

To be chosen to be a Goth who listens to Metal, to love Thai/Vietnamese/Malaysian/Burmese/Laotian cuisine, to collect swords, to have goths, punkers, hXc-ers, and metalheads as friends, to know the Egyptian pantheon at the age of 7 and to want the Addams Family to adopt you ( Read more... )

DC sucks. Its mediocrity is its lifeblood. It exists solely to proudly display and promote sameness to all who will be forced to adhere. Do not dare be different unless you are with a loved one that celebrates your different-ness, lest you be alone in your non-mainstream lifestyle ( Read more... )

To dare to be peculiar.. to desire to live fearlessly.. "peculiar" and "fearless" resonate deep within me to be one that does not have to follow the whims of others, but one who desires to revel in his own uniqueness amidst others in elegance, whimsy, knowledge, compassion and roti canai.

This is the wonderful, unfathomable, near-heavenly world ( Read more... )

I regret to inform the wonderful women of my life that apparently, according to this guy who never met you, hates goths, hates freaks, is afraid of all things different than himself, that I make women feel unsafe

That was the laugh of the weekend..

Thanks to everyone who came to this month's Munch: Naomi, Natalie, Diane and Andy.. the place was ( Read more... )

Let the frolic begin ( Read more... )

..and look all the fancy!

Tomorrow night: spellbound_dc is having a Garden Party for the Garden of Arcane Delights after a Goth Menagerie at the Zoo at noon.. so I need Outfit #1.

Saturday, August 15th I'll be in the Great City of New York for dancesofvicenyc at 303 Bond St. in Brooklyn. Outfit #2.

Sunday, August 23rd I'll be with keypendragon and others at the Victorian Menagerie at ( Read more... )

..and to think all I ever knew of that city were bad cheesesteaks and people being chased at knifepoint ( Read more... )

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To the following deserve public credit for the love and reality:

Larry, Naomi, Natalie, DJ, Adam, and the phenomenal people of dcmidnight and spellbound_dc. No matter what you think of either club or the petty and ultimately insignificant drama therein, let me assure you that you will never, NEVER, never find people as real, as near-unconditional, as accepting, as ( Read more... )