January 2009
4 posts
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond
morganfrailey:
There are instructions for the handling of flax pinned up next to blueprints for drop-spindles and thick sections of knitting. The shelves above the deep sinks are sectioned off, filled with screens and squeegees and boxes of emulsion. The knitting machines are delicate and spindly, twenty praying mantises threaded and waiting. There are heavy industrial machines and a room full...
Except from 'After Cootie Left Duke'
It was a quarter past six when Cootie arrived at the Babinaeux Lounge, just as the lights dimmed to a soft rose on blue and the week’s featured quartet started playing a sad swaying song with brushes on drums. A few couples rose from their tables and stepped out into the ballroom’s marbled light to dance the first slow dance of the evening. It should have been a wonderful sight, black tails moving...
New Year Musing
Oh wow, haven’t written in a while. Happy Newish Year?
To recap for Christmas I got some very nice vintage jackets that make me look like an English professor, some socks, candy to devour within a week, and other bric-a-brac that I love very much.
At my cousin’s I was a monster and chased her four year old and toddler sister around the house. The eldest climbed up the stairs, so I...