Darlings, today marks 227 days until Halloween. That’s just a shade over seven months, my dears, and I for one am getting rather excited. Also exciting are some updates and upcoming events for The Year of Halloween, beginning with the… Read More ›
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“A Lecture upon the Shadow” by John Donne
A Lecture Upon the Shadow Stand still, and I will read to thee A lecture, love, in love’s philosophy. These three hours that we have spent, Walking here, two shadows went Along with us, which we ourselves produc’d. But, now… Read More ›
My Robe is the Color of Despair: National Absinthe Day
There is something about the ghostly green of a properly louched absinthe drink that evokes Halloween – images of fairies, madness, and exuberant excess swirl within its depths; now jade, now palest green, now a poisonous milk white. Extremely popular among Bohemians at the end of the 1800’s, absinthe… Read More ›
The Year of Halloween 