Yesssss! It’s SUMMAH! I know a lot of folks hate summer, hiding out in their AC until the first nip of autumn arrives. Not Musette. I love the whole ‘so hot you can’t move’, louche, laissez-faire feeling of a Midwestern summer, as the tomatoes ripen and the sunflowers hit shoulder-height and the blood runs [...]
by Musette I’m writing this in the waning Sunday morning for Wednesday’s post. I’ve been an Urban Baby for most of my life. Water out of the tap (Chicago - flat-rate, pretty cheap). AC everywhere, even when I don’t want it. Public trans, working in all but the most ridiculous temperatures. Weather was [...]
A Tale of Beginner’s Mind by Musette Every now and then I’ll meet someone who admits to lurking on the Posse but won’t comment, afraid that they don’t know enough, thinking I , The Great Musette, am so knowledgeable about perfume. (wait. the Earth just shifted off its axis from the Posse’s [...]
A young ladypal of El O’s cub , visiting our bathroom, came out exclaiming “OMG! YOU WEAR FRACAS! My AUNT WEARS FRACAS!!!” (caps all hers, I swear). She shrieked on to tell me how much she liked it, etc….so my Inner Nerd went on Red Alert….and I opened up the Perfume Armoire. Stunned. We’d [...]
by Musette I hope everyone has recovered from the sweat and skank and sex of last week’s posts! I had to take to mah faintin’ couch, I was so overcome. When I came to, it was Spring in the Illinois Valley, serious weather moodswings and all the weird hail, snow, wind, rain…and [...]