a night out with the Tickler

Aug. 24th, 2025 07:20 pm
sistawendy: a cartoon of me in club clothes (dolly)
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[This entry is, believe it or not, suitable for all aubiences.]

I took the Tickler out for sushi at Shiro's. Damn, it's good. Not cheap, but very, very good. Many thanks to Funny Lady for turning me onto that place.

Thence to the Monkey Loft. The crowd was honestly smaller than I think the DJ deserved, a fellow from Argentina named Simon Vuarambon, but that made it nicer in a way: we not-so-young ladies got to sit when we wanted, usually. And the Monkey Loft's fabulous rooftop deck was open. I have to tell you, watching the sweet young things groove in perfect weather on a summer night with the power lines marching toward Starbucks HQ and downtown as the fire burns? Difficult to beat. I simply must find someone who wants to hit Monkey on New Year's Day.

From the Dept. of Culture Clash: there were a few people there in their Mariners gear. A game had indeed let out, and some of the baseball fans decided to come dancing. And there there were people who looked like Burners.

And as ever, brunch at Made In House. I forwent my usual caffeine because I consumed three large mugs of tea while waiting for the Tickler to arise. That's the only thing that kept me going until about 1615 today.

In summation: a successful weekend.

Nun commits art.

Aug. 21st, 2025 06:36 pm
sistawendy: me looking confident in a black '50s retro dress (mad woman)
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I've been quiet for a few days because I've been working on more devil girls:

Two devil girls, a curvy red one in front of a bulky black one.

The black one is based on a selfie that I took, and the red one is how I wish I looked. It's my self-image with a shadow that just won't go away.

And with that, I don't really have any more spaces in my house that are crying out to me to be decorated. I'm sure I'll still add a devil girl artwork here and there, but all the good spaces for anything bigger than 8"x10" are now occupied.

Let me tell you, painting out scanning artifacts with a mouse is literally a pain. And I'd forgotten how colors don't necessarily look as vibrant in print as they do on a screen; what you're seeing is brighter than what I have on my wall.

Yes, I left the black outline of the boots and the corset lace hanging behind the skirt hem deliberately.

cool women in my life

Aug. 17th, 2025 09:59 am
sistawendy: me in C18-inspired makeup looking amused (amused eighteenthcent)
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I had a chat with [profile] rigel_p. True to form, she's taken a scientific approach to dating because she's "Tired of The Bullshit [capitalization hers]". The buzzword? Attachment theory. The book? Attached, by Levine & Heller. Have I ordered it yet? Just before I started writing this entry, from Powell's. I'm probably more amused than I should be that a professional scientist is applying science to her love life, but she seems to believe that it's working. I have very little to lose by taking her advice.

C of summer goth barbecue fame had a birthday party at Murphy's, the "Irish" bar just a few bus stops from my place that I weirdly hadn't been in since the '90s. That's right: People in Black took over an Irish joint. C says it happens more often than you'd think. The band? Cover band Prom Date Mixtape sounded excellent, actually, with all the Cure and Psychedelic Furs you could want. The staff moved the furniture so we could dance, and we did.

Bonus: lots of hot women my own age all dolled up. Their likely heterosexuality is hardly their fault, now, is it? I laid eyes on goths I hadn't seen out & about in years.

artificial ecological succession

Aug. 14th, 2025 06:47 am
sistawendy: me in my nun costume looking stern (stern nun)
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I have two sourwood trees that came with my house. (Identification thanks to the Tickler and their magic app.) Sourwoods are native to the southeastern US, and anyone who gardens in the Pacific northwest will know what I'm about to say: sourwoods don't have the drought tolerance that they need for this area, and indeed most of western North America. One of the two trees looks as if it's at death's door even with my best efforts at watering. My tiny little front yard gets a surprising amount of sun.

What to do? Bop down to Urban Earth nursery — the one run by dykes, as opposed to the one run by gay men a few blocks away that specializes in indoor plants — and get a little Lawson cypress. I verified with the aforementioned dykes that it should be able to handle the sun, and it should be narrow enough to fit into the tight spot.

I rejected the big, beautiful ginkgo because I would have had to get it home half a mile uphill without a vehicle, and I'm not sure it would have been narrow enough.

I also have to get rid of the ailing sourwood, which is competing for space in my tiny yard waste bin with two other species of dead plant.

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