Liisa was in town on the 13th to promote her book at Chapters. I failed all the goth quiz questions and didn’t win a grab bag. After, we went the The Wooly for dinner. Soup tastes great on a rainy day.
liisa
July party
My aunt organized a surprise party for her boyfriend in July. There was much dancing to a cool band that played songs from 1950s and 60s and I won a hose as a door prize! Here are the few photos I have that don’t depict the overconsumption of salads.
Carouselling
Canada Day at Riverside Park
Photos by Liisa used without permission.
Liisa explains some things you might not know about Goths
One thing I didn’t know until recently was that May 22nd is World Goth Day, which George Stroumboulopoulos celebrated with a segment featuring Liisa:
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My cousin wrote an encyclopedia!
My cousin Liisa launched her new book, Encyclopedia Gothica, this month! These pics are from her book signing at our hometown public (Carnegie) library:
The book is gorgeous: illustrated, with ragged edge pages, and may be set in Garamond (I love that font, will have to ask…) More info about the book at http://encyclopediagothica.com.
Here’s the publisher’s description:
Encyclopedia Gothica is a guide through that shadowiest of subcultures: modern Goths. It collects and defines more than 600 words and phrases used by these children of the night so that you too can engage in conversations about deathhawks and rivetheads and who is more übergoth: Bela Lugosi or Robert Smith.
Compiled by acclaimed Goth journalist and poet Liisa Ladouceur, it gives readers insight into the unique vernacular of this fascinating community, describing in detail and with black humour the fashion, music, and lifestyle as well as sharing insider slang such as Baby Bat, Corp Goth and the Gothic Two-Step, and the first ever Goth Band Family Tree. From absinthe to zombies, it’s the Encyclopedia Gothica!