What I need to say is, you are. The walls around your life, the silence around your death, and the language all work to erase you and remove you from me, but they are no stronger than my grief, because my grief is fueled by love and I claim you. And I've come back for all the names I've never known since you were stolen. And I am never far away from you in fact. I am creator and creation. Right here, the source of all love ever. I strike away the lies about you with my lungs and tears, my circles and slaps.
from Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Delainey Hayles as Claudia in the Interview With The Vampire series produced by Rolin Jones and Mark Johnson
Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac in the Interview WIth the Vampire series produced by Rolin Jones and Mark Johnson
With a concentration of painters, sculptors, writers, photographers, poets, performers, immigrants, beatniks, homosexuals, communists, devil worshipers, and uncategorized eccentrics, San Francisco had tolerance for everything except people from Los Angeles.
-- Mark A. Vieira, Hollywood Horror: From Gothic to Cosmic, on the Bay Area in the 1950s-60s
The SRL compound reminds me of an amplified version of the workshop of my childhood home at first glance. Bits of metal, wire, and dust everywhere. However, here the machines that create, create instruments that destroy. In the center of the room stands the bulk of The Hand o’ God, waiting for someone to add final touches, namely fingers. Pauline cryptically explains its name by stating that he envisions God would move things similar to the device. God's massive arm, hurling large objects into place. The tour begins. Rows of Walking Machines hang from the celling of the main workshop. In the far corner, the Rail Gun sits, obscured. We reach the computer epi¬ center of the SRL compound, where Pauline explains that he just picked up the two pieces of equipment in front of me for a small amount of money, and now that he has re-fitted them he can sell both for a nice profit margin. Much of the equipment, however, is not for resale, but is being stockpiled for future SRL plans. 1996
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