Emma's Mixtape

I find Kiki (aka Justin Bond) so thrilling. Live, Kiki and Herb - a duo who are some cabaret, some comedy, all wonderful - make the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. It's weird how a performance so over the top can have this real undercurrent of melancholy and kernel of truth (I think Tim Curry in Rocky Horror is a great example of that. Also, watching Prince William announce his engagement, I realized his clipped cadence reminded me of no-one so much as Curry's Dr. Frank-n-Furter).

My great friend, Shannon Nelson, has just started the blog lalasmom, where she chronicles life after her daughter's suicide.

http://www.lalasmom.com/LaLas_Mom/Welcome.html

Shannon (or Shaye) is just as brilliant and funny as Lena (or Lala) was. Lena hung herself a year ago, aged nineteen, and there are, of course, no words...and yet Shaye is doing her best to find them. Though she's not a "professional", she's without question a natural. Go and have a read. I think you'll be as taken with Shaye's writing as I am.