Band Vs. An Impromptu Spoken-Word History Lesson

So, when we last left this roughly-continuous episode, the Sourballs got drunk and drew on each other with markers, and Turpentine kinda ended up on the floor. And now, our pal Atomic Domme gets a little moment in the spotlight — and no, we’re not going to actually see this. The next one jumps forward in time.

PS:  Here’s Mina Loy on a tumblr called Hotties From History. I debated quite a bit about which historical figure Domme would want to talk about in this totally-outta-left-field sort of way, but she seemed right. Additional educational notes, in case you’re interested: Loy never published her feminist manifesto in her lifetime, possibly because some of it gets into troubling pseudo-fascist territory that’s otherwise not typical of the author. I like a lot of the rest of it, though — she’s one of my favourite early 20th century figures. Oh, yeah, and the erotic poetry isn’t particularly scandalous…but hey, I guess it was in 1915.

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She has been waiting her entire life in this band for this moment! She composes rock operas in her basement about this stuff, practices looking sultry for her solo album cover in dirty mirrors!


Her best rock opera concept would be about my other favorite avant garde lady of roughly the same era, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, and her adventures in, like, dressing up in a bunch of garbage and homemade strap-on dildos and freaking out squares walking around the streets of 1910s New York. Oh, and dying before her time under suspicious circumstances: concept album gold.


So, this is the best thing and maybe Domme is my new favorite character.


Thanks! …I’ve had several friends recently tell me she’s their favorite, and I think she’s gotten more mail than any of the others in that mailbag game. Maybe I should finally let her answer one.


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