I’m still not 100% well, but at least I’m no longer contagious. I had a fun session earlier today and after that I spent the afternoon catching up on work that had been neglected while I was out of commission all weekend. My live-in slave Jennah has been camping with her family so it’s been me here making my own tea. :-/ She gets home tonight though, so I plan to put her to work!

There are a million remodeling projects i would love to get going around the house but I’d REALLY love to get my dungeon painted. My house is older and the the people who lived here before me were fond of wood paneling which is what’s down in the dungeon. I want it painted over ASAP.  More sessions tomorrow, misc. errands and hopefully by this weekend I’ll be all caught up.

Sunday I’m going to do another shoot with Joe Cardenas. Should be fun.

I love Isabella Rossellini. i think she’s aged so gracefully and is such an interesting person. Enjoy this fantastic short film about NYC’s bedbug epidemic.

I’ve been totally wiped out since Saturday, stricken with a really bad flu that had me with a 101.3 degree temperature. I’m feeling much better now, on antibiotics and recovering watching “Drag Me To Hell” on HBO. I just bought a new phone. It’s a droid so it should help me handle my business affairs more efficiently!

I’ve done a lot of reading lately and here are a few articles that I really enjoyed  about one of my favorite authors, Christopher Hitchens, and his admirable stance to remain true to his atheistic beliefs in the face of his own mortality.

Another about Greg Gutfeld whose decided to open an Islam-friendly gay bar near Park 51 aptly called “Dialogue”, and finally one about how even though H.P. Lovecraft created his mythos from fabrications from his own imagination to make an anti-religious point, Cthuluism has now been used to form an actual religion, something it was intended to poke fun at in the first place. Enjoy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/weekinreview/15schillinger.html

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/greg-gutfield-to-open-a-gay-bar-next-to-ground-zero-mosque-to-cater-to-islamic-gay-men/

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/129146-cults-of-an-unwitting-oracle-the-unintended-religious-legacy-of-h.-p/

I love hanging out in gay bars. The people are friendly, I never get bothered by overbearing macho men, and I can get all dressed up and be appreciated for being fabulous. Friday night was my friend’s birthday and she was doing a drag show at a gay bar on Dort Hwy so I headed down there, but the music was just atrocious. Awful, hip-hop, r&b, just awful booty bar music not what I would expect from a gay bar as they usually have fun dance music and trance. I had to leave early because the music made me feel icky, as did all the bump and grind on the dance floor. I’d really like to find a fun local bar to hang out in periodically!

I’m thinking of getting myself a pit bull and a gun. Porsche Lynn was the first person to suggest I get a gun. I’ve been shooting before, and I think it’s finally time to have a gun. Legally, of course. I love pit bulls. They’re the sweetest, kindest, most wonderful and misunderstood breed of dogs and there’s one up for adoption that is so cute! They’re so much fun to run and cuddle with and spoil with love, plus I’d feel very protected by a muscular creature by my side.

I’ve been trying to sort through music all day to put on my ipod for my road trip to Traverse City, but it’s so time-consuming. I need a slave to do all tedious tech stuff for me. Mix tapes were so much easier!

I’m listening to Mike Patton’s Mondo Cane right now and I have to tell you, here is a shout out to Mike. If you read this, please marry me. I mean it. You are so clearly the man of my dreams for doing a cover of Ennio Morricone’s “Deep Down” from the soundtrack of Danger: Diabolik! Those of you who are unfamiliar with this musical genius with the most amazingly versatile voice that ever graced my divine ears might know him from such bands as Faith No More, Fantomas, Mr. Bungle, Dillinger Escape Plan etc. Those of you who don’t, should!  This particular CD is all covers of 1960s Italian film soundtracks which I adore. What a voice, what a man. Elegant and edgy all at the same time. Perfect.

Enough random thoughts for today. I need to hit replay and listen to this again. And again..and again…then start packing.

Back in MI for a few days, then next week I’m taking a mini-vacation to Traverse City to get in some sun before the summer ends! Sand dunes, beach, hiking trails. So much fun. I’ll only be gone the 17th and 18th, but it should be a lot of fun! Any tips on special stuff to see or good places to eat?

Those of you who have been following me for a while have been aware of the various tattoos I’ve been collecting on my body. One in particular was on my right arm and was of a Jerry Only-esque zombie. I was never pleased with it. it was crooked, muddy and everyone thought it was Michael Jackson from the Thriller video! Granted, I have always liked Thriller but it was most certainly NOT a tattoo of MJ.

Anyway, to try to detract from the hideousness of that tattoo I started to add another tattoo of a Mars Attacks alien shooting a pinup girl in the head, blowing her brains out with a ray gun.  That never really got finished. I procrastinated, procrastinated, and eventually found a tattoo artist in NYC to do the cover-up over the zombie and pull the other tattoos into one cohesive piece. The problem was, 2 sessions into the tattoo he decided to become a complete douche bag because i wouldn’t go on a date with him.

I never went back, more time went by but I finally went on to do the color and only one more session remains before it’s finished. I should have it done within 2 weeks.  I’ve gone ahead and posted photos of the work I had done last month, 3 sessions. Almost done! Enjoy.

The color was done by the talented Carl Rowe at Acid Works Tattoo in Burton, MI.

Every so often, I go through my vast collection of fetish clothing, photos, and personal items and put them up for sale to make room for new things.

You can find my ebay store by clicking on the yellow text.
Mistress Persephone’s Ebay Store

I also offer direct sales of items like autographed photos, panties, stockings through My Merch Store
If there is anything you wish to purchase of mine you don’t see listed, contact me directly and I may be able to accommodate you.

NYC was a lot of fun, but very hot and draining. I arrived into Newark airport Friday night then zipped off to Jersey City to act in my friend Margaret’s student film which took all of Saturday until about midnight to shoot my scenes. It was very hot and muggy. Early Saturday i took the train into Manhattan to take sessions, then I met up with Evita and Leda for lunch at the Pink Pony on Norfolk St. I had a lovely spinach and chevre omelet and shared some pate de canard with them. Leda left and Evita and I caught up on gossip then met up with other friends at the Sidewalk cafe and then Manitoba’s. I wasn’t out very late because I was so tired but I had to be up early for another session and then I was off to the airport and back home. Such a short trip yet exhausting.

I’ve been busy since I’ve been back and feel like I need to catch up on sleep! Right now I’m listening to Fantomas and planning out my day. So many errands!

I just finished packing for my trip to NYC. My friend is shooting a student film and has asked me to fly in to play the part of a gypsy so I’ll be doing that all day Saturday. It will be a very short trip, but I will be available to take sessions Sunday August 8th only at the Rubber Studio in midtown Manhattan. If you would like to book email me directly to make an appointment.

I have just added a trip to Northern Spain to the Galician city of Santiago De Compostela. This is my first trip to Spain, my grandparent’s country, and I am looking very forward to wine, tapas, jamon iberico, cathedrals, and visiting a new place! This is going to be a wonderful year for travel!

A lot has happened since the last time I made a post here. For one, I lost the person who was maintaining my website after over a year of him dicking around, making false promises, not following through and just being an overall unreliable flake. That’s why it’s been so long since my website was updated. I have tons of material and no webmaster to put it up for me. You have no clue how hard it has been to find someone to replace the last tone and my search continues. The reason I hadn’t been able to update my blogs or calendars was that I had no password to get into wordpress but have now sorted that out.

I do hope that my fans will continue to visit my site and read my posts here to see what i am up to until I can get the webmaster thing figured out.

I’ve been spending most of my time doing real time sessions in my dungeon and not much in the way of photo shoots in the last 6months. I’ve just been overwhelmingly busy! But now I promise to keep everyone updated on my travels etc.

A few trips. A quick visit to NYC to visit my best friend who is doing a film school project and wants me to appear in it. I’ll have one day only to take sessions, 8/08/10.

I am going on vacation to Tulum, MX 9/20/10- 9/25/10 and I can hardly wait, as I do so love it down there!

And finally, I’ll be back in London, UK to stay with my wonderful, gorgeous friend Morrigan Hel and will be taking sessions 9/30/10- 10/02/10. After that I am off to Paris, France 10/03/10- 10/06/10 to visit friends and shoot with the inimitable Christophe Mourthe, visit with friends Jurgen and Alain, and shoot with Pierre Rutchsi.

It’s all very exciting news, que non?