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| Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 | |
| 8:57 pm | BPTP is Blue and Windy The Whirling Wind Lunacy tee is live!  And the Blue Moon 2009 tee is also live!  Whirling Wind was illustrated by Alicia Dabney, and Blue Moon's goblin party was illustrated by Jennifer Williamson! Whirling Wind will be live until December 5, 2009, and Blue Moon will be live until January 5, 2009. |
| 2:47 am | Whirling Winds and Gritty Silt at Black Phoenix! HOLIDAY SHIPPING NOTICE: In order to receive your Alchemy Lab package by Christmas Eve... Internationals! Please place your order by midnight PST December 2nd. Domestics! Please place your order by midnight PST December 7th. In order to receive your Trading Post Package by Christmas Eve… Internationals! Please place your order by midnight PST December 5th. Domestics! Please place your order by midnight PST December 11th. Black Phoenix Trading Post orders that include the Whirling Wind Moon tee and/or the Blue Moon tee are not guaranteed to arrive in time for Christmas. Lunacy tees and most LE tees do not go into production until we’re done taking orders for them, and they take a few weeks to be made. Please bear in mind that we are not responsible for USPS shenanigans. We do promise that we will bust our asses to get you your orders asap. Please do not take offense at our using Christmas, specifically, as a date marker. Without further ado… Happy Yuletide, everyone! Whirling Wind is live at BPAL, as are the next scents in the Nile series! WHIRLING WIND MOON Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear, 'Which make thee terrible and dear, -- Swift be thy flight! Dreams of joy and fear: swirling dark and airy musks, mogra, plumeria, hyacinth, lily of the valley, dry white sandalwood, gardenia, pale amber, and oakmoss. SEASON OF THE EMERGENCE Month after month the gathered rains descend Drenching yon secret Aethiopian dells, And from the desert's ice-girt pinnacles Where Frost and Heat in strange embraces blend On Atlas, fields of moist snow half depend. Girt there with blasts and meteors Tempest dwells By Nile's aereal urn, with rapid spells Urging those waters to their mighty end. O'er Egypt's land of Memory floods are level And they are thine, O Nile--and well thou knowest That soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil And fruits and poisons spring where'er thou flowest. Beware, O Man--for knowledge must to thee, Like the great flood to Egypt, ever be. During Peret the Nile’s waters retreat, leaving a lush, fertile black silt behind. This is the time of plowing and seeding: crops and herbs were planted and cultivated, and prayers and sacrifices were offered to ensure a bountiful harvest later in the year. The seeds and the seedlings as the sprout forth from the deep black silt: cucumber, flax, wheat, radishes, leeks, sesame, and beans, with thyme, frankincense, chamomile, coriander, spikenard, cumin, hyssop, and juniper. HATMEHIT The Egyptian fish goddess, orginally a deification of the Nile River, the Great Flood, and the Waters of Creation. The scent of the depths of the River, teeming with aquatic life, sanctified by holy herbs. The Blue Moon will be manifesting this December, and we will be offering two interpretations of the event this time around. First, my take on it: BLUE MOON The spirit of the full moon is capricious, intense and passionate, yet still distant, aloof and cold. Luna herself governs glamours, bewitchments and dream-work, innocent wonder, transient pleasure and delight, the Moment, impulse, mystery and veils. The Blue Moon is one of her rarest manifestations, and this scent is formulated to encapsulate her most complex and profound nature: Mugwort, for psychic sensitivity... Calea Zacatechichi, for divination through dreams... Orchid and frankincense, for complexity, wisdom and noscere... ... with a potent lunar-charged, oneirongenic blend of blue musk, exquisite woods, moonflower, Madagascan ylang ylang, Florentine iris, Greek cypress, green tea absolute, palmarosa, cucumber, Clary sage, lavender, lemon balm, and passion fruit. At the end of the month, Brian’s expression of the Blue Moon will be going live! The Whirling Wind and Blue Moon tees will be going live at Black Phoenix Trading Post tomorrow, and the next Vampire Tarot scent and card set and matching tee will be going live at BPAL and BPTP later this month! Whirling Wind Moon and all of the Iteru, Yule and Miskatonic Valley scents are $17.50 each, and Blue Moon and the Anniversary and Resurrected scents are $20 each. The anniversary and Yule scents will be live until January 2010. Blue-Moon-Beth-Style and Whirling Wind Moon will be live until December 5, 2009. Blue-Moon-Brian-Style will appear at the end of the month along with December's second full moon. The four Dark Delicacies Yule scents are live on the Dark Delicacies web site, and are available at their brick and mortar shop in Burbank, CA! |
| Monday, November 30th, 2009 | |
| 9:03 pm | CHRISTMAS SHOPPING CUTOFF INFO! In order to receive your package by Christmas Eve... Internationals! Please place your order by midnight PST December 2nd. Domestics! Please place your order by midnight PST December 7th. Thankee! =) |
| Saturday, November 28th, 2009 | |
| 2:44 pm | Trading Post List for the BPAL Trunk Show @ Dark Delicacies! The following BPTP products, protos, and previews will be available at the Black Phoenix Trunk Show at Dark Delicacies on Sunday, November 29th, from 12-3pm: PROTOTYPE BATH OILS AND ROOM SPRAYS $25 each Revenge Room Spray Lola Montez Bath Oil Grace Elliot Bath Oil Champagne Bath Oil RETIRED BATH AND ATMOSPHERE SPRAYS $25 each Lupanar Room Spray Glacies Bath Oil Jingu Bath Oil Zenobia Bath Oil Tomoe Gozen Bath Oil Hua Mulan Bath Oil RETIRED PERFUME OILS $20 each Boadicea Perfume Jingu Perfume Zenobia Perfume Hua Mulan Perfume Ysabel Perfume PREVIEWS: PILLBOXES $25 each Courtesan Pillboxes (Four courtesans to choose from!) PREVIEWS: THE DISTRICT / MOLLY CRABAPPLE ROOM SPRAYS Proceeds go to Habitat for Humanity: New Orleans! $30 each Gertrude Dix’s Pete Lala’s Café Mahogany Hall GC Shot Glasses $15 each Clocket $70 each Triple Dagger Locket $70 each Snow, Glass, Apples Locket $75 each Brimstone Pendant $35 each Triple Dagger Pendant $35 each Bat-Woman Card Case $45 each Triple Dagger Card Case $45 each Salome Card Case $45 each Dressed Thus Card Case $45 each Leather Wrist Cuff $35 each Where and when is this happening? Dark Delicacies 4213 W. Burbank Burbank, CA 91505 U.S.A. Sunday, November 29 12pm - 3pm 1-888-DARKDEL 1-818-556-6660 darkdel *at* darkdel *.* com On December 3rd, Dark Delicacies will be celebrating their 15th anniversary! 30% off most items (sale & consignment items not included) in the store… and CAKE! Bring in a new toy valued at $10 or more and get 40% off a single item that day. =) The four new BPAL Dark Delicacies scents are live now on the DD web site! http://bit.ly/A640O |
| Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 | |
| 9:07 pm | Peach Moon Brick and Mortar Lunacy In North Hollywood, we will be open for the Peach Moon Lunacy Event on Wednesday, December 2nd, from 7 to 10pm. The address is: 12120 Sherman Way North Hollywood, CA 91605 If you haven't been here before, it may be a little hard to find. We are in the industrial complex, right behind Game Dude. The nearest cross street is Laurel Canyon Blvd. We will accept Mastercard, Visa, American Express and cash. Preorders can still be made with Paypal. Please do not bring any cameras. No photography of any kind will be allowed during this Will Call. Thanks for your cooperation. *** GA Will Call will be at Whole Foods Market, aka Harry’s Farmer’s Market, in Roswell, GA. They will be holding Will Call on Sunday, December 6th from 6 to 9 pm, inside Salud (which is inside the store.) Whole Foods Market is located at 1180 Upper Hembree Road, Roswell, GA, 30076. They will have all of the current LE’s available, along with their extensive selection of GC scents and all of the Retail-only Salon series as well. Whole Foods accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover, American Express and cash. They will not be able to accept any preorders. *** If you bring a new, unwrapped toy to the West Coast Will Call or Georgia Will Call Toy Drives, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that you’re making a child’s Yuletide that much brighter… and you’ll walk out the door with a Quick Grope under the Mistletoe! Sorry, only one Grope per customer. *** The blends that will be available for purchase at both Will Calls include those that went live on the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab website up to and including the Peach Moon update. This includes the Yules (Miskatonic and non) and The District. Anniversay and Inquisition scents will be available for testing, but not for purchase. Forum only scents will not be available at Will Call. No imps will be available for purchase at the GA location. Once again, thanks for understanding. If you would like to place an order for pick-up at the North Hollywood Will Call, please do the following: Email us at willcall@blackphoenixalchemylab.com with your order before 1pm on Tuesday, December 1st. Payment may be remitted by PayPal ahead of time to willcall@blackphoenixalchemylab.com, or you can pay at pick up with cash or credit card. Please do not email orders for the GA location to this address! When making your payment, please omit shipping charges. You may purchase any current catalogue oils, as long as we have them in stock. Due to the sheer volume, currently pending orders can not be combined with Will Call orders. Thanks for your understanding. We will no longer be able to accommodate third party orders. If you are placing an order, you must attend Will Call and pick up your order in person. We will do our best to accommodate all orders of 5mls and imps, but sales will be based on availability. Items from Black Phoenix Trading Post will be available at both locations, subject to stock on hand. Twilight Alchemy Lab oils will also be available, only at the North Hollywood location. For Will Call, Twilight Alchemy Lab orders can be combined with Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab orders. *** If you have any questions, please email us at willcall@blackphoenixalchemylab.com. |
| 6:32 pm | Dark Delicacies Trunk Show Info On Sunday, November 29th, Dark Delicacies will be hosting Black Phoenix’s last trunk show of 2009. We will be bringing back some scents we still have stock of from previous 2009 shows, plus some bottles that we tapped for this event. In addition, there are four new Dark Delicacies scents that will be debuting at the event! - - - Upon being discharged from his restful stay at Arkham Sanitarium, Del Howison and his wife, Sue, the former archivist and curator of the Cabot Museum in Beacon Hill, opened up a bookstore in Arkham specializing in hard-to-find grimoires, occult treatises, and mystical antiquities. They also cater to the lighter interests of the Valley’s cultists, and carry a vast selection of macabre books, DVDs, and ceremonial memorabilia. Every Saturday at midnight, Sue hosts Tiny Terror Story Time -- including interactive ritual indoctrination for tots AND milk and cookies! Each week features the songs, stories, and rites of a different Outer God or Great Old One! Fifteen years later, they have twelve stores across the Miskatonic Valley, and one in sunny Burbank, CA! STORY TIME AT DARK DELICACIES Heavy oak shelving, cracked leather bindings, incense-soaked parchment, ancient inks, baneful aromatic herbs, and crumbs of spilled sugar-glazed lemon butter cookies that have been accidentally dragged from the kiddie section of the store. SUE’S GREAT OLD PUPPET SHOW Sue’s adorable Cthulhu hand puppets and whirling Nyarlathotep marionettes help kids learn about ancient and terrible extraterrestrial beings! A wacky way to introduce your little ones to forbidden blood-chilling rites! Hot cocoa, tiny marshmallows, white glue, stick-on googly eyes, and felt! In 2000, Del Howison opened the Nameless City Drive-In theatre in Arkham, and eventually expanded to Innsmouth, Dunwich, and Kingsport. While Del focuses on blockbuster horror hits in his theatres, he also shows documentaries of local interest, and hosts the Dylath-Leen Film Festival which showcases the work of both prominent and up-and-coming Miskatonic Valley filmmakers. As a public service, Del provides shuttle transportation to Arkham Sanitarium at the conclusion of each film festival. Classic comedies are shown at the Nameless City Drive-In on the first Monday of every month! Abbot and Costello vs. the Lurking Ineffable Horror from the Depths of Space and Time is always a hit! Due to increased Mi-Go activity in recent months, convertibles and Minis are gently discouraged at the drive-in. THE NAMELESS CITY DRIVE-IN THEATRE Chrome bumpers gleaming in cold, exhaust-fume laden night air. Soggy foliage and crushed grass dotted with popcorn that has been crushed under rubber tires. Leather seats moist with skin musk and the sweat of groping hands fumbling under ceremonial robes. THE SNACK HUT Hot popcorn covered in a glowing golden liquid substance, fried things, and artificially flavored cherry frozen carbonated beverages, extra-loaded with high-fructose corn syrup. During this year’s Miskatonic Valley Yuletide Faire, Sue will be running the kid’s crafts booth, and Del will be showing holiday cinematic favorites throughout the season, including “It’s a Gibbering, Seething Life”, “All I Want For Yuletide is Bleating Madness”, and “’Twas the Night Before the Profane Horror Manifested”! (The oils are devoid of felt, googly eyes, high fructose corn syrup, artificial cherry flavoring, glue, and tentacles. Don’t be silly!) - - - The following oils are this trunk show’s new offerings: Absinthe v5 Absinthe v7 AF18 AF22 AF24 AF25 B.B2 B.B3 Black Orchid v3 BOBN1 BRA11 BTCS BTLS1 BTMEM BTOD1 BTOD2 BTPQ BTPU1 BTPU2 BTSB Dirty v3 Dorian v3 Dragon Pecker v2 Grand Guignol v4 HARLOT V2 Hel v6 HR1 HR2 Mason & Jenkins Port Jelly 2 MVJHL Bake Sale v3 Nepthys v2 Nepthys v4 NGAGL5 NGG023 NVF02 NVF10 NVL1 NVMA1 NVP1 NVP2 NVPR4 O v5 O v6 Playing With Dangerous Toys v2 Poisoned Apple v2 Poisoned Apple v3 PP416 PPH81 PSX54 Soothing System 1 XCDL13 XCDW5 YAR7 Zombie Apocalypse 4 The following oils from previous trunk shows will be brought back: A Bachelor's Dog A Bold Bluff Albedo Android V2 Aphrodite V7 Blue Phoenix Capela dos Ossos V5 CD023 Dorian V2 Gossamer Hellion V2 Hermes Trimegistus V2 Holly King Ice Queen Jingo Kogo V6 Lamia V3 Lust V7 MB: Underbed Medb V4 NYE in Dogville 2007 Oak King Orange Phoenix Osiris v4 Pediophobia V1 Pink Phoenix PO13 Purple Phoenix PX117 Red Phoenix Riding the Goat Scurvy Sekhmet V5 Set V3 Sitting up w/a Sick Friend Smut 2007 St. Lucia Strawberry Moon Tetramorph v2 TKO V3 Vishpala Please note: this list is subject to change. Very, very subject to change. Scents may be added as time permits, or deleted if circumstances dictate. If we can swing it, Trading Post will be bringing room spray and bath oil protos. List forthcoming. Each bottle of BPAL oil is $20. No preorders will be accepted for the perfumes and room sprays at the Cobwebs event. Bottles will be sold on a first-come basis, and there is a limit of three bottles per person until 30 minutes before the end of the event, at which point, the limit is lifted. The Vintage scents will, as always, be sportin’ a new label that was created for this event. You will not be getting the original label used for this scent. Where and when is this happening? Dark Delicacies 4213 W. Burbank Burbank, CA 91505 U.S.A. Sunday, November 29 12pm - 3pm 1-888-DARKDEL 1-818-556-6660 darkdel *at* darkdel *.* com On December 3rd, Dark Delicacies will be celebrating their 15th anniversary! 30% off most items (sale & consignment items not included) in the store… and CAKE! Bring in a new toy valued at $10 or more and get 40% off a single item that day. =) |
| Thursday, November 19th, 2009 | |
| 8:25 pm | Have you been bad or good? The 'aught nine Naughty & Nice Inquisition is live at Black Phoenix Trading Post! |
| Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 | |
| 3:32 am | Happy Anniversary, BPAL!, Seven stinkin' years! Happy birthday, BPAL! Holy shit: we're seven years old! The past seven years have been some of the best years of my life, and I owe much of that to the family that has grown around Black Phoenix. Thank you to my brother and partner, Brian, who spearheads Production, and without whom Black Phoenix would not exist. I love you! Thank you to my husband, Teddy o'the Trading Post. Your love and support keeps me afloat, and you inspire me like no other. I love you! Thank you, Kathy, my right hand woman. You keep me sane, and you find my head for me when its not screwed on properly, and truly, I don't know what I'd do without you. I love you! Thank you, Jacquelynn, our general manager, whose gentle Virgo whip cracking ensures that the wheels of our strange machine run smoothly. I love you! Thank you to Bill, the patron saint of customer service. Your beautiful heart shines through your emails. I love you! Thank you to our production staff, who form the backbone of this company. You enable us to share our creations with the world, and I am eternally grateful. I love you! Thank you to the mods and administrators of bpal.org for being the best friends anyone could ask for. You take on a difficult, often thankless, job with love and dedication beyond the call of duty. Thank you for being my proofreaders, my sanity check, and my foundation. You are amazing women, and I love you! Thank you to Sue and Del at Dark Delicacies for giving BPAL a home away from home, for always being there for us, and for being wonderful grandparents to the Little Demoness. I love you! (And so does Lilith!) Thank you to the artists that work with us, Jennifer Williamson, Alicia Dabney, Julie Dillon, Madame Talbot, Quique Alcatena, Jennifer Rodgers, and Sarah Coleman, for bringing our scents to life! I love you! Thank you to Lisa and the crew at Whole Foods in Roswell, GA for giving their all to Dirty South will call! You are amazing people, and I love you! Thank you to the Mütter Museum, Le Pink, Whole Foods, Urban Outfitters, Wildilocks, and Healthy Living for giving our products a home in your stores! Thank you to the bloggers, journalists, magazines, and other media outlets that have shown interest in Black Phoenix, and have taken the time to do writeups on our shops! Thank you for your time and energy; it means the world to us! Thank you to Neil Gaiman for affecting me like no other author, for being such a supportive friend, and for allowing me the pleasure of interpreting your beautiful, witty, soul-moving stories through scent. I love you! Thank you to Amanda Palmer, Terry Pratchett, Terry Moore, Mike and Christine Mignola, George Perez, Peter David, Molly Crabapple, Mark Waid, Ross Ritchie, Jill Thompson, Brian Pulido, and Gris Grimly for giving us such all such joy through the beauty of your art, and for giving Black Phoenix the opportunity to interpret your work. Thank you to the kind people at the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and the Hero Initiative. You help those who cannot help themselves, and you are an inspiration to us all. Thank you to all our clients. Thank you for being there for us, and for each other, throughout all these years. Thank you for sharing our happiness and holding our hands through times of grief, loss, and transition. Thank you for celebrating pivotal points in our lives with us… the challenges of our rites of passage and difficult times of change… beautiful moments… weddings and births… and comforting us in times of sorrow. Thank you for wit, your kind hearts, and your friendship. Without the amazing, beautiful people we have met through and because of Black Phoenix, this would all be ashes. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share all that I love, all that I fear, and all I desire with all of you. I love you! Now, before I start weeping like a loon, let's get on with the new stuffs… The BPAL 7th Anniversary scents are live! ++ THE ALCHEMICAL PHOENIXES GOLD PHOENIX La Lumiere sortant des Tenebres. The noblest of the alchemical metals, representing the splendor of the Sun. It is the essence of pure consciousness and represents the divine, creative force present in all spirit and all matter. It is the symbol of the goal of perfection, and is capable of radiating all the colors of dawn and dusk while still retaining its unblemished purity. Three ambers representing common gold, astral gold, and elementary gold, with verbena, angelica, and heliotrope that has been purified by frankincense and Gum Arabic. SILVER PHOENIX Lustrous, pliable, delicate, and malleable, silver is as mysterious and radiant as the moon. Silver requires darkness in order to react, and receives light passively. Opalescent orris shimmering through a blend of mallow, moonflower, wild pear, iris, starwort, juniper, and mugwort. COPPER PHOENIX Copper's lustrous, rose-tinted Venusian energy inspires creativity and assists in balancing spiritual polarities. It can be utilized as a literal mirror, and a mirror reflecting the beauty of the soul. Rose-infused dark amber, with sweet orange, honey, cardamom, patchouli, apricot, pink pepper, and red sandalwood. IRON PHOENIX Blood and fire: a magnetic metal that burns brightly and easily. Iron illustrates the metabolic process and the need to control primal, brutal urges without quelling the fire of passion. Dragon's blood and dark, dense metal, black pepper, clove, red ginger, basil, and myrrh. TIN PHOENIX A malleable, pale metal with a flexible, crystalline structure that speaks out with a thunderous voice when bent or shaken. It is representative of the breath of life and the storminess of the spirit. Pale metals, crackling ozone, hyssop, white mint, tonka, and lemongrass. QUICKSILVER PHOENIX Mercury exists in three states of matter, just as Hermes, its patron, was the one deity that could move freely through the three classical worlds. In one of the alchemical processes, nitric acid, also called aqua fortis, is combined with Mercury, which then separates into a bed of red crystals and a cloud of red vapor. This experiment symbolizes the soul's transcendence over the polarities of mercy and severity, heaven and earth, light and darkness, life and death. Mercury is capable of forming complex compounds and amalgamating with elements that normally will not bind with others. Combined with phosphor and charged with electricity, it produces light. Cinnabar and silvery liquid droplets of mastic, white sandalwood, elemi, and lavender. LEAD PHOENIX Solid, heavy, and resistant to corrosion, lead is the first and oldest of the Seven Metals. It is the metal of ammunition and tombs, radiation shields and solder. Though it represents limitations and boundaries, it also transcends them when combined with other elements to create Philosophical Mercury. A dark and lusterless scent that contains the potential for limitless spiritual radiance: tobacco absolute, hemlock, plum, cypress, styrax, olibanum, and wild lettuce. And this year's resurrected scents… ++ 2009 RESURRECTED BLENDS HOD Glory and Majesty, Kokab, God's Judgement. SPOOKY A maddeningly festive blend of warm, buttery rum, cocoa, coconut, vanilla and a jolt of peppermint. It's a sweet, decadent, slightly silly scent, reminiscent of rum-laced holiday cookies. Much is also new at Black Phoenix Trading Post! Several new claw polishes are live at the 'Post, inspired by BPAL's Bordello, Croquet, Malediction, Sed Non Satiata, and two Phoenix Steamworks-inspired colors: Smokestack and Robotic Scarab. A tee commemorating BPAL's annual Resurrection of the Smells is live! Artwork by Jennifer Williamson! And last, but not least, Neil Gaiman's Snow, Glass, Apples locket is live! Based on illustrations by Julie Dillon for the Snow, Glass, Apples chapbook produced by Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab. We are tying up one remaining loose end with the Inquisition, and it will be live later this week! Please mark it on your calendars: Dark Delicacies will be hosting the final Black Phoenix trunk show of 2009 on November 29, 2009 from 12pm til 3pm! Details to come! |