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10/03/2026

One year ago tonight: Our tenth anniversary. Words cannot express how much I love you all, how grateful I am, and how special this evening was.

Thank you to papa for coming out (I think he went into shock for a few days after all the screaming). To for making the most stunning mount etna cake a girl could hope for (BLESSED). To the beautiful Jordan Sondler for holding her own in the insanity doing pet portraits. And for everyone who did karaoke and asked me to join them (a dream come true.)

Here is to the adventure of another decade, to the times we shared in the same room and not on this app, and to all the animals we love at home. Love you

(Check out the latest newsletter for item no.1 to learn how to sign up for the free community page and post on he living Archestratus memorial) 🌹

10/02/2026

TOMORROW! A stoop sale with some greenpoint friends: Shelley, Alyssa, Morgan and Jeanne!

I’m personally selling a ton due to an overseas move late this year/early next. Kitchen stuff, vintage ephemera, beloved large vases, some books, and a lot of random lovely things.

We can’t wait to see ya.

10 am on Freeman and Franklin!

Alyssa Lee
Shelley Patel
Morgan

Last slide is my zelle so it’s handy tomorrow.

09/14/2026

SUN NOV 8 / IMAGINAL ISLAND Book Club (Zoom)
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1PM (EST) / FREE

You may have seen this event posted yesterday, but I couldn’t stand the sight of my poster so I just made another one 😇 event and book link in stories

BLACK MADONNAS / Feminism, Religion, and Politics in Italy

by Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum

Join us for the inaugural IMAGINAL ISLAND book club over Zoom.

How is this different from the LIPARI ISLAND book club? Well, this one will focus on esoteric subject matter, mostly Italian, in all directions. From figures like Ficino to Streghe to agrarian microhistories.

What is the Imaginal? My oftentimes teacher in all things weird, JF Martel, makes his own definition through Henri Corbin’s original concept:

“The Imaginal World (Mundus Imaginalis) is defined as a realm of experience where imagined entities and symbols have their own reality, independent of subjective fantasy or mere illusion.”

The imaginal is a space we do not invent, but rather encounter. It’s concrete non-physical reality; a bridge between the physical and spiritual worlds. It is the visionary theater by which we experience gnosis (a sort of inner divine realization).

There are so many ways we can respectfully explore this realm together.

Our first book is from Sicilian-American feminist cultural historian Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum. Link in bio.

ABOUT BLACK MADONNAS:

Italy is an intriguing paradox: a center of Catholicism in which echoes of goddess worship resonate in everyday Christian ritual. In the Christian tradition, whiteness symbolizes purity, blackness evil. In the religions of Old Europe, however, blackness evoked the fecundity of the earth. White madonnas embody the church doctrine of obedience and patience; black madonnas, many of which have been retouched to appear white, symbolize the equality of all creatures.

In this fascinating study, Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum demonstrates that Italy’s black madonnas represent a point of convergence between ancient and modern religious traditions. Drawing on a solid ground of original research, she argues that they are an amalgam of the Christian… — sorry! More on the site! Link in bio.

09/14/2026

Happy Monday. Have we discussed leftover pasta omelette here yet? It cures a lot. You are welcome for the superior picture. Please send your own pictures of leftover pasta omelette to 555 6472

09/14/2026

SUN NOV 8 / IMAGINAL ISLAND Book Club (Zoom)
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1PM (EST) / FREE

BLACK MADONNAS / Feminism, Religion, and Politics in Italy

by Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum

Join us for the inaugural IMAGINAL ISLAND book club over Zoom.

How is this different from the LIPARI ISLAND book club? Well, this one will focus on esoteric subject matter, mostly Italian, in all directions. From figures like Ficino to Streghe to agrarian microhistories.

What is the Imaginal? My oftentimes teacher in all things weird, JF Martel, makes his own definition through Henri Corbin’s original concept:

“The Imaginal World (Mundus Imaginalis) is defined as a realm of experience where imagined entities and symbols have their own reality, independent of subjective fantasy or mere illusion.”

Don’t get it twisted: the imaginal is a space we do not invent, but rather encounter. It’s concrete non-physical reality; a bridge between the physical and spiritual worlds. It is the visionary theater by which we experience gnosis (a sort of inner divine realization).

There are so many ways we can respectfully explore this realm together.

Our first book is from Sicilian-American feminist cultural historian Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum. Link in bio.

ABOUT BLACK MADONNAS:

Italy is an intriguing paradox: a center of Catholicism in which echoes of goddess worship resonate in everyday Christian ritual. In the Christian tradition, whiteness symbolizes purity, blackness evil. In the religions of Old Europe, however, blackness evoked the fecundity of the earth. White madonnas embody the church doctrine of obedience and patience; black madonnas, many of which have been retouched to appear white, symbolize the equality of all creatures.

In this fascinating study, Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum demonstrates that Italy’s black madonnas represent a point of convergence between ancient and modern religious traditions. Drawing on a solid ground of original research, she argues that they are an amalgam of the Christian… — sorry! More on the site! Link in bio.

09/06/2026

Happy Sunday 🍳🍳🍳 my friend lent me the Decline Trilogy. If you haven’t seen these documentaries or seen them in a minute, here is a reminder to absorb their brilliance.

And this is a motif appreciation post. Enjoy watching Ozzy, Darby, and Eyeball crack some cold ones, decades apart.

Grazie Robin Margolis

08/30/2026

SUN SEP 20 / LIPARI ISLAND Book Club (Zoom)

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1PM (EST)

Looking forward to revisiting this classic with all of you. Please come through this very friendly space.

Join us for the LIPARI ISLAND Book Club over Zoom.

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler is a feat of striking ingenuity and intelligence, exploring how our reading choices can shape and transform our lives. Originally published in 1979, Italo Calvino’s singular experimental novel crafted a postmodern narrative like never seen before—offering not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together, the stories form a labyrinth of literature known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers—in a truly unique work of metafiction—pursue the story lines that intrigue them and try to read each other. Deeply profound and surprisingly romantic, this classic is a beautiful meditation on the transformative power of reading and the ways we make meaning in our lives.

Support our online bookshop ARCHESTRATUS on Bookshop.org. Link in bio.

08/26/2026

A little while ago I made a curated list of books coming out in the next bit of time that are available to preorder via our bookshop.org shop! Here is a TINY sliver! The rest are in a link in stories. Enjoy. Love love

08/25/2026

New newsletter in your inbox and possibly your promotions folder though I promote so much less these days which feels balanced and now a new Sicilian proverb has emerged 💗💗💗

Link in bio

08/23/2026

You wanna use your fingies today??? You wanna hear snip snip? You wanna INVENT?

There is a free fun cookbook experiment I put in the latest newsletter for you to print out for free and maybe even make your own if you wanna. Link in bio.

From the LIPARI ISLAND newsletter:

I have so much to say about how difficult this last year has been, but for now, I am taking play very seriously, too. It’s very easy to lose yourself in all this heaviness. Enter Oulipo: A practice I have been returning to. A good warm-up for me to go deeper later.

In 1961, Queneau wrote a book of poems called One Hundred Hundred Million Poems. It’s a set of ten sonnets, each 14 lines each, with similar rhyme schemes and sounds. Both the sonnets themselves and the book is designed in a way that allows you to combine the sonnets any which way. In fact, you can combine them 100,000,000,000,000 ways.

Allora, I wrote 10 recipes, 14 lines each, designed to be combined any way. One hundred million million ways, in fact.

I hope you enjoy and PLAY WITH my version of One Hundred Hundred Million Recipes and that it triggers IDEAS. I hope it SHAKES THINGS UP. That it pulls you into the realm of spontaneity, which can be transcendent.

Want to make your own? I’ve also included a blank template at the end for you to create and make it happen. And feel free to comment below if you have questions!

Again, free download is in the latest newsletter which is a link in the bio.

Thanks for playin with me🐤

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