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Mermaid Marla’s Fountain of Youth
So Mermaid Marla is another completely inspirational mermaid who likes to swim with sea creatures, brings magic to the lives of land-locked humans everywhere, and is apparently and obnoxiously immune...
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Uncle Alice Presents and Andrea Portes’s Mermaid-Maker
So Andrea Portes is the super talented author of the novel Hick, which became a movie that she wrote starring Blake Lively and my favorite actress who-has-really-good-taste Chloe Grace Moretz. She’s...
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Revisiting Tim Gunn Talking about Mermaids
So due to this article that was published on Shine from Yahoo! today about mermaid extraordinaire Linden Wolbert, many many thousands of new people are visiting this mermaid blog of mine for the first...
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Amy Shearn’s THE MERMAID OF BROOKLYN
So a brand-spanking-new novel with a mermaid silhouette gracing the cover entered bookstores this past Tuesday, as I’m sure you’re well aware, at least in your hearts if not your conscious minds: Amy...
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Michelle Tea’s MERMAID IN CHELSEA CREEK
So you probably know Michelle Tea for her kick-ass memoirs and poetry and novels and anthology collections featuring girls (often herself) who are radical, cool, brave, modern-day Joan of Arcs; in...
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The Gypsy Mermaid
So last summer my friend Kris and his beloved were out and about in Seattle when they spied the rather spectacular vehicle of none other than the Gypsy Mermaid, an otherworldly lady who travels all...
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Mermaids in the News
So there have been a lot of mermaids in the news of late. Far more, I’m sure, than I will list here, but: © Jeff Koons, 2013, Pastel on Paper.Did you see Matthea Harvey’s new mermaid poem in the NY...
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Aimee Bender on Mermaids, Fairy Tales and Short Hair
Aimee Bender is one of my favorite writers, writing about the real world in a way that’s always slightly, magically off-kilter and occasionally populated by mermaids. The wonderful “Drunken Mimi”—from...
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Checking in with The Mertailor Eric Ducharme
So as I alluringly mentioned the other day, Eric “The Mertailor” Ducharme was recently on the TLC show “My Crazy Obsession” and as a result has been the subject of 50000 articles and tv interviews and...
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Aspiring Mermaid Ashley
So I get a lot of very lovely emails from aspiring and actual mermaids and mermen, and a few days ago I heard from one 23-year-old Ashley, who wrote to say that she decided to go on the mermaid...
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Help Save the Coney Island Mermaid Parade!
So as I’m sure you’re aware, the Coney Island Mermaid Parade has filled the streets of Coney Island once a year every year since 1983 with glorious mermaids of every stripe and color. On this very blog...
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Spoutwood Faerie Festival, Charles Vess, and Mermaids
So this weekend I was at Spoutwood Farm’s May Day Faerie Festival, out in the faerie-filled boondocks of Glen Rock, Pennsylvania. Imagine: you maneuver along twisting pathways and up and down sprawling...
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Bambi the Mermaid and Saving the Coney Island Mermaid Parade
So there are 13 days to go of Coney Island USA’s Save the Coney Island Mermaid from Extinction! Kickstarter, and they’re three-quarters of the way there.. but they still need a ton of support. So I...
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Tiffany’s Mermaid & Myth Month
I have many fascinating things to post and will ATTEMPT to do so while being holed up in a cottage in rural Pennsylvania finishing a very bleak and unmermaidly crime novel, but I will start by pointing...
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Sexuality Activist Lana Fox’s Mermaid Voyage
So Lana Fox is an erotic author and sexuality activist who runs a course on erotic self-love entitled “The Mermaid Voyage: A Two-Week Journey of Erotic Self-Discovery.” Admit you want to take that...
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Raina the Halifax Mermaid’s Extremely Helpful “Fishy Business”: How to Be a...
I last talked to Raina the Halifax Mermaid for this blog a couple of years ago (here’s the inimitable interview), and she’s been up to a whole lot of mermaidly stuff since. She has even proven the...
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Mini Mermaid Tails from Applejack Apparel
So I recently heard from one Kaycee Militante, mermaid aficionado and proprietor of the ridiculously cute Applejack Apparel, where you can buy super inexpensive, handcrafted tails for the little...
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Artist Caroline Waloski’s “Flights of Fancy”
So this Friday evening you might want to transport yourself to Greenport, New York, to attend the opening reception for artist Caroline Waloski‘s brand-new mermaid-themed exhibit “Flights of Fancy,”...
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Joy de Vivre’s la Vie Sirene magazine
So I’ve been aware of Joy de Vivre and her Siren School for a while, and was even set to visit one of her San-Diego-area camps last year that involved irresistible swan maidens and a whole lot of white...
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Artist David Delamare and His Many Many Mermaids
So artist David Delamare is kind of a big deal, mermaid-painting-wise, and you’ve probably seen one of his mermaid masterpieces whether you know it or not. At least in your dreams or drunken wanderings...
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