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We have reached the penultimate weekend of our posting schedule for The Divine Diva Tour: A Fairy’s Tale. Revisiting this project from 2005 has been a mostly-amusing, and occasionally-arduous exercise over the past summer season. It’s allowed me to re-examine choices (sartorially and emotionally), re-evaluate plans and hopes, and re-align the vision I had back then with whatever slight wisdom I may have gained in the past twenty years.

This mini-cliff-hanger before next weekend’s planned finale sets up the dark ending that was the only way this project was ever going to end. It shouldn’t come as any surprise, but even the most expected outcomes carry with them a sliver of hope that things might have gone a different direction. It’s the essence of being human: hoping against the inevitable and hanging onto a belief that anything could ever last. In some ways, this project was my way of reconciling myself to the end, because there is always an end, even if we don’t yet see one.

Lest anyone sound the alarms or call the po-po, this is a reminder that The Divine Diva Tour: A Fairy’s Tale was released twenty years ago. The ending at hand is purely metaphorical, and reveals more the destruction of this fairyland and the end of a mode of living that delved perhaps a bit too much into the realm of fantasy. It may strike with a greater resonance given the current world climate, and the desire to escape from a very real awfulness, but back then things weren’t nearly as serious.

And so, the end is near, and we are about to face the final curtain…

When all is stripped away,

when all is revealed,

when all else is gone,

All Is Vanity.

Married to darkness, bound to night, our diva is poised on the precipice of flight or falling.

Stilled at the right moment, who could tell the difference?

LAUGHING SCREAMING TUMBLING QUEEN
LIKE THE MOST AMAZING LIGHT SHOW THAT YOU’VE EVER SEEN
WHIRLING SWIRLING NEVER BLUE
HOW COULD YOU GO AND DIE, WHAT A SELFISH THING TO DO

DID YOU EVER ASK THOSE STRANGERS WHAT THEY’RE SEARCHING FOR?
DID THEY LAUGH AND TELL YOU THEY’RE NOT REALLY SURE?
YOU WERE HURT BY LOVE BUT STILL YOU CAME RIGHT BACK FOR MORE
IL ADORE, IL ADORE, IL ADORE…

~ The Divine Diva Tour: A Fairy’s Tale ~

1. Pink Frilly Fairy: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three
2. Homage to Herb: Part One, Part Two and Part Three
3. A Purple-Hued Interlude
4. Style & Panache: Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four.
5. Purple Puff Confection: Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four.
6. A Blue-Hued Interlude
7. Fuchsia Fabulousness: Part One. Part Two and Part Three.
8. Bad Boy Bangs: Part One, Part Two. and Part Three.
9. Vanity Under Where: Part One, Part Two. and Part Three.
10. Sugar Plum Ballerina: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
11. A Pool Frolic: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
12. A Cemetery Interlude: Part One and Part Two.
13. Powder Blue Fur Doll: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
14. A Milky Interlude 
15. Rock Out, Cock Out/ Hang Out, Wang Out: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
16. Cocktail Cocktale: Part One and Part Two.
17. A Fairy’s Interlude: Part One and Part Two.
18. Willy Wonkers: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
19. A Peacock In Everything But Beauty: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
20. Swan Lake Fantasia: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four.
21. Black & White in Briefs: Part One, Part Two. and Part Three.
22. Weave of Basket, Weave of Rope: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, and Part Five.
23. Chains of Gray to Color: Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four.
24. Black Jockstrap: Back Entry: Part One, Part Two and Part Three.
25. Super Fairy Interlude: Part One, Part Two and Part Three.
26. American Psychology: Part One and Part Two.
27. Jocks & Frocks: Part One, Part Two and Part Three.
28. Wigging Out Interlude
29. Shedding Selves & Beating Oneself Up: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four.
30. Pretty, Oh So Pretty: Part One and Part Two.
31. Amber Vanity: Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four.
32. Bowler Hat Masked Mayhem: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four.
33. Candy Everybody Wants: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, and Part Five.
34. Razzling, Dazzling, Running Mascara: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four.