The Pinterest Galleries

I wanted a unique 3D image of the
Pinterest logo, and found this on Norebbo

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One thing it's taken me forever to do is to sort through my Pinterest collections.  At one time, I had a gallery of specific images linked in the original website, and I might do that for certain galleries.  Not everything in my Pinterest galleries are Mayfair Witches-related, not by a long shot.  However, I found some wonderful pins I'd saved that I thought I would reorganize.

I've added a link to Pinterest in the Social Media section of this page.  You'll see several public galleries, but the Mayfair Witches-related one is "Anne Rice".  When you open it, you'll see some images of her, quotes and additional sections by topic.  There is, of course, a Lives of the Mayfair Witches section, but there are some others as well, such as a few pins about the Vampire Chronicles.

To further help sort out any ongoing confusion as to which house Anne Rice actually used as Rowan Mayfair's New Orleans house in the novels, you'll see a lot of images of the Brevard-Rice house in their own section.  These are images we've probably all seen a million times.  However, there is another house that I've seen in various places cited as the Mayfair house--its neighbor, the Carroll-Crawford house.  I've put pins I'd saved that are of that house in their own section.

Finally, over the years, images from my original website (a link to which is in the footer of this site) have found their way onto Pinterest.  I'm guessing by way of Share buttons or something or other.  I had to create a fresh new page for Inside First Street on the original website, which is one of the most frequently visited pages of the Parlor even now.  When you see the section called "From My Website", that is what it means.  

You'll even find the Talamasca business card I made using SketchUp!  It is the same image used for the Talamasca Files section on this web page.  No, I'm not kidding.  I made the business card looking as it might have in 1959, when Rita Mae Dwyer went to visit Deirdre Mayfair, who gave it to her with a plea for her to contact the Talamasca because Deirdre's baby (Rowan) was going to be taken away from her.  I think I added David Talbot because...don't remember.  

So, to wrap this up, I'm giving my Pinterest board an overhaul.  When you take a look at it, don't be alarmed if things get changed around a bit between visits.  I'm reorganizing it due to the sheer amount of boards I have that could be organized under categories.  Obviously, I've used Pinterest since before this option was available...

Mayfair Witches Onscreen

One Month Season 1 Countdown From 2022

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At the top of Chronicles of the Mayfair Witches, you have no doubt seen a countdown timer.  Countdowns seem to be a "thing" these days.  Why?  Dunno.

But I decided to put one up anyway.

The countdown is how much longer until Season 2 of Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches premieres on AMC.  It premieres on January 5, 2025.

I haven't spent much time talking about the series in the last few months because I've been preoccupied with technical details.  And I do mean technical.  Hopefully, the result is all things are functional with nothing functioning in the background that I don't know about.  It's rude.

What I want to focus on now is the pages of the Mayfair Witches Parlor that discuss the AMC series.  You can find them from here, Chronicles of the Mayfair Wtiches, by scrolling to Mayfair Witches From Page to Screen.  The image there, the one of Rowan becoming entangled in the rose vines as if they're reaching out from the wallpaper to entangle her, is one of the promotional images from Season 1.  It's also one of my favorites because it really does illustrate the way the legacy of the Mayfair Witches ensnares Rowan.  

It has been nearly 30 years since I first read these novels, and they left a lasting impression me for several reasons.  The TV series is obviously very new and very recent in this timeline.  It is also being released in a time very different than the ones the books were first published in.  One of the first things that jumped out at me was the confusion over the Garden District house used as the Mayfair Witches house in the novels versus the TV series.  To me, it's basic knowledge that Anne Rice used her own then-home, the Brevard-Rice house at 1239 First Street in New Orleans, as the house Rowan Mayfair inherited from her mother, Deirdre, that she and Michael Curry restore and live in.  When Season 1 first premiered, people commented that the house used in the show, the Soria-Creel house, sure looked like Anne Rice's former home.  

Yes, there are several houses in the Garden District that are built like American townhouses with Greek Revival-Italianate architecture.  Of course, they have the iconic iron lace the porches and galleries of New Orleans are famous for.  Each has its own style, its own colors, and even the basic layouts have their own unique differences.  Depending on where they are, many of the houses have grounds of different sizes.  

In the case of the Brevard-Rice house, one of the features that is fairly unique to it is the fact that the columns along the front of the house are of different styles.  I'll have to go back and check, but I did read once that when the house was being built, Albert Brevard wanted those particular styles of columns because he liked both styles.  Therefore, he decided the columns along the front of his new home would feature both styles.  The end result was, of course, that there are three different styles.

Another architectural tidbit about 1239 First Street is that the library and master bedroom were added later.  Elizabeth Brevard sold the house to Emory Clapp in or about 1869, ten years after her father's death.  It was Emory Clapp who hired the original architects, James Calrow and Charles Pride, to add the library and master bedroom.  Clapp died in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1880.  Of what, I've not been able to find out, but it's possible he died of tuberculosis, as Colorado Springs was known for its tuberculosis sanitariums beginning around that period.  Emory Clapp and his wife, who remained in the house until her death in 1934, are entombed in Metairie Cemetery, which is where Anne Rice is entombed with her husband and daughter.

If you look at a 1990 first edition hard cover print of The Witching Hour, look at the title pages.  You will see a sketch of the house, which is very clearly the house Anne Rice owned and lived in, 1239 First Street in New Orleans.  The Trade paperback edition of the novel was released in November 1991 and has the same sketch.  I have a Trade paperback copy of the novel from that time with the sketch in it.  The Mass Market edition of the novel was released in May 1993 and features the house on its cover with the lightning around it.  

If that doesn't settle the question of whether or not Anne Rice used her own home as the setting of the Mayfair house that Rowan inherited in her novels, I don't know what will.

Speaking of the novel versus the screen, I began a list of comparisons between specific things in the TV series that were different than the novels.  That list should be on the page of the Parlor that is linked on the page you can find this blog on.  I know--CONFUSING.  It's hard to rebuild a site like mine on today's tools if you're not a business.

Anyway.

I'd intended to rewatch Season 1 so I could complete my list of comparisons.  Christmas is pretty quiet around here, so why not hole up and binge watch...something?  At least, until it's time for the yearly marathon of A Christmas Story...

Society Pages

Red rose and candle on the table
created on--wait for it--YOUTUBE!

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To the left is what happens when YouTube puts a goody like an Inspiration tab in the Parlor's Studio.

Speaking of which...

You will now find a section on this main landing page (of sorts) called Parlor Society Pages.  It's near the bottom.  YouTube, X, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram are all linked there.  Threads can be found linked in the About section of the Parlor's Facebook page.  I include these links here and on Facebook instead of on the main website for security reasons. For that reason, I have them in these locations regardless of whether or not there is much, if any, content on them.

And speaking of THAT...

If you take a moment to take a peek, you will notice that the Parlor's Facebook page is just that a page.  In order to connect the Parlor's Instagram in any meaningful way to the Facebook page, I did have to convert it to a professional account.  There is a reason for this, and had it not been for this reason, the Parlor's presence on both of those platforms would be different.

It seems someone decided around 2020, a time when I didn't use Facebook as much as before, that they were going to need for me to have a Business account in the Meta Business Suite thingy.  It's an account that claimed to be some sort of medical clinic in Russia, which is obviously not me. Aaaaaand they ran some ads until sometime in September, if I recall.  Just in time to see all of us surrounded by one of the single worst wildfires in Oregon history.  And during the pandemic!

While that fire complex was headed right this way, I was being sternly told by my cat (she is too a people) to get back in that bed, ya got symptoms.  And she sat right on the keyboard of my laptop, undercarriage on the keys (if you get my drift).  There was a lot going on in this country around that time, so I have not been able to help but wonder if this was one of those situations where greedy parasites decided to exploit others when they were preoccupied with...well, you know.

This is something I had a feeling I'd wish I hadn't done, but I did take a look--or TRY to take a look--at the ads this outfit ran before they were stopped.  Auctions?!  Say what, now?  How does that even work on a social media platform?

Anyway.  I tried trashing the info in the ads.  But hey, they're the ones who made the mistake of thinking I'd never know about the ads in the first place.  This is why I keep saying the Parlor does not run ads and never has.  Because these are facts.

The good news is that they cannot do anything more on the Parlor's turf, since it does appear Facebook caught on relatively quickly and practically harpooned their ability to do a single thing more.  Unfortunately, it also means I can't get that thing off of the account.  It's one of those things where someone gets into the account somehow, and then immediately starts changing things like admins so the real account owner ends up either stuck with a problematic "business" or is unable to recover the account at all.  Any dings to that particular "business" affects the real owner in several ways, none of them good.  

Yes, it's frustrating.  And at some point, not long ago, I finally just gave up trying to get that thing off of this business account they set up for me without my consent or even my knowledge.  I've not even been able to assign the thing to the fifth ring of Hell at very least (I've tried).

To wrap this up, yes, it is a Facebook page and an Instagram professional account due to the existence and seeming permanence of the aftermath of the train wreck that it is.  I've only tolerated this lunacy because it's stuck and pretending it doesn't exist is never a good option.  Otherwise, the Parlor's Facebook and Instagram would be the type meant for creators, which is far more accurate. 

Either way, the Parlor is making sure every precaution is taken to protect users' privacy and safety.  This is true regardless of whether or not that--thang--has me inextricably entwined with a specific platform.  That includes some pretty strict controls on vendors on the original website.  

If a vendor is making a user's experience on my website anything but enjoyable and safe, then the vendor will then experience the Parlor's response header and other fabulous codes.  That is why you see a Parlor-themed cookie consent banner on the main website, and this new landing page comes with one built into it.  

If there was any entity that was...unscrupulous, I wish I could be a fly on the wall as they try to get their mutts on user data from the Parlor.  The reaction I would love to see and hear is best heard in one of the Parlor's YouTube shorts, Tante Oscar's Phone.  Hit play, and the Short will speak for itself.  Hint: it involves quite possibly the only utterance of a notty werd I've ever allowed in the Parlor's content.  

Aw, come on.  It's funny.   

To close, you'll notice there is a countdown on this landing page.  Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches premieres on AMC on January 5, 2025.

I haven't even had the chance to finish going over Season 1's finer details, this technical stuff has taken up such an obscene amount of my time.  I hope I'll be able to get back to it very soon!

*Scan my text on the original Parlor website with perplexity.ai all you like, but do at least stop and say hello before you go...