Who does this Marty Blake think she is, anyway? Annointing herself royalty? The reasons are slight but several: My initials are MAB and I’ve always been enchanted with Mercutio’s Queen Mab speech. Though she is a dark fairy Queen, haunting dreams as much as she graces them, the magic and surrealism of her description bewitch me. Another reason for the crown is that among a certain circle of old friends it became a favored icon, recurring in artwork and song (Gary Byrd’s “You wear the
Crown I wear the
Crown So proud to say that we all wear the
Crown” we’d mime crowning ourselves and one another on the dance floor). The third reason for the crown is in my passion for old cigarbox labels. Crown are often part of their gold embossed graphics, and I’m a sucker for it all. So don’t think I have delusions of grandeur–just good taste in head gear.
