January 25th, 2009: Some house in the East End, Portland, ME

Four or five punk chicks with ripped-up leather skirts and jackets, with chrome-studded lips and distinctly-dyed hair, sit in a clutch sniffing mittens--honest-to-God mittens--on some house-show living room couch, noses to the wool and rabbit-eyed when we catch them in the act.