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Shannon

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About Me


My Interests

Nuns, the Mitford family, cooking.

Music:

TAKE NOTE: I will not add your band unless I know someone in your band.

Movies:

Starship Troopers, Gattaca, Tampopo, Fight Club, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Office Space, The War Room. I have recently developed an unnatural love for Sky High.

Television:

Six Feet Under; Gilmore Girls; Deadwood; OZ; Newshour; Masterpiece Theater: Pride and Prejudice, Moll Flanders, Jeeves and Wooster, Brides of Christ, Cassanova; anything having to do with Republican indictments or falling presidential poll numbers; Twin Peaks.

Books:

M.F.K. Fisher, John Thorne, Laurie Colwin, Neil Gaiman, Barbara Pym, Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh, witty british novels, graphic novels, cookbooks. If you care to see my library check LibraryThing under "lifewithrecipes". It's a bitch to move.

My Blog

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My new profile photo is from Rosy Grier's Needlepoint for Men. For more photos check out http://www.flickr.com/photos/extremecraft/sets/491625/. Look at them and laugh and laugh and laugh.Is anyone el...
Posted by Shannon on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:19:00 PST

Again

Our new neighbors are desperately in need of a sackarocks beating. They are currently drunk and amusing themselves by impersonating sea gulls and screaming "faggot" in high pitched tones. Fucktards.
Posted by Shannon on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:19:00 PST

Because I feel like it.

This is the Psychic Ipod business:How am I feeling today?:I'm Not Sorry - Morrissey Will I get far in life?The Entertainer - Billy JoelHow do my friends see me?:Baby, We Better Try To Get It Together ...
Posted by Shannon on Wed, 10 May 2006 06:08:00 PST

Anarchy

All the lights went out in most of I.V. for a tiny bit. More firecrackers then I've ever heard went off, something large was set on fire in the street, and a pack of dudes ran by all yelling variation...
Posted by Shannon on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:22:00 PST

A Strange Land

Ah, 4-20. The day when local restaurants hand out rolling papers with the purchase of a combo meal. A merry weed-day to you my friends.
Posted by Shannon on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:47:00 PST

This is bad.

According to Yahoo News, Frank Miller is writing a new Batman book called "Holy Terror." Batman will be fighting al-Qaida. "Miller, who has already inked his way through 120 pages of the 200-page...
Posted by Shannon on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 04:18:00 PST

Things overheard in IV

Things I heard outside, while cleaning the mold that ate our bedroom over the break: guy ..1: I totally couldn't sleep last night, but I realized that they couldn't open doors. guy ..2: Yeah, that...
Posted by Shannon on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:28:00 PST

Merry Christmas

So I'm reading this book called The Battle For Christmas. It's not the crazy one by the crazy FOX guy. It's about the history of Christmas in America. Apparently, the Puritans banned Christmas for a ...
Posted by Shannon on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:31:00 PST

This Town

So Saturday morning we wake up and head to the car. What is next to the recycling bins? A wheelchair. Not a urine-stained, I'm-not-touching-it kind of wheelchair, a brand new one. Being a good citize...
Posted by Shannon on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 01:03:00 PST

Pizza man nostalgia

There's a pizza man who drives around here in a squeaky red metro. We see him several times a week. Everytime we do, we are reminded of our favorite red-metroed pizza man. Give the new guy a tap-out s...
Posted by Shannon on Fri, 07 Oct 2005 12:11:00 PST