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About Me

If you want to try your pistols, take some object--a tree or a barn door--about my dimensions, and if you hit that, send me word. I shall then acknowledge that if I had been standing in the same place, you would have killed me in a duel.

My Interests

Old stuff, buildings, old stuff in buildings, sweet beards, photography, multiple entendres, duelling, bowling, bikes, traveling, evil cats, bitchin' stitchin', funky chicken dances, self-deprecation, haunted amusement parks, rearranging my friends' living rooms and so on and so forth.

I'd like to meet:

+ Lascivious bike riders. Dirty kids. Artistically-inclined types. Literary sorts. Frank Furness, circa 1875. A richly polished wood box, lined with velvet or felt, which invariably cases a worthy pair of pistols. These guys:

Music:

It soothes the savage beast.

Movies:

Flesh eating zombies turn me on. Crazy Japanese movies that don't make any sense and spiral into total violent weirdness rock hard too. I heart subtitles.

Television:

TV shows on DVD, Brit-coms, cartoons.

Books:

Anything with words, especially by Edward Gorey. Lemony Snicket and Roald Dahl are pretty cool as well; I have a thing for authors that like to scare small children.

Heroes:

I prefer hoagies to heroes.

My Blog

Welcome...to the Island

I suck. There, its been said, so now we can move on.Anyways, for those of you savvy enough to notice these things, I am now "in a relationship." "Whoop-de-do," all three of you are thinking. Well, ...
Posted by Laura on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:51:00 PST

Run-ins

I've recently decided to take up running again after a seven-year hiatus; stress fractures in both shins my senior year of college managed to effectively scare me off it--after all, no one wants legs ...
Posted by Laura on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 08:46:00 PST

Party time, excellent

The unofficial motto here at the gallery is "We like to make simple things complicated." (Our other unofficial motto is "Do not fuck with us" but we try not to trot that gem out too often, ahem, espe...
Posted by Laura on Tue, 22 May 2007 01:07:00 PST

Sick & Tired

So my boss balled me out yesterday, in front of my co-worker. Not only was the entire thing the most unprofessional I've ever been treated, but it also marked possibly the worst I've ever been made t...
Posted by Laura on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:36:00 PST

The Bermuda Triangle of Failed Relationships

You know how in Ghostbusters II there's a river of ooze that feeds off of negative energy that runs beneath the city of New York, and it causes people to act like major douche bags? I'm beginning to ...
Posted by Laura on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:27:00 PST

Butter fingers

I can't help but wonder if I have some sort of bizarre inner ear thing going on lately as I have been dropping and breaking an inordinate amount of stuff these days. I managed to drop and break one o...
Posted by Laura on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:48:00 PST

A thing of beauty is a joy forever

Quite possibly the best $10 I've ever spent; I now have the snazziest closet in DC. Even Liberace would be jealous....
Posted by Laura on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:14:00 PST

Early twentieth-century girls gone wild

Recently read recommendations:Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made AmericaBobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the TwentiesPretty Things: The Last G...
Posted by Laura on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:14:00 PST

Those funky Freemasons

If you're not doing anything fun and/or exciting, you need to turn on the Discovery channel and watch their "documentary" on the secrets of Freemasonry...oh dear lord, its so so so bad. I want to wri...
Posted by Laura on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:02:00 PST

Ladies, get out there and sell some shit: Part one

Here's a day-by-day account of my time in New York, attending the 2007 Winter Antiques Show, aka the superbowl of old stuff:Thursday, Jan. 18th.Preview night; this is when people pay a couple grand in...
Posted by Laura on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:39:00 PST