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About Me


You're the Frontier Mail!
While your presence used to conjure up images of unexplored lands and exotic beauty, now you're fairly settled down. You now have a strange fascination with golden temples, making you almost reminiscent of Indiana Jones. And while you do like tigers and swashbuckling adventures, you prefer to consider things carefully and make democratic decisions.Sometimes, however, you consider going postal.
Take the Trains and Railroads Quiz at RMI Miniature Railroads .


I'm full of song lyrics and bullshit. What about you?
I am standoffish and cranky, but also very friendly.
I am always surprised when I hurt someone's feelings.
I make a damn good pot roast.
I'm well aware of the c h i p on my shoulder.
I swear a lot.
I probably love you.
But I love everybody.
So please don't take it personally.
Be my friend.
I'll give you candy.
You can take that personally.

My Interests

I have another blog here.

Yahoo! Messenger nickname: kateloupe

urban exploration
sappy chick flicks
drinking wine in the bathtub
smiling at strangers
zombies
local art
unashamed sincerity
the man
human connections
photographs
growth and change
balance in the universe
balancing in between

I'd like to meet:

Porn stars
Hitmen
Salesmen of snake oil and used caravans (for me ma)
Zombie killers
Dirty girls
Pretty boys
Grown-up children
Readers
Angry mobs with torches
The boy I kissed on the cheek when I was four
Good cooks
Political radicals
You
Commie bastards
Gorgeous things
On such a night as this When no moon lights your way to me, I wake, my passion blazing, My breast a fire raging, exploding flame While within me my heart chars. --Ono No Komachi
My Top 4's theme is "Places to Shop." Stop whining about not making my top friends unless you sell cool shit.

Music:

Elliott Smith, Leonard Cohen, Portastatic, Calexico, Rilo Kiley, Virgil Shaw, Superchunk, Billie Holiday, The Beatles, The Cure, Bruce Springsteen, Cat Stevens, Robert Johnson, Death Cab for Cutie, Levi Weaver, Heatmiser, The Decemberists, Dieselhed, The White Stripes, The Strokes, Modest Mouse, Fiona Apple, Brand New, The Killers, Foo Fighters, Tabitha's Secret, Matchbox Twenty, The Shins, The Fray, The Rolling Stones, Rock Kills Kid, The Outfield, Jonny Lang, OK Go, Franz Ferdinand, Bob Dylan, Royal City, Whiskeytown, The Raconteurs, Arctic Monkeys, Yo La Tengo, Jason Mraz, The Flaming Lips, Joshua Radin, Marvin Gaye, Dwight Yoakam, Ella Fitzgerald, Dispatch, not your band because your band blows dog.

Movies:

Amelie, The Bat, Battle Royale, The Big Lebowski, Blood Simple, Boondock Saints, Bread and Tulips, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Breakfast Club, Camille, Capote, Closer, Collateral, Crash, Dawn of the Dead, The Departed, Dirty Harry, Dodgeball, Donnie Darko, The Exorcist, Fargo, Fight Club, Finding Neverland, Fistful of Dollars, For a few Dollars More, Freeway, Ghost Busters, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Hang 'em High, Hard Candy, Harold and Maude, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hellraiser, House of Wax, The Incredibles, El Inmigrante, Jaws, Jeepers Creepers, King Kong, Love and a .45, Mirrormask, The Missing, The Mystery of the Wax Museum, Night of the Living Dead, Office Space, Old Boy, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Pecker, The Rejuvenator, The Ring, Roman Holiday, Running Scared, Sabrina, A Slipping Down Life, Spinal Tap, Stella Dallas, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Trainspotting, The Usual Suspects, Vertigo, Volver, Walk the Line, Watcher in the Woods

Television:

Not really.

Books:

Chuck Palahniuk, Ursula Hegi, William Faulkner, Douglas Adams, Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, Sharon Mesmer, Stephen King, Stephen Hawking, Iain Banks, Cormac McCarthy, Nick Bantock, Pauline Reage, Thomas Harris, Nick Hornby, Ken Kesey, J.D. Salinger, John Knowles, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Michael Crichton, George Orwell, Tom Robbins... and so on.

Heroes:

Father Luke
Mother Teresa
Doug Stanhope

I put the dead lady between them for propriety's sake.

My Blog

sunday morning.

There are icicles hanging from EVERYTHING outside.My sister's car, the porch railing, the poor spindly branches of the crepe myrtles.Tree branches hanging over the house creak and tap their tinkling t...
Posted by because write! on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 08:31:00 PST

microwave popcorn

Just in case you (read: you are a draftsman and a terrible, horrible person) were wondering how to make your (read: OUR) office smell like its very soul is rotting and falling off in chunks, here's ho...
Posted by because write! on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:13:00 PST

bada wada. ding. yeah.

Hi, guys.I realized today was a somewhat hectic day when I caught myself doing a little dance in my chair.No, I didn't have to pee.I had just transferred a call. Standard stuff. I glanced at my phone ...
Posted by because write! on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:05:00 PST

a bit of hyperbole. a bit of bile.

A British teacher in Sudan allowed the children in her class to name a teddy bear Muhammed. She was jailed and deported while demonstrators called for her death.How many demonstrators, I wonder. One n...
Posted by because write! on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:42:00 PST

two quotes.

From Yahoo! News:Pope Benedict XVI strongly criticized modern-day atheism in a major document released Friday, saying it had led to some of the "greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice" ev...
Posted by because write! on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:20:00 PST

face.

My mom's ashes have been in my closet for months.I wonder if she'd mind being put on the compost heap.She'd make a face about it, if she still had a face.She's not quite the dirty hippie I am.My siste...
Posted by because write! on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:43:00 PST

yes. i know. everyone is doing it.

I have been very grumpy lately.I wake up grumpy. I get grumpier as the days progress.Everything pisses me off. Having to dry my hands on a towel that is slightly damp pisses me off. Dishes stacked on ...
Posted by because write! on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:41:00 PST

how do i manage to hurt myself doing laundry?

I have knobby elbows.Reaching into the washing machine to grab wet clothes and throw them into the dryer, always in a hurry because I am always in a hurry, it happens twice, three times a month. Handf...
Posted by because write! on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:32:00 PST

the operation was a success, but my grandma died.

My grandmother was a vile woman.I know what that sounds like. I know what it makes me sound like.She lied about a lot of things. I didn't really pay much attention until she lied to my parents about m...
Posted by because write! on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:44:00 PST

not a vacation

Today I am getting the office ready to operate without me.Doctors are going to operate on my dad's eyeballs.I wonder how long he'll be helpless.I used to say I was going to wait until he was really ol...
Posted by because write! on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:38:00 PST