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Patchtown

kinda like Funkytown

About Me

I like things that are cool, for instance: ...pelicans. Brown and white.

Other things I like: sports acrobatics+disco tunes+Russians in hot shorts

And: German Rap!

My Interests

fun.
being active: gymnastics , yoga, planches, soccer if I was still tough, hiking, travel, road trips, bike riding, taking the stairs, pointing my toes, dancing, prancing.
being less active: foreign languages espesh German, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian; maps; learning new words; playing with my cats Bob, Cheech, and Meeka; making my friend Lil' Ice Princess laugh on myspace (mycrap, or "the crapper"); house plants , house pants, soap plants , trees, bamboo, kangaroos, pelicans, overalls, clogs, stripey sweaters, beads, Goorin hats , Labello, Nivea, Legos, blood oranges, Fritos scoops, croissandwiches, crab cakes, prosciutto, challah, churros, carnitas super burritos, fried platanos w/ black beans & crema; TJ's liquor section: Monopolowa , Bushmills , Lambrusco , Schloss Biebrich ; the vaporizer.
being a leery bastard: beards, moustaches, curly hair, afros, redheads , shaved/bald heads, men of color, men of very little color, hapas , Brazilians, Mr. Venezuela competitions, DILFS, hot grayhairs, boys on bikes, speedos, capoeira pants, cute little blokes , tough chicas, pretty ladies in high heels, shelf ass, project booty

I'd like to meet:

rubios, redheads, brunettes, pelinegros, and those w/ gray hair

Music:

LORN JAMS, Alicia Keys, Amerie, Andre 3000, Aretha Franklin, Bebel Gilberto, Beck, Bee Gees, Beyoncé, Bossacucanova, almost anything BRAZILIAN, Chaka Khan, Cheb i Sabbah, Cibelle, Da Brat, De La Soul, Deee-Lite, DJ Cheb i Sabbah, Earth Wind n Fire, ELO, Eve, Faith Evans, Fantastischen Vier, Felix da Housecat, Fugees, Grateful Dead, Houston Bernard, Ivy, James Taylor, Jamiroquai, various Jacksons, Joni Mitchell, Lauryn Hill, M.I.A., Madonna, Marcos Valle, Mary J. Blige, Poe, Queen, Radiohead, Sade, Salt-N-Pepa, Steve Miller Band, Turntables on the Hudson, MOViN 99.7, Xavier Naidoo

Movies:

SHAKES THE CLOWN, Männer Wie Wir, Dazed and Confused, Demolition Man, Total Recall, Midnight Express, Silence of the Lambs, Clueless, The Dark Crystal, The Name of the Rose, Notes on a Scandal

Television:

So You Think You Can Dance

Books:

Recent reads: Where I Was From by Joan Didion, The Places In Between by Rory Stewart

Heroes:

my moms and pops

My Blog

UNDRESSED! at the Oscars. Double feature!!!

My rad readers, my fashionable friends... Undressed! at the 2008 Academy Awards is out!!! To revel in fashion schadenfreude, follow link above.  Click here for the sartorial successes....
Posted by Patchtown on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:26:00 PST

keep ’em short

Patchy's Pet Peeve 302: Men with long nails. Why, why, why?  See the nail in the background of the above photo?  That one is already way too long.  And, no offense to my beautiful brow...
Posted by Patchtown on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:20:00 PST

limes

I like limes a lot.  In so many Mexican and Asian dishes, in a Corona, in a Lorn Special Ketel and Soda, etc.  Today I had three dolmas with my lunch and they serve them with a wedge of li...
Posted by Patchtown on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:20:00 PST

Word of the Day

Today's Word Of The Day is brought to you by the nytimes review of the movie "American Gangster" ...though this probably would have been a fitting Halloween post suppurate Pronunciation:  ..s?-py...
Posted by Patchtown on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:28:00 PST

Word Of The Day

Greetings my wise readers and lovable lovies! This blog should actually be titled Annoying Word Of The Day.  Do you ever get that?  When a new word starts showing up in your world, in a...
Posted by Patchtown on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:45:00 PST

luna

I hope it's clear tonight.  Anyone want to get together for 2am eclipse cocktails?   Maybe the mother ship will land, too. Or maybe the world will end.  Either way, I don't want to mi...
Posted by Patchtown on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:01:00 PST

Word Of The Day

This edition of The Word Of The Day is brought to you by yelp.com. Thanks to Marky for clueing me in to the wonders of yelp.  And now, our word... boyzilian Function: adjectival noun Meaning: a h...
Posted by Patchtown on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:01:00 PST

Word of the Day

This Word of the Day is actually made up by ME and is brought to you by the SFJFF - the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. jewannabe Function: noun a non-jew (see goy or shiksa) who either aspires to...
Posted by Patchtown on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:09:00 PST

Finally

I totally wanted to blog about this a few weeks ago, and now my joke question has already been answered! At work a while ago I somehow stumbled upon Disgrasian. I was like, cool, an Asi...
Posted by Patchtown on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:25:00 PST

Let the wild rumpus start!

As a follow up to my blog post on Oct 28, 2005 I offer you this...
Posted by Patchtown on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:27:00 PST