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About Me

Sign: Scorpio Modality: Fixed Element: Water Ruler: Pluto, Mars Season: Fall Metal: Steel, Iron Stone: Topaz, Opal Color: Gold, Purple Anatomy: Genital organs, bladder, bowels Keywords: passionate, perceptive, resourceful, possessive, psychological, prowling, determined, probing, fixed, obsessive, focused.I'm a Flickr geek too.

My Interests

History, biography, architecture, urban development, brain structure, material culture, decorative arts, bad taste, low humor, coincidence, anomalies.

I'd like to meet:

Foxy dorks, disaffected mondains, soulful louts, good-natured lugs, hilarious loud mouths, and

Music:

Annie Ross, Barry Sisters, Bauhaus, Bennie Goodman, Berlin, Breeders, Bowie, The Buff Medways, The Cramps, Eagles of Death Metal, Gnarls Barkley, Iggy Pop, Ladytron, Led Zepplin, LiliPUT, Lords of Acid, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, New Order, Peaches, , Portishead, Siouxsie,T Rex, X.

Movies:

Carnival of Souls, Mulholland Drive, Lantana, The Spanish Prisoner, Rosemary's Baby, The Green Ray, The Kenneth Anger ouvre, Showgirls, Hag in a Black Leather Jacket, Donnie Darko, Heathers.

Television:

I tend to watch only police procedurals.

Books:

Joyce Carol Oates, Katherine Anne Porter, Alice Munro, Chuck Palahniuk, Kenneth Anger, Sandra McPherson, Bradbury, Symons, John Barlas and a variety of third rate pulp trash.

Heroes:

Women who kill

My Blog

Art Interlude

So, last Spring I posted a blog about a strange lunch hour where I met a lady named Aida, who took me on a strange and magical journey through her home.(4/27/2007)Today I got another personal home tou...
Posted by Si Curio Literati on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:17:00 PST

Snooze

Wake up, Mr. Griffiths!Last month I posted a blog on waking up. Well, I'm still sleepy. But, one eye is open. I'm really hungry too, but that's a different issue. Keys, wallet and bills are accounted ...
Posted by Si Curio Literati on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:50:00 PST

Halloweeny

I don't mean that the way that it sounds&It's just that the weather is getting crisp at night and the shadows are getting longer. When that happens I get the Halloweeny feeling.Halloween, but more bro...
Posted by Si Curio Literati on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:21:00 PST

Space cadet

My third week here and:I landed a job immediately. Taking care of broken books. Classes are great. Good instructors, challenging workloads, interesting content (mostly).Classmates--AWESOME. I'm befrie...
Posted by Si Curio Literati on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:50:00 PST

The Campus, the Conservatory, the stars.

So, Oakland is where I live. Specifically, North Oakland. There's a Central Oakland and a South Oakland as well. In Pittsburgh, "Oakland" it's known as the center of university life. It has what's bee...
Posted by Si Curio Literati on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:58:00 PST

Mormons in my Yard! And some other discoveries.

So this big church right behind my house is LDS. I hang out my window to smoke and watch them come and go. Little girls in mary janes, young boys in clip-on ties and name badges. It's just like Norman...
Posted by Si Curio Literati on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:40:00 PST

In the hood

So, the move is over and I am settled in my new Pittsburgh digs. (Well, not exactly settled--I'm anxious and pacing around like a jungle cat trying to acclaimate, but relaxation will come with time......
Posted by Si Curio Literati on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:57:00 PST

Six days and counting...

...before I leave for Pittsburgh. I can hardly believe it! 15 years in Philadelphia and I'm finally moving on. At least for a while. New life track, new city, new people. I haven't done this sort of t...
Posted by Si Curio Literati on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:15:00 PST

Boom

A big chunk of Center City is about to disappear for Convention Center Expansion. The blocks between 13th and Broad, Arch and Race will soon be replaced with the municipal version of a "Big Box" store...
Posted by Si Curio Literati on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:43:00 PST

Customer Service Miracle

What can I do to get my mail carrier to deliver my mail properly? For three weeks S/he has disregarded my building's secure mail boxes and just bundled mail in my building's lobby. And to ma...
Posted by Si Curio Literati on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:07:00 PST