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meg

Why can't people leave these poor monkeys alone, they've got problems enough as it is.

About Me

I arrange my reading by seasons. Spring is a great time for French writers and 19th century English stuff. Summer is all about the Southern writers and others who live in a humid climate, like Rushdie, O'Conner,Garcia Marquez and Faulkner. In the fall I try to go to big American writers like Vonnegut, Ford, Hemingway - although a lot of his stuff takes place in Spain so it works for summer too- Fitzgerald, you know, Americana. Winter is the right time. "The right time for what?" you ask. It's the right time for Russians! Chekov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, it's all good. I have found that short stories and poetry are seasonless, they're like a cardigan sweater that way. This layout is from whateverlife.com.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Dwight Schruit, John Locke, Maurice Moss, Garth Marenghi, Dan Ashcroft, Liz Lemon, Mrs. Joy Crab-Man, Huck Finn, Liz Asher, Jack Donaghy, Dr. Jack Shepard, Tracey Jordon, Nathan Barley, Gob and George Michael Bluth.

Music:

Nick Drake, Angie Aparo, Fiona Apple, The Pretenders, The Clash, Ben Lee, Ficton Plane, The Molotovs, Radiohead, The Ranconteurs, White Stripes, old R & B

Movies:

I'm a big Elia Kazan fan. I think "On the Waterfront" is the best film ever made, followed closely by "It's a Wonderful Life", mostly because Jimmy Stewart is the perfect man. And I really love "Spinal Tap."

Television:

I love to laugh so most of the t.v. I watch are usually comedys. I love "Adult Swim" on Cartoon Network, Family Guy, My Name is Earl, The Office (Monkey Allan fancies you even if no one else does) old episodes of Newhart are good too...

Books:

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Lewis) All Thomas Hardy (Tamisin loves Diggory Venn) The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kundera) To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee) The Short Stories of Chekov, O'Conner, Parker and Dostoyevsky Long Day's Journey Into Night (O'Neil, a play but I think it still counts) Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) 100 Years of Solitude (Marquez) Life of Pi (Martel) The Beautiful and The Damned (Fitzgerald) Just a random sampling of my book shelvesWhat I'm reading now:

My Blog

Words, words...words

Like many of you, I'm an inveterate reader. I think asking someone you just met what they're currently reading is a great way to quickly peer into their psyche while under the guise of trifling conver...
Posted by meg on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:31:00 PST

New Title

I've decided to call this week's blog The Tirades of an Ordinarily Nice Girl. And&begin.   It Pretty Much Craps Rainbows Timothy Dalton in Hot Fuzz­- As a pseudo-smooth store owner in the f...
Posted by meg on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:45:00 PST

Weekly Listmania

I've decided to update the Listmania blog weekly. I'm not crazy about the name, so if anyone has any suggestions, let fly. So this is what's what for this week. The Love List Triscuits- More substanti...
Posted by meg on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:20:00 PST

Listmania

Things I love right now The Road by Cormac McCarthy- I read 80 pages of it in the bathtub last night. Mmmm...tepid water and prune hands. Spring- A tip o' the hat to God on this one, he really out did...
Posted by meg on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:00:00 PST

"Why I hate Dane Cook" by Meg Donahue

My life would be so much easier if I thought Dane Cook were funny. I could join his Myspace page and leave comments like, "Dane Cook 4eva'" or "Dane I saw you in Boston and you were so funny my b...
Posted by meg on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:11:00 PST

Notes on a small Texas town

It's hot. It's a different kind of hot than I'm used to, it's flat hot. There are no hills for shadows to stretch long behind and the few trees that are there seem stubby and powerless to hold th...
Posted by meg on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 06:33:00 PST

Is that a dog or a pig?

My little dog is crushing herself under her own weight. According to the kindly vet up the street, my dog is 'morbidly obese' and the current cough that she has been regailing us with is caused b...
Posted by meg on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:10:00 PST

Genius needs a good editor

Phase one is complete. There is a beginning, a middle and an end, well as much an ending as any short story could have. I was reading another essay on writing (those essays have cost me noth...
Posted by meg on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 04:09:00 PST

Damn you Eudora Welty!

My best friend and I have decided that we will write more. Not to each other mind, as we both look forward to the 'I haven't spoke to you in a week, lets talk until our cell phone batteries die' phone...
Posted by meg on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 10:24:00 PST