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About Me

it's official--i've been accepted into the Class of 2011 at the University of the District of Columbia School of Law. looks like i'm DC-bound this summer! it's scary, it's exciting, and it's awesome to be me sometimes.for those who don't know me,my name is jeremy. once upon a time i worked with homeless people who were addicted to drugs. this made me realize i wanted to change the world, so i signed up for the peace corps. they had me do their interviews, checkups, and essays before brushing me off in a rather pithy letter claiming my legal record (DUI in 1997) proves that i am immature and lack the responsibility needed to move to a foreign country and teach people to drink clean water. so i moved to hawaii and started working with people with HIV/AIDS, which i found to be the most rewarding job i've ever had. i decided while in hawaii that i really did want to go to law school and i took the entrance test. on the day heath ledger died, i was informed that i was accepted to law school.

My Interests

i am interested in making people more aware of the world around them, and their place in it. i am interested in getting people to realize that things like shopping at wal-mart and voting for republicans are not in the best interest of our families, our economy, or our planet.

I'd like to meet:

i would love to have a dinner with dorothy parker, alexandra fyodorovna, barack obama and tom ford. i would get gore vidal to dress up like rasputin and freak out alexandra, and while dorothy and barack engaged in a passionate conversation, tom and i would be making out under their feet.

Music:

on my mp3 player right now: gingerbread patriots, elliott smith, jack johnson, bright eyes, leiahdorus, the soundtrack to 'shortbus' and the killers.

Movies:

i like movies. it's a cliche, but 'brokeback mountain' is just about the most perfect film i have ever seen. and i have seen a lot of films-i am on the screening committee for the southwest gay and lesbian film festival in new mexico.

Television:

i no longer own a TV. you should try it.

Books:

i will read anything by (or have read everything written by) john steinbeck, douglas coupland, colm toibin, michael cunningham, michael chabon, chuck palahniuk, and kurt vonnegut; don't miss etgar keret's 'the bus driver who wanted to be god' and 'JesusLand' by julia scheeres. you should read all of these books instead of watching tv. because, seriously, is 'skating with american idol' really going to do anything postive for your brain?

Heroes:

Anna Politkovskaya, who gave up bodyguards and just wanted to publish the truth, and Lt. Ehren Watada, who refused to fight in a war that is not, and never will be, justified.

My Blog

congratulations...to me

so on the day that heath ledger's naked and dead body was found by a housekeeper in the apartment of mary-kate olsen, i received a letter from the university of district of columbia school of law that...
Posted by Jeremy on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:45:00 PST

small thoughts...

if 2006 was one of the best years of my life, 2007 is adding up to be among the absolute worst. i started the year thinking that the fact that i moved back to albuquerque was going to make this year ...
Posted by Jeremy on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:07:00 PST

R.I.P.

Lana Ewing (1976-2007) Even though I think it trivializes someone's life to make them a subject of a MySpace blog after they've died, I have no other medium through which to explain the hole in my hea...
Posted by Jeremy on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:55:00 PST

15 by Kurt Vonnegut

.. ..Because I'm still not over his death, here is a great article from The AV Club (sister site to The Onion) that really boils KV's wisdom down into small bites. Read away and realize the genius we ...
Posted by Jeremy on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:09:00 PST

Not just a writer...

When I was 13 years old, my grandmother did something for me that changed my entire life, and I don't think she has ever realized it. At that age, she presented me with a cardboard box that had b...
Posted by Jeremy on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:19:00 PST

Can I have a moment?

(This started out as a bulletin I was posting in reference to the sudden, death-inspired canonization of Anna Nicole Smith. I figured it would do better as a blog. Enjoy!) Before we start demanding th...
Posted by Jeremy on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:21:00 PST

albuquerque, i am home...

...almost. i'm sitting in the las vegas airport watching people play slot machines. there's a little dog barking and my mouth tastes like cinnamon. there's a woman behind a podium who keeps yelling ou...
Posted by Jeremy on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:21:00 PST

election aftermath...

This is courtesy of Stephen Colbert, in the guise of a Republican American addressing those who voted last week. I don't have cable so I miss his show. This made me smile... "And don't ...
Posted by Jeremy on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:18:00 PST

While on vacation, I...

...had a fabulous brunch will all my friends, met jonathan's wife from india, drank margaritas with alanna at 3 in the afternoon, met her cool boyfriend, got to see my awesome friends' band play, had ...
Posted by Jeremy on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 07:16:00 PST

my eyes (and my liver) hurt...

i went to san francisco this past weekend as assistant programmer for the southwest gay and lesbian film festival, to attend the gl film fest there. i feel like i've watched a million movies (and dran...
Posted by Jeremy on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 05:06:00 PST