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About Me

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NPR archives turn me on.
I'm an "early adopter"
I apply suffixes liberally and as I please.
I freckle.
I talk too much when I drink Gin.
I come from a family of unrepentant nicknamers.
I can type faster than you.
I have a very active Lizard brain. (look it up)
I hate emails with the subjectline of "Hi" or "Hey".

I'm obsessed with the following: *Brain Disorders/Neurology *Twining science and anomalies *Postal System *Currency production & the Mint *the Science of Language

My Interests

Traveling as much as possible, usually spontaneously, books, music, bad tv, being out in the city, language/words/dialects/local slang, (self proclaimed wordnerd), FOUNDmagazine.com , NPR, This American Life , dancing, argueing, letting my designing friends dress me up and parade me around.

I'd like to meet:

Good Picker Uppers. Those who Get It and those who Give It.

Music:

Leonard Cohen
Tom Waits
Fountains of Wayne
Rufus Wainwright
Morphine
Throwing Muses
the Sundays
Ryan Adams
Remy Zero
Feist
Hot Hot Heat
Damien Rice
My sister-Hayley
Indigo Girls
Pixies
New Pornographers
The Shins
Teitur
Elvis Costello
...& bad pop shhh.

More recently: Rilo Kiley, Old Crow Medicine Show, Kings of Convenience, Stars, M. Ward, Rogue Wave*, PHOENIX*!, Ray Lamontagne*, Iron & Wine*, Arcade Fire, Magnet*, Spartan Fidelity*, Ambulance LTD, Sime Nugent*, Tapes N Tapes, Band of Horses, Jose Gonzalez, Cold War Kids, Junior boys, the WRENS!

(*) denotes former "Obsession".

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Movies:

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Television:

You should see the list of season passes on my Tivo. It's seriously ridiculous.
The Office, Arrested Development (RIP), Gilmore Girls, Scrubs, L Word, Six Feet Under, WEEDS, 3lbs (brains!!),
America Undercover(HBO docs), any & all documentary television, and various Bad bad bad TV including: RR/RW Challenge, True Life, Survivor, LAGUNA...

Books:

One Hundred Years of Solitude ,
any Garcia-Marquez ,
Book of Laughter and Forgetting,
Breakfast at Tiffany's, A Christmas Memory (Capote)
Found Magazine
I love collections of letters,
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime ,
books about Brain Disorders.

Fave short story: Light is Like Water Read it! Now! It's only 1100 words, it will take you like 3 minutes. Click it and read!

Heroes:

Ira Glass and Ira Flatow

My Blog

Sad but true... so true.

Posted by Hot Pants in a Cold World on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:33:00 PST

2008 Bloggies

From Wired At the 2008 Weblog Awards Ceremony, several sites won multiple awards. LOLCats pioneer I Can Has Cheezburger? snagged two, and when CEO Ben Huh accepted the best topical blog award, ...
Posted by Hot Pants in a Cold World on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:15:00 PST

Mr Rogers’ Words

This honest to god made me cry. Just sucked tears right out from inside me out of nowhere. Very unexpectedly! Something about being spoken to so kindly, as a child, from a man who we ...
Posted by Hot Pants in a Cold World on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:01:00 PST

shitdamn

This hits me. I found these online. From an art show Brad did in NYC. I'm mostly used to his dark, self flagelating art. It breaks my heart, but I'm not shocked by it much anymore... but whe...
Posted by Hot Pants in a Cold World on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:08:00 PST

This brought me Joy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11OlMiz8...
Posted by Hot Pants in a Cold World on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:57:00 PST

1 Crush

Is it weird (yes) that I have a little crush on the "ONE" From the pick n save commercials? He's just so humble and dorky sounding! "I am pretty low... but we cant sell everything for 'one...
Posted by Hot Pants in a Cold World on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:03:00 PST

OMG OMG OMG!!! MAH KITTEH IS AN LOLCAT FOR REALZ!!!

I DIDNT EVEN MAKE THIS!!! I DONT KNOW WHO DID! BUT THAT IS MY PHOTO AND MY KITTY!!!!...
Posted by Hot Pants in a Cold World on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:42:00 PST

OMG TAL!

Hoooooly crapfonso! I'm so freakin excited to watch this on Showtime!!! Best Radio show EVER, now coming to TV. YEEE!This American Life TV - The Trailer: This American L...
Posted by Hot Pants in a Cold World on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:45:00 PST

RedRef

Remember Ready Reference at the Library? Back before the internet... there was a number at the library to call, for all your random-ass trivia answering needs. Things like "are Oppossums m...
Posted by Hot Pants in a Cold World on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:07:00 PST

365. Hop on.

Rachel and I are doing the 365 days project. Everyone should get a flickr account and do it with us. It's super duper distracting fun and makes you feel good about unleashing the artsy fartsy kid ins...
Posted by Hot Pants in a Cold World on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:29:00 PST