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Sabra Embury

practice decent hygiene for better hugs

About Me


I despise many things but the notion of love seems nice enough, as far as distractions go. Like most people, I obsess over things I can't have, and take for granted things I know I shouldn't.
Trust your intuition, and practice blaming everything bad that happens to you on yourself, unless you have no doubt in your mind that you were born stupid and are determined to stay that way.
Be careful of patronizing people who are weak and insecure and want to make you feel like shit because your brain, or looks, or talents make their brains and looks and talents feel very realistically lame.
Try new flavors, something besides your usual. Embrace your ever evolving palate.
Give as many sincere and original compliments as you can to people who make you happy, and lifelong complexes to people who project misery to innocent people assertively and/or deliberately.
Despite what idealists or socialist types might say, it's just as okay to hate as it is to love, just make sure you're not wasting your energy on lost causes or creatures, and discern the difference between hate, and jealousy.
Don't waste time worrying about things that can't be changed, like hypothetical analysis after the fact. Suck it up, move on, or keep making the same mistakes. Or don't.
Smile when you feel like smiling. Frown when you feel like frowning. It is of human luxury to experience a spectrum of emotions.
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"We who bore the mark might well be considered by the rest of the world as strange, even as insane and dangerous. We had awoken, or were awakening, and we were striving for an ever perfect state of wakefulness, whereas the ambition and quest for happiness of the others consisted of linking their opinions, ideals, and duties, their life and happiness, ever more closely with those of the herd. They, too, strove; they, too showed signs of strength and greatness. But as we saw it, whereas we marked men represented Nature's determination to create something new, individual, and forward-looking, the others lived in the determination to stay the same. For them mankind--which they loved as much as we did--was a fully formed entity that had to be preserved and protected. For us mankind was a distant future toward which we were all journeying, whose aspect no one knew, whose laws weren't written down anywhere."
-H. Hesse, from Demian
I am worth $2,322,140 on HumanForSale.com
"A human being is a part of the whole called by us 'the universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection of a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of understanding and compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
-Albert Einstein
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My Interests



antagoning people who take things too seriously, soup, immortalizing beautiful moments, making fun of perverted issues by telling perverted jokes, mood music, swapping stories over dirty martinis and/or whiskey, tear inducing laughter, my sweet piece of hell yes...

camaraderie, NPR, good advice taken, tell me about the first time you..., plastic spoons, quasimoto pillow face, a smooth ballpoint, well-illustrated vicarious misadventures, cat people, making up new words to spite Webster, not saying waht goes without saying, waht, waht, waht?, mail, sharp clavicles, tea, intuition, orchids, studying manipulators, brie, clean cars, minimalists, impulse, synthesis, a good stretch, the element of surprise, definitely, a lot, you're, your, their, there, and they're, freshly painted toenails, car ashtrays full of silver, vending machine dreams, flossing, cherry pinots, brown haired boys who have blonde baby pictures, pretty people with good personalities, skills, props, hot shower radio jazz, creative procrastination anxiety, giant Sunday crossword puzzles, constructive criticism from respectable sources, crunchy food, Godiva dark chocolate raspberry bars, practice makes perfect, ancient waiting room magazines hard work, spectrums, good recommendations, eccentrics, geniuses,

brain butter on toast

-McSWEENY'S-

cats in sinks

the Onion

youtube

frogger

kismet

elimae

mis à nu

utter wonder

pompadoured

my angry bag lady

life's mischievy unraveled

I'd like to meet:



odd couples

Music:

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Movies:

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LADY VENGEANCE, Old Boy, Groundhog Day, 28 Days Later, Empire of the Sun, Dangerous Liasons. Hero, the Fifth Element, Frida, Drugstore Cowboy, the Magnificent Seven, Immortal Beloved, Labyrinth, Gattaca, Amelie, Mary Reilly, Secretary, 2 Days in the Valley, Harold and Maude, the English Patient, Dead Poets Society, the Count of Monte Cristo, Sling Blade, Harry Potter films,
the Professional, Terry Gilliam films, American Beauty, the Lover, Great Expectations, Pooty Tang, Nora, the Man With Two Brains, Lemony Snicket; A Series of Unfortunate Events, the Ice Storm, What the Bleep Do We Know!?, V For Vendetta, Thumbsucker, the Squid and the Whale, Crumb, Stranger Than Fiction, Junebug, Half Nelson,
BARBARELLA, Early Tim Burton-Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, the first two Batmans. Full Metal Jacket, Early Paul Newman-Cool Hand Luke, the Hustler. True Romance, Four Rooms, both Kill Bills. David Lynch films
Pedro Almodovar-All About My Mother, Wes Anderson films, Dodge Ball, ANCHORMAN,

Television:

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the Joy of Painting, MYTHBUSTERS, the Office, Twin peaks, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fantasy Island, the Food Network, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, Kids in the Hall, older SNL, the Daily Show, America's Next Top Model, Let's Make a Deal, Rome, Ranma 1/2,

Books:

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JAMES JOYCE-Ulysses, Isabel Allende, Oscar Wilde-Picture of Dorian Grey, De Profunidis. Vonnegut-Bluebeard, Hesse-Demian, Siddhartha, Robert Anton Wilson-Quantum Psychology, Coincedance, Promethius Rising, Rushdie, Philip K. Dick, Nabakov, Kate Chopin-Desiree's Baby, Ayn Rand-the Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, NIETZSCHE was a mad genius, Sartre, Huxley's Brave New World changed my life, as well as Winston and Julia in 1984. C.S. Lewis-the Narnia Series, Out of the Silent Planet. Dante Alighieri, T.S. Eliot, Baudelaire, Bukowski, Pablo Neruda, Palahniuk, Swift, Freud, Jung, William James's Pragmatism, Roald Dahl short stories. To Kill A Mockingbird, Black Beauty, the Agony and the Ecstasy, Stephen King (when I was little and afraid something under the bed was going to grab my feet if I tried to go to the bathroom), A Confederacy of Dunces (even though Ignatious is a lazy slob), Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman, the Bell Jar.

Heroes:

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feed me!

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My Blog

dream with puppy gills and a gorilla

I was in a house feeding fish.  In the fish tank a puppy swam by.  I'd awaken it from hibernation by adding its dry cocoon to the tank.  It broke free and swam with its puppy gills, bac...
Posted by Sabra Embury on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:40:00 PST

this is not bad for you

Where'd I find it? It was in the muthafuckin toilet dammit! That's right. A couple good grunts with my Reader's Digest and boom! I don't know how I'm standing here right now either. It makes no sense...
Posted by Sabra Embury on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:00:00 PST

old-fashioned Animals

Tonight my perpetual date decided to cancel on me last minute "to have some alone time to watch Miike's 'Ichi' which you've already seen," was his excuse.  It's true.  I watched that mo...
Posted by Sabra Embury on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:59:00 PST

juggling, pummeling, mumbling

  I attended a juggling shindig today at some denomination of church tonight, downtown, even though I got lost on the way there, but what's new when it comes to that sort of thing, getting lost.&...
Posted by Sabra Embury on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:57:00 PST

Knocked Up

 Once I was told that my suspension of disbelief abilities were crappy, when I tried to get into the first episode of the hit tv show Lost, and couldn't.  Since then, I've been wor...
Posted by Sabra Embury on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:39:00 PST

Mental illness as the new black

Look at this, here. Who is Scott Panetti?  Oh, he's just a condemned prisoner who's sentenced to die for the 1992 murders of his in-laws, who might have been total assholes, or really sweet chur...
Posted by Sabra Embury on Sun, 27 May 2007 06:00:00 PST

the Merits of Flossing

My name is Petunia Johnson and I like to floss after eating most things. Especially meat things like beef or pork, or chicken, or fish. If I do not floss after eating meat and find a piece of meat lo...
Posted by Sabra Embury on Fri, 11 May 2007 01:27:00 PST

Eartha's bad, bad, awful, stupid day

  Once upon a time, there was a a talking planet named Eartha who enjoyed the occassional vodka martini, mild animal costume bondage, and expensive designer high heels. One day Eartha had ...
Posted by Sabra Embury on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:52:00 PST

Red wine is delicious

Gooble the gigglygork went to town one day.  As a sound pontificator, Gooble was much into Webster despite the definition thing being soo outdated.  Gin.  It was its favorite version of...
Posted by Sabra Embury on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:58:00 PST

Donald Trump

I posted a bulletin a few days ago with a video of Donald Trump expressing his opinions on the current state of politics.  This is one conversation that came from it, th...
Posted by Sabra Embury on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:13:00 PST