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About Me

Me: "Hey Neil, check it out. Look how big our kitchen looks."
Neil: "Oh God... Oh God!! Did somebody steal Garbage Mountain?!?"

This is the 1958 Royal Futura (mine's in pink), easily my favorite thrift store acquisition since the heady days of Tiger Jumpsuit. According to its still-intact manual, it's the typewriter of the future. And apparently, "changing ribbons the Easy Royal way is FUN!" I can't wait!

Reviews of my typewriter:
"Wow, it's like a toy for adults!" --Andrea
"You're not going to use that. What are you going to type? Seriously, name me one thing you're going to type." --Collin
"I bet you wish it was mint green..." --Diane

My Interests

banging on things with sticks, jumping on couches, falling down stairs, getting speeding tickets, outing friends on accident, staying up too late, assassinations, twin peaks on dvd, the pbr that I've heard so much about, mocojojo island, woman island, islands in general, The Beerpack, getting 'peppered up', public intoxication, olde tyme tennis dress-up, collin, yelling at collin for "leaving me" even though we are neither dating nor is he going anywhere anytime soon, Ugly Parlor and Ugly Parlor photography, White Dog, the Roman Coin as a goal, escaping killer swans, swimming toward freedom, taunting people/things, pedophilic bestiality, Couch Party 2005, Father's Day Bong-o-Rama 2006, Miracle Day, living in claire's living room, breaking my ankle, polio crutches, "quitting" smoking, unemployment, 10 for $1 ramen noodles, Jalapeno Pepper Circle of Death, going to london and then coming back from london, talking about how expensive london was, divorcing my car, early morning McDonald's crying jags, free bagels from Neil and Diane, Picture Wall, Jesus Curtains, our new house, birthday parties at our new house, pornogami, Colored Growings & Inoffensive Mascots, drumming in a bikini (both impractical AND severely unflattering!), my Amazing Technicolor Dream Shawl, Tiger Jumpsuit, A Vision in Orange: The Jumpsuit, cougar farm co-ownership, man blanching, Super Top Boy, monkey kaleidoscope, Tony Snow Pony, The Adventures of Nightmare and Gay Guy, Eat The Beef: The Game, Zimne Piwo, Whaaale, Vision Quests, Nude Mortimar, reckless grad school application, immediate grad school deferral, eventual grad school attendance, drunken banking ("It's okay everybody... I'm just drunk!")

I'd like to meet:

Zombie John F. Kennedy

Music:

Songs about both ill-fated drag racing and Man Golf. And the Kinks for Wound Cleaning Time.

Movies:

Bikini Cavegirl. Salo. Puce Moment. And that is all.

Television:

Tsunami programming, cring-inducing MTV documentaries about fat kids, DeGrassi: The Next Generation, Noah's Ark on LOGO, and the Super Nanny episode where the little kid says to his dad, "I have a new nickname for you... Ass."

Books:

'The World of Lions' coloring book (which features squirrels and bison but not one lion)

Heroes:

You? Yes, you.

My Blog

Squirrel got in house! Collin chased away!

Collin went to eat with his family on Saturday!  And I was in his bedroom being a creep (or using his computer)!  It was really nice out so porch door was open!  Then I heard some scuff...
Posted by laura on Wed, 02 May 2007 04:04:00 PST

My Birthday: the Museum

Andrea made a stationary friend: And while Chrissy hoped to find a knock-off MonkeyStein in the museum gift shop, it was not meant to be... Neil in blue-suited-cut-out-art form: Collin hopes...
Posted by laura on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:30:00 PST

Full House

Due to unforseen circumstances involving shady landlords, Neil and Diane are currently staying with us...  So that means that mine and Collin's modest two bedroom apartment is currently inhabited...
Posted by laura on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 05:13:00 PST

finally, a step forward!

I finally finished my application for UWM's MLIS grad program for next year...  It was actually a pretty easy process, I just like to procrastinate.  I kind of wanted to hear back BEFORE w...
Posted by laura on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 03:46:00 PST

well, there goes that good idea...

I just came home to find Collin oggling the exact record that I purchased on ebay over a month ago (and had planned to buy him since last spring) for his birthday... Why couldn't he have waited ano...
Posted by laura on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:07:00 PST

My can opener!!

Is on the fritz!!  I fear the end to be near.  How, oh how, will I access my Spaghetti O's?!?
Posted by laura on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:18:00 PST

Scaredy

I swear I just heard someone open our front door and then a little later close it.  I was like, "Why is Collin home so early??"  but then no one walked around the corner.  So I turned t...
Posted by laura on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:33:00 PST

I think we lost Collin

I had this dream the other night that Collin and I were hanging out at some guy's house that we didn't know very well.  Then my brother called me to tell me that we should probably leave because ...
Posted by laura on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 04:10:00 PST

ailments

I have a still-broken tibia (I can walk un-aided but not yet run), scraped and bruised knuckles (from falling on ice and punching the concrete on my way down) and seven nasty-looking sutures in my low...
Posted by laura on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 02:31:00 PST

In case you didn't notice I'm gone...

It will be four weeks this coming Tuesday since I moved to London, and so far so good. --I'm eating a vegetable samosa right now, purchased at the off-license around the corner from my office.  T...
Posted by laura on Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:20:00 PST