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About Me

Former east coast, post-punk, lapsed Jew. And for all that looking backward, I consider Lot's wife one of the bible's best parables.I can be something of a misanthrope, but I think I hate us more as a species than one-on-one. If people were smarter, I would probably be nicer.I'm a big fan of the Constitution, I once wrote a dissertation about it even. I also like pie. And scrabble.I have a 22-pound cat who is on antidepressants and asthma meds. He is more of a misanthrope than I am. But he tolerates me because I am the crunchy-dispensing machine.

My Interests

There's more here , but that's mostly political rants.

Music:

As they pop into my head: The Ruts, the Damned, David Bowie, X-Ray Spex, X, Art Brut, Nous non Plus, Leonard Cohen, Velvets, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, The Clash, Buzzcocks, Undertones, Scrawl, Aimee Mann (okay, so I can be girly), Liz Phair before aliens sucked her brains out through a straw, PJ Harvey (who is one of the ten coolest women on the planet), Everything but the Girl, Low, Ride, Dream Syndicate, the Jam, 999 (I'm so cheesy, I know), those formative ska albums (Specials, English Beat, Selector...), Pixies; Radiohead, Gang of Four, The Fall, Nick Cave, PiL, Virgin Prunes, Sigur Ros, the Strokes

Movies:

Casablanca; It's a Wonderful Life; Rebel Without a Cause; Magnolia; Me, You, and Everyone We Know; Naked; Godfather; Sheltering Sky; Night of the Hunter; Maltese Falcon; Rear Window; basically anything Bogey or Hitchcock in fact; Paths of Glory; Rosemary's Baby; Repo Man (I'm 40--so sue me); Wizard of Oz; Bladerunner; Mad Max; Chinatown; True Romance; Fight Club; Stranger than Paradise; Down by Law; Betty Blue; Diva; Alphaville; Weekend; Brokeback Mountain; Trainspotting; I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing; Hot Fuzz

Television:

Not so much.

Books:

Yes.It is, of course, impossible to create this list. That said, here are the great books that pop into my head at random--mostly novels: Shakespeare's King Lear, Song of Myself by Whitman, The Passion by J. Winterson, Housekeeping by Marilyn Robinson, most Salinger but especially Franny and Zooey (one of the books that keeps me from having regular existential crises), The Corrections, Poisonwood Bible, Life of Pi, Moby Dick, Distinction by Bourdieu, Discipline and Punish by Foucault, McTeague, most Raymond Carver but especially What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Most Keats, Underworld by Don Delillo, Howl by Ginsburg. Recent favorite read: The Keep by Egan--a great neo-gothic.

My Blog

My dad

Today is the 20th anniversary of my dad's death--the yahrzeit, to put it in m.o.t. terms. On the one hand it's hard for me to believe I've been without parents for two decades now. On the other hand, ...
Posted by Word Girl on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:44:00 PST

Some things I have become acutely aware of during this trip to upstate NY

1. Los Angeles (and you-know-who) has turned me into a total food snob. 2. I am still not a dog person 3. I hate wind chimes 4. 8 am in New York is 5 am in Los Angeles I am not abjectly miserable--tho...
Posted by Word Girl on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:37:00 PST

My coworker, my hyena

So this guy I work with has a reverberating parodic (only not really) hyena-ish cackle. Today he was listening to Bill Hicks all day. The rest of us were, consequently, listening to him laugh. And lau...
Posted by Word Girl on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 05:16:00 PST

The return of the repressed

For those of you who were occasional followers of my other blog, let it be noted I am back. Yay for left wing ranting! Hurrah for snarky, knee-jerk politics! Let's hear it for the bleeding heart progr...
Posted by Word Girl on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 02:33:00 PST

It just seems unlikely

What do you suppose it means that two of my top eight have top hats on in their pictures?
Posted by Word Girl on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:37:00 PST

My theory of congenital punkness

I've blogged about this elsewhere in the past I think (oh my poor neglected blogspot blog--I will return to you soon). But today being what it has been, it seems to bear repeating. Today was a total w...
Posted by Word Girl on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:52:00 PST

Picture of the day


Posted by Word Girl on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:56:00 PST

Workin' It

Via my dear Shane comes these useful Halloween tips.
Posted by Word Girl on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:33:00 PST

The below

Don't get me wrong--I'm well aware that prince charming could come up with his own version of this one. It just tickled my fancy, that's all.
Posted by Word Girl on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:24:00 PST

World's Shortest Fairy Tale

Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl "Will you marry me?" The girl said, "NO!" And the girl lived happily ever after and went shopping, dancing, camping, drank martinis, always had a clean house, neve...
Posted by Word Girl on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:22:00 PST