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veronica acosta bartell

Who are you calling a cootie queen, you lint licker?!

About Me

What I lack in alcohol consumption I make up for in gluttonous sushi and chocolate consumption. I'm grumpy in the morning. For the first time in 23 years, I don't have to wear contacts or glasses. I appreciate my family immensely. I laugh and cry with fierce intensity. I recently gave myself a middle name. I say sweet things to the people I love in Spanish. I lean hard to the left politically. I promised myself I would learn to play cello and go to art school in the next 5 years. I love my life and don't take it for granted.

I'm madly, absurdly, and overwhelmingly in love and have never been happier.

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My Interests

knitting classes, design classes, Record Club, sewing, road trips, mi esposo , cleaning, talk radio, paper products, my nieces, food, loud laughing, being the bigger person, travel plans, mix cd's, craftiness, making out, bike rides, being emotional, making to-do lists, crossing things off my to-do lists, snail mail, photobooths.

I'd like to meet:

People with big hearts. People who won't say, "Decaf? What's the point?!" People who play games, dance and cook dinner. People who will come over and listen to records with me. People who laugh. A lot. At poo jokes.
Oh, and:

Music:

Justin Timberlake, Neko Case, Gillian Welch, Journey, Stevie Wonder, Arcade Fire, Dwight Yoakam, !!!, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pulp, Ryan Adams, Billy Bragg, The Walkmen, Spoon, Wilco, Radiohead, Whitney Houston, Lionel Ritchie, Pavement, Dolly Parton, Iron and Wine, Codebreaker, Peter Gabriel, Sufjan Stevens, Michael Jackson, The Smiths.

Movies:

Pan's Labyrinth, Motorcycle Diaries, Zelig, Harold and Maude, About Schmidt, anything with/by Woody Allen in it, Big Fish, Raising Arizona, El Crimen de Padre Amaro, Amelie, Lost in Translation, Dances With Wolves, stuff by Christopher Guest, Wes Anderson and Pedro Almodovar.

Television:

Big Love, Heroes, Letterman.

Books:

Middlesex, The God of Small Things, The World According to Garp, Kafka on the Shore, Kite Runner, I Know This Much is True, She's Come Undone, Don't Sleep With Your Drummer, 1984, Running With Scissors, A Confederacy of Dunces, Dry, Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Heroes:

My mom. My husband. Frida Kahlo. Al Gore. Irving Norman. Brandon Walsh.

My Blog

Morrissey hang-over

I am starting to recover from last night's show. I got so worked up that I actually had an upset stomach most of last night and today. This is how I give myself ulcers. My emotions go straight to my t...
Posted by veronica on Thu, 03 May 2007 04:26:00 PST

Easy being green

Don't mean to get preachy, but I've been doing some homework and I wanted to share it with you all. There's an easy way to figure out what your impact is on global warming based on your energy usage. ...
Posted by veronica on Wed, 02 May 2007 04:36:00 PST

Morrissey

Tomorrow, I get to see Morrissey at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland and I am ready to pee myself over it. I'm annoyed about this Bee article that called the Stockton show a "bummer" because Morrisse...
Posted by veronica on Tue, 01 May 2007 05:16:00 PST

An Inconvenient Truth.

Please watch it. It's not political, it's just about the planet. It's absolutely jaw-dropping. Tell everyone you know to watch it.
Posted by veronica on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:16:00 PST

Fotos! (updated)

New Flickr fotos!
Posted by veronica on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 05:32:00 PST

someone fucking shoot me.

It's that kind of week.
Posted by veronica on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:44:00 PST

4-year war anniversary

American military casualties from the war in Iraq, by date of death, since March 19, 2003. The dead
Posted by veronica on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:40:00 PST

Podcast

For those of you who read Hillary Rhodes' piece on women's names immortalized in songs, here's the podcast: http://asap.ap.org/data/interactives/_entertainment/podcasts /0130asap_Lyricsfortheladies.mp3...
Posted by veronica on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:52:00 PST

WSOPC update -- part I

I've finally had enough time to grieve and am able to tell everyone what happened last weekend at the World Series of Pop Culture in LA. We showed up at 10am, at our scheduled time, and took a 50 ques...
Posted by veronica on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:22:00 PST

My name immortalized

I just had an interview with someone with the Associated Press doing a story about women with names that are immortalized in songs (Jolene, Layla, Lola, Veronica). Here's the full story and podcast: C...
Posted by veronica on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:19:00 PST