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Sketchbook Maggie

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About Me


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"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life ... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

I crave marrow. I crave books. I crave...

I'm a writer and independent filmmaker on sabbatical before graduate school. After ten blissful years in the Colorado Rockies, I've return to my dreaded hometown to collect my thoughts, publish, and earn some cash.

I love graphic novels, zombie movies, black and white photography, road trips, storm chasing, shoes, handbags, super hero theory, german wines, and journaling.


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My Interests

Creative Writing, Graphic Novels, Photography, Quilting, Blogging, Theatre, Graphic Design, Scrapbooking, Storm Chasing, Darts, Drawing, Independent films, Zombie Theory, Journaling, Super Hero Theory, AIDS activism, Film Production, Poetry, Calligraphy, Latin, Bowling, Pool, Blogging, Current Events, Napping, Hiking, Star Gazing, Superman, Frank Miller, Will Eisner

I'd like to meet:

I want to meet anyone in love with their own life.

As a writer, I want to chat with anyone that has an interesting story: from the homeless man on the corner to the Park Avenue social climber.

Music:

Ryan Adams, Damien Rice, the White Stripes, The Killers, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, Outkast, Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, De La Soul, Depeche Mode, Lucinda Williams, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Indigo Girls, George Clinton, Rollins Band, Everclear, The Refreshments, Billy Pilgrim, Kenny Wayne Sheperd Band, Alice in Chains, John Lee Hooker, Ella Fitzgerald, Kevin Seconds, Matt Skiba, Ani DiFranco, Paul Westerburg, Frank Sinatra, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Fugees, Norah Jones, Greatful Dead, Tori Amos

Movies:

Murderball, Brokeback Mountian, Finding Forrester, Dead Poets Society, 25th Hour, Good Will Hunting, Philadelphia, The Insider, With Honors, Reality Bites, Singles, Donnie Darko, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Crash, Birthday Boy, Easy Rider, Secretary, Sideways, Schindler's List, Pi, Momento, The Incredibles, The Iron Giant, The Salton Sea, City of God, In Her Shoes, Elizabethtown, Almost Famous, Fight Club, The Full Monty, Love Actually, Angels in America, Heathers, Breakfast Club, Singles, Shawshank Redemption, In America, High Fidelity, Bang Bang You're Dead, Wonder Boys, Beatuiful Girls, Miracle, Field of Dreams, View from the Top, Tommy Boy, School of Rock, Garden State

Television:

Kill your TV!

Books:

Heaven's Coast, Mark Doty. From the Corner of his Eye, Dean Koontz. On Writing, Stephen King. The Harry Potter Series. Blow Fly, Patricia Cornwell. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer. Fierce Invalids home from Hot Climates, Tom Robbins. Perks of Being a Wallflower, Namedropper, The Smokejumper....the list goes on.

Heroes:

Live it loud and you're my hero!

My Blog

Guinness and the average dog

Aislin poured a pint of Guinness into the heavy stainless steel bowl and set it on the floor. "You know it's not healthy to get drunk this early in the morning." Alfred lapped up the beer with an al...
Posted by Mags on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:09:00 PST

Spiders

"He's a spider." Marc said once Aislin had confessed the affair she'd been having for the past few months. "What do you mean?" "Aside from being creepy, spider are good because they kill other bugs....
Posted by Mags on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:06:00 PST

Boobs

Went to the doctor today to talk about my reduction. He gave me a name of a plastic surgeon, Greg Ganske. The name seemed familiar, so I came home and looked him up. He was in the House of Representat...
Posted by Mags on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 06:00:00 PST

Working Girl

My first professional day of work post college. It doesn't feel that different; although my mom did make me breakfast: ham and cheese scrambled eggs (yumm!).  I'm wearing the same clothes I wore ...
Posted by Mags on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:02:00 PST

Wahoo!

I finally have an interview! Today I meet with the Associate Dean of Students at Grinnell College for a part time job as the Advisor to the debate team.I talked to Svea about how to prepare for the in...
Posted by Mags on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:40:00 PST

Deletion

I love how myspace blogger deletes all quotation marks. GRRRRR!
Posted by Mags on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:12:00 PST

gold digger

I dont think your secretary likes me, Aislin said, setting her camera bag on the client sofa in Lexs office. The office was obsessively neat.  Books arranged by the Library of Congress Cataloging...
Posted by Mags on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:10:00 PST

Land of Parents

Hanging out in Newton isn't a problem of running into old friends, it is the problem of parents. Parents either love me or hate me. Both possibilities are equally scary.Ty's father is a clerk at the p...
Posted by Mags on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:29:00 PST

Denial

Today I was denied a library card because of charges I incurred in 1992. To get a library card I would need to pay $42.36.  Furthermore, the little library lady was very loud and irrate about the...
Posted by Mags on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:20:00 PST

Vampire!

When copy and pasted... all the "Quotation Marks" were deleted. The perfect tickless silence of a clock stopped universe filled the suite. Bleeding, of course, is a quiet process. Crying is even quiet...
Posted by Mags on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:14:00 PST