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LIZZY

Beware the Ides of March.

About Me

LIZZY COOPERMAN liz'-e cu'-per-man: (n) The pearly interior layer of mollusk shells. (v) To walk in or through water or something else that similarly impedes normal movement. Or misspelled, as in Tin Lizzie (n) Slang. A dilapidated or cheap car. Okay, the next sentence you're about to see was not written by me but by the website I use in order to keep this yellow. You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

My Interests

Crossword puzzles, human behavior, movies, theater, poetry, trying out various salsas.

I'd like to meet:

I'm very satisfied with the way people enter and exit my life in accordance with the laws of nature. And my old gymnastics teacher. Do you remember me from Tiny Tumbleweeds?

Music:

Sinead O'Connor, Laurie Anderson, Roy Orbison, Amy Winehouse, ACDC, Prince, Beethoven, Hole, The Bad Plus, Michael Jackson, Tom Petty, The Smiths, Bjork, My Morning Jacket, Nina Simone, Tito Puente, The Breeders, REM, Eric Satie.

Movies:

My Dinner with Andre, Ratatouille, Six Degrees of Separation, Amadeus, Midnight Cowboy, Remains of the Day, Moonstruck, The Witches of Eastwick, King of Comedy, The Cruise, Comfort of Strangers, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Henry and June, The Phantom Tollbooth, All the President’s Men, Dangerous Liasons.

Television:

I like the color blue when the VCR is on but not playing.

Books:

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok, Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Jester, The Four Agreements and The Mastery of Love by don Miguel Ruiz, Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret by Judy Blume. Poetry: The Splinter Factory by Jeffrey McDaniel, The Red Hour by Robin Behn. Virgil. Anne Sexton. Bill Knott. Billy Collins. TS Eliot. Jessika d'Arcy. I cannot finish the books Middlesex or Crime and Punishment.

Heroes:

Shel Silverstein, Carol Channing, Howard Roark, Spalding Gray, Albert Einstein, Laurie Anderson, Jeffrey McDaniel, Richard Avedon, Antonin Artaud, Anne Sexton, Sinead O'Connor, Chaim Potok, Keith Haring
Which "Saved By The Bell" Character Are You?

My Blog

WHY NOT SAVE THE FIGS FOR A LOVELY SPRING SALAD?

"Okay. How does that pertain to what you're doing in Israel?"This just in from Rocksomething New York, like an eight hour train ride out of the city: My sister Hilary is visiting from Israel so she ca...
Posted by LIZZY on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:45:00 PST

I feel like Kim Cattrall

but not in Mannequin. What I mean is, I feel like in 2002 I wrote a book with my husband on the art of the female orgasm. And that sometimes I’m kept awake by soft bonfires on my vanity.Or- do y...
Posted by LIZZY on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:27:00 PST

ACCOUNT FRAUDULA!

Dear Thief,Who are you and how the hell are you doing in Bucuresti, Romania? You spent $475.12 at BUC DONA SINCAI and there was a foreign transaction fee of $4.75. On top of that, I have to call the f...
Posted by LIZZY on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:11:00 PST

Dances with Wolves

I went out for margaritas with one of my temporary roommates (everything is temporary; I learned that from Edie Brickell, along with some pretty depressing things about December and perfume) and he in...
Posted by LIZZY on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:27:00 PST

Pineapple Failures

I just had a dream that I met this hot guy's parents at some sort of convention. They asked me what I did for a living and I told them I taught a class in Pineapple Failures. The mother grabbed a chee...
Posted by LIZZY on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:31:00 PST

You, Me, and Lizzee

Why does my self-esteem go up when I get an answer right on Dora the Explorer?This is me: "BACKPACK!"My niece is confident enough that she can just sip from her Beauty and the Beast cup and enjoy the ...
Posted by LIZZY on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:00:00 PST

From the M to the O to the ACH! The Mall of America...

Glamour Shots for Kids: Disgusting. Kids should be eating peanut butter sandwiches and scraping their knees, not putting on bronzer and boas. I am reminded of those black and white photographs of kids...
Posted by LIZZY on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:01:00 PST

The Salsa Less Taken by Lizzy Frost

The Salsa Less TakenThursday: noon. I deliberated,And sorry--I can't mix mild and smoky--Just one Tex-Mexer, long I debatedWith my number uncalled, mozzarella not gratedHow best to complement my guaca...
Posted by LIZZY on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:38:00 PST

Lone Banana Bandit and Other Contradictions

So I went to the grocery store to buy beer, tortilla chips, napkins, guacamole, and soda. Right when I left I remember crumpling my receipt but I don't know where I put it. As I loaded my groceries in...
Posted by LIZZY on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:01:00 PST

Thank you for the quiz, Jenny. Here are my results.

My favorite pizza isTo be delivered without eye contact.If I were a color Id bePretending to get along with others on the spectrum.If you looked into my closet you would findThat all that really matte...
Posted by LIZZY on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:32:00 PST