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jill

oh look, you've earned your wings: are you angel now, or a vulture?

About Me

i like some stuff and things, i don't like other stuff and things.
i like to go out for coffee with microfoam & for whiskey (maybe bourbon, too,) and to ride my red bicycle.

My Interests

Riding my beautiful red bicycle
Dice
Soy milk
Language
Hard bean coffees
Literature
Dance parties
Globalization
MarioKart
Karl Marx
Apple orchards
Walking
Bicycles
Communism
Anarchism
Anti-capitalism
Social theory
Feminism
The working poor
Renaissance 2010

I'd like to meet:

i've already met him:

Music:

there was poetry spoken between me and the stereo

Movies:

Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Television:

fashion trance on the Style Network, the Food Network, Cowboy Bebop, Lost, and America's Next Top Model.

Books:

A Million Little Pieces, My Friend Leonard, Lolita, The Time Traveler's Wife, Ain't No Makin' It, Valparaiso, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, The Yellow Wallpaper, The Communist Manifesto, The McDonaldization of Society, Black Like Me.

Heroes:

dreamers and doers.
critical thinkers.
feminists; men and women

My Blog

seriously...?

http://gorp.away.com/gorp/gear/features/bikesadd.htmFinding the Right Road Bike Saddles for WomenWhether you are a man or a woman, the pleasure of riding a bicycle diminishes fast when your saddle fee...
Posted by jill on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:21:00 PST

my mecca

My main priority in life is to somehow work for Stumptown Coffee Roasters. I think I'd settle for Intelligentsia, too, but I feel that both are lofty goals.See you on Friday in Portland, oh the love o...
Posted by jill on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:13:00 PST

Events That Have Recently Occurred

1. While walking through our neighborhood to get to the eL, Jeannette and I witnessed a young boy and girl, perhaps around 8 years old, play fighting. We laughed and smiled at them, proud of the girl ...
Posted by jill on Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:40:00 PST