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Cherry Poppins

Lady in the parlor...

About Me

I bite my nails. I self-identify as a crazy cat lady. I really love being a married lady. Mr. Poppins rocks my world. I’m much more of a dirty hippie on the inside than you’d guess by looking at me. My musical tastes are pretty much stuck in the early/mid-90s, and I’m ok with that. Apparently, I’m a bit of a tramp, and I’m ok with that, too. But I also just learned that I blush rather easily.I was a teacher's pet, which surprises no one. I was also in trouble frequently for being bossy. Ditto the lack of surprise, right? Right.

My Interests

A few things I like: alphabetizing, board games, being a dragstar, change, chatting with Jodi Bon Jodi on IM at 2am, dancing in my undies (for an audience or just for the mirror), drag kings + queens, etsy, feathers + fluff, femmes, geeks, genderf*ck (and genderf*ckers), glitter, hanging out with Mr Poppins and my dysfunctional family of friends, hot-gluing stuff to stuff (read: craftiness), impudent strumpets (one of my favorite phrases), journaling (because someday someone might want to read every. last. detail of my existence), kittens (mine, specifically), knitting, laughing (a lot), lipstick (MAC, red), long rambling conversations, making collage art, making neat things happen, making messes, museums (of pretty much anything), musicals, Newsies, nighttime, opening things (like presents), playing hooky from work, queers, reading pretty much anything and everything, sex radicals, shopping in thrift stores, show tunes, singing (loudly), theater, Tiff's Treats cookies (still hot and I didn't have to make 'em), underdogs, validation, wit, eXes who remain friends, Z... does napping count for Z?

I'd like to meet:

Drag kings, drag queens, genderbenders of all persuasions, femmes, butches, queers, transfolk and allies, artists, musicians, performers, people who want to take me out to dinner, drag fans, fellow geeks + nerds + bookworms, knitters, crafty ladies and gents, rabble-rousers, troublemakers, chubsters, people who want to give me presents.

Music:

Lots and lots

Movies:

Lots and lots

Television:

Heroes, Desperate Housewives, The Office. Really, I can get hooked on anything I can find on Netflix.

Books:

Longstanding love affair with Colette - The Claudine Novels, Cheri, Gigi, The Pure and the Impure. I've read all of those at least a dozen times, and you really should too. You'll fall in love. Also Edith Wharton. Jane Austen. Anais Nin.But I also like: Kurt Vonnegut (hold over from high school faves), David Sedaris, Nick Hornby, Julia Alvarez, Paul Auster, David Mamet, Don DeLillo, Hanif Kureishi, really, too many to keep listing. Shakespeare. You know.Recently: loved Ariel Gore's The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show.And I'm a slut for non-fiction - as in, I'll read pretty much anything related to cultural studies, feminist thought, or sexuality.

My Blog

In need of light / sound ops

So it keeps happening that our fabulous sound and light operators then decide they like us so much they want to join the troupe and PERFORM, leaving us with no tech. But a couple of new, awesome perfo...
Posted by Cherry Poppins on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:55:00 PST

Happy happy mood...

I love the Cherry who comes out to play after a long period of too much business. Like right after we were done with IDKE8 and I went to a party and actually had fun - I remember, "Oh, right. This is ...
Posted by Cherry Poppins on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:01:00 PST

Our crazy collaborative piece with the Gendermyn

Twas the theme of my last blog post, but I have come to the conclusion that we Austin folks just don't have all of our marbles. We decided for our Great Big piece this year to (a) totally ramp up our ...
Posted by Cherry Poppins on Mon, 07 May 2007 02:16:00 PST

I caved and made my own MySpace page... and other ramblings

After close to two years of wrangling the IDKE8 page, I thought I should make my own. You know, now that IDKE8 is done. This week, this month, this whatever has been ridiculously hectic. I thought wit...
Posted by Cherry Poppins on Thu, 03 May 2007 09:54:00 PST