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~monica~

that's it, you're off my top 8 list... in life!

About Me



My Interests

thrift shopping, eBay, tattoos, going to shows, listening to and the criticizing of music of all types, Guitar Hero, road trips, sushi, trash TV, driving too fast, crossword puzzles, flea markets, Indian food, vintage circus posters, circus freaks, staying up all night and sleeping all day, snow adventures, my cat, 50's furniture, white russians, California, scarves, playing bad tennis, fashion, sexy shoes, 80's boots, religiously reading celebrity gossip websites, tacky costume jewelry, coffee in all forms - especially lattes, erotic touch screen games at the bar, sewing, auctions, reading, vintage umbrellas, smoking while drinking, Bust magazine, jacket weather, MAC make-up, crepes from Pamela's in Pittsburgh (and breakfast all day!), working out at the gym until crippled, burritos, NPR podcasts, yard sailing, Chernobyl, 70's science textbooks, old safety posters, the latest in gas mask fashion.

I'd like to meet:

Real American Guitar Hero's...

Banksy

Monkeys, all sorts

Godzilla at Sea

Music:

T says I hate all music, but I simply hate most everything HE listens to.

Television:


Books:

Palaniuk, Vonnegut, Sedaris, Haruki Murakami (Wind Up Bird Chronicles), Dostoevsky, Chabon, Bulgakov, Koushun Takami (Battle Royale), Nabokov. or apparently any author with lots of V's in their last name. Any Crossword Puzzle book. Logic puzzels are good, too. Right now, A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas by Chuck Klosterman.

Heroes:


My Blog

I knew I was special

HowManyOfMe.comThere is:1person with my namein the U.S.A.How many have your name?...
Posted by ~monica~ on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:00:00 PST

Policeman's Ball Photos

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Posted by ~monica~ on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:20:00 PST

Road Trip...Part 5, Amboy (creepiest town EVER), California

Our next destination is Amboy, a town which has been abandoned since the 1970's and was for sale on eBay for $1 million. Ben said the school is supposedly haunted. So I'm running around the outside of...
Posted by ~monica~ on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:56:00 PST

Road Trip...Part 4, Wild Burros, more Route 66

We're back on 66, headed towards Oatman. What Ben describes as a "real Old West town, over run with wild burros". Seriously? The whole town's theme is the burro - everything has names like The JackAss...
Posted by ~monica~ on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:13:00 PST

Road Trip...Part 3, Dinosaurs, more Route 66, Kactus Kafe

We head out on Route 66 and it's starting to get dark. We start passing through old towns that look straight out of the 1950's. I convince Nate that we should look for a place to camp before we pass e...
Posted by ~monica~ on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:01:00 PST

Road Trip...Part 2, New Mexico, Arizona, Petrified Forest, Route 66

I forgot this pic of Nate at a rest stop in Texas. It was seriously, the most beautiful rest stop I've ever seen. New Mexico was hot and tedious. Nothing but shrubs as far as the eye can see. We do m...
Posted by ~monica~ on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:31:00 PST

Road Trip....Part 1, Graceland, Cadillac Ranch, Giant Cross

So I recently returned from a cross-country trip with my brother, Nate. We took a 1995 Buick Le Sabre and a 1965 Scotty trailer and had the time of our lives. Everyone should take this trip at least o...
Posted by ~monica~ on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:51:00 PST

Celebrity sightings

saw 3 celebs in 2 days...! Jennifer Coolidge at a vintage store in Los Feliz Faye Dunaway at Trader Joe's in Hollywood Tara Reid riding a bike on Venice Beach. Pretty much the tannest person I've ...
Posted by ~monica~ on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:23:00 PST

Hollywood, here we come...

Thursday, Nate & I are leaving for California. We're taking a sweet 1965 trailer cross-country! Nate's going to school out there - I'm just going along for the adventure. I'll be gone about 10 days. I...
Posted by ~monica~ on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:27:00 PST

Bimbo bread, anyone?

saw this truck on Harrisburg Pike the other day. I've never seen it at the store....perhaps the official bread of New Jersey?...
Posted by ~monica~ on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:06:00 PST