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shawna

I am here for Friends

About Me

h-u-s-t-l-e-r/writer

2008 APPEARANCES/SIGNINGS

Friday August 29, 2008
Imposters Book Release party & surprise screening
7:30 pm
Jengo's Playhouse
815 Princess Street
Wilmington, NC 28401
910.343.5995

Saturday Sept. 6
5 pm
Skylight Books
1818 N. Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA
reading/signing
323.660.1175
reading with Dito Montiel

Thursday Oct. 30
7 pm
Vox Pop
1022 Cortelyou Road
Brooklyn
718.940.2084
Imposters signing, slideshow, & discussion w/photog Jim Knoblauch

Saturday Nov. 1st
Vox Pop
308 Bowery
NYC, NY 10012
Imposters signing, slideshow, & discussion w/photog Jim Knoblauch

My Interests

words, nerds, vegetarianism, dogs, 80s era punk rock, creativity, innovation, resourceful people, peace, enlightenment, general weirdness, transformation, books, hip hop, heavy metal, yoga, nature, art, truth, beauty, freedom and above all things, LOVE

I'd like to meet:

insaniac geniuses

Music:

bad brains, descendents, AVAIL, verbal assault, dead kennedys, dag nasty, indigo girls, slayer, metallica, public enemy, ramones, a tribe called quest, sick of it all, cro-mags, agnostic front, minor threat, embrace, soulside, fugazi, the evens, system of a down, sex pistols, shanti, bouncing souls, into another, madonna, grandmaster flash, eric b & rakim, snoop, paul simon, john lennon, marstellar, kool keith, beastie boys, grey matter, op ivy, the clash, joni mitchell, x, john doe, go-go (junkyard band, rare essence, etc.), random things like raindrops, fax machines, cash registers, train whistles, dog howls, wind...

Movies:

pee wee's big adventure

Television:

South Park, fat shows

Books:

a tree grows in brooklyn, a guide to recognizing your saints, a language older than words, palahniuk, jd salinger, hunter s. thompson, alice walker, michelle tea, derrick jensen, janet fitch, sandra cisneros, tobias wolff, clint catalyst, pleasant gehman, iris berry, kerouac, susan orlean, autobiography of malcolm x, autobiography of a blue-eyed devil, the fuck-up, cookin' southern vegetarian style, etc etc etc etc

Heroes:

myself

My Blog

chuck palahniuk dot net

If you want to read about me and my new book, go here now:http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/interviews/authors/shawna- kenney
Posted by shawna on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:05:00 PST

food porn

Me & Rich's latest silly project. http://www.veganicverses.blogspot.com/
Posted by shawna on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:07:00 PST

new work

Imposters, my new book (published by Mark Batty Publisher, in collaboration w/photographer Jim Knoblauch) is due out in late October. It's a cofeetable book, & it's about those people who dress as cha...
Posted by shawna on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:08:00 PST

unofficial summer reading club

Ok, it's not a club...just stuff I've read & liked this summer...now that I'm out of school & can read for FUN again, I am open to more recommendations, of course, from my fellow bookworms, cuz, in th...
Posted by shawna on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:48:00 PST

reading material

just finished: Caught Inside-A Surfer's Year on the California Coast, Rose of No Man's Land by Michelle Tea...both were AWESOME!!! They make me wanna write better, or quit altogether.Now reading: Into...
Posted by shawna on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:15:00 PST

you got nothin' to lose...you can't lose

when you lose FAKE FRIENDS!!! Thank you, Joan Jett:)
Posted by shawna on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:32:00 PST

I don't wanna be friends

with your band.
Posted by shawna on Thu, 29 Sep 2005 06:46:00 PST

recipe for disaster

PMS + The Color Purple (the movie) = &^%$.@** :( !!!DON'T DO IT!!!
Posted by shawna on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

jehovah's witnesses

have found me. They came-a-knockin' this morning. I took their pamphlet: "What Does God Require of Us?" but told them I was very busy eating breakfast. They were so nice. I was caught off-guard, so wa...
Posted by shawna on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

glad to see you GO GO GO GO, GOODBYE!

Not really. R.I.P., Johnny Ramone. You made some damn good music, even if you were a Republican like they say. The 1994 show at Nassau Community College in Long Island is burned into my brain, as is t...
Posted by shawna on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST