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Alison

alisonmacrina

About Me

faking it til it's not fake anymore!

My Interests

Superfriends, my twin sister Alexis, visits with grandma, bibliophilia, retail therapy, experimental fiction, lesser truths, Sunday afternoon boo lovin, comparative history, self-diagnosis, expensive facial products, afternoon delight, Final Jeopardy, going out every night, JSTOR, weirdos, fashions, spending money, all-day hangouts, phone-stalking, Google-stalking, calling your mom to find out where you live stalking, heavy sessions, shit that I can be pretentious about, bike rides, house parties, reading in the park, unabashed nerds, the Gallery Mall, nurturing folks like I was Mother Russia.

I'd like to meet:

Smug, self-satisfied free market apologists who get pies thrown in their faces!



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Music:

Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem

Movies:

The sublime and the grotesque. Funny shit of questionable cultural significance. Anything with Peter Sellars. Zazie dans le Metro, Holy Mountain, The Frog Prince, Little Murders, Party Girl, The Muppet Movie, Withnail and I. Anything you want to watch right now.

Television:

Internet bootlegs. Don't have a TV.

Books:

Currently: The Autonauts of the Cosmoroute, Lapham's Quarterly, graduate school textbooks, and whatever winds up behind the circulation desk.

Heroes:

Eric Hoffer, Lewis Lapham, Edward W. Said, Jorge Luis Borges, Really Rosie.

My Blog

Frenzied women from whose lips the god speaks

The singular semi-mythical and semi-historical Sibyl is first mentioned about 500 B.C. by Heraclitus: "The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and rough, yet rea...
Posted by Alison on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:59:00 PST