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About Me

I like funny shit.

My Interests

Politics, funny shit, futbol, reading, taking advantage of the fact that I'm 23 and live in Manhattan, revolutions, traveling, running, Wikipedia, vegetarianism, acting like an ass, pinko communists

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I'd like to meet:

A Kennedy... any Kennedy will do.

Music:

The Beatles, Led Zepplin, The Doors, Allman Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, Queen, Eric Burden and War, The Clash, Cream, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young hippie music, Janis Joplin, Simon and Garfunkel, AC/DC, Green Day, the Sex Pistols, the White Stripes, The Streets, Motown artists, Ray Charles, Kanye West, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Gorillaz, Atmosphere, A Tribe Called Quest, Wyclef, Jay-Z, Matisyahu

Movies:

Newsies!, Wag the Dog, Anchorman, Dazed and Confused, School of Rock, Dog Day Afternoon, This is Spinal Tap, Annie Hall, The Graduate, anything that portrays Christopher Walken as the disturbing man he is

Television:

Well, when I still had cable: The Daily Show, Project Runway, The Office (UK original), Chris Matthews makes me laugh, C-SPAN on a good day

Books:

1984, The Electric Kool-Aids Acid Test, Animal Farm, Love in the Time of Cholera, America: The Book, A People's History of the United States, The Trial, Globalization and It's Discontents, anything by Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut

Heroes:

George Orwell, Jon Stewart, Robin Hood, and Peyton Manning for good measure

My Blog

This is me, happy, for once, with the American electorate

I woke up this morning, mildly hung over from the Voxtrot concert last night at the Ballroom (which was fantastic), and read the following headline on the New York Times homepage: Democrats Take ...
Posted by Kristen on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:45:00 PST

If you can walk, you can dance

Someone who just moved to the city recently asked me what the best activity in New York is to do. I thought for a few seconds. I thought about the impossibly diverse nightlife options one has on any...
Posted by Kristen on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:19:00 PST

Jobby McJob and my new apartment

OK, so Im not exactly living in a gutter, as was predicted a couple months ago. I managed to find a pretty nice apartment in the financial district with some hip, hip, hip, ladies, so that now I can ...
Posted by Kristen on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:25:00 PST

Is it possible to sublet the gutter on 10th St. between 7th and 8th Ave.?

I'm completely convinced that I am going to be jobless and homeless come graduation next month. I've been sending my resume out with reckless abandon for the last six weeks or so, and all I've gotten...
Posted by Kristen on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:54:00 PST

Apparently, sociopaths have souls too

I finally got the chance to watch A Clockwork Orange today, for the first time. I have to say, I found myself laughing at points where I wasn't exactly sure if it was appropriate to laugh or not...
Posted by Kristen on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:31:00 PST

Um...Happy New Year

So, word on the street is that it's 2006 now. I would have to say that 2005 wasn't half bad. The first five months I spent traveling Europe. That was fun. The summer was spent living...
Posted by Kristen on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:24:00 PST

When the levee breaks...

If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break,When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay. Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good, Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you ...
Posted by Kristen on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 05:06:00 PST

The 'Nati: Don't Trash It

Ah, Suburbia! So I've been back in Cincy for a day and a half now ... let me just say that I am SO glad that I decided to suck up it up and work my ass off to pay for a non air conditi...
Posted by Kristen on Sun, 21 Aug 2005 02:58:00 PST

I was just paid $10/hour to write this

This is a survey about how people waste their time at work which was taken by Salary.com that I just so happened to come across this morning while I was wasting time at work: According to the survey: ...
Posted by Kristen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

1 part political tirade, 1 part severe anxiety

I was inspired to write today as a result of reading a couple of articles in the New York Times online. This is long (and maybe boring?), so I would recommend only reading it if you re...
Posted by Kristen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST