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Alette

I am here for Friends

About Me


you are the "you suck, and that's sad"
happy bunny. you're truthful, but can be a bit
brutal.

which happy bunny are you?
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My Interests

Cannibalism. "If the Juju had meant us not to eat people, He wouldn't have made us of meat!" -The Reluctant Cannibal by Swann and Flanders

I'd like to meet:

No one. I know too many people as it is. Go away.

Music:

IG, The Bloodhound Gang, J.S. Bach, Mozart, Puccini, Christine Lavin, sometimes Rachmaninov; Linkin Park; var. others.

Movies:

All LOTR movies; Dirty Pretty Things; Amelie; Truth about Cats & Dogs; Impromptu; Old School;To Be or Not to Be; The Winslow Boy; Grosse Pointe Blank; The Princess Bride; GWTW; Waterloo Bridge; Delicatessen; but NOT The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & her Lover.

Television:

Titans football, baby. Alias, Gilmore Girls, Frasier, BlackAdder, the Muppet Show, Buffy, the Avengers (Emma Peel Rocks), Invader Zim, Futurama, La Femme Nikita, Doctor Who.

Books:

Books: ? Just "Books:"? No other explanation like, "Books I like", "Books I hate", "Books I'd like to read", "Books which I lent to friends but were never returned"?Great. Ok, I'll make a category: AWESOME AUTHORS: Terry Pratchett, Jane Austen, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Truman Capote, Alexandre Dumas (pere), Guy Gavriel Kay, Douglas Adams, Margaret Mitchell, Helen Cresswell, Dorothy Parker (see my email address), China Mieville, Sophie Kinsella, H.P. Lovecraft, oftentimes Charles Dickens, and always, The man, my ol' buddy, Billy S.Books I hate: Peter David's "The Woad to Wuin." Sucked. Big time. Waste of my youth. I want a refund. Ditto Craig Shaw Gardner. Ditto Simon Hawke.Books I'd like to read: Anything by G.K. Chesterton (which I have & have not yet read. Color me lazy.)Books which I lent to friends but were never returned: 1996 - to T - "The First Wives' Club" 1998 - to Prof. Sz - "Pope Joan" 2001 - to D - "House of Leaves"(still missing as of this date, damn it. Though, thanks, Kel, for returning "Guards! Guards!")And the book which will NEVER END - Being & Nothingness by Jean Paul Sartre. Yeah. Two months running.

Heroes:

Pandas

My Blog

We wear the mask

Mama Cat is such a very literal creature. She has decided to demonstrate her disgust with her unvaried diet of wet food by being physically ill all over the apartment carpets. Yes. She's literally ...
Posted by Alette on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:21:00 PST

Appropos of nothing, comme dhabitude

I just has the best thought - bunny pandas. How cool would that b? Hopping baby pandas? (sorry- was trying to think of something to cheer myself up. This occurred. I have a truly sad and twisted mind...
Posted by Alette on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:29:00 PST

Pollyanna grows up and becomes and economist

Sorry that last entry was so boring, but what can I say? I was bored. (My mother always used to tell me that only boring people are bored. Kierke has asserted that all people are boring whether to th...
Posted by Alette on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:33:00 PST

Consumed by consumerism

Almost the 4th - anyone doing anything fun? We might get fried chicken. Wheee!My all-too-kind boss has awarded me an "all-star" which is a monetary pat-on-the-back in the form of a gift cert. Amazon....
Posted by Alette on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:01:00 PST

Are we having Le Fun yet?

Sadly, I think this to myself often, ever since reading that delightful book on the quebecois argot. Seriously, though, just was writing a quick blurb to someone and got distracted by the word "pontif...
Posted by Alette on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:14:00 PST

See ya in the funny papers

I'm so behind the curve, and yet, good news travels, right?Join the codexed evolution!(Soooo happy a d-x-ist site is up and running again. Wish I were more astute with the html-y stuff, but everything...
Posted by Alette on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:38:00 PST

Hunka hunka burnin’ love

Beige went to the vet. He's officially 21 pounds. All of it filled with the desire to love and be loved.He's lost his front fang. After a mysterious contretemps involving his Mama and a blanket, he is...
Posted by Alette on Wed, 21 May 2008 12:44:00 PST

As Dorothy would say...

"This is not a book to be cast aside lightly; it should be hurled with great force across the room."I apologize for the repetition to anyone who reads my private blog, but I just cannot get over what...
Posted by Alette on Tue, 13 May 2008 05:50:00 PST

By owl post?

This is an actual piece of correspondence received at my place of business:Anyone read Harry Potter? I totally believed it was sent by a wizard (a wizard with a mortgage, apparently.)(Hélas! c'est tro...
Posted by Alette on Sun, 11 May 2008 07:52:00 PST

Twere better quickly done

Est-ce que vous écoutez ce bruit? C'est le son et lumière d'une grande célébration! Je l'ai fini! Enfin!!It seems as though the whole of nature celebrates - there's now an absotively gorgeous thunders...
Posted by Alette on Fri, 09 May 2008 08:54:00 PST