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Penelope

There is always a story...

About Me

I like to take fun seriously.

My Interests

I hate one liners. I read a lot. I prefer good novels to most everything else. I like to try good tequillas. The Beach. I hate sporting events. I especially hate football on TV. I like movies and theatre. Travelling is good. Wine is good. Good sushi is good. Pool. Chess. Shows. My friends. Spreading the tonal language known as MEC throughout the world.

I'd like to meet:

People with good handwriting! People who do what they say they are going to do.

Music:

CURRENTLY-- No Trigger, The Loved Ones, The Lawrence Arms, Sundowner, The Draft, The New Alkaline Trio, All Alkaline Trio, The New Against Me!, All Against Me!, Samiam, Riverboat Gamblers, The Cure, Misfits, Flaming Lips, AFI, Dead to Me, The Buzzcocks, Old Rancid and Old Bad Religion, Hank III, Hot Water Music, Rise Against, Ignite, Bad Brains, Lucero, Bob Dylan, Flogging Molly, The Explosion, Her Space Holiday, Love and Rockets, Modest Mouse, NOFX, Faith No More, Lifetime, The Pixies, Radiohead, One Man Army, Dead Kennedys,Circa Survive, Tiger Army, Murder City Devils, Pretty Girls Make Graves, These Arms Are Snakes, The Wipers

Movies:

I don't like action packed thrillers. Horror movies scare me, but sometimes I watch them anyway. TBS afternoon specials, Lifetime matinees, all movies about tsunamis. Anything to do with tsunamis.

Television:

Brothers and Sisters, Scrubs, Shows on HBO, Jon Stuart. Rome (finally!), Entourage. Gymnastics. I hate Jon From Cincinnati, but I can't stop watching it. Someone help me.

Books:

ayn rand ayn rand ayn rand and also hemingway, fitzgerald, wharton, jonathan franzen, tolstoy, tom wolfe, pam houston, annie dillard,bell hooks, tobias wolff, zola, carver, salinger, jeffrey eugenides, peter taylor, john irving, james baldwin, flannery o' conner, jane austen, kate chopin, constance fenimore woolson...is this boring you yet?Last week I read Half of a Yellow Sun, by Adiche. Highly recommend if you like novels about the end of colonialism in Nigeria and Biafra. I do. Seriously.

Heroes:

Anyone who speaks MEC fluently.

My Blog

LOOKING FOR MY CALENDAR OF SHOWS?

GO TO WWW.MYSPACE.COM/THETRIGGERSYSTEMPLEASE PLEASE PLEASE EMAIL ME THERE INSTEAD. I TRY TO HAVE A LIFE OUTSIDE OF WORK. UNSUCCESSFULLY. BUT I TRY.
Posted by Penelope on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:13:00 PST

Why we need to enforce preventative driving and send all bad drivers to jail --

I think that people who can't drive should all go to jail. I'm not joking. If you are going to actually be the cause of the accident, then you should suffer the consequences. if you dont' know how to ...
Posted by Penelope on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:20:00 PST