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betsy.

I am here for Friends

About Me

forced to drive:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/maggie_estep/poem s/15361

My Interests

books, the uncomplicated affection of dogs, new places, old places, npr, booze, (the complicated affection of) girls, art, the desert, the swamp, swimming, puddles, pushing people into puddles, camping, nerds, sunshine, comfy sofas, naps, nice hands, hanging out on the porch, playing rough, all-night conversations, southern drawls, life's little ironies, the smell of grass, getting drunk in the bath, walking around all night, the poetics of velvet paintings, bathroom graffiti, and personals in the chronicle.

I'd like to meet:

easy:http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/maggie_estep/poems /15359

Music:

strangely, i find this a difficult question to address.

Movies:

smokey and the bandit!!!, me and you and everyone we know, the shipping news, being there, lost in translation, robin hood (the animated disney version), queen christina, metropolis (1927), wet hot american summer, wonder boys, all that 80s crap.

Books:

flannery o'connor, carson mccullers, gertrude stein, william faulkner, h. g. wells, sandman comics, jeanette winterson, t.s. eliot, walt whitman, charles dickens, shakespeare, the league of extraordinary gentlemen, the guardian newspaper, the peer review project, virginia woolf, nietzsche, susan sontag, hunter s. thompson, luce irigaray, kathy acker, sarah waters, henry james, harper's.

My Blog

and darlin' darlin' darlin' darlin'

on sean's street in hyde park there's this hairless cat, that all the boys call "chemo."it's not technically hairless, but rather kind of like suede... i think it must be not quite a pure-bred version...
Posted by betsy. on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 04:07:00 PST

sold!

  goodbye, patty-cakes. i'll miss your wonky headlight wiper and your impossible steering. ...
Posted by betsy. on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:20:00 PST

6 things

6 Things that I do that are weird or habitual, and/or facts about myself.Once you have been tagged, you are to write a blog including 6 things you do that are weird or habitual, and/or an interesting ...
Posted by betsy. on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 06:56:00 PST

thank you, leeds

just when i was starting to feel the inevitable pre-move panic about why am i moving? i have some really good friends here. am i just going regret this later? etc. you (leeds) really stepped up to the...
Posted by betsy. on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 06:48:00 PST

getting a hangover midday is never nice

neither is whining. all apologies in advance.   now it's two weeks exactly to go and i'm nervous as hell not wanting to be here but scared of being there too like staring at my shoes as my feet t...
Posted by betsy. on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:22:00 PST

a long-winded rant about how the trains in england are a complete and utter pathetic joke

oops... it's quittin' time, meaning it's time for beer. sorry, i can't complain today.
Posted by betsy. on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 08:57:00 PST

post-postscript on darwin

"'Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), 'you may observe a Bread-and-butter-fly. Its wings are thin slices of bread-and-butter; its body is a crust, and ...
Posted by betsy. on Thu, 25 May 2006 07:32:00 PST

e is for elizabeth, who died of ennui

a hodge-podge assortment. do i dare to eat a peach? the middle stall of the women's loo in the edward boyle library on campus has some fascinating graffiti covering the door. i highly recommend giving...
Posted by betsy. on Thu, 25 May 2006 07:13:00 PST

give me one reason to stay here

and i'll still be going to austin. in one month, today exactly. oh yes. i should be a professional leaver. everyone is so nice when you're going. it's all quality time and drinks and parties and you k...
Posted by betsy. on Sat, 20 May 2006 07:32:00 PST

robert e. lee...

is who i like to talk about when i'm drunk. APPARENTLY
Posted by betsy. on Thu, 18 May 2006 03:57:00 PST