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About Me

Well...I am Joshua Edward Underdown Monroe. I am originally from Athens, Tennessee. I graduated from Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, in May 2005 and have been living in Lexington ever since. I love to live and live to love. I have the best family in the world and as soon as some of them die, I am going to publish a memoir about my childhood.

My Interests

Reading; Writing; Running; Lying on my Resume.flashvars="userID=23116688&bgColor=39219&bgCo lor2=13395456&transitionSpeed=75&transitionStyle=b&a mp;showCaptions=1&albumID=141187" width="254" height="303" name="slider" align="middle"/

I'd like to meet:

Anderson Cooper; Alice Walker; Fidel Castro; Loretta Lynn; Morrissey;Peyton Manning; William Faulkner; Carson McCullers; Flannery O'Connor; Hillary Clinton

Music:

Morrissey, Loudon Wainwright III, The White Stripes, Amy Winehouse, Ryan Adams, Jeff Buckley, Erykah Badu, Beck, Kayne West, Bob Dylan, Tori Amos, Ben Folds, Ben Lee, Rufus Wainwright, Pride of the Southland Marching Band, Ozzy Osbourne, Andrew Bird, Beyonce.

Movies:

Igby Goes Down, The Dreamers, Grey Gardens, Little Children, Ten Things I Hate About You, The Color Purple, American Hollow, Coal Miner's Daughter, Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Television:

Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Weeds, Reba, Golden Girls, Rich Girls, The Hills, Sex and the City

Books:

The Sound and the Fury, Dessa Rose, The Secret History, The Bell Jar, Look Homeward Angel, Till We Have Faces, The Symposium, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Meridian, Zami: A New Spelling of my Name, The Collected Stories of Flannery O'Connor, Paradise Lost, Clay's Quilt, Thinks, In Cold Blood, Lancelot, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Power and the Glory, The Silver Chair, Running With Scissors, The Year of Magical Thinking, The Ralph Nader Reader

Heroes:

Granny Monroe, My Daddy, John F. Kennedy, Aunt Missy, Rebecca Walker

My Blog

Thoughts and prayers for Anthony.

My roommate, Anthony Thompson('s) mother was shot and killed in a violent dispute over the weekend in northern Kentucky. For the most part, I am at a loss of words. ..:namespace pre...
Posted by Jedwardmonroe on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:01:00 PST

Appalicious

Appalicious By: J. Mo Monroe ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Four, Six, Two Ten. Listen up Y'all, cause this ain't shit! The washboard that I'm p...
Posted by Jedwardmonroe on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:42:00 PST

Four and Twenty....

It's my 24th birthday. In my family, birthdays are important milestones. I can remember some of the best times with my cousins were spent on May 24th. My sixth grade hamburger and (fry dad...
Posted by Jedwardmonroe on Thu, 24 May 2007 08:08:00 PST

List April 2007

I am a list maker. This is a list of things I have learned since December 1) Even the most trust worthy person will rip out your heart and spit on it before you have time to think. 2) Frien...
Posted by Jedwardmonroe on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:56:00 PST

Social Critiques and Reality TV

I am looking for connections between my two obessions. Social critiscms of patriarchy, heterosexism, hegemonic domination, and racism and reality tv. Here are a few conclusions. 1. So...
Posted by Jedwardmonroe on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:34:00 PST

Benji-A poetic expression of my kinetic obsession with Benji Schwimmer

Benji: In the form of Daddy by Sylvia Plath You always knew, you always knew From the time of your birth and first pair of dancing shoes, In which you have lived as a swinger For t...
Posted by Jedwardmonroe on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:29:00 PST

What I have learned.

In comparing the wedding announcements from the society pages of my two favorite newspapers, The New York Times and the Daily Post-Athenian, I have came to appreciate nothing. Sleeping is to me...
Posted by Jedwardmonroe on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:06:00 PST