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Meredith Waffles

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About Me

I figure I'm seventy-five percent Harriet the Spy, fifteen percent beer, five percent pygmy goat and five more percent regular goat.

My Interests

I like to change the words of songs and mispronounce stuff and if you have an accent I will steal it and use it and I probably won't realize I'm doing it til later. I am also into ginger ale.

Music:

Weem eh weh a weem eh weh Ooh ah ooh ah Gabba gabba Da doo ron ron ron da doo ron ron Rama lama fa fa Doo lang doo lang doo lang Shuba luba luba

Books:

I'm not gonna talk about Joyce Carol Oates any damn more. Right now I'm reading Auto de Fe, Hotel Theory, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Eats, Shoots, and Leaves. And a load of students' work.

Heroes:

JOHN KING!

My Blog

Bionical Me

For years I said that when I hit thirty I was going to have my hands replaced with robotic ones.  I was certain that the ones I was born with would be worn down to little nubs.  They get a l...
Posted by Meredith Waffles on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:32:00 PST

Free Donut Monday

I knew I woke up and limped down here for a reason even though my legs are all tired from bopping to De La Soul last night.  Here's the news: You can get a free donut at Dunkin Donuts today....
Posted by Meredith Waffles on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:11:00 PST

We bought Santa a drink last nite

In conjunction with having poured liquor into one of my favorite old white men, here is a wishlist which I expect no one to read let alone print out and take to Barney's with them: 1. Atonem...
Posted by Meredith Waffles on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 08:42:00 PST

ask me about my HAIKU-OFF

It's not a spray that Adam West Batman uses when he's attacked by poetry.  It's really not a competition, either, but it's a chance to write some haiku and have a party at the end.  Rou...
Posted by Meredith Waffles on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:10:00 PST

I miss Kentucky, and I miss my family

TODAY! I went to work at school today but there wasnt any work to do so I sat in the supply closet window and spied down on Expensapalooza in Grant Park.  Ryan Adams was playing on the stage I...
Posted by Meredith Waffles on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 05:27:00 PST

Adder-cadabra

Hear ye: 1. I just wanted to announce that I am going to have a camera around all the time now and you better get used to it.  Baby, Im doing it for you own sake anyway, this way therell be a hu...
Posted by Meredith Waffles on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:26:00 PST

My Uncle

This student Jodie Liedke in Wisconsin has created this perfect website dedicated to my uncle, Jim Gustafson.  Jim was a Detroit poet whose work Robert Creeley called "good news," he was a goofy,...
Posted by Meredith Waffles on Fri, 12 May 2006 10:27:00 PST

get up offa that thang

Last night instead of typing up my student anthologies, which I'm also not doing right now, I saw James Brown and he has to use a keyboard as a walker now.  I was trying really hard to ...
Posted by Meredith Waffles on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:57:00 PST