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Eleanor Abernathy

I am here for Friends

About Me

Me? Despite my "profession," I'm actually an amateur social worker/cat whisperer/aspiring lottery winner/basket-case/future ex-pat/saloon keeper. I wish I was a girl assassin though, I'd be an excellent remorseless killer. When I'm not traveling, I run a part time hostel/counseling center for wayward musicians and the people who love them, so you or someone you love has probably slept on my couch. I now have a bar in my house, so this should make things even more interesting. I don't like having my picture taken but am highly susceptible to cameras when I am drinking. I don't dance. I am obsessed with hookers , but who isn't? I take an instant dislike to people who a) don't at least pretend to admire my books when they come over, b) are over 30 and still quote Chomsky as if he were a demi-god, and c) people in general, clowns and people with private myspace profiles specifically. Clowns are just serial killers with smiles painted on and people with private myspace profiles - for the most part - have wildly inflated opinions of how special they are. Furthermore, they are likely cowards and/or stalkers. Yeah, I said it and I mean it. I am criminally lazy. I rescue stray cats - I'm kinda crazy that way. I'm loyal to a fault, which means that even if I'm friends with total douche bags, I'm willing to put up with it to a point. I like flea markets, Texas, Oklahoma, hockey, loners, unlovable cats & people, books, cooking, trashy mags,The Bob Inn, Schuba's, the Hideout, the Empty Bottle, PBR, my standing mixer, xanax , horror movies, Chris Elliot , buying people presents, getting lost in strange cities and trying to get back to my hotel, live music, made in the u.s.a. low-top chucks, Tivo, sleeping late, leaving totally inappropriate comments for friends on myspace, chatting up strangers in foreign countries, my garden, reference books, Barbeque , reindeer games and the people who play them, ignoring my phone, getting good deals on used books on e-bay, Glen Lake , Hong Kong, Bar Marsella in Barcelona, kindred-spirits, watching my bird feeders, bar-fights (starting, not participating), good vocabularies and my Sidekick (when it works).

My Interests

Ummm, ignoring my phone, cjs central, genteel poverty, chain smoking, absinthe, self-loathing, self-deprecation, deprecation of others, deprecation in general, stray-cat wrangling, inciting riots, wall building, reading, inertia, opiates, cooking, hookers, cooking "with" hookers, insomnia, hiding from cameras, cheese of all sorts, co-dependency, travel, avoiding hangovers (generally without success), xanax, ennui, testing limits, covert operations, adventure/misadventure, sleeping late, stalking, leaving the US forever, feigning boredom, feigning interest, etc., whiskey, scotch, cheap beer, ripping off Cate's myspace page while pimping her art. See below for examples of both:

adopt your own virtual pet!Cate is very talented, I hope she gives me this painting:

I'd like to meet:

Chainsmoking, cat loving social pariahs. People who enjoy this sort of activity:I would NOT like to meet anymore two faced, judgmental, back stabbing phonies ~ I don't have the energy to deal with you anymore. Go away, please, don't even bother pretending as if you are my friend or are otherwise interested in me.

Music:

Lots and then some, but some faves are. . .Elvis Costello, Grandaddy, XTC, Belle and Sebastian, David Bowie, Super Furry Animals, ELO, Buddy Holly, Danielson Family, Adam & the Ants, Slumber Party, the Pixies, The Ramones, Velvet Underground, Badly Drawn Boy, The Carter Family, Yes, Enon, the Clash, the Glands, Luna, Yo La Tengo, Ultravox, Edith Piaf, Add N to X, Stereolab, T-Rex, Joan Jett, OOIOO, Led Zepplin, Smashing Pumpkins, Melt-Bananna, weird old folk & bluegrass, nearly any classical, the Frogs, My Bloody Valentine, the Talking Heads, Blondie, the French Kicks, John Lennon/the Beatles,Material Issue, Air, The Moles, Serge Gainsbourg, Weezer, the English Beat, Hole, The New Pornographers, Supergrass, Johnny Cash, The Carter Family, Neutral Milk Hotel, Aphex Twin, The Replacements, The Kinks, Spoon, Nick Cave, Apples in Stereo, Dusty Springfield, Rick Springfield, Patsy Cline, the Silver Jews, the Bee Gee's, ESG, the Paris Gun, the Deathray Davies, the Flaming Lips, Justin North/The Everydays, the Chainsaw Kittens, Marmoset, the Starlight Mints, Dressy Bessy, Satellite 66, the Hot IQ's, Palomar, Walter Meego, the Changes, Catfish Haven, Palomar, the Figgs, Kaito u.k., Palaxy Tracks, your band, etc.

Movies:

Wings of Desire, Cabin Boy, Earth Girls are Easy, Better Off Dead, Spirited Away, Shaun of the Dead, (anything with Zombies in it) Raising Arizona, Sabrina (the original), anything scary, Heathers, Selena, Shakes the Clown, Rushmore, Donnie Darko, Evil Dead (or anything w/Bruce Campbell), Harold & Kumar go to White Castle, All things John Waters, Army of Darkness, Raise the Red Lantern, Team America (fuck yeah), Slapshot (Paul Newman's finest moment), Secretary, Old School, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, Repo Man, Grosse Point Blank, anything w/Clint Eastwood (who doesn't love a loner tough guy?), Serenity (thanks, J. Ferg!).

Television:

Most of my fave shows are not actually on the air anymore, but here we go...Six Feet Under, Inyuasha, Firefly, The Daily Show, South Park, Chappelle's Show, The Simpsons, House, Big Love, Strangers with Candy, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Reno 911, Hookers at the Point, BBC World News, Lost, ANTM, The Colbert Report, 24, and Chobits, which has the most addictive theme song ever. Oh Cate, why did you inflict this on me?

Books:

Dead white guys rock my world, Sci Fi/Detective trash (George R.R. Martin, David Brin, Zelazny, Ross Thomas, Guy Gavriel Kay, Neil Gaiman, Sherri Tepper,Robert Heinlein, Kate Elliott), any poetry (Dorothy Parker, the Romantics, Basho) or reference books(dictionaries rock!), the Illiad, Candide, the Orestia, David Sedaris, backs of cereal boxes. I'll read just about anything. I'm a little compulsive that way.

Heroes:

Greasers, outlaws, Stephen Colbert, FDR, Thomas Jefferson, Bruce Campbell, Anthony Bourdain, Monty Burns, John Briggs, Dorothy Parker , Eleanor Roosevelt, people with the nerve to be musicians for a living, santa clad animal wranglers who work on muscle cars in their spare time. People who think stuff like this is hilarious: CJS Saloon

Add to My Profile | More Videos John Waters & Patty Hearst cause they make being bad so effortless: img src="http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w190/ursiform/956797 7_john_waters3.jpg".

My Blog

Wildlife & Weather....

I looked out the door of the cottage tonight and saw one of these in the yard....A gray fox, much rarer than the red fox.  If you are feeling scholarly, you can learn more about it here: Gray Fox...
Posted by Eleanor Abernathy on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:30:00 PST

Glen Lake in the Winter

Glen Lake is beautiful as always, coyote tracks on the beach, flocks of wild turkeys looming along the side of the road, Art's is empty for a change so no wait for a table, not a tourist in sight, all...
Posted by Eleanor Abernathy on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:23:00 PST

Finally, some good news!!!!

FINALLY, an animal abuser gets some punishment...>Unique talent, inexplicable fall ..> By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports August 20, 2007 The snow was falling from the dark sky near Lam...
Posted by Eleanor Abernathy on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:51:00 PST

The Curse Returns....Settlers of Catan is back on

Oiy, seriously, why do we do this to ourselves?We used to play this game all the time and, by all the time I mean every single day. All day if we could, but at least a few hours each day. Without fail...
Posted by Eleanor Abernathy on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:31:00 PST

Bess y Ethan - One Night Only!

This guy is already here....This one gets here tomorrow....So, if ya want to see them before they head back to El Salvador, come over to CJs Central tomorrow!  We'll be getting them good and drun...
Posted by Eleanor Abernathy on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 07:06:00 PST

Why I LOVE craigslist

Craiglist, I love it.  I moved and had to sell/give away tons of stuff.  I posted a free microwave and it was out of my house in less than 30 minutes.  I posted another ad saying "Free ...
Posted by Eleanor Abernathy on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:23:00 PST

My New Favorite Website & MySpace Profile

I live for shit like this....GOD TUBEI found it on this - the most sincere, yet crazy, MySpace profile yet - when Jeff rejected them as a pal for one of his fake MySpace profiles:Polygamy Lives!Haven'...
Posted by Eleanor Abernathy on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:30:00 PST

Cats & Bars - yay or nay?

Phew - so about a month after actually moving out of my old place, I FINALLY got the cats over. I think it happened just in the nick of time to keep them from turning feral.  A few more days and ...
Posted by Eleanor Abernathy on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:49:00 PST

SYNERGY aka I could not make this shit up.

Seriously, I don't even know what to say about this:7-11 meets the Simpsons...
Posted by Eleanor Abernathy on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:08:00 PST

Tracking me down and such

Okay, in between the new place and the old, but will have phone service and interwebs today, so despite the fact that there is almost no furniture in the place yet, we will not be living like total sa...
Posted by Eleanor Abernathy on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:43:00 PST