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About Me


I'm a number of things. I'm a working class artist and writer, I'm a frequent fighter of the Religious Reich, a sometime TV watcher, a devout Pagan, a hungerer for the non-mainstream, a Witch, a polite but firm iconoclast, a glamour-bomber, an occasional angry revolutionary, a skeptic of the quotidian, an avid reader, someone who feels politeness, manners, and good grammar have a necessary place next to frequent swearing (all four I encourage heartily), and a staunch member of the immoral minority. Probably more stuff than that, too. I've got a colorful little circle of friends, some of whom you can meet right here, and not just the ones inside my head. Mine is a life driven by intuition, pragmatism, and survival. My life may not be much, but I call it home.

My Interests

Well, it is!


Abraham Lincoln, activism, Alice in Wonderland, Amy Sedaris, antiques, art, astrology, Atomic Books , Baltimore, being a wise-ass, Belle Epoche, Betty Boop, Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab , Bob Masse, C.G. Jung, carnivals, cartoons, cemeteries, Charles Addams, civil rights, Clara Bow, Cole Porter, comics, computers, cultural anthropology, dance, David Sedaris, destroying (or at least pissing off) The Religious Reich, dolls, Donita Sparks, drawing, drumming, e.e cummings, Edgar Alan Poe, Edward Gorey, Eleanor Roosevelt, Emily Dickenson, energy-working, feminism, film, folklore, forests, gender-confusion, ghosts, glamourbombing, goddesses, gods, goth, graphic novels, Gustav Klimt, Halloween, Harold Lloyd, Helen Kane, Hello Kitty, herbs, history, Indian culture, John Lennon, John Waters, Jon Stewart, Jonathan Winters, Kahlil Gibran, karma, Kathleen Hanna, Kurt Vonnegut, Langston Hughes, Lillian Gish, Louise Brooks, Magic, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Magdalene, Marlon Brando, Mary Pickford, Mata Hari, museums, mythology, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Paganism, painting, pastiche, Paul Dinello, philosophy, pinstripes, political grassroots activism, politics, psychology, punk rock, Ralph Nader, runes, satire, scrying, Silent movies, Slim Pickens, sociology, Stephen Colbert, Strangers with Candy, stripes, T.S Elliot, Tarot, the Jazz Age, the occult, The Onion , the paranormal, theater, Theda Bara, the moon, Tori Amos, trees, Trina Robbins, urban legends, vaudeville, Vincent Van Gogh, Walters Art Museum, Witchcraft, Witches, writing, zines, Henry "Harry" Hay and the Mattachine Society (not a goddamn rock group), flea-markets (shopping blows but this doesn't count since it's largely entertainment value); being a wise-ass, the non-mainstream in all it's forms"I don't believe in gender; I just believe in people." -- Me

I'd like to meet:

Like-minded folk, or not-so-like-minded folk (ya don't have to share my interests to be interesting). Think it over.

Music:

Al Jolson; the Beatles; Beck; Bikini Kill; Billie Holiday; Blondie; Bob Dylan; Bratmobile; Cab Calloway; Cake; Chuck Berry; the Coasters; Crash Test Dummies; Creedence Clearwater Revival; Cyndi Lauper; the Dead Kennedys; Dean Martin; Depeche Mode; the Dresden Dolls; Dolly Parton; Donovan; the Doors; Ella Fitzgerald; Everclear; Fatboy Slim; Fiona Apple; Gene Austin; Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five; Heavens to Betsey; Helen Kane; the Indigo Girls; Irving Aaronson and his Commanders; Jack off Jill; Janis Joplin; Jimi Hendrix; John Denver; John Lennon; Julie Ruin; Keely Smith; the Kingston Trio; the Kinks; L7; Le Tigre(okay, anything Kathleen Hanna has ever done); Led Zepplin; Louis Prima; Madonna; Marilyn Manson; Mary Prankster; Peggy Lee; Pink Floyd; Placebo; Princess Superstar; Queen; Rasputina; Ravi Shenkar; Red Hot Chili Peppers; Regina Spektor; early Rolling Stones; Rosemary Clooney; Roxette; Sam Cooke; Simon and Garfunkle; Sleater-Kinney; the Smashing Pumpkins; Sophie Tucker; Sublime; the Talking Heads; Tom Petty; the Village People; Weezer; THE GODDESS LIVES IN OUR VEINS: TORI AMOS; jazz from the 1910s thru the 1950s; the Riot Grrrl movement; punk; blue grass; early hip hop; trip hop; folk; industrial and gothic; Indian sitar... Oh, and the one album in the world I can't live without?

Movies:

Addams Family Values; A Dirty Shame; Alice in Wonderland; A Streetcar Named Desire; Better Than Chocolate; Blazing Saddles; Boogie Nights; Bonnie and Clyde; Borat: Cultural Learnings of America to Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan; Bowling for Columbine; Breakfast at Tiffany's; Bugsy Malone; Bus Stop; But I'm a Cheerleader; Chicago; Dr.Strangelove or:How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb;Fahrenheit 911; Female Trouble; Ferris Bueller's Day Off; From Hell; Girl Shy; Godspell; Good Will Hunting; Gypsy [1962 version]; Hairspray [1988 version]; Heavenly Creatures; If These Walls Could Talk 2; It[1929 version]; It Happened One Night; Mommie Dearest; My Man Godfrey; Network; Office Space; Pecker; Pink Flamingos; Polyester; Return to Oz; Rushmore; Safety Last; Serial Mom; Seven Years Bad Luck; Six Degrees of Separation; Slums of Beverly Hills; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [1937 Disney version]; Strangers with Candy; Stranger Than Fiction; Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story; Taxi Driver; The Addams Family; The Adventures of Robin Hood [1974 Disney version];The Doors; The Freshman [1925 version]; The Graduate; The Great Dictator; The Nightmare Before Christmas; The Wizard of Oz; Tim Burton's Corpse Bride; To Kill a Mockingbird;Tootsie; Welcome to the Dollhouse; What's Eating Gilbert Grape?; Who Framed Roger Rabbit? [also almost anything with Marilyn Monroe, or by John Waters, or with Clara Bow, or a Silent comedy]

Television:

Cold Case Files; American Justice; The Oblongs; The Simpsons [pre 2000 only with VERY rare exceptions], Arrested Development; Lil' Bush; Venture Brothers; Exit 57; Strangers with Candy; The Daily Show; MST3K; The Colbert Report; King of the Hill; The Critic; Futurama; The Kids in the Hall; All in the Family; SOAP

Books:

A Man Without a Country; She's Come Undone; Myrtle of Willendorf, Breakfast of Champions; The Revolution of Little Girls; Cheaper by the Dozen; Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do: the Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Free Society; Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs; White Oleander; American History Whitewashed; Shock Value; The Missing Piece; Crackpot; Where the Sidewalk Ends; Hip:a History; Change of Life; CUNT: a Declaration of Independence; any Bloom County collection; Backroads; Brain Droppings; Napalm and Silly Putty; A People's History of the United States; In the Land of Winter; I Know This Much is True; The Prophet; The American Poster:1945 to 1975; Reviving Ophelia; Collected Cartoons of the New Yorker; The Sandman [entire series]; Girl Interrupted; The Lovely Bones; The Woman's Room; The Collected Onion [any volume]; America the Book: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction; The MAUS series; 50 Facts that Should Change the World [and almost ALMOST anything in the Disinformation series];Collected Poems of Emily Dickenson;Areas of My Expertise; Runnin' Wild: the Life and Times of Clara Bow; Me Talk Pretty One Day; Holidays on Ice; Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim; Naked; Forever Barbie: the Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll; Evolutionary Witchcraft; Fall on Your Knees; Hey Dollface; The Heart of a Witch; and hundreds more I'm forgetting.....

Heroes:

My friend Karen, my aunt Mary, Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany's, Neil Gaiman's Delirium, and Herbert Kornfeld

My Blog

Read It, Dammit!

Do you miss decent TV? As the result of the &^%*$@!!!ing strike? Here is a word from Daily Show writers: Thanks be to Lady Vanilla for alerting me (and others) to this video. How can you ...
Posted by Portrait of the Artist as a Girl Interrupted" on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:56:00 PST

And the War Drags On

Swiped from here:Study: 1 out of 4 Homeless are VeteransWASHINGTON - Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population,...
Posted by Portrait of the Artist as a Girl Interrupted" on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:01:00 PST

Been Missin Your Favorite Shows?

Call me simple. Actually, please don't. But I am of a generation that loves it's media: music, television, the internet....Now let's talk about those last two. There's a doin's a'transpirin', as some ...
Posted by Portrait of the Artist as a Girl Interrupted" on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:08:00 PST

Town Hall Meeting Gives Townspeople Chance To Say Stupid Things In Public

The Onion, I worship you. Now and forever.Democratic Mob Censures Bush In EffigyWASHINGTON, DC; Armed with neatly lettered signs, the mob angrily chanted "Down With the Idea of Executive Privilege, Bo...
Posted by Portrait of the Artist as a Girl Interrupted" on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:27:00 PST

All Hallows’ Eve (Ancestor Moon)

Just in time for Halloween, Samhain, Hallows, or what have you, is a new piece of "art", flung up atthe gallery. Out of love for my dear Manda Bear, the piece that's currently my default picture on my...
Posted by Portrait of the Artist as a Girl Interrupted" on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:19:00 PST

I Believe in Faeries and Not Just the Charles Street Kind

Something about faeries.... anyway, there is a new picture up on the art page in honor of my old friend Manda Bear's 24th birthday. Here is a bitty sneak-preview:That's her as a faery. No, really. Sha...
Posted by Portrait of the Artist as a Girl Interrupted" on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:38:00 PST

Five Interests and How They Got That Way

If you comment on this post, I will choose seven interests from your profile and youwill explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Appropriated from Tash:Post this along with your ans...
Posted by Portrait of the Artist as a Girl Interrupted" on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:33:00 PST

The War Drags On

I was feeling less sick. Sigh. You know how I "support the troops"? If you can't see the below, click here. And LEST WE FORGET... ...
Posted by Portrait of the Artist as a Girl Interrupted" on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:23:00 PST

Dig Through Your Subconscious for Fun and Profit

This is hilariously funny, but only if you don't look ahead to see what your answers "mean". It's also fairly inaccurate (in my case, anyhow), but a non-the-less an amusing little bit of pseudo-psycho...
Posted by Portrait of the Artist as a Girl Interrupted" on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:08:00 PST

Over @ The Gallery

See? A title that isn't "New Art" or some variation there of! Yes, yes, two new pieces are indeed flung up over at the gallery over at my art page. Here is a sneak peek:"The Butterfly Girl""Picking Fl...
Posted by Portrait of the Artist as a Girl Interrupted" on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:57:00 PST