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Penny Dreadful

By the power of Greyskull indeed.

About Me

I have a weird crush on Ira Glass. I dream of meeting cute boys in the grocery store. I walk a lot. My partner in crime is brown, furry and has a tail. I'm trying to break myself of my Advocate-induced habit of using serial commas.

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My Interests

Shower singing, non required reading, magical realism, cooking, crafts in general, subversive cross stitch specifically, spontaneous road trips.
Caitlyn --

[adjective]:

Sexually stunning

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I'd like to meet:

Free time. Surt, chinchillas, literary hi-fi, hounds in general, shut-in detectives, Hogwarts, metaphysicians, imbibers of worldly delights.


Find your own pose !

Music:

This is the sound of one hand clapping...

Movies:

I have seen one movie in the theater in 2008 and it is not on this list. Lola Rennt, The Princess and the Warrior, Heaven, Hotel Rwanda, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, A Very Long Engagement, City of Lost Children, The Life Aquatic, Royal Tennenbaums, Bottle Rocket, Fight Club, American History X, 25th Hour, Ran (fuck you Kenneth Branagh!), Donnie Darko, Secretary, Garden State, Leon the Professional, The Usual Suspects, Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, Nightmare Before Christmas, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday, The Graduate, Brick, United States of Leland, Winter Passing, anything involving muppets.

Television:

Really will rot your brain.

Books:

Icelander, Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Still Life with Woodpecker, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, Jitterbug Perfume, Mother Night, Cat's Cradle, Welcome to the Monkey House, Geek Love, McSweeney's, How We Are Hungry, A.H.W.O.S.G, Lamb, The Sweet Hereafter, The English Patient, Spite Fences, The Paris Review, The Princess Bride, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, A Pale View of Hills, A Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, Choke, Survivor, Dracula, Frankenstein, A Dirty Job, Harry Potter and the...,Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Children's Hospital, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Heroes:

Skeletor.

My Blog

Catch Up, Catsup, Ketchup.

So I haven't put up anything new since last Spring. Whoops. A brief recap for those of you just tuning in, since my last post, I have:Graduated (BA in English), become single, drank a lot, been unempl...
Posted by Penny Dreadful on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:48:00 PST

Grad school score card

So last September, as most of you probably know, Zack turned to me and said "baby, I think I want to go to grad school for Architecture". And I was all like "baby, you do what you want." So he did. To...
Posted by Penny Dreadful on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:35:00 PST

No-smokey day 1.5

So, thanks to my symbiotic relationship with the patch, it's not going nearly as bad as I thought it would. Working the oral fixation angle with Lifesavers. Save my lungs, rot my teeth. Woo-hoo!In oth...
Posted by Penny Dreadful on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:42:00 PST

Fucking self-improvement.

So last night I get a call from my dad. He is not pleased. Turns out he got my mom all liquored up (you'd think she'd think twice before accepting the man's margeritas by now) and she let slip that I'...
Posted by Penny Dreadful on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:59:00 PST

Be betterer!

I posted a blog a while ago which, at the time, I was super excited about, but then didn't follow through on*. This is not your fault. I've had finals and softball-mothering and dog-walking and movi...
Posted by Penny Dreadful on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:50:00 PST

Opinions?

So I'm seriously contemplating shaving my head post-finals. Thoughts?
Posted by Penny Dreadful on Wed, 09 May 2007 08:35:00 PST

I should really be working on finals...

Why is there no blog category for procrastination? So, babies, we haven't had one of our little fireside chats in a while, all my fault. How are things? Good? I hope so.I have all kinds of news, s...
Posted by Penny Dreadful on Mon, 07 May 2007 08:05:00 PST

I and He

* A note to the reader - all grammatical errors are intentional! *I doesn't remember much of the early time, before He. I remembers the dark, and the bars that were cold, and the crying. I remembers...
Posted by Penny Dreadful on Wed, 02 May 2007 09:35:00 PST

Be better.

For those of you who have yet to discover the sheer inspirational joy that is www.learningtoloveyoumore.com, go check it out right this second. No seriously, I'll wait.Learningtoloveyoumore is a coll...
Posted by Penny Dreadful on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:43:00 PST

Alpacattack!

I just realized that, due to certain events of yesterday morning, the bike gang almost had to be disbanded. Thankfully, due to certain events of last night, this is no longer the case.Whew!People who...
Posted by Penny Dreadful on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:35:00 PST