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Alex

female bodybuilders: hot or not? let's discuss.

About Me

hanging out at home a lot means you watch a lot of law & order. and cook a lot! lot lot lot.

My Interests

pelicans! cargo containers! intellectual pursuits! brutally physical pursuits! arty pursuits! tins! tiny dogs! shiny! orange! flightiness! adventures! food!

I'd like to meet:

ideal friends: have small dogs, like to comparison-shop bloody marys, have a huge problem with bigotry, think art museums are a good way to spend an afternoon, enjoy projects, are into music... most of those are pretty flexible, though.

Music:

death cab, kanye, loretta, alison krauss, missy, faith no more et al, afghan whigs and subsidiaries, beyonce 'n them, cky, all the hanks, arcade fire, jay-z, tool, dismemberment plan, huck-a-bucks, lajko felix, ciara, !!!, mary j. blige, ted leo, donna summer, yeah yeah yeahs, common, megadeth, scissor sisters, outkast, sarah vaughn, among wolves, shudder/craig, vivian green, ghostface, so much stuff so much

Movies:

sin city!!!, sling blade, xmen, sense & sensibility, kill bills, matrix 1&2, lost in translation, belle epoque, your friends and neighbors, fight club, rushmore, friday, y tu mama tambien, dancer in the dark, hands on a hardbody, the squid and the whale

Television:

reno 911, the daily show, law & order (not CI), gilmore girls, CSIs (not NY), the L word, how it's made, obscure sports, it's always sunny in philadelphia, 30 minute meals because rachel ray is hot and the set is amazing

Books:

karen joy fowler, david sedaris, peter hoeg, frank vertosick, kurt vonnegut, bessie head, stephen jay gould, toni morrison like 3/4 the time, thomas pynchon, richard dawkins, natalie angier, alice hoffman, phillip pullman, lord of the rings, nick bantock, david guterson, joseph heller, ladies no.1 detective agency, ngugi wa thiongo, jane austen

Heroes:

john brown and toccara jones. and kelly mulligan - holy shit.

My Blog

grilled veggie salsa!

so, wood is the way to go. if you've got a simple little weber grill, you can burn just about whatever you want in it, and you should burn wood! it makes whatever you grill on top delicious! of course...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 27 May 2008 09:45:00 PST

so, billy mays.

he’s seriously cramping my daytime-cable-tv-watching style. owen lang hit the nail on the head (he was the first to note mays’ intrusiveness). there i am, watching paula’s home cooki...
Posted by Alex on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:34:00 PST

seafood chowder!

so, i made some and it was yummy! here's the recipe:1. Thaw some seafood! Whatever you wanna use - I did Trader Joe's frozen seafood mix.2. Salt and pepper on some chunks of firm white fish (we used s...
Posted by Alex on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:47:00 PST

so everyone must read this

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0816071riche s1.htmlit is most definitely worth looking at a the copy of the actual complaint. thank fucking god for the american legal system.
Posted by Alex on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:49:00 PST

so i live in pennsylvania now!

i like it! real, honest-to-god amish people bring their delicious produce and baked goods to the farmers market in my little town! you can only buy beer in cases, but you can do it at the end of my bl...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:54:00 PST

so, at some point, i'm gonna have to say my boyfriend's last name

i wish i didn't have to! it's the name of a substance i find completely disgusting! i have issues, and no desire to change! and the worst part is, he's one of those guys who mostly goes by his last na...
Posted by Alex on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:39:00 PST

so today was a little surreal

i am about to go down the stairs to leave, and i do a double take at *something* in the corner of the hallway over by the stairs to the 3rd floor. it looks increasingly like a crayfish as i get close...
Posted by Alex on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:17:00 PST

so i think i love being a spinster!

a kitty came to visit me tonight and peeked in the door. the same thing happened to a budding spinster on a show i like! i laughed, but mostly i was happy to see the cat. yeah, so last night - yoga...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:10:00 PST

so i'm a big dork

but god help me, i love limericks. these are reprinted with no permission whatsoever from the Style Invitational in the Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09 /0...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 08:43:00 PST

so i have a huge problem with this

"House OKs bill guarding Pledge from courtsBy JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press WASHINGTON - The House, citing the nation's religious origins, voted Wednesday to protect the Pledge of Allegiance from feder...
Posted by Alex on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:08:00 PST