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pomogirl

it's the cLEEches that cause the trouble

About Me

dark, and aging too, too quickly...i'm also a writer http://research.uvsc.edu/mortensen/writingoh, and me and toni have the same body (and cleavage) according to this zwinky-gone-wrong (at least the feet are correct)

My Interests

politics, words, and other slippery things

I'd like to meet:

other agoraphobes

Music:

kaskade; soulstice; naked music; bjork; morrisey and the smiths; lush (so sad); smashing pumpkins; the cranberries; the charletons; stone temple pilots (ok, so i'm stuck in the 90's)

Movies:

volver; syriana; talk to her; sex, lies, and videotape; hedwig; blue; network; pricilla, queen of the desert; frida; bowling for columbine

Television:

now that i have satellite tv: deadliest catch; real estate pros; dirty jobs; all the tattoo shows; BIG love; american chopper; frontline; christiane amanpour

Books:

jeanette winterson; rebecca brown; salman rushdie; bell hooks; rick bass; carol maso; donald barthelme; roland barthes

Heroes:

elizabeth cady stanton; rocky anderson; al gore; teresa kerry

My Blog

burned: out burned: sun burned: up burned: iraq

so i tell my students that steinbeck said don't write just charming things, but i know they will, as in write trite things, and if they are lucky some of it might be charming, though charmin...
Posted by pomogirl on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 06:55:00 PST

i'm finally going outside again...

i haven't really been outside since november (oh, except on NYE in the center of Vegas, but for some reason that doesn't seem like outside since we were surrounded by the facades of NYC and MGM Hollyw...
Posted by pomogirl on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:22:00 PST

oy vey my burning bush

i was looking through the seagull book catalogue for xmas gifts for my parents when i happened upon this:      ...
Posted by pomogirl on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:09:00 PST

Dec. 5th My Word 7PM

This flier couldn't get approval...   Come to yet another UVSC event that demands censorship!  Touchstones had the gall to ask the question, "What's so happy about this valley?"  There ...
Posted by pomogirl on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:00:00 PST

music is the soundtrack of our lives...

outside there is someone playing something that sounds like journey, that ancient 80's bubble gum rock band, and it's loud, and it sounds like they are out there feeling the largeness of their freedom...
Posted by pomogirl on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:52:00 PST

natural families and the FMA or the DMA or the FUCK

i'm obsessed with reading things about the marraige ammendment which didn't pass last week, but which also created more news and interviews and letters and spoutings all of which i have wanted to read...
Posted by pomogirl on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 03:39:00 PST

ordinary

this music in my head, from my mp3 player...i got it in atlanta, naked music, one of my favorite labels...i feel like i'm dreaming right now, wanting, wanting language, langue, parole, whatever...want...
Posted by pomogirl on Wed, 10 May 2006 03:02:00 PST

one woman and one woman

so we go to Vancouver Canada and pay our $100 and get our marriage license from a city employee with tape on her glasses, and she is not even shocked or weirded out by our femalenesses, she's just a b...
Posted by pomogirl on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:07:00 PST

why why why

why does it seem like professors in most every other area are done with their grades when I am here pissily looking over piles and piles of writing still needing grades, piles and piles much of w...
Posted by pomogirl on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 12:50:00 PST

am i chipper?

first, wedding dress...see the fairy goth mother page (except i am much fatter than these models, and my dress will be in black velvet with long, tight sleeves, and mine will not be corsetty in the ba...
Posted by pomogirl on Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:43:00 PST