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Nora

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About Me

A list of my peers would read as follows: Flying Squid and Tigeriffic; Truckules; Lord Mostly-Magic; King Fantastic Outfit; Fee Waybill of the Tubes; Suicide Girl Teagan; Bill "Superfoot" Wallace; Happy-Go-Clucky and Swiss Misstery; Chaka Igloo; and my 8th grade earth science teacher Mr. Tringe! Oh... and Bizarro Oscar Wilde as an alternate.

My Interests

Language. Crossword puzzles. Logic games. Existential Philosophy. Evil Monkeys. People with filthy mouths. Tree houses. Reading. Writing. Sleeping in. Old lace. Cooking. Geography. Hot coffee. The Cubs. Painting. Knitting. Anything water related (except hydro torture. That shit is not cool.)

I'd like to meet:

A pooka. People who read. People who get the joke.

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Music:

Tom Waits, Neko Case, Aimee Mann, Emmylou Harris, Stevie Nicks, Leonard Cohen, Jenny Owen Youngs, Dolly Parton, Melissa Ivey, Spider Silk Dress, David Bowie, Led Zeplin, Elvis Costello, Cake, Los Abandoned, Del, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Tegan and Sara, Modest Mouse, Belle and Sebastian, Saul Williams, Fiona Apple, Talking Heads, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Lou Reed, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, The Velvet Underground, Janis Joplin, The Cure, Bob Dylan, Rufus & Martha Wainwright, Jeff Buckley, They Might Be Giants, James Taylor, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix. . .

Movies:

Waking Life, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, I Heart Huckabees, 9 to 5, Amilee, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Cold Comfort Farm, The Aristocrats, Pan's Labyrinth, Idiocracy, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Goonies, Team America, Mirror Mask, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Wet Hot American Summer, Jesus is Magic, Shawn of the Dead, The Brother's Grimm, Saved, The Princess Bride, The Prestige, The Departed. . . .

Anything with Peter Sellers in it.

Anything by Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam or the Cohen Brothers.

Television:

The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Twilight Zone, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, Heros, Dr. Who, Harvey Birdman, Venture Bros., Robot Chicken, Family Guy, South Park, Flight of the Conchords...

Books:

READING RIGHT NOW: The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong.
WRITERS I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT: Dorothy Parker, Charles Bukowski, Cormic McCarthy, Sarte, Italo Calvino, John Steinbeck, Larry McMurtry, Tom Robbins, Camus, Terry Prachett, Joseph Campbell, and Neil Gaiman.
BOOKS I LOVE: Catch 22, Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitter Bug Perfume, Good Omens, American Gods, The Myth of Sisyphus, To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Little Prince, Cannery Row, The Book Of Laughter and Forgetting, The Professor and the Madman, Hard Times (Turkel), Declarations Of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology, Lonesome Dove, The Border Triolgy, Animal Farm, If On A Winter's Night a Traveler, Invisable Cities, Lamb, The Thin Man, The Chronicles of Narnia, House of Leaves, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, His Dark Materials, Ella Minnow Pea, The Hero With A Thousand Faces, Harry Potter (of course). . .
GRAPHIC NOVELS/COMICS:
The Sandman, Fables, Preacher, Watchmen, V For Vendetta, Y: The Last Man, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Swampthing, Sin City, The Gunslinger Born, 100 Bullets, X Men, Batman. . .
PLAYS:
How I Learned To Drive, Angels in America, Closer, Mr. Marmalade, The Tempest, Comedy of Errors, King Lear, Rabbit Hole, Marat/Sade, No Exit, Seven Guitars, Uncle Vanya, Harvey, Little Foxes, The American Clock, Medea, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. . .

Heroes:

My Grandma, Kathrine Hepburn, Gilda Radner, Cathrine O'Hera, Lily Tomlin, David McKean, Batman, and Sarah Silverman.

My Blog

The Art of Jenvy Fox R15 Second Saturday!

Hosted By: Nora Beverly Rose AllenWhen: Saturday Apr 12, 2008 at 6:00 PMWhere: R151431 RstSacramento, California|5 95814United StatesDescription:Nora Beverly Rose Allen Click Here To View Event...
Posted by Nora on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:22:00 PST

First Day Back

Sac State can kiss my ass.  Three of my classes were canceled.  I spent the better part of the day cross treking the campus in search of replacement classes.  I have found two thus far....
Posted by Nora on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:46:00 PST

A Year in The Life.

Survey time folks.  I'm counting down the days to my next birthday.  Another year older and I'm taking stock.   Most people do this around the December 31st / January 1st mark.&nbs...
Posted by Nora on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:01:00 PST

Like What You See? Yeah, I made it.

It looks like I'm going to be selling some of my knits in a local boutique. Hand bags, hats, and scarves. All hand made and all natural fibers.More information to come plus, pictures from my collectio...
Posted by Nora on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:06:00 PST

Stop it

I'm really sick of the girls who think it's cool to act like idiots and the boys who embrace stupidity. If you've ever left a bar at 2am, you know what I mean. I am not implying that I am exempt from ...
Posted by Nora on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:20:00 PST

All About Me

..> ..> TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey Name: Nora Beverly Rose Current Location: My Bedroom Eye Color: Blue Green Hair Color: Red Height: 5'3" Right Handed or Left Handed: Righty Your He...
Posted by Nora on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:27:00 PST

I Love This Passage

"Is it your wish, my brother, to go into solitude? Is it your wish to seek the way to yourself? Then linger a moment, and listen to me. He who seeks, easily gets lost. All loneliness is guiltthus sp...
Posted by Nora on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:20:00 PST

Fucking A Memory

With out going into too much detail, can I just say I find annoying and rude the tenacity and zeal with which I am currently being pursued by one of my ex's?  It's over.  I'm through.&n...
Posted by Nora on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:07:00 PST

My Spanish Is A Bit Rusty. . .

¡Cuál es incorrecto con la gente?!  Tengo una muestra en mí que dice que ' idiota?'  Soy una buena persona, yo no merezco ser tratado como un yo-yo humano.  Aquí está y la idea: pare el...
Posted by Nora on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:22:00 PST

He-tox?

Think of it as like a detox from the Y chromosome.  I'm tired of the games and the bull shit.  I need a break.  No men for Nora for at least one week. Okay, wait, how about the next si...
Posted by Nora on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:32:00 PST