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About Me

as my dearest kathie recently said:
i'm adorable in that 'hey, get in my pants' kind of way.

My Interests

.. NPR/WNYC/radio, photography (Miss KC's and George Hurrell's, to name two), my baby nico.

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I'd like to meet:

ira glass and alton brown. i heart them both. judge as you must.

My Friend Space
I have many imaginary friends.

my baby

my baby daddy

my (gay) boyfriend

my bff

my partner in crime

my inspiration

my jew

my brother

my sweetness

my grump

my beefcake

my pedagogue

Music:

sinatra. cat. elvis (presley, the only real 'elvis'). the slackers. d-plan. ella. hoagy carmichael. bocelli. billie holiday. the partridge family. verdi. the shins. edith piaf. lena horne. the long winters. wagner. the decemberists. the magnetic fields. the gits. bessie smith. beirut. sarah vaughn. blackalicious. feist. iron & wine. bowie. the specials. t.rex. portishead. mazzy star. the anniversary. and much much more.

Movies:

gwtw. his girl friday. teacher's pet. groundhog day. mulholland drive. amelie. the good, the bad, and the ugly. mystic river. unforgiven. the outlaw josey wales. bringing up baby. every which way but loose. 8 1/2. ladri di biciclette. blow up. you've got mail. turner and hooch. to have and have not. the big sleep. and so on and so forth.

Television:

twin peaks. lost. this american life. coupling. how i met your mother. daily show. six feet under. arrested development. gilmore girls. match game. jeopardy. the price is right. game show network. csi. and some other odds and ends.

Books:

gwtw/margaret mitchell. lord byron. mm kaye. haruki murakami. gruks/piet hein. italo calvino. daphne dumaurier. oscar wilde. wh auden. anne sexton. emily dickinson. pema chodron. jane austen. rilke. sylvia plath. kurt vonnegut. subwayland. this is new york. fast food nation. harry potter. thich nhat hahn. and the rest.

Heroes:

judith light.

My Blog

my mantra

getting older. so many should bes, so many could bes, too many might have beens. and so it goes. they don't matter, i know. but that knowing (and accepting and letting it go) are the challenge. and wh...
Posted by Kris on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:22:00 PST

on the road with the soggy-bottomed girls!

And the soggy-bottomed girls just happen to be Kathie and me. Lucky you.So Miss Carroll's and my moist (ha) travels/travails in southern Maryland last summer have finally been printed and I couldn't h...
Posted by Kris on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:48:00 PST

why do potatoes make good detectives?

...because they keep their eyes peeled! ba-doom-ching! haha. so clever.but yeah...TRUTH: there is nothing to eat in Harlemfinally, my steady gripes have been vindicated by the fourth estate (and, yeah...
Posted by Kris on Sat, 19 May 2007 12:50:00 PST

the woman behind the disguise

okay, these things amuse me -- plus it's keeping me from completing a long overdue report. it's particularly fitting considering my recent hopes/aspirations toward superherodom. drum roll, please....t...
Posted by Kris on Tue, 15 May 2007 06:01:00 PST

support 'We Are All Kenyans Today'

UPDATE: Go be WAAKT's friend. Do it!My friend runs this non-profit that helps Kenyan schoolchildren by selling t-shirts at marathons across the country. Basically, the money she raises goes back to a ...
Posted by Kris on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:24:00 PST

new toy!

okay...random prelude. a myspace ad just flashed before me, posing this question: "is it okay to have sex on the first date?" ummm, no. in fact, i would say that it's not okay to have sex on any 'date...
Posted by Kris on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:58:00 PST

lil stine lives again

Well, thanks to Time Warner I was sans Internet for most of today...which gave me an excuse to get off my duff and enjoy the nice weather and to finally scan a bunch of childhood pics for a little pho...
Posted by Kris on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:50:00 PST

'as above, so below'

i'm beginning to think it might all just be an enabling, self-fulfilling scam (if you let it, at least), but i haven't given up yet on the world of astrology. the sociological, historical and cultural...
Posted by Kris on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:04:00 PST

On the road again

600 miles and three days later, a brief and assorted tally of the things I encountered trekking across the Mid-Atlantic all by my lonesome last weekend...Snow storms: 1Gas fill ups: 4Cemetaries toured...
Posted by Kris on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:15:00 PST

"You feel involved when watching TV soaps"

alright, a little more you didn't want to know about me. i took this test just about a year ago as a little getting to you/getting to know me exercise. i was curious to see if the last year -- filled ...
Posted by Kris on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:37:00 PST