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SurBur!

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About Me

I have no known food or medicinal allergies. I also have no appendix.

My Interests

Books and everything having to do with them: language, reading, writing, designing, papermaking, etc. Being in nature. My dog Oliver. Wine. Extra-dark chocolate bars. Sexy text messages. Running. Portland, Oregon. Solitude. Digital Photography. Pun-a-licious t-shirts. Not talking on the phone. Not using a microwave. Not giving presentations. Walking instead of driving. Thai food. Wasabi Peas. Direct Deposit. Snail mail. University of Denver Publishing Institute. Freelancing. Planning my next big adventure.

I'd like to meet:

Pablo Neruda, Larry David

Music:

still, Joe's mixed-cd.

Movies:

favorite movie I've seen recently: You and Me and Everyone We Know. Go rent it this instant! "Back and Forth," that's all I have to say...

Television:

I so don't have time to watch television, even if I had television or if the tv set in the lobby downstairs hadn't been stolen.

Books:

Currently reading: Love in the Time of Cholera

Heroes:

Margaret Sanger; whoever invented dental floss

My Blog

Did anyone watch the Democratic Iowa Debate yesterday?

Who was that crazy guy in the middle?
Posted by SurBur! on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:51:00 PST

Today's MSN Hot Search Topics

PETA Tornadoes American cheese Torture Teen surgeon wtf?
Posted by SurBur! on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:48:00 PST

i love random festivals. especially when they involve barbarism and beer.

Finland: Wife Carrying World Championships - July 6-8 This event gets more popular every year as competitors vie for the wacky world title and a coveted prize of winning the wife's weight in beer. ...
Posted by SurBur! on Thu, 03 May 2007 08:59:00 PST

At The Dallas/Fort Worth Airport

I sit on the skylink, whirling from Gate C to Gate A. A man enters through the parting   doorway: "I don't mind negotiation as long as you negotiate with honor." This   in response to a suit...
Posted by SurBur! on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:59:00 PST

Real Lawyers Who Have Great "Literary Lawyer" Names

Dexter C. Rumsey, III P. Daniel Crumpler, III Frank Sofocleous Elizabeth Chichester Morrogh Baxley T. Tankard Croxton Gordon Forbes Robinson Reback Cornelious H. Doehrty, Jr. Morton A. Faller Francis ...
Posted by SurBur! on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:50:00 PST

4 Hours 12 Minutes and 19 Seconds

...is the time it took to complete the Shamrock Marathon this weekend and live to tell about it. Next time...less than four hours.
Posted by SurBur! on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:29:00 PST

Enjoyable Words/Phrases

Ukulele Marzipan Intestinal Fortitude
Posted by SurBur! on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:55:00 PST

Manzanitas

Manzanitas sprout from the Sierras,licking across the landscapesof California, Arizona and Mexicolike rusty flames.Their limbs are dippedlike pilgrim's candlewicks, patientlyembalmed with a smooth wax...
Posted by SurBur! on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 03:21:00 PST

A Cerebral Matter

You're tattooed on my brain, wavesetched across the pinkfleshy ridges and zapping signals.Electric, like the cord runningfrom the inky needly to the wall, likehow I flinch and flutter.Tint the tissue ...
Posted by SurBur! on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:43:00 PST

To Will: A Political Poem

PRESIDENT ADDRESSES NATIONPrivate, First-Class Melissa Hobart (22) was standing sentryon a ledge or the ground or a wooden plank platform,in the dust-dry degrees (120) of a Baghdad summercrumbling to ...
Posted by SurBur! on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:04:00 PST