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Sue

Banana, Peel Thyself!

About Me

Cold as ice cream, but still as sweet.Banana, Peel Thyself!Think lobally, act okily-dokily!Woman vs. Mild

My Interests

Maps, both antique and new. Comedy. Improvisation. Travel. Cats. Dogs. Films. Musculature. Biological Impact of Geology. Rhythm. Non-contiguous Nations. Audio Compatibility of Home Machinery. The Mangle. Simultaneous Invention. Planned Obsolesence. Essentials. Camping Gear. Made in China. Global Abomination. Abdominal Incarceration. Cancerous Benignity. Knowing Smiles. Canary Grins. Slag Heaps. Deserted Towns. Aging and the Equanimity of Arthritic Affliction Among Arthurian Historians. Chronic Cronyism. Chivalrous Shiva Worshipping Shiva Sitters. Grasp. From Many One. There Are Four Lights. Paternalism. Chicken/Egg. What if televisions were made as projectors in the first place, and computer monitors were assumed to have to be really big, projected on a big wall, so offices were really large and difficult to navigate, and you had a couch in it and could sleep in there, and everyone was in shape because they had to walk so far to another person's office in the normal course of your work, and work was fun, because all your work was projected on a wall all the time, and the space was really your own? Haphazard Use of the Subjunctive. Soccer. Feminist Disapproval of Standard Exhibitions of Masculinity. Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific Northwest. Scathing Anthropological Studies. Short World Leaders. Sneakers. Hispanic/Latino/a. Mr. and Miss Categorization. The Failure of Traditional Modes of Expression. Sign. Signifier. Signified. Treo Technology. The Pony Express. Modernization Changes Us Changes Modernization.

I'd like to meet:

007.

Music:

STICKERBOOK!, Nervous Cabaret, Velvet Underground, Neil Young, Pixies, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Ella Fitzgerald, Jazz Standards, Magnetic Fields, Aimee Mann, My Barbarian, Flaming Fire, David Bowie, Air, Stereolab, Queens of the Stone Age, Sonic Youth, Wings, Bacharach, Bach, cognitive dissonance as long as it has a reason, Sondheim, things you can feel with your ears, whatever is on iPod, Morning and/or Weekend Becomes Eclectic, Portishead, PJ Harvey, Radiohead, The Shins, The Strokes, clarinets in unison, theremins and voices, Kurt Weill, germans singing with accents i.e. Ute Lemper and Marlene Dietrich, Wilco, Thelonious Monk, Pavement, Nick Drake, classic rock, Grateful Dead, Lucinda Williams

Movies:

WOODY ALLEN, DAVID LYNCH, ROBERT ALTMAN, MEL BROOKS, The Night Porter, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusdae, Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2, anything with Michael Caine, James Bond with Sean Connery, Lord of the Rings, The Life Aquatic, The Big Lebowski, The Seventh Seal, The Seven Samuari, Dog Day Afternoon, The Deer Hunter, Grey Gardens, Apolcalypse Now (and Redux), The Hudsucker Proxy (satchelbutt), Fargo, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Austin Powers, Bonnie and Clyde, Sam Peckinpaw, Cool Hand Luke

Television:

30 ROCK IS THE BEST SHOW EVER, Heroes, Lost, The Office, Deadwood, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Daily Show, Mr. Show, Strangers with Candy, Star Trek, Tracey Ullman, The Ground Floor, Mr. Rogers, Martha, Oprah, The Tyra Banks Show, The View, Commercials, Nova, Michael Wood, Ian on Globe Trekker, Frontline, Da Ali G Show, Lost, but Twin Peaks was so much better, Three's Company, any parade of horribles, attempts at settled and sensible, Jeeves and Wooster, spit takes, ok, yes, it is true, I am so sorry, Felicity AND Charmed, is that a crime, i thought not, Battle of the Network Stars please come back, Ben Stiller Show, The Simpsons, Holiday programming that touches the hearts and minds of youngsters as well as traditional, sappy sentimental adults, but not for their kitsch factor (oh, Kitsch Factor) or memories of youth but for their secret messages, any show about animals, Jeopardy, Saturday AM non-cartoons, The Prisoner, unconsionable Dungeons and Dragons, Starting Over

Books:

Jude the Obscure. I don't really read books. The New Yorker is not a book. Jonathan Franzen. Also not a book. There are at least 6 partially read books on my nightstand. Nightstand, by Illiterate P. Bookingsixer.

Heroes:

We could be heroes! Oh I love the show Heroes!

My Blog

Foursomes

Television, restaurants and golf love foursomes. They have a unique dynamic, and, if one of them croaks, there are still three left. Television-wise, there have been a lot of fun and oddly similar d...
Posted by Sue on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:09:00 PST

Sneakers

I am nibbling on the hand that feeds me.
Posted by Sue on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:51:00 PST

OPINIONS

Opinions are like animals.  Everyone knows what they are, some people are afraid of some of them, SOME PEOPLE ACT LIKE THEM, some people aren't afraid of any of them but maybe they should be (!),...
Posted by Sue on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 01:41:00 PST

About Working On Holiday Weekends

ABOUT WORKING ON HOLIDAY WEEKENDS: I'm not BITTER. You should see the sweater I am wearing! It's cranberry. No one could be bitter in this sweater. It has lots of holes in it, but on purpose, because ...
Posted by Sue on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 01:24:00 PST

TELEVISION

Oh my god you guys, there are a lot of shows on television. It is very enjoyable to watch them! Thank you for making the TV, Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, a Russian-born American inventor working for Westi...
Posted by Sue on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 02:46:00 PST

Sandwiches

I appreciate a variety of sandwiches.  Not that I like them all, or want to eat them all, but I appreciate when they are all sitting out, or, conversely, the materials to make a sandwich are all ...
Posted by Sue on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 09:15:00 PST

Chins

Some people have chins that remind me of cups.  There is nothing wrong with these chins, per se, they are only cup reminiscent.  This in and of itself is not offensive. One person with a cup...
Posted by Sue on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:41:00 PST