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Poke A. Dot

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I'm a workaholic, bowling kitsch fanatic, vegan, and wannabe roller girl. I'm a total softie for pets. I have three cats, a dog, and a husband and am obsessed by cooking (when I have time). I have a salty mouth and am a practicing old fart. My car, Gert, is a baby blue, white top, 1975 Custom Dodge Dart.

My Interests

Vegan cooking, gardening (in theory, not so much in practice), bowl-o-rama, 50s, 60s stuff, beehives, lamps, SHOES!!!!, rockabilly women, knitting, roller derby, sleeping

Music:

Garage, country, rawkabilly, indie rawk: Big Sandy and the Fly-rite Boys, Dave and Deke Combo, BR549, Maddox Brothers and Rose, Patsy Cline, Jean Shepherd, Wanda Jackson, The Cramps, Collins Kids, Sonics, The Headcoatees, Shonen Knife, Flat Duo Jets, Slint, Rodan, Pavement, Guided by Voices, The Cows, Sebadoh, Amy Winehouse, Pink Martini, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, etc.

Movies:

Hairspray, Ju Dou, Mystic River, O Brother Where Art Thou, Capote, Flirting, Bedazzled (the one with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore), Little Miss Sunshine,

Television:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Veronica Mars, Project Runway, Inspector Morse Mysteries, crappy girly movies, Simpsons, Law and Order, Gilmore Girls . . .

Books:

anything by Mark Poirier (Goats, Heroes of Industry, Naked Pueblo, etc.), Sarah Vowell, David Sedaris, Finding Her Voice : The Saga of Women in Country Music, The Country Music Pop-Up Book : The Staff of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Devil in the White City