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About Me

Contributing editor Muffy Conant-Emmons is a former resident of Washington, D.C. Her privately printed memoir of that time, Strom und Drang, is said to have raised more than eyebrows on the Georgetown dinner party circuit. She now lives in retirement in her ancestral manse near Beaufort, SC, where she enjoys gardening, needlepoint, and sticking wild pigs with a pike."You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us...But if you are interested in life it never lets you down. I am interested in the blueness of the cheese. You don't do crosswords, do you, Mr Wormold? I do, and they are like people: one reaches an end. I can finish any crossword within an hour, but I have a discovery concerned with the blueness of cheese that will never come to a conclusion -- although of course one dreams that perhaps a time might come..." - Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana

My Interests

The Edible Schoolyard, deep ecology, sustainable agriculture, Alice Waters, permaculture, locavores, Louise Brooks, found objects, the 1920s, fonts, Japan, fountain pens, voice acting, WWII, Achewood, cured meats, polka, beer snobbery, painted toenails, playing dress-up, Boston terriers, French bulldogs, sordid tales, Deco, harpsichord, banjo, ukulele, surf guitar, Soviet Russia, orchids, cannons, Dorothy Draper, classic cocktails

I'd like to meet:

Nick & Nora Charles.

Music:

Anonymous 4, Beirut, Belle and Sebastian, Benjamin Britten, Betty Hutton, BjÃ¶rk, Boswell Sisters, Broken Social Scene, Cinerama, The Clash, Cole Porter, The Concretes, Cornelius, Cyndi Lauper, Department of Eagles, Dolly Parton, Edith Piaf, Erik Satie, Feist, The Futureheads, Fruit Bats, Franz Ferdinand, Fred Astaire, Future Bible Heroes, Grizzly Bear, Her Space Holiday, Hoagy Carmichael, I Am The World Trade Center, Iron and Wine, Irving Berlin, Joanna Newsom, John Dowland, Johnny Mercer, Juan Garcia Esquivel, The Magnetic Fields, The Make-up, Maude Maggart, Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester, Mike Doughty, Mirah, Mountain Goats, Nada Surf, Nancy Sinatra, Nico, Paris Texas, Paul Simon, Pinback, The Pixies, Pizzicato Five, Phoenix, Prince, Rainer Maria, Rilo Kiley, Robbie Williams, The Rolling Stones, Royksopp, The Sea and Cake, The Shins, Sly and the Family Stone, The Specials, Stereo Total, Sufjan Stevens, Tegan and Sara, Trembling Blue Stars, TV On the Radio, Vince Giordano and His Nighthawks, Wanda Jackson, Wedding Present, Ween, The Would-Be-Goods, Yma Sumac

Movies:

One Two Three, The Thin Man, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Ping Pong, Daybreak Express, The Fox and the Hound, Lost in Translation, Cry Baby, The Secret of NIMH, Annie Hall, Georgy Girl, Heathers, The Princess Bride, The Great Mouse Detective, Harold and Maude, Chinatown, Little Shop of Horrors, Ghost World, Gosford Park, The City of Lost Children, Amelie, Spirited Away, The Big Lebowski, Hook, Wet Hot American Summer, The Ice Storm, High Society, All About Eve, Good Morning, Le Roi de Coeur (King of Hearts), Dead Man, Brazil, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Great Escape, Bonnie and Clyde

Television:

Home Movies, Absolutely Fabulous, Gilmore Girls, Kids in the Hall, Conan O'Brien, Upright Citizens Brigade, MST3k, Homicide, Reno 911!, Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Oz, Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi), What Not to Wear (BBC), The Office (BBC), Blackadder, Jeeves & Wooster, Little Britain, Get Smart, Extras, The Young Ones, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Singing Detective, Pennies From Heaven, Scrubs

Books:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kurt Vonnegut, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gunter Grass, Tom Wolfe, Tom Robbins, Daniel Clowes, Haruki Murakami, Ryu Murakami, Evelyn Waugh, William Faulkner, Stephen Fry, Thomas Hardy

Heroes:

Phil Hartman, Mary Pickford, Dolly Parton, Hugh Laurie.