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Richard

Strike while the iron is tepid

About Me

day of the Water Snake, hour of the Earth Horse

My Interests

Bourbon and rye, giant sloths, Modernist architecture, personality tests, the Space Age, hyperbolic paraboloids, sighthounds, phone booths, stringing sentences together to make stories

I'd like to meet:

The person who will tell me everything

Music:

and/or, Cat Power, Swans, Come, Oranges Band, Patti Smith Group, Upper Crust, blackgirls, Palace, John Coltrane, Emmylou Harris, Flesheaters, Nick Drake, Karen Dalton, Two Dollar Guitar, Rocket from the Tombs, Bandway, Rosebuds, Reigning Sound, Pyrates Royale

Movies:

The Limey, Little Voice, Rushmore, Blade Runner, American Astronaut, The Big Lebowski

Television:

I Spy, My So-Called Life, The Prisoner

Books:

most anything by Alain Robbe-Grillet, Karen Joy Fowler, Wilton Barnhardt, Lewis Shiner, John Kessel, James Sallis, A.A. Milne, Donald Barthelme, Christopher Rowe, Carol Emshwiller, Vladimir Nabokov, and Shirley Jackson

Heroes:

Inigo Montoya

My Blog

CRF 2006 wrap-up

Good stuff:? the multi-talented Lady Merrilee Effingham (as well as the multi-talented harlequin who looked suspiciously like Lady Merrilee Effingham)? the morning jam sessions, the Queen's musicales,...
Posted by Richard on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:12:00 PST

Alternate reality (open on weekends)

In that place, the magician does this bit, "I'm Curious." And I am curious. I wrote an article about it. If the stars align properly, that article will be published someday soon. But my curiosity has ...
Posted by Richard on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:23:00 PST

In which we ponder the meaning of a random sequence of songs

Via Bondgirl: IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)2. Put it on shuffle3. Press play4. For every question, type the song...
Posted by Richard on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:04:00 PST

In which I am tagged

I was tagged and tasked by Anna to accomplish the following feat:   1. Grab the nearest book to you.2. Open the book to page 123.3. Find the fifth sentence.4. Post the text of the next 4 sentence...
Posted by Richard on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 07:30:00 PST

In which we take a silly quiz

My score on The Greek Mythology Personality Test:Nemesis(33% Extroversion, 66% Intuition, 72% Emotiveness, 42% Perceptiveness)You are a normally quiet person with very strong convictions and a marked ...
Posted by Richard on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:30:00 PST

The city vanishes

So, the other day I drove down Hillsborough for the first time since they destroyed the YMCA. The lovely, simple, modernist YMCA. The one where Barney Fife stayed when he came to Raleigh! Now a pile o...
Posted by Richard on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 06:47:00 PST

Yet Another Meme

Memed up via Anna:1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4."It was, it turned out, a twisted story."2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What can you touch?Sony Cas...
Posted by Richard on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:44:00 PST

Urocyon cinereoargenteus

Myspace just barfed and lost a lengthy post (which I will not try to replicate) about this gray fox and her kits, who currently live in a burrow underneath the building where I work. The building wher...
Posted by Richard on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 05:54:00 PST

bowling and rollerderby

To be clear: I like both, no matter what the names are of any groups I might've joined on here. The watching of the rollerderby and the doing of the bowling, both good. In fact, I need to get out more...
Posted by Richard on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:42:00 PST

I do not heart Word

Troubleshooting invalid page faults in Microsoft Word, when you've got a story you need to print out to take to a workshop, sucks rocks. I'm going back to my manual typewriter once this ordeal is over...
Posted by Richard on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST