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About Me

I'm a folklorist and a reporter for the Eugene Weekly I wrote a thesaurus; it's in its "Beta version" (yes, it is tedious, boring, dull, dreary, wearisome . . . to write a thesaurus, and who knew thesauri had Beta versions anyway?) sometimes I teach at the UO.

I possibly spend too much time with dogs and horses, but I don't see that as a problem. Really.

I love hot sauce. And hot water.

I like to be in the middle of nowhere. Where my cell phone doesn't work, there's no internet and my dog goes crazy with joy and runs around like a mad thing.This weekend, the dog stayed at home, but I took Huey to the state park and galloped around the fields all by our lonesome, jumped some random park fences and forded the stream. Again and again and again because the streams was nice and cool, and I liked the splashes....

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Please who spend too much time with dogs or horses. Or bears. Or voles. Or wolves Ok, no, wait, maybe not bears or wolves unless it's at a distance. That's how people get eaten.

People who are ill-behaved in well-intended ways.

People who are passionate about something.

Note here that I said passionate -- not weirdly obsessed.

People who when you tell them you accidentally melted their linoleum floor while housesitting, laugh and tell you they weren't all that fond of that floor anyway.

People who when you tell them "I'm sorry my dog broke your window with her head," say "If I was a dog I'd probably break windows with my head too."

My Blog

One thing I can't blame on the moon

was my computer dying two weeks ago. Or possibly it was killed when the dogs ran into the table, upsetting a can of soda behind my computer. Either way. It died. Or rather, when the Mac Store quoted m...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:25:00 GMT

Another full moon . . . another disaster

I'm completely exaggerating. It was not a disaster. More like. . . a debacle. I took on a little too much these last couple days. I thought I could teach classes, write the thesaurus, take care of my ...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:36:00 GMT

dogs n cops II

I was actually going somewhere with the dogs n cops theme. But I only got as far as dogs n sheep. Not that long after the lost sheep incident my little black truck began to meet its demise. It began w...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:24:00 GMT

dogs n cops

In case you were wondering, I broke my finger when Huey kicked me. It healed with a little lump. It fits in with my separated shoulder and broken neck. Doctors are for sissies. . . Actually, it's ma...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:54:00 GMT

It MUST be the Full Moon

Last night was the full moon. Norma always blames the full moon for freaky things, and since she tends to be right in a large number of her observations, I think I will blame my current string of odd ...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:49:00 GMT

"doubled-barreled"

To be "double-barreled" to those of us who ride horses is to borrow a metaphor from the shotgun. Double barreling is when a horse kicks out with both hind feet at once. My horse Huey is an expert at t...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:42:00 GMT

Charismatic Megagfauna

My friend M, an expert on picking up women online, informed me that some daters are hunters, and some are prey (M is an environmentalist, so no surprise he assumes people are like voles and spotted ow...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:49:00 GMT

I know you meant well with what you said but

did you have to say it that way?Sometimes people say things to me that I know are meant in the nicest way, but they just come out with peculiar unintended meanings that they themselves don't, well, in...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:01:00 GMT

Trolls

The trouble with trolls (also in Denmark known as bjrgfolk), is that unlike fictional trolls which are depicted as ugly, real trolls can actually appear to be like normal human beings, and their trol...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:34:00 GMT