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Miss Jenkins

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal ~ H

About Me


The great, ancient Library of Celsus in Ephesus, Turkey
Knowledge is Power, people!


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My Interests

www.thelarrypage.com, Claw machines (I rule), games of skill and strategy, collecting magnets, Reading, Newsweek, The Sun Magazine, Wearing pretty dreses, picking my face, drinking Propel, the Middle East, Bombay Sapphire and tonics (with a lime), Cooking, Eating and Making Soup for my awesome man, Kewpie Dolls, British Humor, Art Deco, working at the Parkview, AP Style and the Chicago Manual of Style, Antiquing with my mom and sis, who always find cooler shit than I do (I stole your wallet, Colleen!), Baroque music, wine samples, collecting vintage and antique dolls, pedicures, media and literary blogs, beatrice.com, marriedtothesea.com, houseplants and all Cats, big and small, feral and domestic, including my sweet lil Siamese Pookie (aka Winnie)and my niece kitty Muffy (aka Beezer, Louise, Scruff, etc.), Roy (aka Little Guy, Son, Fat Boy, etc.) and Millie (aka Milewski, Chunky Bo Bunky, Bitch, etc.)

I'd like to meet:


Music:

Old Country Music
Western Swing
Bluegrass
Rock n Roll
Experimental
Noise
SIRIUS GOLD!
Blues
I like Pirate Cat Radio, as well as 89.3 and 91.1. I don't like mainstream radio so much. Starting to appreciate the scare factor of Coast to Coast as I'm falling asleep.

Movies:

The Ice Storm, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, O Brother Where Art Thou, Boys Don't Cry, The Last Emperor, Millions, Bend it Like Beckham, Bad Education, Closer, Ghost World

Books:

The Sun Magazine, Newsweek, Veronica, The God of Small Things, Lucy, Midnight's Children, The Awakening, Random Family, Ordinary People, Interpreter of Maladies, White Teeth, Tropic of Cancer, Fortress of Solitude, Motherless Brooklyn, The Human Stain, The Buddha of Suburbia, Shame

My Blog

Because Im a Word Nerd

Cary Conover for The New York Times Neil Neches, on a No. 5 train, underneath the placard that has earned him plaudits for his proper use of the semicolon. By SAM ROBERTS Published: February 18, 20...
Posted by Miss Jenkins on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:46:00 PST

Seriously, though

Bombay Sapphire + Crown Royal + Amstel Light + MYSPACE = Bad Idea. Thanks for the drinks, fools. Your punishment for getting me drunk was the sweet sting of my poisonous word darts.
Posted by Miss Jenkins on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:12:00 PST

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

You scored as Existentialist. You think that humans are ontologically bad but morally good.  You believe that persons have no intrinsic value, but they make their own value through their art and...
Posted by Miss Jenkins on Thu, 17 May 2007 01:34:00 PST

The best Antiques Roadshow story ever!

I remember watching this story when it first aired, and I almost cried. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!   A Hand-woven Treasure by Dennis Gaffney The specific age of so many objects b...
Posted by Miss Jenkins on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:45:00 PST

International Marketing Blunders

So I'm working on this Marketing book, and I just couldn't resist posting this hilarious section on what can happen when lazy executives don't bother to understand the language or culture of thei...
Posted by Miss Jenkins on Tue, 23 May 2006 08:01:00 PST