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Karen

Sparkle Neely, SPARKLE!

About Me

I am an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church of Modesto, CA. I am available for weddings and exorcisms.And I wish I could dance as good as this!!! ..OR THIS!!! ..

My Interests

Writing, reading, my fiance, travel, my girl gang The G-No's, Weekly World News, my tailless and toothless cat, Pop Culture Trivial Pursuit, Paris, procrastinating, wishing that I was fluent in something other than Pig Latin, hanging out with my fabulous friends, ice machines, one-star motels, four-star hotels, animatronics, the seven wonders of the ancient world, pointy-toed shoes, red lipstick, vintage clothing and tschochkes, trashy celeb gossip, aluminum Christmas trees, livejournal, breaking chain emails. In general, I am about as deep as a puddle in a drought.

I'd like to meet:

Shoji Tabuchi!
adopt your own virtual pet!

Music:

Well, it USED to be 1510 AM (R.I.P.), which USED to be the best radio station ever. So now it's back to listening to cd's and records (and tapes in my car)... and it's all the usual stuff like The Beatles, The Zombies, The Hollies, The Sonics, The Beach Boys, The Beastie Boys, Surfaris, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Dave Clark Five, We The People, Beau Brummels, The Barbary Coasters, The Ugly Beats, The Saturn V, Deke Dickerson's All Star... Band, Fortune & Maltese, The Tantrums, The Checkers, Elvises Presley and Costello, Aztec Camera, the Dukes of Stratosphear, XTC, The Dickies, X, The Jam, The GoGo's, The Pandora's, The Three O'Clock, The Shangri-La's, the Ronettes, The Chiffons, Petula Clark, Little Peggy March, THE BEAT-ELLES, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Percy Faith, Cole Porter lyrics, Martin Denny, Yma Sumac, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, 60's soul, garage, ska, power pop, soundtracks... I dunno, bands my friends are in and what my friends dj... I hate these questionnaires -- I can never think of everything I like, and the same thing happens when I go to Amoeba. I especially like 60's cheesy cocktail music -- the kind that I can listen to while cleaning my apartment and wearing a tiara. And the soundtrack to Xanadu is always a [guilty] pleasure. My new year's resolution is to learn THE MADISON and The Slop.

Movies:

'Tis the season for Valley of the Dolls. Wait, what am I saying? EVERY season is the season for Valley of the Dolls.

Books:

Eloise... and anything by Lynn Peril and Laurie Notaro.

Heroes:

GRANDMA PATSY, Dorothy Parker, Judy Blume, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor... oh yes. And Neely O'Hara of course. And above all else... ANDY PEREGRIN!!!!!!!!

My Blog

Love Carlos.

His bulletin:You've heard her spin crazy tales! You've watched her spin around drunk! Now you can listen to her spin some records!!This Friday, Karen Finlay gets her 15 minutes of fame as DJ VA-JEDI, ...
Posted by Karen on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:53:00 PST

IM DJ-ING AT KALEIDOSCOPE FRIDAY NIGHT AT 10PM!!!!

Hey all,The very nice and accommodating Kaleidoscope DJ's are letting yours truly, DJ VAJEDI, spin records at TEN PM on FRIDAY NIGHT!!! You don't want to miss this -- I'll be playing all my FAVORITE ...
Posted by Karen on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:26:00 PST

Thank you from the MCSC!

Hey all,Thank you to everybody who made it out the Mid-Century Supper Club Potluck -- it was a blast and wiener-riffic!  So much fun!Just a smattering of delectable (and not so delectable) dishes...
Posted by Karen on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:05:00 PST

Dont forget! The Mid Century Supper Club is Saturday!

Hey all,Don't forget, the Autumn Mid Century Supper Club Potluck is this Saturday at 2pm!  If you'd like to come and bring a questionably delectable dish, let me know!  Have you ever been cu...
Posted by Karen on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:34:00 PST

My blog won an award!

I was super, super honored the other day when I found out that my blog won "Best Blog of the Week" from a very blogger named Random Girl, on her blog, "The Way I See It."  Delving further into he...
Posted by Karen on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:59:00 PST

The Next MidCentury Supper Club Potluck Will Be...

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11!!!If you can't make this one, never fear -- we will be having the next one in December for a holiday theme.  Ooooh, think of the possibilities!!!xoxoxoPS I've updated my blog...
Posted by Karen on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:30:00 PST

It is time.

For the next Mid Century Supper Club Potluck!Inspired by the Mid-Century Supper Club on Flickr, Jennye and I hosted the first Mid Century Supper Club Potluck this past spring, and it was a fabulous --...
Posted by Karen on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:22:00 PST

Im just FULL of creative endeavors this week.

Well heeeelllleeewww!I think I should take staycations more often.  (Remind me to buy a lottery ticket today, so I can just stay home all the time.)  Because I have not one, but TWO tricks u...
Posted by Karen on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:34:00 PST

How to feel fabulous!

The key to feeling fabulous?  Don't listen to what Cosmo says, or what $8 million dollar earrings InStyle tells you to buy.  The real way you can feel and be fabulous is to sponsor me for th...
Posted by Karen on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:23:00 PST

BeBe Louise 1993-2008

It doesn't seem possible, but an hour ago we had to put down Miss BeBe Louise, the love of my life and best friend. On Monday night she had started acting strangely -- climbed into my lap and yowled ...
Posted by Karen on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:47:00 PST