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Carrie the Animal

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About Me

Actor, writer, animal rights activist, bookworm, dog trainer, friend, girlfriend, happy vegan.

This is my friend Charlotte Pig. Can you imagine having her for breakfast?

My Interests

Animal rights, rights (everyone's), animals, old TV, vintage clothing, Evan , international human rights, Tummi and Ella (absolutely wonderful dog friends), veganism, philosophy, theatre, writing, farm animals, taking photos of farm animals, religion, word and logic puzzles, politics (good dinner conversation, I hear), feminism (there is no other way), Paris, Disney (I'm not going to lie), pigs, dogs, books books books, social causes, naturalism, science, debunking the absurd.

AND: Farm Sanctuary , Amnesty International , PETA , Bitch , PlanUSA , the International Campaign for Tibet , and Planned Parenthood .

I'd like to meet:

Richard Dawkins, John Darnielle, Paul Thomas Anderson, Koko, Julia Sweeney, Dr. Drew Pinsky, James Randi.

What I mean when I say 'feminism' now is a state of being that can be lived by men as well as women. It means wholeness. Owning all of who you are. Generally, for women, the 'all' part means our capabilities, our strengths, our voices, what we stand for. For men it means owning our hearts, our sympathy, our compassion. That, to me, is what feminism is. -Jane Fonda

Music:

The Polyphonic Spree, Barenaked Ladies, Kevin Hearn, The Mountain Goats, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, John Lennon, Bright Eyes, Fiona Apple, Cat Stevens, Propagandhi, Simon and Garfunkel, Rufus Wainwright, Nellie McKaye, Ben Folds, Janis Joplin, Randy Newman, Regina Spekter, The Talking Heads, Peter Paul and Mary, REM, the Dixie Chicks and Evan Bailey .

Movies:

Harold loves Maude.
Magnolia, Harold and Maude, My Girl, Thank You for Smoking, In Good Company, Sunset Boulevard, The Long Long Trailer, Amelie, Forrest Gump, Toy Story I and II, Man on the Moon, Taxi Driver, Fight Club, As Good as It Gets, Little Miss Sunshine, The Exonerated, Born into Brothels, Funny Face, Donnie Darko, Peaceable Kingdom, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney), Anastasia, Romeo and Juliet (both),Manhattan Murder Mystery, Meet Your Meat , Eddie Izzard's Circle, and others.

Here's a good movie for you, right now!

Television:

I LOVE old TV. The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, I Love Lucy, The Bob Newhart Show, That Girl, Cheers, M*A*S*H, Get Smart, Fawlty Towers, Doogie Howser MD, Small Wonder, Out of this World, Mr. Belevedere, Arrested Development, Taxi, Get Smart, Seinfeld, The Brady Bunch, SNL, Family Ties, Friends, Love Connection, The Dog Whisperer, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Kids in the Hall, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Ellen (sitcom), Ellen (talk show), The Office (US version), King of the Hill, Friends, The Simpsons, the James Randi show I can only find on youtube.

Books:

The God Delusion, NO LOGO, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Catcher in the Rye, The Lives of Animals, Diet for a New America, Still Life with Woodpecker, Cunt, The Pig who Sang to the Moon, Charlott's Web, Fast Food Nation, Right Wing Women, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Female Chauvenist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Reflections on Christian Spirituality, I'm Not the New Me, BITCHFest: 10 Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine, Under the Banner of Heaven, The Night Listener, Persepolis, any books about animals. And, it's not exactly a book (actually, it's a monologue on CD, but it doesn't fit in any of these sections and it HAS TO be mentioned), but also Julia Sweeney's AMAZING Letting Go of God.

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Heroes:

Lily Pig, who jumped off a slaughter truck and saved her own life.

These men:

Richard Dawkins, Tummi.

My Blog

Stephanie’s Meme

-Album set on current ipod rotation: I don't have a working ipod. But I've been listening to Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, and the new REM album... -Crafts being worked on: Um... strawberries made of...
Posted by Carrie the Animal on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:14:00 PST

Something unimportant

I just have to share my joy at using half.com to sell my books. Yes, this is me, Carrie, and not some posting-bot. Carrie, who likes to poop. Carrie, who lives with Tummi and Ella. Anyway, I have been...
Posted by Carrie the Animal on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:43:00 PST

Supposedly this is...

The Ultimate Boyfriend Survey.HistoryWhere did you two first meet?: In The Summit.When exactly did you two first meet?: Freshman year of college, but he doesn't even remember it. Things took off jun...
Posted by Carrie the Animal on Sat, 31 May 2008 12:49:00 PST

Psychics, Improv, Evan and God [updated!]

1. I am listening to Loveline, and they have some yahoo named James Van Praagh on. He claims to be a psychic/medium, but all of his answers have suspiciously mirrored the techniques of cold readings. ...
Posted by Carrie the Animal on Fri, 23 May 2008 11:57:00 PST

HUGE!

This is a huge day in California! The California Superior Court has ruled to legalize same-sex marriage!48 states to go!...
Posted by Carrie the Animal on Thu, 15 May 2008 11:47:00 PST

Song from a Past Life

Starry, starry nightPaint your palette blue and grayLook out on a summer's dayWith eyes that know the darkness in my soulShadows on the hillsSketch the trees and the daffodilsCatch the breeze and the ...
Posted by Carrie the Animal on Wed, 14 May 2008 01:15:00 PST

Finding atheism

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who wil...
Posted by Carrie the Animal on Tue, 06 May 2008 11:39:00 PST

Dr. Drew

May I say, I am a huge fan of Dr. Drew. His show, Loveline, has been a staple of my life since sixth grade, when my sister taught me to listen in on an old walkman with crappy earphones. We would both...
Posted by Carrie the Animal on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:26:00 PST

I don’t know if I truly had a hero before I knew Richard Dawkins.

Richard and friends parody Ben Stein's shitfest of a film. ...
Posted by Carrie the Animal on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:30:00 PST

Gilda Radner

I'd been looking for her autobiography, but it is out-of-print and hard to find and expensive when I would find it online. But last week, I went to the Hollywood Studio Museum with Roommate, and found...
Posted by Carrie the Animal on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:48:00 PST