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erica

at times like these it was probably a good idea to carry a small hand puppet.

About Me

i talk to rocks.

more than you could ever want to know can be found here:

my "real" blog, luna morada

Which Western feminist icon are you?
You are Angela Davis! You were the THIRD WOMYN IN HISTORY to appear on the FBI's Most Wanted List. You are a communinist, black power-lovin' lady who shook up the United States when you refused to lie down quietly to oppression. You WENT TO JAIL! Wow. You kick so much more ass than Foxxy Brown.
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My Interests

books, making things out of other things, plants, weather, the sky, vegetarian food (especially when other people cook), poetry, revolutions, learning spanish, bikes, being outside, knitting, long hikes, the desert, alaska, travelling, environmental education, garlic, coffee, excessively large breakfasts, conversations, water, couch-hopping, documenting, places where there's "nothing to do", roads that don't go anywhere, histories, chocolate, small children, weird 16-yr. olds, jewelry, kitschy tourist crap, coincidences, pirates, bears, deconstructing ideology, etc.

I'd like to meet:

probably not your band.

Music:

jolie hollland, cat power, greg brown, pj harvey, rasputina, bettye lavette, beck, ani difranco, tori amos, lucinda williams, erykah badu, bela fleck, ben harper, hot buttered rum, bjork, joan baez, lauryn hill, le tigre, devendra banhart, lila downs, ozomatli, BLUEGRASS...in general, sad songs with trains in them, chick singers, drums...etc etc.

Movies:

pleasantville, whalerider, the royal tenenbaums, amalie, charlie and the chocolate factory, princess bride, oh brother where art thou?, harold & maude, shortbus, V for vendetta, me and you and everyone we know, the squid and the whale, junebug

Television:

Which Northern Exposure Character are You?
You are most like Ruth-Anne Miller. Ruth-Anne is the owner of Cicely's only general store. She came from the mainland to start her life over fresh. She is often stubborn but always kind and generous. She delights in learning about new and different cultures and enjoys taking risks once and a while.
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Books:

currently reading: birds of america (lorrie moore), the botany of desire (michael pollan), genius loci (alison deming)

Heroes:

i'm somewhat uncomfortable with the concept of heroes...

My Blog

fantasy

i think i've been sort of semi-consciously pretending i'm living in an eastern european novel. and i think it's been going on for quite a while.
Posted by erica on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:28:00 PST

something to say

the other night at the bake i had a brief existential crisis during jeff kanzler's set break and sat in the smoking room with tardy's rolling papers and a bag of tobacco and wrote something like the f...
Posted by erica on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:33:00 PST

oh, tourists...

"look, even the babies are cuter here!"-overheard at 229"oh, no, we're exhausted, we've just been going to the gift shops all day, we haven't even been to the main lodge yet..."-overheard phone conver...
Posted by erica on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:08:00 PST

slightly different questions

1) How old do you wish you were?i liked 7...but really, this is a silly question.2) Where were you when 9/11 happened?in the shower. then i got out, decided to wear what i'd come to think of as my "di...
Posted by erica on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:29:00 PST

stopping

i'm blogging about this here since it received such attention and support and stories of traffic tickets coming back to haunt you 10 years later, and thoreau-esque nights in jail, and legal/wardrobe a...
Posted by erica on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:51:00 PST

stupid noises in public

hey y'all, i want more babies in my life. they make me laugh and give me an excuse to make stupid noises in public. can some of you start procreating please? and as cassalyn pointed out, the future lo...
Posted by erica on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 05:25:00 PST

a 2 am rant about cops and biking in tucson

well, lovely evening, until i started riding home, and, as i and every biker in tucson who recognizes that A BIKE IS NOT A CAR does, didn't move my feet far enough back to qualify as a complete stop a...
Posted by erica on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:32:00 PST

"the grownup survey"

i've been resisting this one for a while...but no longer.1. What bill do you hate paying the most?probably gas, b/c it's a reminder of my dependence and complicity...and internet, because it seems so ...
Posted by erica on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:04:00 PST

this is just to say

i'm suddenly finding a lot of potential significance, about desire and expectation, etc etc, in that stupid plum poem. i've always hated it. what the hell?(also, and i feel the need to point this out,...
Posted by erica on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:01:00 PST

i'd forgotten...

how spoiled i am by women's studies and workshops. you say "vagina" in a regular lit class and you get a bunch of nervous shifting and repressed giggles. weird.
Posted by erica on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:47:00 PST