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Tara

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About Me

hi. how are you?my first book debuts this fall through Schiffer Publishing. titled GHOSTS OF MANHATTAN, your views on the afterlife determine if it falls under fiction or non-fiction. it features classic old bastards like Aaron Burr and Peter Stuyvesant, as well as the gentlemanly Paul Robeson and the legendary madam Polly Adler. and of course, everyone's favorite fuck-ups Sid and Nancy make an appearance. i added modern mystical muthafuckas that go boo in the night as well.i used to write satirical musings for culturekitchen , a top- ranked progressive blog.these can be found HERE . culturekitchen was given a blurb in "Newsweek" as a blog to keep an eye on, but i feel that is physically hard to do on a consistent basis. irritates the cornea. i also question if "Newsweek" understands progressiveness. let us see now...i write short stories and essays as well. recently, i decided to refuse all copy work, which requires very little effort as i was not getting much of it anyway. i also work as a writing tutor.i am just glad my only book will soon be my first one.i lived in Chicago, Miami Beach and NYC. i am from Tennessee, born in a town known for its annual Poke Sallet Festival, but raised in Chattanooga. i have relayed messages as a substitute teacher for special education children and as a telemarketer for the masses, ring-a-ding-ding. in 1997, i sold a pair of shoes to Barry Gibbs without any epiphanies. i acted as principal characters in two commercials and set sail on a cruise ship as an entertainer. i suffered indirect lightning strikes twice (slight shock first time; slashed open the top of my foot the second). i received no medical treatment either time, but i need no doctor to tell me that the electricity probably gave me as of yet undiscovered super powers. perhaps during a time of crisis, a bolt will shoot out of my vaginal wall socket and blow up bad guys.

My Interests

poo on the shit.

I'd like to meet:

DB Cooper... on the way down.

Music:

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Movies:

any movie in which Vin Diesel plays a babysitter is fine by me.also, i own an original Star Classics video tape of this:and this is the best Christmas movie ever. everyone should see it:if the movie is well made and well written, i like it. i do not stick to genres in anything.

Television:

DEADWOOD, SOUTH PARK, BRITISH MYSTERIES, HISTORY/DISCOVERY CHANNEL, THE SIMPSONS, DRAWN TOGETHER, CHARLIE ROSE, BBC NEWS, TRAVEL SHOWS, PSYHC, MONK, ALL IN THE FAMILY, NOW, and of course, SOLID GOLD.

Books:

Shakespeare (though usually not his comedies bc they ain't that damn funny, though his tragedies have a lot of humor) Paine, Franklin, Mary Shelley, Mark Twain, Chekhov, Chopin, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Nin, O'Neill, Beckett, Brecht, Christie, Georges Simenon, Maupassant, Baldwin (not Stephen), Hughes, Wallace Thurman, O. Henry, Camus, Maugham, Neruda, Vallejo, JK Toole, Sylvia Plath, Mary Oliver, Mary Jo Bang, Jack Gilbert, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Pryor, Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, David Milch, Madeline L'Engle, Roald Dahl, Caryl Churchill, Alice Sebold, David Sedaris, Maya Angelou, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Ma Jian, Molly Ivins, Helen Thomas, Gay Talese, Lewis Black, Philosophy Greats, always THE PARIS REVIEW, short stories (too hard to list books)

Heroes:

parents, brother, Pauline, Etta, Helen Steele, Dave Morris, male adult entertainers(they really take that "only small actors" quote quite seriously), Van Gogh, people who stand in front of tanks, Margaret H. Stager, Paul Robeson, Anais Nin, Nina Simone, Josephine Baker, Tokyo Rose, Anna Politkovskaya, Molly Ivins, Agatha Christie, short order cooks and "proper" chefs, Mark Twain, Einstein, MAN ON THE TRAIN, whatever warped humor created the world, garbage men, Beethoven,lovers and plain 'ole sluts, artists, thinkers, the producers of MR. AND MRS. SMITH for having the courage to see it through. i am watching it right now; it really sucks.