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Patty

Horrors come in ones, twos, threes...

About Me


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My Interests

Knitting, sewing, spinning fiber into yarn, bicycling as transportation, woodland roaming, comic books, reading, drawing, animals and insects, Twin Peaks, Soviet-era Russian animation, and of course...the art and science of true soapmaking.

Music:

Ankh, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Kino, Neil Young, ELO, The Rolling Stones, Serge Gainsbourg, Yo La Tengo, Frank Zappa, Patsy Cline, silver jews, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Kinks, Cat Power, Bjork, Stevie Nicks

Movies:

Performance, Eraserhead, Johnny Suede.

Television:

"...I mean he's a great guy and all, but he had like this awful chronic gasoline habit at the time. And by the time we reached Marrakesh he was just busting for a gallon. I mean he was a total and utter wreck. And I was like dying for a cigarette, but the man was a total fire hazard. I mean, we'd been close for years, but when he started to, you know, glow in the dark, I thought, uh oh, it's time to split."

Books:

The Tin Drum, The Assault, The Forsyte Saga, Victorian-era fiction, The Piano Teacher, The Falcon, Love and Rockets, The Little House books, Hate

My Blog

Firecracker

Hot.  It's HOT in here, in my office.  Right now.  *Pant*  And I'm wearing a heavy wool skirt. I only wear skirts and dresses, by the way.  Never trousers.  I used to wea...
Posted by Patty on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:31:00 PST

Too school for cool?

Well, well.  Haven't done this blog thing for a while now. For all th' faithful readers out there (all four of you), hear me: life is going fine. I work in a cubicle.  To have a job whe...
Posted by Patty on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:10:00 PST

Almost finished.

This trip is almost done.  I will be home in a little more than a week.(Home: Minnesota, at least for now.)I am really glad that I got to travel.  Yeah, I'm broke, no doubt about that...but ...
Posted by Patty on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:49:00 PST

Continuation of the last blog.

Still Ligo.  Still raining.  Still drunk.  And about to get drunker. We 3 (David, Eliz and I) just had a nifty jam session: boy on guitar & girls on recorders (me on soprano recorde...
Posted by Patty on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:08:00 PST

Who can I thank for this?

Who can I thank for this, for my semi-interesting life of late?Who is responsible for me getting out into the world & learning to live? My sister, Elizabeth. Happy Ligo, folks.  Currently it'...
Posted by Patty on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:40:00 PST

I like food.

I dunno what it is, but I have had a huge appetite ever since I landed in Europe.  The food here tastes really good!At the moment I am drinking a hot cup of black tea topped with sugar and some r...
Posted by Patty on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:29:00 PST

Latvia Miscellany

I've been in Latvia for 2 weeks now and I really like it here.  Riga is comfortable & calming yet also exciting & intriguing...today I have another Latvian language lesson!  I am try...
Posted by Patty on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:21:00 PST

Arrival in Riga

I arrived here in Riga, Latvia, just 3 days ago but I think I am already getting comfortable with the place.  This city, to me, is very interesting and colorful and varied...winding cobblest...
Posted by Patty on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:08:00 PST

Of syringes, the Rio Grande, and porn inside of trailers

During a recent episode of stoned contemplation, I let my mind wander like a balloon and did not feel the need to pull it back by the string.  Memories flooded inside my head.  I laughed out...
Posted by Patty on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 07:45:00 PST

Family History

The weekend before last I went back to my parents' house in Minnesota.One of the things I did was sit down and sort through a box full of photos from my father's side of the family.  Basically, m...
Posted by Patty on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:00:00 PST