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Ptaradactyl

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Poetess. Chicagoan. Obsessive maker of things:www.luckywhale.etsy.com

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Nina Simone. David and Amy Sedaris. Seamus Heaney. John Lennon. Martin Luther King. Zora Neale Hurston. Roald Dahl. Andy Warhol. David Bowie. Stephen Colbert. Charlie Chaplin. Willy Wonka.

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My Blog

new blog(s)!

Hey folks, I have two new blogs on the internets. A silly fashiony shoe one and a geeky one. Here they are: www.chicagoshoevice.blogspot.com and www.acrosswords.blogspot.com I am so totally advertisi...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:07:00 GMT

fun things to do at work include...

...going through the lost and found bin, discovering a pair of oversized Harry Potter glasses, putting said glasses on and talking in a high-pitched British accent: "I say, Hermione, let's play some q...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:38:00 GMT

billy pilgrim has become unstuck in time

Slaughter House Five was one of those life-changing books that made me feel all smart and other-worldly and totally made me want to be a writer.Oh, Kurt Vonnegut. Sigh. RIP. Here is something dorky/aw...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:55:00 GMT

thoughts in time and out of season (this is a line from a crappy Jim Morrison poem)

Biking fast down beside lake Michigan is fun and hard work and beautiful and it smells like sewage and spring and sand and sweat and other s-things. I have this tattoo on my right shoulder now, and I...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:08:00 GMT

doncha wish you were a pussycat doll like me?

So. I just saw this ad on TV for the next reality show on WGN. And it's called... get ready... "The Search for the Next Pussycat Doll." Because, apparently these talented performers need a new additio...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:44:00 GMT

effin' snot freezing. grub street.

So. I didn't realize that your eyeballs can actually be cold until today, rounding the corner to my apartment building. This gust of wind came up and said, "bitch-what?" and my entire face went numb. ...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:25:00 GMT

Binge Readers Anonymous

I am book ravenous right now. I have read more in the past month than I think I did all last year. I'm binge-reading, even. Reading for hours on end. Reading on the train. Reading at work. Reading whe...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:17:00 GMT

part two

Here is our favorite girl scout who provided thin mints. mmmm thin mints. Here is what I was going for last night. I couldn't quite get my hair to do that. ^ She must have used some crazy shit, like...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:34:00 GMT

some things

Last night I went to a "punk rock bar" with my two room mates and my room mate's friend. I'm glad I went out because I always feel like I have to do something on Halloween, but it was so anti-climatic...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:57:00 GMT

i i i i i

i'm going to run with it too. Cause Cassie is an internets phenom, baby. i want to write something earth shattering. to publish a book. to be a good person.i need to worry less, about $300 more a mont...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:16:00 GMT