Mary - ProfilesArchive

About Me

i'm a great date for that wedding you don't really want to go to.

My Interests

food, baking, movie&restaurant reviews, thrift stores, fashion, road trips, tarot cards, ice skating. knitting, sewing, sushi, writing (creatively and not-so-creatively, you know how it goes), giggling

I'd like to meet:

Urban campers; fashionistas who share my shoe size; competent drinkers; storytellers, jokers and gamblers; the only slightly insane..

Music:

New Pornographers, chicks with guitars, good hip hop, bouncy stuff like fountains of wayne, unbouncy stuff like spiritualized, minneapolis music, outkast, the coup, tom waits, bob dylan (specially nashville skyline), leonard cohen, MFDoom, modest mouse, atmosphere, aimee mann, tori (come on! you know she's hot)

Movies:

2046, darby o'gill and the little people, clash of the titans, heathers, wizard of oz, lost boys, big trouble in little china, saturday afternoon godzilla movies on channel 11, adaptation

Television:

hell's kitchen, the simpsons, family guy, the OC before it started to suck.

Books:

Joy of Cooking, Cake Bible, most stuff by Faulkner, Toni Morrison and EL Doctorow, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, the tao (a man once used this line on me: want to come back to my place and drink tang and read the tao? it worked), angels in amerika

My Blog

island of misfit boys

here's a wish: that there was an island where we could send all those men who demean and control the women in their lives. who hurt them with a slap or a kick or a vicious word. who tear down their se...
Posted by Mary on Thu, 10 May 2007 07:09:00 PST

Informed Consent, Choice and the Supreme Court

If you've paid attention to the news you know that the Supreme Court ruled that the Partial Birth Abortion Ban law (I hate to even use the name; "partial birth"? what does that mean? another example o...
Posted by Mary on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:19:00 PST

Offensive marketing at H&M Philly

Here's a letter I sent to H&M regarding an offensive marketing campaign at their Philadelphia store. If you agree, send letters to! Addresses at H&M website. I was dismayed and offended by the...
Posted by Mary on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:22:00 PST

michael richards

everyone by now has seen the infamous cell-phone camera footage of michael richard's racist rant at an LA comedy club and has heard all of the public hand-wringing over the deep-seatedness of American...
Posted by Mary on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:24:00 PST

love

is a lot like ice skating. the more you worry about falling, the worse it hurts when you do.
Posted by Mary on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:30:00 PST

graduation day, part 3

"I can't believe this is happening." Somer says, clasping her hands in front of her chest."Me neither," Melanie says, feigning the excitement she sees shimmering on her peers' faces.No more thinking, ...
Posted by Mary on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 07:05:00 PST

graduation day, part 2

She careens around the corner, her panty-hosed feet sliding on the institutional green tile. A line of black-robe clad, pointy-hatted students turn, wondering who would be late on graduation day. Some...
Posted by Mary on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 11:19:00 PST

graduation day

Slam the car into the parking space. Grab the pile of clothes on the passenger seat. Purse. Keys. Lights. Go.She pounds the pavement in cute but sensible heels, dress swirling catlike around calves an...
Posted by Mary on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:26:00 PST

los dios de los muertos

in mexico nov. 1st and 2nd are celebrated as the days of the dead, when people honor loved ones who have passed on. which makes me think about the past. when i look back it's like time and space have...
Posted by Mary on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:59:00 PST

why feminism

because my mother grew up the victim of physical and emotional abuse, suffered poverty, humiliation and discrimination just because she was born a woman at the wrong time and at the wrong place. becau...
Posted by Mary on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:45:00 PST