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About Me

I'm Meg. I like books. A lot.

My Interests

I like books. Popcorn, pita sandwiches, club soda with lemon. Rocking out, black coffee, fashion magazines, reference books, ghost stories, big ol' earrings, Paul Newman, slipstream/fabulist/new wave fabulist/new weird/etc. fiction, Wikipedia, garden gnomes, post-apacolyptic dystopias, sushi, photography (and my boyfriend who takes pretty pictures), house plants, horror, dark fantasy, cooking with cast-iron, knitting, punk rock, silent movies, playing hostess... ya know.

I'd like to meet:

Stephen Fry. Kafka. Margaret Atwood.

Music:

Low Down Two-Bit Sidewinder. Wiggle. Warning.

Movies:

Old people solving mysteries. Film noir. Pretty much anything involving zombies.

Television:

The Prisoner. Black Books. Hamish Macbeth.

Books:

Joy Williams, Jonathan Lethem, Hunter S. Thompson, Dr. Frank (Portman), Jorge Luis Borges, Margaret Atwood, Michael Chabon, Kelly Link, Truman Capote, Neil Gaiman, Zelda Fitzgerald, Stephen King, Aaron Cometbus, Tennessee Williams, the Brontes, Flannery O'Connor, Roberto Bolano. Currently reading: Wuthering Heights.

Heroes:

Miss Marple. You gotta love a woman who can knit while she solves mysteries. That'll be me. Some day. Some day...

My Blog

A little help here...

A.) Does anyone know anything about the iBook G4 (the 12") that was being sold in the fall of 2005? What I need to know is where the fuck the airport card is. I've looked at diagrams and instructions ...
Posted by Meg on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:50:00 PST

Two Crackpot Theories.

1.) If the government banned High Fructose Corn Syrup, the US would be totally free from our need for foreign oil in five years.Corn growers make a lot of money from high fructose corn ...
Posted by Meg on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:17:00 PST

10 Steps to a perfect Christmas.

1.) Decide on Boxing Day (that's the day after Christmas, for you non-Canucks) that it would be a really great idea to make all of your presents the following year. You'll save money and the extra eff...
Posted by Meg on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:11:00 PST

See writer. See writer whine. Whine, writer, whine!

I used to write for the fun of it. I used to spend hours and hours in front of the computer/hunched over a notebook, filling up time and space with words that never did anything for anybody. And I nev...
Posted by Meg on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:26:00 PST

Loud Music, part 2

I tried to be nice, to suck it up. I hoped she would realize what a cunt she was being and would just stop being a cunt. I know, I know: HA! So next I tried leading by example. If you're going to list...
Posted by Meg on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:27:00 PST

No one plays GOOD music too loudly.

Did you ever notice that when a car drives by playing music so loud you think your windows will actually shatter, the music is invariably something awful? Top 40 dance mix crap, or yet another rap son...
Posted by Meg on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:53:00 PST

Fuck FedEx!

If you order something online and it's out of stock, they send it later, when it comes in. Fine. I get that you run out of space to keep stuff and you have to send it from warehouse A to warehouse B b...
Posted by Meg on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:07:00 PST

What does Meg drink? Booze.

I picked up a bottle of E&J Brandy on my way home from work yesterday. I then had myself a tasty little brandy and soda while I made cheesy veggie lasagna. My boyfriend came home and made us vodka ton...
Posted by Meg on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:59:00 PST

So... many... veggies...

My boyfriend's dad and step-mom (as well as his sister and her boyfriend, for the summer) live on an organic farm with a bunch of other hippies. They raise animals and make bread and grow flowers and ...
Posted by Meg on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:59:00 PST

Guess I'll go eat worms.

Where's the love? Where is the goddamn, motherfucking love?! I like my job except for the whole making next to nothing, no benefits, long stretches of nothing to do, have to clean the disgusting bathr...
Posted by Meg on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:09:00 PST