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Erika Amerika

I am here for Serious Relationships

About Me


We can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

- Dylan Thomas


Wife.
Mother.
Neighbor.
Role-model.


The anemone of my enemy is my friend.



Black Joe Lewis & the Honey Bears Eat the Rich

My Interests

I'd like to meet:



MALCONTENTS. TROUBLEMAKERS. MUCKRAKERS.

Mothers who drink a lot of gin.
People who love sleeping in.
Parents of kids with Asperger's.
Rogue taxidermists.
Skeptics.
Someone to do the laundry.
Giant squid.
Subcomandante Marcos...

and



Shirley Manson & Chrissie Hynde



The National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City



Albertus Seba's Cabinets of Curiosity



My Blog

Tiny

Oh my!
Posted by on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:34:00 GMT

I can't wait for Coraline

It's going to be WONDERFUL!Hooray!
Posted by on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:49:00 GMT

Inauguration Day is Poetry Day

..............Praise song for the day. Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each others' eyes or not, about to speak or speaking. All about us is noise. All about us ...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:19:00 GMT

Friday is poetry day

Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale by Dan Albergotti Measure the walls. Count the ribs. Notch the long days. Look up for blue sky through the spout. Make small fires with the broken hulls of fi...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:26:00 GMT

Tuesday is Poetry Day

Billy Collins: The Country
Posted by on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:13:00 GMT

More Reasons Why I Love my Neighborhood

More Reasons Why I Love South Austin:VotingI stood in line for like 45 minutes to vote in the primary election on Tuesday and during that time I didn't see a single voter go the the Republican sign-in...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:49:00 GMT

Holy Crap! : Why Im Gonna Take Global Warming More Seriously and Maybe Move to Canada

So, some of you who know me well know that I'm a very rational person. I don't have much patience for arguments based on emotion and I get really pissed off by alarmist apppeals to people's sense of f...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:43:00 GMT

"How to Live with an Asshole" or "Youre So Vain You Probably Think This Blog Is About You"

How to Be a Good Wife" Be happy to see him." When your husband comes home have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready, on time for his return. This is a way of...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:25:00 GMT

Erika to Bill Nye: "Dont think this means you can come crawling back!"

So...Maybe you remember how obsessed I am with Bill Nye the Science Guy. And maybe you recall how crushed I was when he (apparently) married another woman last year... Bill Nye Breaks my Heart Then...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:07:00 GMT

I am not a hypocrite!

Illustration by The New York Times   The Grinch Delusion An Atheist Can Believe in Christmas By Randy Kennedy Published: December 17, 2006   IF last holiday season charitably cou...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:51:00 GMT