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Karen

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My Interests

Photography, knitting, Riding my bike(s), Sax, banjo, and eating ...various other sweet things.

I'd like to meet:

Freight elevator operators, Mike Watt

Music:

Quicksand, Fugazi(and related bands), Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Silent Majority, Books, Minute Men, DNA, Jawbreaker, One Last Wish, Sebadoh, Mars, Jets to Brazil, Meatpuppets, Stevie Wonder, Rodan, City of Caterpillar.....

Movies:

All Wes Anderson films, Stars and Watercarriers, Black Orpheus,Beverly Hills Cop.....

Television:

Thislife.org (radio show) seedmagazine.com colorsmagazine.com

Books:

Edward Weston Daybooks,Blindness, Guns, Germs and Steel, Knitting books, vegan cookbooks, Photo books, Memoirs, National Geographic,photo and science magazines.

My Blog

Some things are better left for other people to do.

I've finally completed building a new set of wheels for my bike. I'm glad that I've finally learned how to and they feel amazing. Lacing was easy enough...But after spending 3 hours in front of a tr...
Posted by Karen on Mon, 09 Jan 2006 05:31:00 PST

WOW panorama.

http://www.queensmuseum.org/panorama/about.htmI know this has been here since the 6o's but it took me until about 2 weeks ago to finally see it. I suggest binoculars when you go. This is truly one of ...
Posted by Karen on Sat, 12 Nov 2005 03:02:00 PST

New favorite

I've been listening to The Amazing Verticalville a lot. Nothing new but so good.
Posted by Karen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

So its true.

Brendan just gave me some exciting news. Dinosaur Jr. will be playing reunion shows this year. One of my favorite bands. So amazing!!!! And their first 3 records will be re-released on Merge.
Posted by Karen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Bloomington!!!

I left Portland and spent a few days in the bay area. I'm feeling better about my travels even though I'm not riding along the Pacific coast. I made it out to Bloomington for the Plan-it-X ten year a...
Posted by Karen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

oh crap.....I'm in Portland....

HAd to cancel the bike tour. Couldn't even make it out of the state of Washington. I feel like a jerk....I left Dannie..didn't know this asthma thing would be a problem. Now I'm hanging in Portland...
Posted by Karen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

oh great...weak lungs

So Dannie met up with me in Seattle and we're going on our 2nd night here. Haven't been out riding yet. Hopefully we'll be leaving tommorow morning. Dannie's 2nd package arrived today 3 days after ...
Posted by Karen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Missed the train.

I somehow managed to miss my connecting train from Chicago to Seattle by 2 minutes because of some memorial day parade. Hanging with Morgan, McKay, and Steve watching some rotc kids cross the street....
Posted by Karen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST