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Mitraillette

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About Me

Born/raised in New Orleans, moved to Seattle for a year after Katrina, but now I'm back. I love learning languages, shooting guns, traveling, reading dark fiction or political philosophy, watching action movies, calligraphy, and eating crème brulée.
I'm a publicist for an international arms dealer. No, seriously, my corporation makes war machines and sells them to foreign governments. Deal hippies. I'm also a writer, but that doesn't pay the bills - yet. I turn out a bit of everything from dark fantasy fiction, to consumer interest articles, to business copywriting.
I'm married to a crazy sexy mad scientist named Michael (aka: Transanalog), an electrical engineer who invents mutant musical electro-bits in our attic. We have a new baby daughter named Évariste, born 2/27/08, and we have two little doggies, a whippet named Laveau, and a jack russell terrier named Nikita.
And I despise the craptacular format and poor usability of myspace, so...
Check out my active blogs at:
pistolette.blogspot.com | la-mitraillette.livejournal.com
googletalk->mitraillette | aim->ockamsrazor..

My Interests

abandoned buildings, alphabets, alternaporn, books, calligraphy, castles, cemeteries, chartreuse, chess, chinese, coffeehouses, cooking, cycling, film, foreign policy, french, globes, goths, guns, immortality, international relations, kung fu, languages, literature, maps, martial arts, national geographics, new orleans, philosophy, politics, rare meat, red wine, skinnydipping, spies, taoism, tattoos, tea, travel, warriors, weapons training, writing, writing systems, zen.

I'd like to meet:

George Carlin, Bernard Henri Lévy, and the Dalai Lama. And if I can meet the dead then Bertrand Russell, Bruce Lee, and Teddy Roosevelt.

Music:

Trip hop/goth hop, rockabilly, gothic, lounge, ebm, industrial. But I'll listen to anything from opera to gangster rap if I likes.

Movies:

I'm addicted to the revenge/redemption subgenre, ie: La Femme Nikita, V for Vendetta, A History of Violence, Black Snake Moan. Some other likes... Dr. Strangelove, Traffic, Enter the Dragon, Fight Club, 300, Snatch.

Television:

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Dexter, Battlestar Galactica, The IT Crowd, MI-5 (Spooks), Alton Brown: Good Eats.

Books:

I read mostly history, philosophy, politics, dark fiction, and travelogues.

Heroes:

Lara Croft ;-)