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TerriB

I am the Queen of Everything

About Me

"Terri is okay because she has so much fire in her it burns off any disease." - Alex
"always a sweetheart. even as she's carving her initials into your arm with a dull exacto knife." - Diablo ..

My Interests

My interests include reading, writing, tequila, music, the law, smart funny honest men with hairy chests, the news, shopping, cooking, red wine, road trips, relaxing, and a snappy dialog. And you, baby. I'll make sure it's all about you!

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet a man that looks like Sergio Castellitto. He'd be a smart funny honest guy with hairy chest and able to string words together in email or conversation. I'd like to meet a space alien just because. I'd like to meet Mohammad, Jesus, Confucius and Buddha for a little chit chat. I'd like to meet Larry McMurtrey for dinner, then have drinks with Anthony Bourdain and coffee with my grandmother Sarah. I'd like to meet the 1800+ people reading my blogs. I'd like to meet Pablo Neruda and tell him he's the best - and tell him in fluent Spanish. I would like to meet honest people that don't lie or cheat or steal. And I would like to meet each and every one of you and give you all a great big hug!!

Music:

Any musical performance will do. I like musicals, opera, rock, punk. Local, Live, Loud! Last Exit, Yucca Tap Room, Clubhouse. (Long Wong's, Nita's - RIP) Love all the bands from the Tempe AZ area the most!

Movies:

Anything released in 1939. Foreign language films, especially Asian films and Bollywood movies. Italian and French films of the 1960s. All John Cassavetes films. The Man With No Name movies. Magnificent Seven, Household Saints, Pi, Sweet Bird of Youth, Dot the i, Great Escape, Rumblefish, Monsoon Wedding, Cool Hand Luke, The Women, Philadelphia Story, Yes, Mildred Pierce, Y Tu Mamá También, Giant, Strangers on a Train, Best Years of Our Lives, Caterina Va In Citta, Shadow of a Doubt, Motorcycle Diaries, Don't Move. Katharine Hepburn, Ida Lupino, Eve Arden, Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Joseph Cotton, Gael Garcia Bernal, Lee Van Cleef, James Coburn, Paul Newman, Lily Taylor, Myrna Loy. Originals - yes. Remakes - no. Ocean's 11 is the exception because it's Clooney!

Television:

Anthony Bourdain, Project Runway, Top Chef, Queer as Folk, Six Feet Under, Dead Like Me, Homefront, Goin' to California, Hell's Kitchen, Huff, The Ruloffs, Cold Feet(BBC), Fox NFL Sunday - Terry Bradshaw, da Bears, Keith Olbermann, Carnivale, anything on TCM, IFC, Sundance, Bravo!

Books:

Larry McMurtrey, Ann Patchett, Jeanne Ray, Jo-Ann Mapson, Sherman Alexie, Adrianna Trigiani, Anthony Bourdain, Mark Kurlansky, Barbara Kingsolver, Nancy Atherton (I've known her since grade school), Jane Green, Terry McMillan, Juan Williams, David Foster Wallace, Arthur "Buddy" Edwards www.myspace.com/artedwardsaudio But the most important author is Carolyn M Gray, who wrote "Harley-Davidson and Philosophy: Full Throttle Aristotle." Buy it now!

Heroes:

Trailblazers, truth tellers, and tough broads that do things their way!

My Blog

Morpheme Morning

Roll naked in words.Conjugate me with letters,Sublimate my lust.I want to shake out your glossary and roll in the words.Stake me naked in the desert and Savage me with your dead language.Cuff me with ...
Posted by TerriB on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:49:00 PST

Sometimes it is better to be feared!

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli: Chapter XVII as a Parenting Guide Sometimes it is better to be feared! When reading chapter XVII of The Prince by...
Posted by TerriB on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:44:00 PST

Meet the Parents? No. Thanks.

My assignment for Interpersonal Communications class was to write a paper about the movie, Meet the Parents, discussing irrational thinking and Debilitative (sic) Emotions, using examples of emotional...
Posted by TerriB on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:48:00 PST

2008: The Urge to Purge!

OK, so it was really the last two months of 2007 that got the Big Purge, but it cleared the way for 2008 to have a clean(-er) beginning. The craziest purge was probably my hair. I cut it off super sh...
Posted by TerriB on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:03:00 PST

Hello Thermopolis, WY and Gilbert, AZ!

Thermopolis, my dear,Is there something I can help you with? It leaves an ache in my heart that you look longingly at my Space without leaving me a word. Your every glance is a stab in my side. I im...
Posted by TerriB on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:33:00 PST

How Joe Got Stellas Groove

My husband was buried on a Saturday. It was just like him to arrange to die on a day when his funeral would cause the least inconvenience to anyone. I had no interest in the post inhumation cocktail...
Posted by TerriB on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:34:00 PST

Danger in Tempe. Beware!!

The college students have returned. I am issuing a warning about the Freshman/New students. Beware...I was at the local Safeway closest to ASU and it was full of:1) Retarded students that have never e...
Posted by TerriB on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 06:06:00 PST

Bye Bye, July!

I am so glad to see this month be over! It has been the longest month ever, I swear, it was a hundred days long at least. But July is over and so is the blog about it.Nothing to see. Move along, you....
Posted by TerriB on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:38:00 PST

Hedonisn Tour: First Stop Hot 'Lanta!

I would like to say right off that I have no idea why Matt woke up with a black eye on Sunday. I do not think it was because I bit him on the eye, although that is his theory. The only thing about w...
Posted by TerriB on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:01:00 PST

When genuine joy and affection turn to pity and shame.

Addendum 7/5/07: Yes, I know Mr Skunk was in a mini-mart last night when it was robbed. I knew before he posted his blog about it because I saw it happen and he & I have corresponded about it.&nbs...
Posted by TerriB on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:58:00 PST