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Linda

Hoping just because I spoke the words that they're true, as if I've offered up a crystal ball to loo

About Me

"I am a poster girl with no poster,
I am 32 flavors and then some,
and I'm beyond your peripheral vision,
so you might want to turn your head..."
--ani difranco


http://lindanapikoski.blogspot.com
http://warandpeacenapikoski.blogspot.com

"Once divided, nothing left to subtract."
-- pearl jam


My Interests

I like blue things. Also: writing, reading, movies, music, traveling the world. I hate Long Island. I like Cuba, art, theatre, postcards, the Pulitzer Prizes, cats, languages, hiking, running, swimming, yoga, spinning, softball, gymnastics, bicycling, documentaries, peace, the Oscars, karaoke, New Orleans, drinking, geography, being from Out West, the desert, oceans, energy sources, rain, enchiladas.

I'd like to meet:

Someone who can take as much as I give.
(said amy ray in "blood and fire")

Music:

Indigo Girls. Bob Dylan. R.E.M., The Wonder Stuff, Erin McKeown, Patty Griffin. Everything on Putumayo. Sinead O'Connor, 10,000 Maniacas, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Love and Rockets, Alexi Murdoch, Simon and Garfunkel, Melissa Etheridge, Pearl Jam, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Sigur Ros, Cat Stevens, Robyn Hitchcock n' the Egyptians, Tift Merritt, Pink Floyd, James, Erasure, Shakira, The Mamas and the Papas, Habib Koite, Massive Attack, U2, Melissa Ferrick, Edna Swap, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Sinead Lohan. More, more, more...

Movies:

Dead Poets Society, Dolores Claiborne, The Hours = my life as a movie trilogy. Casablanca, After Life, Lost In Translation, Born Into Brothels, Hotel Rwanda, Life Is Beautiful, Clue. Flatliners, Stone Reader, Black Hawk Down, Bowling for Columbine, Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, I Heart Huckabees, Passion Fish, Boys on the Side, Rude Awakening, Adventures in Babysitting, Pretty Woman, Elizabethtown, All the Real Girls, Primer, The Girl in the Cafe, The Wizard of Oz, Apocalypse Now, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Babel, Blood Diamond, Kinky Boots. Once. Sunshine.

Television:

As little as possible. But I like baseball and working my way through shows season by season with the help of Netflix.

Books:

As many as possible. Voltaire. Tolstoy. Jon Krakauer. Margaret Atwood. Virginia Woolf. The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins, What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, The Cities Book by Lonely Planet, America: The Book by The Daily Show and Jon Stewart, Lust for Life by Irving Stone. Transcendentalists. Nabokov. Dostoevesky. Terry Tempest Williams, Elizabeth Berg, Edward Abbey, Nelson DeMille, Anna Quindlen, Barbara Kingsolver. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. Lamb by Christopher Moore. I also have an obsession with Pulitzer Prize-winning books. And I think there should be a section on here for favorite magazines. My favorite is The New Yorker. I also often read The Atlantic Monthly, Poets and Writers, Ms., Paste, Entertainment Weekly, The Economist, and travel magazines. Oooh, and Mental Floss, that's a good one. There are so many good ones. I'll think of more.

Heroes:

Those who speak the truth

My Blog

"Old friends, old friends, sat on their park bench..."

I'm Bookends!Which Simon and Garfunkel album are you?...
Posted by Linda on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:59:00 PST

The Empire State building’s turning off its lights...

I hereby offer my heartfelt thanks to all my lovely family and friendlets who donated to my 5K run. I had a lovely time. Speaking of time, I'm not exactly sure what my race time was. I know, I know...
Posted by Linda on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:16:00 PST

I will now run 5K for human rights

Hi everyone, I'm very excited to be running in the 2nd Annual Liz Padilla Memorial 5K in Brooklyn this weekend. I will be even more excited if you (yes, you!) would take a moment to read a bit about ...
Posted by Linda on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:35:00 PST

Which damn Yankee am I?

..>You scored as Jorge PosadaYou are JORGE POSADA! You're the brains behind the operation, trying to help keep things running as smoothly as possible, even if from your knees. You're powerful, but pat...
Posted by Linda on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:09:00 PST

New School Years Resolutions

Since I go back for Law School II: Return to Long Island a mere week from now, I decided to delineate my resolutions for the semester, for all of MySpace to see.  Actually, these have just been p...
Posted by Linda on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:07:00 PST

Tellin myself its not as hard, hard, hard as it seems...

This morning has totally caught me by surprise.  As usual, I sleepily rolled over, picked up my laptop, and started playing online.  And after a few surveys and such I found myself looking a...
Posted by Linda on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:41:00 PST

Hey people in Michigan who have books!

Hey everyone -- I'm reposting below my friends' theater company's request for books because they are in the Detroit area and I have a lot of Michigan peeps, most on here, most of whom read.  If y...
Posted by Linda on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:37:00 PST

Time for another summer check-in

Another update!  This time, summer is more than two-thirds over. August strikes again.  Let's see what I've got to show for myself. WritingI'm pretty sure writing has been one of my top two...
Posted by Linda on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:48:00 PST

Oh and I forgot to say...

No one guessed the reasoning behind my last ordering of my Top Friends!  It was in order of people I've been in the most states with.  Ahhh, now you're eager to check it out!  But I've ...
Posted by Linda on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:40:00 PST

There are no Harry Potter spoilers in this blog

It's interesting that Sara just posted about the concept of home, as found by her in the new Harry Potter book.  In the last 24 hours I have also been thinking about "home" very muchly.  I j...
Posted by Linda on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:21:00 PST