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About Me

Hi. I'm Rose. I do stuff. Here's where you can find out what's up in my little world:
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Somewhat redundant blog, links to other sites I've done, etc: www.sometimeyesterday.net
Here are some older blog entries which you may enjoy:

An Announcement of Very Minor Importance All You Need To Know About Web Design, In Seven Convenient Items A Very Special Holiday Message For The Drivers Of West Los Angeles Overheard/Inferred To Those Three Guys I Met At The Well On Saturday Night, Should They Be Reading This A Quote I Like The Night I Let Tori Spelling Live Short-term Planning vs. Longer-term Planning: An Illustration, With Cars Public Service Announcement Review: Trapped In The Closet Panel @ UCB

My Interests

Everything.

I'd like to meet:

Why, [insert your name here], of course! i've been wanting to meet [insert your name here] for a long time. Hey, wouldn't it be wild if [insert your name here] saw this and sent me a message and we actually met and totally hit it off and decided to be best friends forever? Yeah. That'd be wild.

Music:

Since I'm bound to forget someone if I try a straightforward list -- and, yes, I know it's editable, but I'll probably still always be missing someone -- here's whose music I've had playing on this page at various times:

Art Brut . Dan Bern . Billy Bragg . Bright Eyes . Meryn Cadell . Cold War Kids . Dewey Cox . Elizabeth & The Catapult . Bob Forrest . The Good, The Bad and The Queen . John Wesley Harding (hi). Robyn Hitchcock . Freedy Johnston . Kinky . Peggy Lee . The LeeVees . The Little Ones . Kirsty MacColl (I miss Kirsty MacColl). Nellie McKay . MGMT . Sea Wolf . The SheBeats . Silversun Pickups . Spoon . Tegan and Sara . (This space reserved for Foster Timms.) VHS or Beta . What I Like About Jew . XTC .

Movies:

I was thinking of doing what a lot of people seem to do and slapping in a list of movies that it sounds like a hip, happenin' Hollywood type should like, but I got better. Really, I like just about anything that's well-written and/or genuinely fun to watch.

Television:

The Television Without Pity canon, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Doctor Who, Passions, Real Time w/ Bill Maher, World News Now, a bunch of stuff over at Channel 101 (it's... sort of tv...)

Books:

All of 'em.
Current/recent/pending reads:
Mexican High by Liza Monroy
Bonk by Mary Roach
When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris
Delete This At Your Peril by Bob Servant
Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch
The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi
Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian by Scott Douglas
Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku
Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture" by Daniel Radosh
Bar Flower by Lea Jacobson
Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
The Bush Tragedy by Jacob Weisberg
The English American by Alison Larkin
Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls by Danielle Wood
How to Rig an Election by Allen Raymond
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
50 Facts That Should Change The World 2.0 by Jessica Williams
Just Say Nu by Michael Wex
Loads More Lies to Tell Small Kids by Andy Riley
Foreskin's Lament by Shalom Auslander
The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (And How to Do Them) by Peter Sagal
God's Harvard by Hanna Rosin
I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
Atlas, Schmatlas: A Superior Atlas of the World by Craig Robinson
Kittenwar by Fraser Lewry and Tom Ryan
by George by Wesley Stace
Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell by Bruce Eric Kaplan
The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn R. Saks
First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
2033: The Future of Misbehavior from Nerve.com
I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle
One Night @ The Call Center by Chetan Bhagat
No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories by Miranda July
Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume edited by Jennifer O'Connell
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
Killed Cartoons edited by David Wallis
The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization by Daniel Pinkwater
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Lust in Translation: The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee by Pamela Druckerman
¡Ask A Mexican! by Gustavo Arellano
Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree by Lisa Alther
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
Petropolis by Anya Ulinich
Stacked by Susan Seligson
Bambi vs. Godzilla by David Mamet
The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything by Mark Reiter and Richard Sandomir
The Call of the Weird by Louis Theroux
Mortified edited by David Nadelberg
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
Less recent, but no less good:
Wrecking Crew: The Really Bad News Griffith Park Pirates by John Albert
Anything by Jasper Fforde
Self-Management for Actors (Revised 2nd edition) by Bonnie Gillespie
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars by Daniel Pinkwater
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (or Jack Schaar - take your pick)
Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
Misfortune by Wesley Stace
The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
Some books I read: an archive

My Blog

Our Short, Localized Nightmare Is Over

Meet TACKAY: The Apple Currently Known As Yolanda. Why Yolanda? Why not Yolanda? It's just a placeholder until I get to know my electronic problem child a little better.And a problem child, she's b...
Posted by Rose on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:47:00 PST

Stuff Happens, And Continues To Happen: Computer Edition

Given that I'm an unemployed geek who's been relying on her laptop to look for gigs, beef up her portfolio, gain some new skills, kvetch about recruiters, and generally keep up with stuff while she's ...
Posted by Rose on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:15:00 PST

109 Days

Yep.Unemployment is officially wearing on me.I spent big chunks of the past two weeks doing editing and coding evaluations from places from which I still haven't heard back. It's unpaid labor, but at...
Posted by Rose on Wed, 28 May 2008 08:52:00 PST

Great-ish Moments In Adulthood

I have made my last car payment. I now have a pink slip with my name and address on it. I'd celebrate, but I'm still trying to figure out what other money drains I can plug up so that I can afford t...
Posted by Rose on Wed, 14 May 2008 09:25:00 PST

Another Friendly Note To Recruiters

Hi, gang. Thanks, as always, for your calls over these past few months. I appreciate your taking the time to reach out to me; your time is, of course, incredibly valuable. As is mine. So let's use...
Posted by Rose on Fri, 09 May 2008 01:28:00 PST

News Flash: The Kids Like Obama

Being a numbers junkie with way too much time on my hands, I've been staring at enough exit polls to notice something that the professional pundits are largely ignoring -- and I think it's why they te...
Posted by Rose on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:30:00 PST

A Note To Pennsylvania Election Officials, Re: Ballots

Hi, gang.Hardly a primary goes by that we don't hear about a shortage of Democratic ballots in some precincts. It seems that no matter how carefully state and local officials plan, sometimes there ju...
Posted by Rose on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:33:00 PST

A Note To Recruiters, Re: The Most Important Thing Of All

Hi, recruiters. Thanks, as always, for googling me upon stumbling on my resume. This little note from me to you is getting to be an annual tradition, because my springtime unemployment is getting to...
Posted by Rose on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:42:00 PST

A Baseball Observation

Playing third base for the Dodgers is the baseball equivalent of drumming for Spinal Tap.
Posted by Rose on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:57:00 PST

A Metaphorical Epiphany

Barack Obama is not JFK.Barack Obama is Peter Pumpkinhead. Except, one would hope, for the last bit.Take it away, XTC: XTC - The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead(Right, so Peter Pumpkinhead is ar...
Posted by Rose on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:35:00 PST