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Tracy Nelson Townsend

Getting ready for Ghouls Gone Wild parade & Toxic Goddesses Burlesque show after.

About Me

Like any pissed-off grape, I make a great whine. Many thanks to Maria Oriendo Morshed for all of her artwork and illustrations of my poems on my blog. She rocks!

My Interests

My family, spoken word, music, writing

35 Rattlesnakes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAt4DImE0R8

Many thanks to Lacey Lett and oklatravelnet.com

I'd like to meet:

Tori Amos. Check out this Asylum Street Spankers video. It is Hi-larious!

Music:

All kinds. Tori Amos, Thelonius Monk, U2, The Flaming Lips, Audioslave, Nirvana, Lisa Curl, Alicia Keyes, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Patsy Kline, Dave Brubeck, and the Asylum Street Spankers!

Movies:

Raising Arizona, Van Helsing (for its Mystery Science Theater 3000 quality, NOT because I think it a good movie), A League of Their Own, Napoleon Dynamite, Rear Window, The Usual Suspects, Shrek

Television:

The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Penn & Teller: Bullshit! All of those scientific shows shown at 2 am on all of the the Discovery and National Geographic channels, Kathy Griffin:My Life on the 'D' List, Desperate Housewives, Brothers and Sisters, Grey's Anatomy

Books:

ok - let's separate this out a bit - Poets; Jeff McDaniel, Joy Harjo, Sylvia Plath, Sharon Olds, Patricia Smith, Lance Henson, Beau Sia, Jason Carney, Derrick Brown, Coffy, and Amber Tamblyn. Ok Novels & novelists; London is the Best City in America by Laura Dave, Princess by Jean Sasson, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Anything by Nathaniel Hawthorne (the 'w' stands for wicked), anything Lewis Carroll. Novels by Anne Rice are my guilty pleasures.

Heroes:

Truly nice people

My Blog

Check out this event: RAINNpage

Hosted By: Home for Wayward Poets When: Monday Sep 29, 2008 at 7:00 PMWhere IAO Gallery811 N BroadwayOklahoma City, OK 73103United StatesDescription:Home for Wayward Poets Click Here To View Event...
Posted by Tracy Nelson Townsend on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PST

The Difference Between Acting like an Activist and Being One.

 The difference between acting like an activist and being one           There are those that say they are activists, talk a good game, post what they...
Posted by Tracy Nelson Townsend on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:57:00 PST

How to field dress a moose - what Palin can do - graphic

Just a little FYI in case you didn't know that our vice-presidential candidate can shoot, kill, and skin a moose for fun - not because she's hungry. Gigantic differenence. This is what Fred Thompson t...
Posted by Tracy Nelson Townsend on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:18:00 PST

The Fire Ant Manifesto

On a sticky Oklahoma junebug evening our solar star spreading out oil pastels of orange yellow red smudged scribbles blending into the red dirt blending into the ochre evening turning into burnt umber...
Posted by Tracy Nelson Townsend on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:45:00 PST

Important info for Voters re:McCains choice for VP

Hello All,I got this email today and much of what I read raises so many red flags.As a woman, I feel insulted by McCain's choice for VP and I consider it pandering.There is a huge difference between ...
Posted by Tracy Nelson Townsend on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:55:00 PST

Night of the Lepus (Best Clips!!) Killer Bunnies!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xulXFB3-A3c OK, these are some clips from my all-time favorite really really bad horror movie. I laugh all the way thru. No matter how dark or how scary the m...
Posted by Tracy Nelson Townsend on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:52:00 PST

35 rattlesnakes performance/collaboration w/ Walkingstick Mountain

lol I had to start a new blog for more comments to be available. Apparently, Walkingstick and I broke myspace with our blog comments.lol 35 rattlesnakes   35 rattlesnakes crown my head swirl in m...
Posted by Tracy Nelson Townsend on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:59:00 PST

35 Rattlesnakes performance and collaboration with Walkingstick Mountain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAt4DImE0R8 Many thanks to Lacey Lett and oklatravelnet.comIn order to get all of what Walkingstick Mountain and I collaborated on, I'm putting the first few ex...
Posted by Tracy Nelson Townsend on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:27:00 PST

Revoking the Past

There is no desire for untrusting.Perhaps wary should be the key word. I do not chase the Cheshire Catlooking for my tongue I sit with the Mad Hatter.My tongue covering my chipped toothwaiti...
Posted by Tracy Nelson Townsend on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:56:00 PST

I once was lost...

Yup that's right - I now can marry people and stuff like that! :)   WELCOME to the UNIVERSAL LIFE CHURCH MONASTERY ReverendTracy Nelson Townsend   NOTE: PLEASE READ AND RETAIN THIS DOCUMENT...
Posted by Tracy Nelson Townsend on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:43:00 PST