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S. Shaffer

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About Me

I am into reading and writing, and have been for a long time. I love avocados, peanut butter, ginger tea, gumbo, crosswords, puppies, kittens, traveling, bowling, showering, my Ipod and anything Macintosh, fuzzy socks, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, Stephen Colbert, The White Stripes, and the smell of cooking meat. I aspire to be a lucid dreamer. One day my arms will be covered in tatoos. I regret losing touch with old friends. I can fold clothes like nobody's buisness. I go grocery shopping everytime I get the chance, avoid driving if at all possible, and keep constant vigil for red birds, first stars, shooting stars, clocks that read 11:11, and other opportunities to make wishes. Most every night, I fall asleep listening to the audiobook of Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.

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My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

bosom friends and kindred spirits

Music:

According to Pandora.com, I like music with subtle use of vocals, a noisy horn section and a downright funky beat, or jazz music with interesting part writing and quirky ideas. I am also fond of the following: Parliament, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Jeff Buckley, Nina Simone, Alicia Keys, Ornette Coleman, Thomas Otten, Carol King, Modest Mouse, Jill Scott, The Fugees, Matisyahu, Little Sue Crow, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Polyphonic Spree, the Beta Band, The Flaming Lips, Erykah Badu, Paul Simon, Plastic Bertrand, Moby, The Beatles, the Indigo Girls & Aimee Mann.

Movies:


Girl with a Pearl Earring, Maria Full of Grace, Hustle and Flow, Being John Malkovich, Waking Life, American Beauty, Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Storytelling, Almost Famous, The Royal Tannenbaums, Ray, The Color Purple, Annie Hall, Bullets over Broadway, Primary Colors, What's Love Got to Do with It, Bull Durham, Groundhog Day, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon &The Slums of Beverly Hills. My all time fav: Taledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Television:

Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Entourage, Rosanne, American Idol, Big Love. Freaks and Geeks, Family Guy, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Colbert Report, Living with the Kumbai Tribe

Books:

by John Kennedy Toole, Donna Tartt, David James Duncan, Sarah Waters, Tobias Wolff, Barbara Comyns, Nancy Mitford, Toni Morrison, Lee Smith, Nabokov, Evan S. Connel, Adam Johnson, David Sedaris, Anais Nin, Michael Malone, Lawrence Sterne, Annie Proulx, Abby Frucht, Tracy Chevelier, Jane Austen, Alice Walker, H.E. Bates, Antonya Nelson, Anais Nin, Herman Melville, W.D. Snodgrass, John Berryman, Phillip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, e.e. cummings, Chaucer, Walt Whitman, John Wood.

Heroes:

Stephen Colbert, Al Gore, my sister

My Blog

holy crap! is this real?

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Posted by S. Shaffer on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:30:00 PST

well, that’s a good point


Posted by S. Shaffer on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:56:00 PST

Pat Robertson and Al Sharpton - ah cuteness

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Posted by S. Shaffer on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:02:00 PST

Drunk History

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Posted by S. Shaffer on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:17:00 PST

Which begs the question...

If my brother already drinks this divine beverage (which he clearly must since he knew that it would taste good with honey), why did he not tell me about it? Doesn’t he love me?
Posted by S. Shaffer on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:46:00 PST

yerba mate (with an accent over the e in mate)

It’s a South American tea. It’s traditionally served in a drinking gourd with a metal straw, but I’ve also been told it’s good cold (by a guy at the whole foods) and delicious ...
Posted by S. Shaffer on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:43:00 PST

Good do-ery

Sometimes on the internet, you can "donate" money to a cause with nothing more than your willingness to be exposed to a few peripheral ads. I try to stop by care2.com once a day for just this reason. ...
Posted by S. Shaffer on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:49:00 PST

Christmas Wish List

This year I want Santa to get me...(drumroll)TREES!! TREES!!For my birthday last year, Jen and my mom sponsored the planting over a thousand fast growing trees through Trees for the Future. It made me...
Posted by S. Shaffer on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:53:00 PST

self portrait from a moving car- new glasses


Posted by S. Shaffer on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:21:00 PST

To My Three Readers

Regarding the previous blog titled "draft," I was only using my myspace blog to save a new page of my novel. I did not include you in my preferred readers list because it is unfinished, and anyway, no...
Posted by S. Shaffer on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:37:00 PST