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Lisa

I hate jello

About Me

Intelligent, fun, silly, a little neurotic, but with a wild edge.

My Interests

hiking, singing, NPR, yoga, talking on the phone, fun gay men, fun straight men, intelligent people, good grammar, sushi, weird people, good drag shows, red wine, pottery, backgammon, blue hedgehogs, bats, cribbage, trashy plastic x-mas lawn decorations.

I'd like to meet:

Harrison Ford, Patrick Stewart, Ben Kingsley. Steve Martin. Jimmy Stewart.

Music:

J.S. Bach, choral music with a good alto line, piano music, Glenn Gould, heavy-duty requiems, early music, Moxy Fruvous, Bluegrass, opera.

Movies:

Back to the Future, Fried Green Tomatoes, Rear Window, Vertigo, The Fugitive, The Hunt for Red October, The Princess Bride, Planes Trains and Automobiles, the Wrong Trousers, Sixteen Candles, Amadeus, Sneakers, Two Mules for Sister Sara.

Television:

Simpsons, Frazier, West Wing, Malcolm in the Middle, Queer Eye, Six Feet Under, While You Were Out. Northern Exposure. Quincy. The Fugitive.

Books:

The Sibley Guide to Birds, Lives of the Great Composers, The Pop-up Book of Phobias, An Unquiet Mind, Sara Paretsky novels, The Gold Bug Variations, The Secret Diaries of Pelly Pelican from the Sea-Wees collection.

Heroes:

Lisa Simpson

My Blog

Goin' under the knife

So tomorrow's the big day, I'm gonna lose my tonsils for once and for all. They're gonna put me under at noon and then I'll come to and my friend Teri will be there to get me home - yay! Getting a...
Posted by Lisa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

compact car my ass!

Anyone ever go the Kroger at the intersection of Harding/West End and Woodmont/White Bridge? There's this whole row of parking spaces in the back of the lot, and each one is separately marked "COMPAC...
Posted by Lisa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Goodbye, oh object of my addiction

As I told the man himself when I met him, "I may live by myself, but I wake up to Bob Edwards every morning." I usually approve of all things NPR, but their decision to take Bob Edwards off of Mornin...
Posted by Lisa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

great sleepin' weather

I love springtime! Somehow it makes everything seem better. Not that I've really been depressed, it just makes everything less stressful to have these great 75 degree sunny weekends and to see the f...
Posted by Lisa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Why Rent? Wage Peace!

So lately I've decided that I can't stand the smallness of my apartment any longer. I said I could live here for a year, and I did. Now I'm looking around town for something bigger. As I do so, I'm...
Posted by Lisa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

lenten weather haiku

Snowbird, oh Snowbird, Why hast thou forsaken me? Snow would cancel school.
Posted by Lisa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

musical addiction du jour

I have a tendency to get stuck on a particular recording in the car for several days or weeks, and listen to it over and over and over and over. Lately, this has been the Mozart sonata for 2 pianos i...
Posted by Lisa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

bad timing

Here's a recommendation for anybody planning to come down with this year's bug. Don't get it when it's raining cats and dogs and you have to go out to get antibiotics. And don't come down with it wh...
Posted by Lisa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST