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Michelle

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About Me

They took some honey from a bee, dressed it up and called it me.
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It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt Citizenship in a Republic Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

My Interests

a story well told, anthropological studies, chess by mail, cooking, croquet, freshly sharpened pencils, kind individuals, cocktail hour(s), badminton, economics, satsumas, tom collins, ghost tours in the south, punnett squares, fly fishing, beautiful minds, fresh air, cartwheels, fireworks, gelato, jeans, kudzu, spanish moss, rocking chairs, wood floors, people watching, eccentric intelligence, my building's stoop, austin, baking bread, film, sympathetic hearts, picnics, watching movies in the cemetery in the summer, reading, flea markets, the cottonwood lakes, tea with milk and two sugars, socializing, walkingabout, Andre.

I'd like to meet:

bizarro michelle

Music:

Rock and Roll is in my soul...so are jazz standards.

Movies:

BUtterfield 8, Le Notti di Cabiria, Bringing Up Baby, Rear Window, The Big Sleep, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Some Like it Hot, Marnie, Vertigo, The Virgin Suicides, La Strada, Mommie Dearest, The Big Lebowski, Sunset Blvd., The Graduate, Garden State, The Royal Tenebaums, Chinatown, Almost Famous, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, His Girl Friday, The Squid and the Whale, Dr. Strangelove, The Best Years of Our Lives, Amadeus, Breakfast at Tiffany's, A Place in the Sun, La Dolce Vita, Pulp Fiction, Crash, George Washington, Brick, Stranger than Fiction, The Science of Sleep, Zodiac, Wild Strawberries, City Lights and more than I can possibly recall...

Books:

The Outsider by Colin Wilson; Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner; everything by Agatha Christie, The Paris Review Book: of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels, the Art of Writing, and Everything Else in the World Since 1953. Short Stories fit well. I adore authors who have sardonic wit and incisive social critiques. I like to read stories that float into my brain and lodge there.

Heroes:

My Daddy.