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The Chloe Machine

Vicous in the kitchen/ the potatoes hiss/ this is all Hollywood/ windowless...

About Me

Painter, poet, wife, mommy, femminist, teacher of people with developemental disabilities, occassional model for artist friends, secret celebrity news enthusiast (oops, damn!- please don't judge me!)... what else can be said? My paintings are on my site, my sons are eleven months and three and a half years old, my husband is an English major... that should tell you a little something about my lifestyle, huh? I have a crazy family, good friends, and plenty to keep me busy...

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My Interests

art, science (developemental evolutionary biology, mostly), reading, music, movies, gardening, and amature home improvement.

I'd like to meet:

John Updike. God I want to meet John Updike.

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Music:

Joni Mitchell, Polly Paulsma, Bjork, Regina Spektor, PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, Underworld, The Roots, Erykah Badu, Fiona Apple, Cloudead, Tricky, and everything in between.

Movies:

Bad horror, good documentaries, independant films, and any other well made, thoughtful, well-balanced movies. Eraserhead remains an old favorite.

Television:

ER, House, My Name Is Earl, the Office, the Simpsons. I'd love to get rid of the tv altogether, though.

Books:

John Updike, Philip Roth, Charles Bukowski, Sylvia Plath, John Cheever, Haruki Murakami, and other fiction and poetry, religious, philisophical, social, and scientific studies.

Heroes:

John Updike and my brother Phil. And this dude:

My Blog

Actual conversations I've had or heard, this week

A conversation between Beckett and Phil, a few minutes after the pork chop incident: Beckett: You know what you're having for dinner, Uncle Phil? Phil: What? Beckett: Phil Kitty. You won't choke on hi...
Posted by The Chloe Machine on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:52:00 PST

half a pork chop: third time's a charm

So, now that Phil is living with us during the week, he's getting at least two squares a day (plus whatever KVO feeds him during the day). He must not be used to eating anything but chicken nuggets an...
Posted by The Chloe Machine on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:33:00 PST

Kentucky Folk Art Center trip

Well our trip to Kentucky went really well! Phil ended up coming down there, with us, and we stayed in Morehead, where the fair was. Morehead is a very small mountain town with bad traffic and an econ...
Posted by The Chloe Machine on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:33:00 PST

blogblogblogblogblog......

Okay, I said I was gonna post a few blogs to catch up, but two is enough, I'm sick of typing. Sorry folks. I'm sure it was riviting and all, but hey.
Posted by The Chloe Machine on Mon, 14 May 2007 01:42:00 PST

Post Office Fiasco

Goal? Plans? Hopes? I just wanted to go to the post office to mail off mothers' day gifts to my grandmother and mother-in-law! Of course I knew that the post office couldn't possibly be as simple as i...
Posted by The Chloe Machine on Mon, 14 May 2007 01:38:00 PST

Henrich the new kitten

Okay, so once again it's been awhile. In order to catch up, I'm gonna post a couple of different blogs. This one is, as titled, about our new kitten. I promised  after Luna went to her new home t...
Posted by The Chloe Machine on Mon, 14 May 2007 12:54:00 PST

bad cat, sad cat

So, on Wendsday (Beckett's big 0-3!!) I stopped by my mother's house to pick up a few things for the party, which was going to be at my house and some elaborate plan was devised that involved the bank...
Posted by The Chloe Machine on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:55:00 PST

John gets ready for work

"Where are the plates?" "In the cubbord." "Where's my Lou Reed CD?" "In the cabinet." "I don't see it." "Move things around" "This one or this one?" "I don't remember. Just look in both." "I don't se...
Posted by The Chloe Machine on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:33:00 PST

Good things and bad things I did this week

Good things I've done this week: -found four pairs of jeans at Goodwill that fit me -cleaned Randall's house in exchange for a pornagraphic loan -sketched said pornagraphic materiels for a series of ...
Posted by The Chloe Machine on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:43:00 PST

Feeling better

Well, I'm beginning to pull out of my little seasonal depressive episode. A little, anyway. Not that anything has changed, signifigantly, but I'm just feeling a little more hopeful, in a few ways. I t...
Posted by The Chloe Machine on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:55:00 PST