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Manitou Sue

The number of pancakes needed to shingle a doghouse is exponentially equal to the increments of time

About Me


1. First name? Suellen
2. Were you named after anyone? Family mythology has it that "Susan Elenore" has been passed down for generations on the maternal side of the family, for which the nickname has always been "Suellen". I got the nickname.
3. Do you wish on stars? That would be silly! I wish on hay trucks, like any sensible person.
4. When did you last cry? Last Monday night, watching Richard Thompson play "Vincent Black Lightning 1952" at the Gothic Theater.
5. Do you like your handwriting? Not much.
6. What is your favorite flower to receive? Purple lilacs, then pink Naked Lady lillies, then yellow roses.
8. What did you watch on TV last night? Nothing, I stayed up late re-reading “Power and Patch,” instead. However, I did watch a Tivo’d episode of Anthony Bourdain, No Reservations this afternoon…he chewed Coca leaves and ate guinea pig in Peru. I love that show!
8. What is your most embarrassing CD? Why pick ONE? The fact that I own approx. 3000 of the suckers...now, THAT's embarassing.
9. If you were another person, would YOU be friends? Soitainly!
10. Do you have a journal? I HAVE a journal, but I haven't kept one for years now. (People keep giving me blank ones, anyway.)
11. Do you use sarcasm a lot? Who, MOI???.
12. What are your nicknames? Sue, 'Zella, Mouse, Snake, Sue Baby, Sweet Baboo, Suzy-Q, and That Evil She-Devil from the Lowest Circle of Hell.
13. Would you bungee jump? I'd love to! Will you pay for the chiropractor after???
14. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? When they are new and nice-looking, I do. Once they get a little grungy around the edges, I resort to my usual bad habit of pushing them off at the heel, still tied.
15. Do you think that you are strong? Push comes to shove, yeah. But that doesn't stop me from fretting that I'm strong ENOUGH.
16. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? Home-made peach, served with home-made ginger snap cookies on the side. If we're talkin' store-bought, it's a three-way tie: Häagen-Dazs Coffee, Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia, and Double Rainbow Blueberry.
17. Shoe Size? 8 1/2 WIIIIIIDE, or a 9 medium, depending on the brand.
18. What is your least favorite thing about your body? That it's proof positive entropy is everywhere and unavoidable.
19. Who do you miss most? My brother Brian, my mother & all the friends and family who've passed on or otherwise fallen out of my life.
20. Do you want everyone you send this to, to send it back? It'd be nice, but I know folks have lives.
21. What color pants and shoes are you wearing? My pants are blue, and my formerly-white shoes are a lovely red clay orange.
22. What are you listening to right now? Darrell Scott’s “Alton Air” on repeat.
23. Last thing you ate? Left-over Vietnamese soft-shell crab and cabbage & toasted sesame seed salad.
24. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Periwinkle Blue.
25. What is the weather like right now? Hot and dry, but wait fifteen minutes and there should be a thunderstorm coming along…it’s the Front Range in Colorado, folks!!!
26. Last person you talked to on the phone? My brother, to see if the levee was still holding.
27. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex? Eyes.
28. Do you like the person who sent this to you? Soitainly!
29. Favorite Drink? When I'm good: AquaFina water, at room temperature. When I'm bad, Green Tea Frappuccino. And when I'm REALLY bad, Glenn Moranngie 12 yr Scotch with a Fat Tire Ale chaser.
30. Favorite Sport? Marathon cooking.
31. Hair Color? A sort of dish water brown with reddish highlights naturally, but I have "blonde" highlights added in to whitewash over the (ever increasing) gray.
32. Eye Color? Muddy green.
33. Do you wear contacts? Ix-nay, oh-nay. I like the sexy little dents my glasses leave on my nose.
34. Favorite Food? The Garlic Ritual, which consists of the following:
    Raw garlic clove(s) +
    small piece(s) of parmesan regianno cheese +
    small cube(s) of whole grain sour dough bread, dipped in
    hot olive oil +
    tasty cold beverage of choice.
You pop the first four ingredients in you mouth all once, chew, swallow & follow immediately with a drink of the tasty cold beverage of your choice.
Repeat as needed, until flies drop from the air when they fly by too closely.
35. Last Movie You Watched? Once.
36. Favorite day of the year? The morning of the first day of the San Francisco "Hardly Strictly Bluegrass" festival, when I'm still in denial and believe that it will be possible to see ALL of the music performances I want to. (There are multiple stages and the people who organize the event inevitably schedule two of my "must see" favorites in the same time slot, so this belief never lasts.)
37. Scary Movies or Happy Endings? Happy endings.
38. Summer Or Winter? Spring and Fall.
39. Hugs or Kisses? Both, thank you.
40. What Is Your Favorite Dessert? Cheesecake to Die For -- a true, baked-in-the-oven NY style lemon cheesecake that WILL KILL you but only if eaten too often.



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My Interests

Marathon cooking, slow food, cats and dogs, camping, writing, partaking in various artistic endeavors, playing acoustic guitar, singing with family and friends, long walks (preferably not in the rain and sans Piña Coladas,) and last but definitely not least, seeing as much live alt/roots/Americana/folk/whatever-grass music as I can get in front of, from as far up close as I can possibly finagle.

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I'd like to meet:



Frank Zappa, W.B. Yeats, Mary Magdalen, Carl Jung, Bob Wills, Hank Williams, Harvey the Rabbit, & all the friends and family who've passed on or otherwise fallen out of my life.

Tim O'Brien & Darrell Scott ~ Brother Wind

Richard Thompson - Woodstock

September When It Comes - Rosanne with Johnny

Barn Rats ~ White Water

Music:

Alt/roots/Americana/folk/whatevergrass, blues and good ol' rock and roll.

Roanoke
Monster Jam with the 2005 Rockygrass Academy: Jason Carter, Jens Kruger, Joel Landsberg, Pat Flynn, Angela Oudean, PLUS Todd Livingston, Sarah Jarosz and Dominic Leslie
Steve Earle & Emmylou Harris ~ Goodbye
(check out who's playing resophonic guitar.)



How to Grow a Band (Gabe Witcher singing) ~ Ophelia

Ashes of laughter
The ghost is clear
Why do the best things always disappear
Like Ophelia
Please darken my door


Taj Mahal, Vassar Clemens ~ Fishin' Blues

Movies:

2 Days in the Valley, Almost Famous, Best in Show, Born Into Brothels, Cape Fear, Children of a Lesser God, The Cooler, Dirty Pretty Things, Everything is Illuminated, Finding Forrester, Galaxy Quest, Happy Accidents, How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog, In America, Kill Bill 1&2, Mighty Wind, The Pianist, Quest for Fire, The Red Violin, Running with Scissors, Snatch, Sling Blade, Stage Beauty, The Station Agent, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Usual Suspects, Waking Ned Devine, While London Burns Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, Z, and pretty much anything William H. Macy cares to act in.

Television:

Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations; The Ren & Stimpy Show; Ace of Cakes; Pinky and the Brain; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Firefly; Monk; This Old House, the BBC's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" miniseries.

Branden Moreau on No Reservations

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Books:

I am a practicing bookaholic (hi, Suellen!) I'll read anything, including the backs of cereal boxes, if nothing else is available.

However, some current favorites are:

Jan Burke's Bloodlines; Red Dog, or for that matter, anything by Louis De Bernieres; The Road; Cold Mountain, C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner series; Confederates in the Attic; anything by Georgette Heyer; Kitchen Confidential; the Grifin and Sabine trillogy; Killer Angels; Middlesex; Moon Called; The Nasty Bits; On Becoming a Person; Slouching towards Bethlehem; Snow Crash; The Silver Wolf, Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book, The Year of Magical Thinking.

Heroes:

My father, Anthony Bourdain, Nick and Helen Forster, Augusta Ada Lovelace, Bertrand Russell, Darrell Scott, Elizabeth Cotton, Tim O'Brien, Kurt Vonnegut, Lucinda Williams, Neil Young, Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel, William Carlos Williams, Frank Zappa.

Darrell Scott - Hank William's Ghost

This is Just to Say

I have eaten

the plums

that were in

the icebox

and which

you were probably

saving

for breakfast

Forgive me

they were delicious

so sweet

and so cold

William Carlos Williams

Dave and Jorma, doing what they love to do


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My Blog

The Marble Racer

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Posted by Manitou Sue on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:58:00 PST

In the Land of the Yik-Yak

Back in the day I worked as a glorified nurse's aide in a residential locked facility for persons with chronic psychiatric disorders. Every Saturday evening the rehabilitation staff would show a video...
Posted by Manitou Sue on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:46:00 PST

Welcome to Third Person Point of View Day

Zella sat down carefully on the red office chair, holding her too-full coffee away from the crowded desktop. She moved the latest pile of FLACs from the plastic cover of the abandoned spool of blank C...
Posted by Manitou Sue on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:15:00 PST

Thanks for the memories, Nanc

Back in the mid 'seventies my brother and I decided if we were going to eat meat, it should be meat we raised ourselves and killed "with love". So we acquired -- that is, my brother stole -- several y...
Posted by Manitou Sue on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:11:00 PST

Another fabulous recipe

Grilled Portobello Mushrooms on Watercress & Watermelon Salad, with a Tarragon Lemon VinaigretteThis is a veggie adaptation of a Take Home Chef recipe (that show is another one of my guilty pleasures....
Posted by Manitou Sue on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:59:00 PST

Be nice to yourself, eat some greens today!

Somebody asked me in the store the other day, "Say, how DO you cook those things you're buying," pointing at a big bundle of dandelion greens I had in hand. The person who accosted me said they had no...
Posted by Manitou Sue on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:22:00 PST

Mike & Frank have a little talk about music

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Posted by Manitou Sue on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:33:00 PST

re: how I met (bluesman, who shall remain unnamed)

----------------- Original Message ----------------- eyup, didn't get yer message about your meeting with old XXXX, but you have me intrigued, now. Send it again and I will pick it up on my return to ...
Posted by Manitou Sue on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:02:00 PST

Death of a Cuisinart 7-Cup Food Processor, or, NO Cheesecake to Die For THIS 4th of July

After years of extensive over-use, my Cuisinart 7-Cup Food Processor has finally called it quits. I was in the process of mixing far too many pecans and hazelnuts into some chocolate chip cookie dough...
Posted by Manitou Sue on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:18:00 PST

Caveat Emptor

Caveat Emptor/Ticks Are OutI hate it when people forward bogus warnings, and I've even done it myselfa couple times, but this one is important.So please send this warning to everyone on your e-mail li...
Posted by Manitou Sue on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:56:00 PST