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jessie mae

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About Me

homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto.

My Interests

complex people with beautiful hearts, hibernation, the big game, one-on-one time, reading, books, rereading incredible books, pandacam, lakes not oceans, animals not people, pubs not clubs, savory not sweet, tea, guitar-wielding lesbians, anything at least 2% spandex, being horizontal, men who are liberal and mean it, shrimp ramen, bonsai, orchids, upstate wisconsin, bone-chilling cold, breaded chicken, perving, social justice, bucky puck, non-bucky puck, throwin back a few brewskis, long torsos, hating/ignoring cell phones, cooking for an army, furries, days-old food, rats, keith olbermann, sweatpants, houseplants, hockey, talking about it, hating the lockout(still), fantasizing about barry melrose, flows, canadian accents, the green bay packers, good government, figure skating, amtrak quiet car, symbiotic relationships, silver foxes, honeycrisp apple season, umami, getting/being/staying comfortable, tricking people, tall broad-shouldered scandinavian men with square jaws and accents, wisco--the greatest university on earth

I'd like to meet:

bokokon .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

Music:

classical, folk, ani, wisconsin marching band

Movies:

before sunrise/before sunset

Television:

tv is, after all, the modern day roman coliseum--human devastation as mass entertainment, and now millions sit jeering, collectively cheering the bloodthirsty hierarchy of the patriarchal arrangement.-ad, tamburitza lingua

Books:

.. currently reading: fates worse than death, no one belongs here more than you, interpreter of maladies, never let me go, another roadside attraction, east of eden, the crying of lot 49

Heroes:

hierarchy attenuators

My Blog

imagine there’s no heaven--a letter to the six billionth world citizen

Dear Little Six Billionth Living Person, As the newest member of a notoriously inquisitive species, it probably won't be too long before you start asking the two sixty-four thousand dollar questions w...
Posted by jessie mae on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:14:00 PST

requiem

requiemthe crucified planet earth, should it find a voice and a sense of irony, might now well say of our abuse of it, "forgive them, father, they know not what they do." the irony would be that we kn...
Posted by jessie mae on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:14:00 PST

to the woman who could not live with her faulty heart (thank you, monica)

To The Woman Who Could Not Live With Her Faulty Heart I do not mean the symbolof love, a candy shapeto decorate cakes with,the heart that is supposedto belong or break; I mean this lump of muscle tha...
Posted by jessie mae on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:49:00 PST

still life with woodpecker

another incredible novel.  "A writer published an open letter to Bernard in a leading liberal periodical. He requested an interview. Utmost secrecy was sworn. It was on the level. The writer was...
Posted by jessie mae on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:11:00 PST

middlesex...

...is a beautiful novel.   "Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words.  I don’t believe in ’sadness,’ ’joy,’ or regret.’ Maybe the ...
Posted by jessie mae on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:54:00 PST

marry me, keith olbermann

if you missed it, here are some excerpts from olbermann's (who coincidentally is, mind & body, one of the sexiest men in the world) packers/bears pregame commentary last sunday night. GO PACK GO!!...
Posted by jessie mae on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:54:00 PST

knowing whats nice

Knowing What's Nice ..>..> ..> By Kurt Vonnegut | 11.6.03 ..> ..>..> ..>   ..> Author's note: I'm working on a novel, If God Were Alive Today, about a fictitious man, G...
Posted by jessie mae on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:32:00 PST

missing kurt

An excerpt from the prologue of one of my favorite KV novels, Slapstick (or Lonesome No More!)--it never ceases to amaze how his writing can so succintly articulate how I feel about life & the wo...
Posted by jessie mae on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:28:00 PST

america must stop bragging that its the greatest country on earth and start acting like it

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Posted by jessie mae on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:55:00 PST

if only we could like each other raw (repost from mon)

What Are Big Girls Made Of?The construction of a woman:a woman is not made of flesh of bone and sinew belly and breasts, elbows and liver and toe. She is manufactured like a sports sedan. She is reto...
Posted by jessie mae on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:48:00 PST