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This is my pet porpoise, Habeas Porpoise.

About Me

My name is Ashlee. I live in an apartment with three lovely ladies. I am working at this whole journalism thing, and you can read my stuff at www.athensnews.com. Search for me in our archives! Right now I only write news and arts reviews, but I'm working at putting together a worthwhile editorial piece or two. I firmly believe that the print newspaper should not die! Bloggers can shove it. Hard. That's all.

My Interests

Music, Family, Cooking, News Writing, French, Friends, New things, New people, Sports, Women's Rights and Appalachia

I'd like to meet:

no one on the internet. i already have awesome friends! --

Music:

Reggaeton/Dancehall, Notch, Daddy Yankee, M.I.A., Missy Elliot, Radiohead, Cake, Dog's Eye View, Marilyn Manson, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Les Breastfeeders, Comme Un Homme Libre, Calexico, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix,Def Leppard, Reel Big Fish, Streetlight Manifesto, Journey, Death Cab for Cutie, AFI, The Ataris, Underoath, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Etta James, Bush, Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, The Doors, The Distillers, Eric Clapton, Foo Fighters, Franz Ferdinand, Snow Patrol, Incubus, Lauryn Hill, The Killers, Whitney Houston, Christina Aguilera (shut up, she is the greatest female vocalist of my generation) The Mars Volta, Method Man, The Who, Muse, Nappy Roots, Janis Joplin, Nirvana, The Roots, Outkast, Rilo Kiley, Silverchair, Sublime, Weezer, Jewel, Sia, Jem, Pink Floyd, Josh Turner (holy hell), Flyleaf, The Specials, The Kooks, The Cure, others

Movies:

Little Miss Sunshine, 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Sting, Fight Club, Snatch, The Untouchables, Benny and Joon, Princess Bride, Young Frankenstein, Anchorman, Amelie, Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany's, A Streetcar Named Desire, Chicago, The Italian Job, Sabrina (not the teenaged witch), The Maltese Falcon, Memoirs of a Geisha, Walk the Line, Top Gun, Dodgeball,

Television:

The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Scrubs, South Park, Saturday Night Live, 30 Minute Meals, Paula's Home Cooking (muah), Charm School, Friends, Will and Grace, Boston Legal, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, all those VH1 specials, sports (not baseball),

Books:

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence, All the President's Men, The Bell Jar, Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Heroes:

"The fact is that not only the grounds of opinion are forgotten in the absence of discussion, but too often the meaning of the opinion itself. The words which convey it cease to suggest ideas, or suggest only a small portion of those they were originally employed to communicate. Instead of a vivid conception and a living belief, there remain only a few phrases retained by rote: or, if any part, the shell and husk only of the meaning is retained, the finer essence being lost." -- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

My Blog

The Wicker Man Is A Piece of Crap

On this Easter Sunday, 2007, I have been forced to add The Wicker Man to my list of worst movies of all time. It's in fifth place after Wes Craven's totally pointless The Hills Have Eyes at #1, Lindsa...
Posted by Kingpin on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:27:00 PST

Snow!

You know what really grinds my gears, Peter? It's snowing fairly hard outside right now, and it was like 83 degrees just a couple days ago! What the hell!!!..   Happy Easter, that is all. ...
Posted by Kingpin on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 04:13:00 PST

I Hate Bluetooth.

Right now I'm at the library computer lab between classes. To my right is a girl sitting behind the library service desk, doing what looks like talking to herself. She's just sitting there with her ar...
Posted by Kingpin on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:52:00 PST

Something New

     Today, I realized that I'm not sure about a lot of things. I always tend to think I have everything figured out when nothing is going wrong, but today I realized that just bec...
Posted by Kingpin on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:45:00 PST