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I'm originally from Quincy, California but now live in Olympia, Washington. I am co-editor of the Olympia-based zine "Multiple Lazy Voices" www.multiplelazyvoices.com, a literary magazine filled with the work of some great South Sound writers. I teach Italian and work in insurance and spend any free time I have writing, working in my garden or with friends.

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My Interests

writing, hearing ghost and spooky stories, hearing just generally weird stories, any ghost, spooky or generally weird stories involving Quincy, California, reading, films, Italy and Italian, travel, Multiple Lazy Voices www.multiplelazyvoices.com

I'd like to meet:

Friends and other writers (check out www.multiplelazyvoices.com and let us know what you think)

Music:

Robyn Hitchcock, The Beatles, The Soft Boys, Interpol, Stereolab, Beck, Franz Ferdinand, Radiohead, The Pixies, The Police, The Ramones

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, Charade, The Usual Suspects, Donnie Darko, Blue, The Birds, Foul Play, Rubin & Ed, The Passenger, The Day of the Triffids, Young Frankenstein, Sixteen Candles, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Night on Earth, Amarcord

Television:

adopt your own virtual pet! Twin Peaks, My Name is Earl, The Office, X-Files, Lost, Weeds, Arrested Development, 30 Rock, Flight of the Conchords

Books:

The Catcher in the Rye, Holidays on Ice, Cosmicomics, In Cold Blood, The Source, The Andromeda Strain, The Orchid Thief. I also like Nicoletta Vallorani, Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl, Karel Capek, Christopher Moore, John Steinbeck, Stephen King, just about anything of Italo Calvino's. Some great e-zines are The Harrow, The Horror Library, and Multiple Lazy Voices!

Heroes:

Mike Avey, Massimo Pallottino, Anne Kerns, Michelangelo Antonioni, Lonnie Harper

My Blog

100 Calorie Snack Pack - Necrology Magazine 2008

Have you ever scanned the canned food section of a Chinese grocery, looked at the pretty pictures on the labels, but wondered, what really is in those cans? A miracle diet cure, perhaps? My story "100...
Posted by Julie on Sun, 04 May 2008 09:36:00 PST

Iceland - Day 7: The Raven Flies

On my last day in Iceland I woke up to a bright, shiny day, the first one since I got there. People were out and about enjoying the sunshine, walking their dogs, pushing their children in baby carriag...
Posted by Julie on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:12:00 PST

Iceland - Day 6: Where ghosts inhabit fish processing plants and great chessmen rest

Friday in Iceland, the day after the holiday. Some people were back to work, while I'm sure, just like in the U.S., others took advantage of the Thursday off and made it a long weekend. After breakfa...
Posted by Julie on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:28:00 PST

Iceland Day 5: When there are no whales, there is always brennevin

On our fifth day in Reykjavik, we changed hotels, moving from the Loftleidir Hotel to the Hotel Leifur Eiriksson closer to the center of town. The hotel is in fact directly across the street from the ...
Posted by Julie on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:32:00 PST

Iceland - Day 4: Journey to the center of the Earth

I took this picture of my elfin friend, just before we got into a big argument this morning. He got so mad he left a whirlwind in his wake. It was the start of another bad hair day. At 8:30 AM...
Posted by Julie on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:03:00 PST

Iceland - Day 3: I dumped the Viking, hooked up with an elf instead

This morning we went to downtown. Reykjavik and wandered about. I got an Icelandic parking ticket, which when I opened the envelope found that the ticket was quite reasonable compared to most other th...
Posted by Julie on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:16:00 PST

Day 2: My Viking Lover

We rented a car today, which was outrageously expensive for two days. I'm so used to Enterprise rental car rates from $13-17 per day that when the 19,000 ISK price came up I about fainted (approx $200...
Posted by Julie on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:11:00 PST

I have tasted the black death: Reykjavik Day 1

4/20/2008: Reykjavik Day 1 Yesterday afternoon we boarded our Icelandair flight. The plane was jam-packed with Icelanders returning home from Disney World vacations and business trips, young Canadian ...
Posted by Julie on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:00:00 PST

My favorite bunnies

As Easter approaches I started to think about some bunnies that have had an impact on my life... ...
Posted by Julie on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:17:00 PST

Duotropes Digest - a resource for fiction writers and poets

Are you a fiction writer? A poet? If you haven't done so already, you must check out www.duotrope.com It's a great tool for writers to research markets, track your submissions, check on average resp...
Posted by Julie on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:28:00 PST