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Feejee Mermaid

Leave me alone, I'm reading

About Me

I'm half fish, half monkey. Wait, no, did I say that? What I meant to say was, I'm a REAL mermaid. I was captured by Japanese fishermen in the 1600s. Now that I'm in captivity, I generally survive off of circus food (you know, corndogs, funnel cakes and the like. Mmmmm, fried stuff). click here for lovely photos of me

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My Interests

I love, love, love to read. click here to see some of my books. Scrabble, sweet tea, ghost stories, Sunday Postsecrets , faeries, trapsing around cemeteries, my friend Jeremy's art , rollerskating, Trivial Pursuit Book Lover's Edition, Victorian taxidermy, palindromes (Mr Owl ate my metal worm!), Teen Girl Squad , world's largest collection of cat whiskers (no animals were harmed in the making of this collection), paint-by-numbers , green tea, NPR, bookplates, old abandoned houses and asylums, gin & tonics, Jungian psychology, Rescue Remedy , wearing days of the week underpants on the wrong days, boiled peanuts, felis domesticus, Bookmarks magazine, ginkgo trees, Wacky Packs, feminism, going to the library, bacon, PW's Sean Connery impression, Dame Darcy , peppermint Bubble Yum, pet cemeteries (check one out sometime, you'll be amazed at how many iguanas there are), rubber cement, BUST & BITCH magazines, B vitamins, consuming pop rocks and Coke (warning: do not try this at home, your stomach will explode. I can safely do this because I'm a professional) and fake food, click here to purchase your own.

I'd like to meet:


Your Star Wars Pickup Line
"In time, you will call me.....Master." What's Your Star Wars Pickup Line?I adopted a cute lil' ninja fetus from Fetusmart! Hooray fetus! Awww, dang! Sometimes my fetus disappears. That's his best ninja trick... from The Old Woman In The Wood (1920)- Arthur Rackham

Music:

Killer Rock From Space, Billie Holiday, Free Kitten, Uncle Tupelo, Pavement, Merlin Olsen Twins, Neutral Milk Hotel, AC/DC, Stereolab, Nels Cline, Abba, Bronski Beat, Johnny Cash, Radiohead, Psychedelic Furs, Bee Gees, Patsy Cline, Iris DeMent, Potatoes, anything Mike Patton, Sonic Youth, Kissyboots, Blondie, Neil Young, Sinatra, Queen, Modest Mouse, John Coltrane, Black Sabbath, Son Volt, Melt Banana, Beck, Marvin Gaye, Catpower, PJ Harvey, Willem Maker, Grease soundtrack, Tom Waits, Culture Club, Dio, Motley Crue (1st 3 albums ONLY!), too many 80s bands to list here, and my all time favorites...The Carpenters and ..

Movies:

Grease, Me You & Everyone We Know, Everything Is Illuminated, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, No Country For Old Men, Donnie Darko, Capote, Grey Gardens, The Ice Storm, Little Miss Sunshine, Boogie Nights, The Royal Tenenbaums, original Star Wars trilogy, Urban Cowboy, American Beauty, Babe, all Woody Allen, Best In Show, The Elephant Man, Magnolia, Ed Wood, Excalibur, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Maybe Logic, Purple Rain, any documentary, The Life Aquatic, Sing Blue Silver, Punch Drunk Love, The Sound of Music, Kill Bill(s), Xanadu, Zardoz, Fight Club, Sonic Youth Corporate Ghost, The Grizzly Man, Amadeus, Edward Scissorhands, The Road to Wellville, O Brother Where Art Thou, Space Is the Place, Shadowlands, Being There, Coal Miner's Daughter, Ready to Wear, The Cat From Outer Space, Dune, Gone With the Wind, Breakfast Club, Pulp Fiction, Saturday Night Fever, Wizard of Oz, Live and Let Die, The Warriors, Last Days, Napolean Dynamite, House of Yes, Clerks, Virgin Suicides, River's Edge, The Squid & The Whale, Coupon: The Movie (I saw the shit out of it!!)

Television:

Television is evil and has me slightly in its grasp: Battlestar Galactica, Jeopardy & Antiques Roadshow. Mostly I watch everything on DVD: Gilmore Girls, Strangers With Candy, Mr. Show, Arrested Development, The Brak Show Starring Brak, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Soap, Six Feet Under, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Sopranos, Space 1999, Thunderbirds, Night Gallery, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Twin Peaks, 1900 House, The Office (BBC), all Ken Burns but especially Civil War

Books:

Memoirs, diaries / women's history / Civil War diaries / feminist theory / women's studies / Favorite authors: John Steinbeck / Dave Eggers / Jane Austen / William Styron / Jonathan Safran Foer / John Cheever / T.C. Boyle / Kazuo Ishiguro / David Sedaris / Jeffrey Eugenides / Shelby Foote / Miranda July / John Updike / Amy Hempel / Jonathan Franzen / Richard Yates / Some favorite books: Oh The Glory of It All / Frankenstein / The Second Sex / Storming Heaven / Lonesome Dove / In Cold Blood / The Meaning of Wife / Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey / The Norton Book of Women's Lives / The Little Prince / the diary of Anne Frank / Anna Karenina / Catcher In the Rye / Jane Eyre / The History of Love / Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the 20th Century / Letters to J.D. Salinger / Confederates In the Attic / The Hours / The Carpenters: The Untold Story / Mists of Avalon / The Lovely Bones / The True History of the Elephant Man / Tete a Tete: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre / Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers / The Ice Storm / Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius & Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players / The Elephant Vanishes / Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret / Black Swan Green / Girls of Tender Age / Suite Francaise / maybe Infinite Jest if I ever finish it...

Heroes:

DUNGEN, OUR CATS GRAVY & BISCUIT, NINJAS ,***********************************************

My Blog

world just got dumber

R.I.P. DFWhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/books/15wallace.html?_r =1&fta=y&oref=slogin
Posted by Feejee Mermaid on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:06:00 PST

the sadness

The sadness of a grocery list. Milk, tea, sugar.The sadness of an old man learning to meditate. Breathe through the nose or mouth?The sadness of peeled potatoes. Apple of the earth.The sadness of the ...
Posted by Feejee Mermaid on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:03:00 PST

2007 books

Well, my goal for 2006 was to read a book a week, which I accomplished (read exactly 52). My goal for 2007 was to beat that record, which I didn't come close to doing. I believe it's because it was a ...
Posted by Feejee Mermaid on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:15:00 PST

weird dream

I had a dream the other night that I was at a petting zoo and I was looking at the pigs. There was some guy there and I said to him "I really love pigs". He said "I do too and I think about it every m...
Posted by Feejee Mermaid on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:01:00 PST

pluto

But it's no longer a planet.....>You Are From PlutoYou are a dark, mysterious soul, full of magic and the secrets of the universe.You can get the scoop on anything, but you keep your own secrets locke...
Posted by Feejee Mermaid on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:43:00 PST

one of those dumb quizzes

1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4.In the left column "Adler 1. Alfred, 1870-1937; Austrian psychiatrist". In the right column, "admissible, adj. [Fr.2. Stretch your lef...
Posted by Feejee Mermaid on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:39:00 PST

here kitty kitty

J.J. CasualMath WhizGoosebumpZerbertLicky McButterPuddle DuckBaby Fish MouthOkie NoodlerSugar BritchesTiger BeatLadybugTugboat (yes Steve, as in "Ballhog or...")Pizza KillaBaby DragonFatty BufferBeef ...
Posted by Feejee Mermaid on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:01:00 PST

WTF?

I got my first friend request denial EVER and it was from the West Virginia Metal page!! I guess I wasn't metal enough (excuse me, "enuff") for them. If they only knew...Don't be fooled by my cool 80s...
Posted by Feejee Mermaid on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:45:00 PST

T.C. Boyle

OK, this is old news as I believe this happened in 2004. T.C. Boyle is one of my favorite authors. He had a contest and, well, I won, I won, I won!! I had to be one of the first three people to answer...
Posted by Feejee Mermaid on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 05:28:00 PST

2006 books

So, my goal for 2006 was to read at least a book a week. I read exactly 52. ** means one of my favorite books ever, * means "a frickin' great book"The Stone Diaries- Carol Shields**In Cold Blood- Trum...
Posted by Feejee Mermaid on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:54:00 PST