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About Me

if you think you know me, you probably do. i always forget what day of the week it is, even if it's saturday. i fall asleep in public, but it's never personal. i don't have a driver's license. i'm not a vegetarian, but i sometimes play one in restaurants, unless the menu has steak frites. i'm still very finicky when it comes to food textures. i spend roughly three and a half solid weeks a year watching baseball. (maybe four! probably more!) i like wines that can be described as "buttery." my favorite radio show is judy torres' freestyle extravaganza on wktu.

My Interests

making an ass out of myself on the internet (for money and otherwise). the housing bubble. finding blogs written by other people named maura. facebook scrabble.

I'd like to meet:

executives at sharpie, inc.

Music:

Movies:

jackie brown. contempt. tribute. morvern callar. nashville. beyond the valley of the dolls. slasher.

Television:

big spender. law & order (original and ci). big love. project runway. top chef.

Books:

the image. the savage girl. the edible woman. the broom of the system. it's so magic.

Heroes:

margaret atwood. lynda barry. mark robinson. david foster wallace. douglas wolk.

My Blog

head

is still a totally great movie, and very germane to right now.
Posted by maura on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:37:00 PST

recon

you all know that 'ghosts' is pretty much the only album i've been listening to in full lately? well, that and 'out of the woods' and 'white chalk.' ok, just making sure.
Posted by maura on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:34:00 PST

all of your days will be blessed

edwyn collins is one of my top five artists of the year. i mean, it's pretty easy to figure out why, right?
Posted by maura on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:13:00 PST

first draft

of the end-of-year cd, where first draft = not ordered, and incomplete, yet still too long:violet vector etc, 'can you dig it' (nb this should win something for being on my myspace for pretty much hal...
Posted by maura on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:37:00 PST

an open letter to the ui team at myspace.

Please read Edward Tufte. And think about it for a long, long time. Jesus Christ, trying to navigate your site -- even the new, facebooky beta version -- is like trying to navigate through swampwater ...
Posted by maura on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:09:00 PST

the new face of failure

yes, i'm still kind of sad about it. ok, not kind of. as moises alou said yesterday, i kind of hate baseball right now. i'm in still-avoiding-the-playoffs mode. the thought of listening to a mets pres...
Posted by maura on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:04:00 PST

magic number: five

will i be able to see the mets clinch on thursday night? outlook is cloudy. (if anything, i'm hoping they clinch before then. the earliest they can do so will be wednesday. so.)however: if the cubs do...
Posted by maura on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:51:00 PST

when under ether

number of times people have asked me today "didn't you get the e-mail i sent you yesterday/last week/last month": 7. number of times i have said "no" and meant it: 7.grrrr
Posted by maura on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:40:00 PST

survey of fours redux

i posted this back in january '06 originally. let's see how much has and hasn't changed, shall we?four jobs I've had:1. LOL BLOGGER2. movie-theater concessionaire3. defleppard.com producer4. message-b...
Posted by maura on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:23:00 PST

saddest blog ever?

poor sad neglected blog. there there.
Posted by maura on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:07:00 PST