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About Me

Urban poet-philosopher, hippie pirate and sometime archeologist dealing with the modern perils of paying rent, staying sane, and never having the time to work on that darn novel. I enjoy snobby beer and cheap wine, literature about the dysfunctional and the deep; bad movies; good grammar; and obscure indie rock. I believe that black is always the new black, soda is slowly killing us all, and that happy endings never get old.

My Interests

Italian cooking, anthropological theory, oil painting, Bach, yoga, modern poets, tarot, yuppie beer, creative writing, guitar, music documentaries at the Drafthouse, Renaissance art, cognitive psychology, pop culture studies, folklore, Celtic traditional music, the history of punk, etc.

I'd like to meet:

Everyone I already know. Also, gypsy pirates.
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Music:

Everything minus death metal and tejano.

Movies:

The Royal Tenenbaums, Stranger Than Fiction, Amelie.

Television:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer rocks my world.

Books:

Portrait of a Lady, Anthropology of an American Girl, Tom Jones, Time Traveler's Wife, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, the Life of Pi, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Also, PG Wodehouse is cool.

Heroes:

Joni Mitchell and my eighth grade english teacher.

My Blog

sick sick sick

and miserable. May in fact be in love with my primary care physician, who, albeit over-weight and somewhat funny-looking, expressed so much sympathy for my somewhat pedestrian case of miserablene...
Posted by Carolyn on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:07:00 PST

Pasta is Sexy

Also nutritious. I have been aided on my quest for the perfect ravioli by a gift of a European-brand pasta maker for Christmas. Apparently it is impossible to sell anything without a picture of a nake...
Posted by Carolyn on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:24:00 PST

Armed and Fabulous/New Year’s

It's amazing what a firearm will do for your outfit. ...
Posted by Carolyn on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:12:00 PST

Help Wanted

Busy female professional in Austin, Texas, seeks unemployed, overeducated college student for personal assistant. Must cook, clean, pay bills, write term papers, have own vehicle, fix computers and ru...
Posted by Carolyn on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:13:00 PST

Things to Be Thankful For

1. Jeff Buckley. 2. Stuffing. 3. My younger brother's chin fuzz. (Cause it's funny.) 4. High school friends that are still cool. 5. People who notice when your myspace profile photo isn't rotated on a...
Posted by Carolyn on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:48:00 PST

Woman vs. the Wilderness

I am officially losing the battle against the wilderness. Fueled by global-warming-inspired rains, the malevolent chaos that is the Texas wilderness has staked its claim to the small plot of lan...
Posted by Carolyn on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:23:00 PST

Childress

..> ..> .. ..>..> High times in Childress, Texas. Photos courtesy of Damon. Who wouldn't let me touch the camera....
Posted by Carolyn on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 07:34:00 PST

Please Read Me: The Tragedy of Literary Disenfranchisement

Shortly after finishing (well, skimming briefly and then abandoning) an article in a back issue of McSweeney's The Believer (February 2004) bemoaning the lack of interest on the part of publishing hou...
Posted by Carolyn on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:28:00 PST

Foot in Mouth Disease and Other Medical Mishaps

Hey, did you hear about the man who prayed to Buddha to give him an open heart? He had to have a coronary artery bypass graft. You're right. I'm not funny. A coworker of m...
Posted by Carolyn on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:19:00 PST

Blog for Cancer

I met a girl last week who was going down to San Antonio to bike all the way back up. For cancer. I knew someone once who biked all the way to Alaska. For cancer. There's an organiza...
Posted by Carolyn on Mon, 28 May 2007 01:29:00 PST