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Heather

vivalakimi

About Me

Greatest driver (Fangio), greatest car (Mercedes W196), greatest track (Monza with banking):Oops! I forgot a couple of tracks. I'll have to search for Spa later! Green Hell!!!

My Interests

Formula 1, SCCA, driving fast, pit crews!, Gold Star Racing, working at the track, Black Cat Racing, Halloween, natural history, biology, herpetology, amphibian declines, teaching science, subversion of cretins in positions of power. I'm hopelessly addicted to racing! November Fire!

I'd like to meet:

Friends and racing folk.

Music:

Angry shit. Silly shit. Spooky shit. Ramones. AC/DC. Tiger Lillies. Tom Waits. Butthole Surfers. RevCo. The Cramps. Paul Simon. White/Rob Zombie.

Movies:

Anything by Werner Herzog. Most by John Waters. Night of the Living Dead. Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Yeah, horror and drag queens turn me on. And I can't forget Grand Prix. That movie says it all for me and my interest in F1 racing. A Clockwork Orange. Cinema Insomnia with Mr. Lobo.

Television:

Formula 1: I watch it no matter the hour! MASH. Friends, to detox at the end of the day.

Books:

Between Pacific Tides- Edward Ricketts. Anything by Stephen Jay Gould. Steinbeck and my new-found fondness for fiction. The Smaller Majority- Piotr Naskrecki. Alex Zanardi- My Story. The most amazing racing and general life book I have ever read. It is impossible to put down. You can live through anything if you can live through what this guy has.

Heroes:

Strephon Taylor. Kimi Raikkonen. Alex Zanardi. Stephen Jay Gould. Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Galileo Galilei. Gregor Mendel. Charles Darwin. People who do the right thing.

My Blog

It’s Official!

Man alive! I've been smiling since Saturday! I really don't know how it's possible that every time I go out to the track the experience just gets better and better. Getting better at being on a pit...
Posted by Heather on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:30:00 PST

Bra-vo!

Thank you to all the breast cancer walkers and volunteers in San Francisco this weekend! Over $5 million was raised and 80% stays right here in the Bay Area! Research saves lives. I am convinced th...
Posted by Heather on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:10:00 PST

At Long Last, I've Found Them!!!

I swear that Lucha VaVoom was one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen... Mexican wrestling with burlesque between matches and killer tunes! Here they are on MySpace:Lucha VaVoomI think it wa...
Posted by Heather on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:16:00 PST

Lucky

It seems like I'm always trying to satiate some sort of hunger by going out to races, reading about racing, and watching racing on TV, or anything at all race or car related. Every time I do, the hun...
Posted by Heather on Sun, 06 May 2007 11:39:00 PST

Lewis Hamilton Has Arrived!

Lewis Hamilton has just shown us the stuff he is made of, if there was a shred of doubt left after the start of the Australian Grand Prix. In Malaysia he fought off Massa, making him look like the im...
Posted by Heather on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:25:00 PST

Bob Wilkins, Creature Features Host

Please help us support our favorite Bay Area/Sacramento horror host from "back in the day," Bob Wilkins! While he and his family will be celebrating his 75th. birthday this coming week, we are also s...
Posted by Heather on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 01:11:00 PST

Six Months Later...

It's six months since my surgery today. A reason to celebrate! We went to King Tsin and had awesome food and a Margarita Perfect. Perfect!
Posted by Heather on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:07:00 PST

Finding a New Way

Since the breast cancer scare, luckily just that, and Strephon's full concentration on November Fire and less on other clients, we've been working on having more fun! It is kind of work, since we nor...
Posted by Heather on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:02:00 PST

Long Term Pain, Acceptance, Stress, Anger Management=Hard Work

I got this message from a MySpace friend:...cancer that you didnt have?? dear god, i would be furious!! i get that you had the area removed just in case since (I'm guessing) it contained precancerous ...
Posted by Heather on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:55:00 PST

Breast Cancer 12: Wills and Such

I'll bet you've thought about whether you'd want to be cremated or buried, or if it would be okay for you to be in a vegetative state, drooling in a hospital bed with a bedpan and a ventilator. Yeah?...
Posted by Heather on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:01:00 PST