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the shorter kate

woman's situation inclines her to seek salvation in literature and art - simone de beauvoir

About Me

...You are call'd plain Kate/ And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst;/ But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom,/ Kate of Kate-Hall, my super-dainty Kate,/ For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate,/ Take this of me, Kate of my consolation-/ Hearing thy mildness prais'd in every town,/ Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded,/ Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs...

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My Interests

quakerism, feminism, theatre, hugo the man-cat, sparkly or hot pink objects, changing the world, reading, cooking, home remedies, piracy (the imaginary, unharmful kind)

I'd like to meet:

~a true patron of the arts...where is my medici? ~a kitten that isn't cute (i say it's impossible) ~a deeply political person who has the ability to drop a subject ~a baby gorilla or manatee ~my best friends in vegas ~myself in a dream...i wonder what i would think of me?

Music:

i miss joanna. like a lot. so i made her a mix cd. here is what was on it: Joanna, JuJu B Solomon; Oh, Atlanta, Alison Krauss & Union Station; Her Majesty, The Beatles; Dirty Old Town, The Pogues; The Ocean, Dar Williams; This Song, Badly Drawn Boy; Here is Where I'm Staying, Jennifer Nettles; Empty In Between, Tegan and Sara; There's A Girl, The Ditty Bops; Summersong, The Decemberists; The Book Of Love, The Magnetic Fields; Lay Lady Lay, Bob Dylan; Ruby Tuesday, The Rolling Stones;Perfect Day, Lou Reed; One Of These Things First, Nick Drake; I Hear The Bells, Mike Doughty; Mayor Of Your Town, Leona Naess; Sway, The Lost Continentals; Baby Britain, Elliott Smith; Anyone Else But You, The Moldy Peaches

Movies:

Pay a lot of money, but i prefer the stage... but seriously, i would love it if more of them were starring people i know. i feel a transitive sense of pride and accomplishment when i see my pals on tv and in movies. so come on, casting directors! i have completely talented buds! also, i totally watched jesus christ, vampire hunter recently, and you should too. name the movie this quote is from: "first you wanna kill me, then you wanna kiss me. BLOW."

Television:

twin peaks, spaced, the west wing (seasons 1-5, mostly), oz, rome, veronica mars (don't knock it till you've tried it!), battlestar galactica, green wing, buffy (everyone's a cynic until they watch the musical episode!), dexter, slings and arrows, and right now i'm watching old episodes of law and order: svu, and occasionally this american life.

Books:

the other day, my roommate's cat tried to chew on a book i had on my bed. i scared the crap out of that feline! i wanted him to understand that we *must* respect the sanctity of books. i just love them. i just finished lamb: the gospel according to biff, christ's childhood pal, by christopher moore. it was fab. now i am reading love in the time of cholera by gabriel garcia marquez. i doubt the taller kate and i will ever finish our guns, germs, and steel book club.

Heroes:

florence ellinwood allen, judy dench, mike, tom

My Blog

ooo-ooooh that smell! can you smell that smell?

the smiley i just put on here looks like s/he is being hit by lightning.which is probably annoying.you know what else is annoying?the smell of my bedroom.i am being taught a lesson by karma for allowi...
Posted by the shorter kate on Thu, 22 May 2008 08:44:00 PST

i am a creature murderer. accomplice. bad person.

there is this effing creature living in my wall.  it wakes me up in the mornings.  it likes to wake me up extra early when i have been out drinking until rock-star-thirty the night before.&n...
Posted by the shorter kate on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:03:00 PST

click, click, click

my car battery died yesterday. it’s cool...i got it taken care of, and here’s how...park and i chose to go to dinner anyway, because that was our plan, so we stopped at a pep boys on the w...
Posted by the shorter kate on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:12:00 PST

the duchamp of the old fourth ward

my bedroom is now decorated as follows...(those of you who know what a slacker i am about decorating, feel free to let your jaws drop in wonder.)i have painted a wooden paper-filing-drawer box deep re...
Posted by the shorter kate on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:04:00 PST

welcome to the 21st century, kate!

wow.  the interwebs.the world wide net, as you kids today call it.the computer thingy.dusti and i finally have the magic of the www's at our fingertips.  which means i will be back in contac...
Posted by the shorter kate on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:51:00 PST

2 out of 3 ain’t bad!

my sister got married this weekend.i can't spill all the details, because i am staying after work to use the computer, and i should get the crap out of here, but here's how it went:friday dessert nigh...
Posted by the shorter kate on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:05:00 PST

my poem

as many of you know, i attract sketchy men,.one of whom, recently made a poem for me...i can't remember it all...you musta put something in my drink'cause about you i alweays seem to think...something...
Posted by the shorter kate on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:34:00 PST

my fan club

there is a fan club for me on facebook.  i shit you not.  and it was created by two high school students who apprenticed at my theatre this summer.  and there are people on there i don'...
Posted by the shorter kate on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:36:00 PST

senseless sensibility

alright, dear friends.  i will spare you the intervention.  i know i have a jane austen problem.  two days in a row this week, consequently the only two days this week i had any free ti...
Posted by the shorter kate on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:27:00 PST

hot and buttered

in college, catie and ian and i used to go to waffle house in the middle of the night to "work on our papers," but we always just ended up hanging out, drinking coffee, ian playing ricky martin on the...
Posted by the shorter kate on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:20:00 PST