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Katt

We'll do some wine and fall about.“ ..

About Me



Beer Geek, Music Junkie, Tech Monkey, Political Dissident, Ball of Confusion.

My Interests

Want my advice? Consider Bhutan's Gross National Happiness (GNH) index. Material goods are never going to live up to your expectations.
Go do something! Travel. Meet new people, have a drink or a meal with them. Keep an open mind. Smile more. Ride your bike. Give someone the benefit of the doubt. Be a good friend. Send birthday cards. Listen more than you talk. Make a difference in someone's life.
"There's only one rule that I know of, babies -- 'God damn it, you've got to be kind.' "—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


    Travel:
    Most of my adventures are either focused on Scuba diving (I've been to Fiji, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Bali, and many spots in the Caribbean, the best of which was Belize) or food/wine/beer, which usually means Europe. Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Italia, Austria and England so far (multiple trips to some). I was stationed in Panama when I was in the Navy, and have also traveled to Japan and Korea.
    We're booked for a dive trip to Truk and Palau in 2009 :-)
    Cycling: I like to ride my bike.
    Beer, Wine, and Food: I'm a certified beer judge and have a passion for Belgian ales. Once on a trip to Belgium, we got to help brew a batch of Stille Nacht at the De Dolle Brouwerij with owner Kris Herteleer.
    The following week, we were in London and had the spectacular good luck of being invited on a pub crawl with the Beer Hunter, Michael Jackson, who took us around to his locals and some historic pubs in Old Hammersmith.

    Some of my favorite beers:Belgium: Westmalle Triple, Hanssen's gueze, Oud Beersel kriek, DeDolle Oerbier and StilleNacht, Westvleteren 12, Rodenbach Grand Cru, Rochefort, Scaldis ... well, there are too many to name. US: Victory Prima Pils and Hop Wallop, Dogfishhead 60 Minute IPA, Sierra Nevada Celebration, Anchor Liberty Ale, Tupper's Hop Pocket Pils and Ale, Old Dominion Oak Barrel Stout and Dominator Doppelbock (if they ever make it again), Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout Other: Guinness, of course. Pale Rider (Sheffield, Britain), Pilsner Urquell, Budvar, Spaten Maibock, Schlenkerla, Bayerischer Bahnhof Gosebrauerei's Gose (Leipzig) to name just a few.

I'm a pretty good cook and usually focus on Italian and French cuisine, when I have time.
Politics: Fuck Bush. Fuck Cheney. Fuck Rummy. Fuck Gonzalez.
Crooks and Liars

I'd like to meet:



Aren't they looking stylish and fit?

Some photos of my recent trip to Tuscany...
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Music:

Lately: The new Dirty Pretty Things album, 'Romance at Short Notice', We Are Scientists, Last Shadow Puppets, The Hold Steady, British Sea Power, The Cribs, Foals, Carbon Silicon, Babyshambles, Kieran Leonard.
Okay, so I like guitars. And cute boys in leather playing them.
The Longer List: The Clash, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Editors, The Libertines, Dirty Pretty Things, Hot Hot Heat, REM, Foo Fighters, David Bowie, the Velvet Underground, the Pixies, Jane's Addiction, RHCP, The Cure, Elvis Costello, Depeche Mode, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Byrds, The Cult, Stone Roses, Midnight Oil, the Waterboys, White Stripes, the Strokes, P.I.L, Rancid, The Coral, the Transplants, Nirvana, Black Flag, X, Henry Rollins, Beck, Oasis, the Pogues, Joy Division, , The Raconteurs, SPOON, The Shins, Kaiser Chiefs, Peter Bjorn and John, Interpol, The Killers, Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, The Cinematics, Whitest Boy Alive, Maximo Park, Little Man Tate, Arcade Fire, Muse, The Wombats, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Subways, Ian Brown, Hard-Fi, Charlatans, New Model Army, The Smiths, New Order, Big Audio Dynamite, John Hiatt, the Ramones, XTC, Bauhaus, Joe Jackson, Bob Marley, The English Beat, The Specials, The Jam, Talking Heads, B-52s, Roxy Music, Jesus and Mary Chain, Killing Joke, the Kinks, the Sex Pistols, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, the Who, Elton John, Neil Young, the Rolling Stones, the Doors, Led Zeppelin, Rush et.al.

Movies:

Lord of the Rings, Monty Python, David Lynch, Trainspotting. John Waters flicks. Amelie. Run, Lola, Run.
Home video:
Underwater video shot by my husband and me.Scuba diving videos on YouTubeSame dive videos on MySpace

Television:

The Mighty Boosh, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Weeds, Lost, Sopranos, Anything on PBS, The Office.

Books:

Kurt Vonnegut, Nick Hornby, Neil Gaiman, Neal Stephenson, David Niven, John Irving, Carl Hiaasen, Ayn Rand, Jonathan Franzen, Graham Greene

Heroes:

Noel Fielding, Peter Doherty

My Blog

Ah, Pete

I finally watched all the bits of Who the Fuck is Pete Doherty. The answer, which is so obvious but I wasn't paying attention, is that he's brilliant and he's bi-polar.I'm sipping on some Jameson's an...
Posted by Katt on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:51:00 PST

Is Anyone Paying Attention?

David E. Sanger writes in the New York Times: "President Bush's newest effort to rebuild eroding support for the war in Iraq features a distinct shift in approach: Rather than stressing the benefits o...
Posted by Katt on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:50:00 PST