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kelsey

we all miss you, Zack!

About Me

"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious." still on the quest for a perfect belgian waffle. no luck yet. Recent reviews by Kelsey M. What's this?

My Interests

i like making lists, dog parks, museums with ancient artifacts and bones, words, driving, ponies, music, charts and graphs.

I'd like to meet:

"i already know an awful lot of people and until one of them dies i couldn't possibly meet anybody else."If the world were any smaller, I'd live next door to myself.

Music:

explosions in the sky, the arcade fire, rasputina, airport 81 (who should be called clear cassette instead), goodbye blue monday, blackheart procession, antibalas afrobeat orchestra, lowcloudcover, three mile pilot, manuok, via satellite, no knife, sigur ros, clap your hands say yeah, album leaf, dengue fever, ghostland observatory, louis prima, cul de sac, ratatat, crooked fingers, piano magic, interpol, commander cody and his lost planet airmen, orff, empire state, gotan project, tristeza, oingo boingo, the faint, ilya, asleep at the wheel, postal service, dismemberment plan, cubanismo, channing cope, vivaldi, iron and wine, waterline drift, servotron, buena vista social club, dead can dance, supersystem, the rapture, final fantasy, the smiths, extra action marching band, ambulance ltd, led zeppelin, pinback, blonde redhead, pink floyd, fela kuti, songs about trains, truck driving music, gamelan, taiko

Movies:

clerks, roman holiday, amelie, the original star wars trilogy, the thin man series, dumb and dumber, fandango, nightmare before christmas, army of darkness, the lord of the rings, rushmore, the royal tennenbaums, mafia vs. ninja, office space, field of dreams, napoleon dynamite

Television:

Samurai Jack (RIP), The Office, Space Ghost C2C, MST3K, ANTM, Project Runway

Books:

lord of the rings, The Time Traveler's Wife, Barbara Kingsolver, a prayer for owen meany, atlas shrugged, the lovely bones, Vonnegut, fionavar tapestries, geek love, a series of unfortunate events, his dark materials, thursday next detective series, harry potter, the doctor doolittle series, life of pi, shadow of the wind. current read: the glass castle

Heroes:

people who are ok with decaf, people who can adequately budget, people who have pets but manage to keep their clothes fur-free

My Blog

ChloeBird

I have been truly blessed with my little ChloeBird for the past 8 years.  She's not actually a bird - she's a sparrow-like dog of unknown breeding - but to those who know her she's simply Th...
Posted by kelsey on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:30:00 PST

Saying Goodbye

If you know me at all, you know that I get very attached to material things, especially the things that I use/appreciate often.  Last night I said goodbye to my trusty Ford Explorer (named Torra...
Posted by kelsey on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:48:00 PST

It only took 3 years

My little tiny home is now complete.  If you've been there, you know that it's small.  Like, 56 square feet bigger than the average two car garage.  Teensy.  But, all of the major renovations are comp...
Posted by kelsey on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:55:00 PST

An open letter to the hoodlams, thugs, punks, and hooligans in my neighborhood

What the hell is your problem?  Seriously.  What would be the point of stealing a no-dog-poop sign, let alone two?  What did our classic antique lamp post ever do to you to merit the ha...
Posted by kelsey on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:07:00 PST

Thank you, Steven!

For 5 years now my single-car garage (it's actually too small for a real car) has been a dumping ground for anything and everything that my tiny house couldn't accomodate.  As of Friday night, it was ...
Posted by kelsey on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:55:00 PST

Adventures in Barton Flats

It's standard for the Moons to go to the cabin on Labor Day, but this past weekend was anything but!  The temperature dropped close to 50 degrees between the base (108 in Mentone) and the cabin (low 6...
Posted by kelsey on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:52:00 PST

Hank Gibson

My parents' close friends Chris and Jenny Gibson have a young son over in Iraq.  A few weeks ago Hank sent a slideshow of what it's like over there - he's deep in a high conflict area.  The ...
Posted by kelsey on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:10:00 PST

the world is NOT small

I've been spending a lot of time lately thinking about the past.  It's impossible to think about the past without thinking about the people IN the past...the people you shared those memories with...
Posted by kelsey on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:34:00 PST

Father Cousin

I'll admit to a longstanding bias against the Catholic Church. I just can't seem to get my head around most of it. It's so formal, ritualistic, political, has such a violent past, has been in the ne...
Posted by kelsey on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:03:00 PST

bathtime! (photoblog)

tash almost looks thin when he's wet.  almost.  chloe wants another blueberry facial.   ...
Posted by kelsey on Wed, 02 May 2007 12:09:00 PST