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mara

must love dogs

About Me


nataliedee.com

My Interests

colors

Music:

blackalicious, elastica, zappa, phish, wyclef, flaming lips, strokes, elliot smith, devo, al green, bill withers, brian eno, bowie, duh-disney, freddie king, coltrane, velvet underground, microphones, kostars, ludacris, the hammer, monster magnet, mos def, nico, platters, raffi, erasure, tears for fears, beck, cure, delgados, waldo's people, ataris (i know, i'm embarassed), against me!, ani, alan jackson, cat power, lou reed, doors, lucinda williams, leftover salmon, conway twitty, al green

Movies:

Legend, Finding Nemo, 28 Days Later, the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Royal Tenenbaums, Life is Beautiful Audrey Hepburn

Television:

Naruto, Bobby Flay, Family Guy, Moonlighting, Caroline in the City, Futurama, ellen, mitch hedberg, fawlty towers, Seinfeld

Books:

The Secret Garden, Robin McKinley, Madeleine L'Engle, The Moon is Always Female, Roald Dahl, Patricia C. Wrede, Russian authors in general, esp. Tolstoy, definitely Carson McCullers, psychology nonfiction, Rudyard Kipling, E.E. Smith, things that make me cry..., Wheel of Time

Heroes:

Mitch Hedberg, Sallie Gartner, natalie, Terry Gross

My Blog

Blogging like a Real Nerd.

So, last night I made caramels.  I sort of followed the recipe here: http://www.chezpim.com/blogs/2007/11/quince-carame-1.html, except I put in raspberries and just used two quinces.  The le...
Posted by mara on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:43:00 PST

let's make a wishlist, okay? yah!

tom thumb, the one with russ tamblyn.  it's so freaking awesome.  i need to own it.
Posted by mara on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:55:00 PST

tom

i dont want to be tom's friend.  he's annoying.  and he looks like a deuche
Posted by mara on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:40:00 PST

pie crust is awesome

i wonder how many people have the same problem i do... whenever i back anything with bread in it, i can't make it without tasting it.  i'm trying to make pot pie, and i'm sitting here eating the ...
Posted by mara on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:38:00 PST

i'm eating rice a roni

i haven't had this in years.  and i know why.  it's gross.  don't do it.  go take your dog for a walk instead.
Posted by mara on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:26:00 PST

in case you forgot what it's like to be a teenager

http://www.naloo.net/squeezeapimpel/    you can release all that stress on someone else's face, yay
Posted by mara on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:56:00 PST

a new fun phrase

    this is from the blog i read (blogjam.com): ... there's not much more I like than having something to moan about. It's what I live for, in the absence of much else - the thrill of t...
Posted by mara on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:23:00 PST

there are three camel crickets on my porch and one is dead.

the dead one jumped in a beer bottle and lived there for two weeks at least, and the day before yesterday he finally fell over dead. it made me really sad cause i had saved some of my smoothie to fee...
Posted by mara on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:26:00 PST