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bonita applebaum

king friday must be a king in mexico.

About Me

my friends will tell you that i think im always right (and i am!). im witty and smart and sometimes funny. you can hear me from a mile away. i moved back to nj in 2005 after trying to "find myself" in la. it didnt work...

My Interests

samurai sudoku (ask me about it...its better than regular sudoku.), scrabble, biology, astronomy, knitting, baking, making faces, drinking coffee, movies, reading, crossword puzzles, painting, napping, and overusing ellipses...

I'd like to meet:

can you hold an intelligent conversation as well as a silly one? do you think youre witty? are you strong in your convictions, but open to other ideas? apply here. NOTE: i am NOT looking for a boyfriend!

Music:

mostly, i listen to the radio. i never just listen to music; its always in the background while im doing something else. i usually listen to the radio, but i do occasionally listen to weezer, no doubt AND gwen, liz phair, res, n.e.r.d., a tribe called quest, nerfherder, jay z, weston, dancehall crashers, anything thats not too whiny.

Movies:

i prefer to read the book before i see the movie. often times the book is way better. examples: the godfather, memoirs of a geisha, the da vinci code, mary poppins. my all time favorite movie is the original parent trap. here are some more movies i dig: the almost famous, borat (although it was much funnier the first time), the aristocrats, thumbsucker, donnie darko, requiem for a dream , me you and everyone we know, most 80s movies and indie flicks, willy wonka and the chocolate factory (the original) and most foreign films offered at blockbuster. i can reconcile this by saying there are a very limited number of foreign films there, so they usually display the better ones.

Television:

anything on the travel channel, most things on animal planet, m.a.s.h., BIG LOVE, family guy, beavis and butthead reruns on mtv2, my so called life, daria. and i hate to admit it, but im a sucker for shitty reality shows: real world, survivor, sweet sixteen, ANTM. i dig the channels that have informational programming, as well (msnbc, cnn, discovery and history channels). what an interesting dichotomy...

Books:

"You're missing the point," she said. "What you're saying makes sense in theory, but not in practice. You're trying to compare apples and oranges." "Why do you keep saying that?" he asked in response. "Apples and oranges aren't that different, really. I mean, they're both fruit. Their weight is extremely similar. They both contain acidic elements. They're both roughly spherical. They serve the same social purpose. With the possible exception of a tangerine, I can't think of anything more similar to an orange than an apple. If I was having lunch with a man who was eating an apple and--while I was looking away--he replaced that apple with an orange, I doubt I'd even notice. So how is this a metaphor for difference? I could understand if you said, 'That's like comparing apples and uranium,' or 'That's like comparing apples with baby wolverines,' or 'That's like comparing apples with the early work of Raymond Carver,' or 'That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths.' Those would all be valid examples of profound disparity. But not apples and oranges. In ever meaningful way, they're virtually identical." "You're missing the point, "she said again, this time for different reasons. --chuck klosterman, "sex, drugs and cocoa puffs". anything by david sedaris, jennifer weiner, jonathan safran foer, and margaret atwood.

Heroes:

did i ever tell you youre my hero? youre everything i wish i could be...

My Blog

insomnia

for the past few nights i have not been sleeping so well.  but my body is so tired during the day that i have to sleep.  its a horrible cycle that i know will end soon.  it just in the ...
Posted by bonita applebaum on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:31:00 PST

thoughts on wrestling

a while back, bill got me into watching wrestling.  i quickly became a fan and would regularly watch it on tv.  then the chris benoit thing happened and suddenly i became aware of the d...
Posted by bonita applebaum on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:58:00 PST

12:01 a.m.

i read that the harry potter movie came out at 12:01 a.m.  Why 12:01 and not 12:00?  the last time i checked, 12:00 was considered the morning, too.  Then whats all the fuss about ...
Posted by bonita applebaum on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:34:00 PST

i kicked bills ass!

bill was laying on the floor, so i felt it necessary to do some wrestling moves on him.  i tried to do a figure four and  he bolted kind of upright.  a few minutes later he was whining,...
Posted by bonita applebaum on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:37:00 PST

aby's

bill and i went to a restaurant called aby's in matawan.  i read two (good) reviews of it in the paper and in zagat.  bill knew immediately that there was trouble to be had bc there were fak...
Posted by bonita applebaum on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:06:00 PST

the boardwalk

bill and i went to the boardwalk yesterday and had a great time.  we were on our way back to the car when i felt a hand in  my back pocket...and it wasnt mine.  i turn around and theres...
Posted by bonita applebaum on Sun, 27 May 2007 07:23:00 PST

insomnia

i havent had a good nights sleep in over two weeks.  ive tried everything i can imagine:  two different sleeping medications, two different types of sedatives and various combinations of the...
Posted by bonita applebaum on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:45:00 PST

oooh, i got in trouble

i got in trouble for posting the truth.  i just dont understand it.
Posted by bonita applebaum on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:26:00 PST

instant karma is gonna get you...

guilt is a beautiful thing.  i lost a friend and gained a new one in a week.  nice!
Posted by bonita applebaum on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:48:00 PST

cant touch this.

part 1:  a friend of mine recently called some people out on myspace.  these two ppl happened to have hurt her badly.  one of them was her brother.  her brother promptly told her d...
Posted by bonita applebaum on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:45:00 PST