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Browncoat

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Hello, ladies and menfolk. My name is Laura, I live in Milwaukie, Oregon (I know, I know. I've never heard of it, either), I read Tolkien books like there's no tomorrow, I like to dance to techno, I'm a raging liberal, I frequent Zeta Channel daily, I love science fiction and fantasy, I write a lot but have yet to finish a single story, and I hate Fox Network FOREVER for cancelling Joss Whedon's "Firefly." Hence the username "Browncoat."

My Interests

Writing, reading, drawing, painting, listening to music, dancing like a fool, the SCA, Music Haven, pirates, heat (I thrive in heat), expressing my opinions, equality, and Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

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I'd like to meet:

The entire cast of Firefly, the entire cast of Lord of the Rings, Larry Niven, Joss Whedon, Johnny Depp, the Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan, and...I don't know...people.

Music:

Everything that's NOT rap, hip-hop, country or annoying gospel (Sweet Honey in the Rock DOES NOT COUNT as annoying gospel). If you want a general sample... Flogging Molly, Daft Punk, Hanson, Metallica, James Taylor, Rammstein, John Denver, Tom Lehrer, The Coats, Sweet Honey in the Rock (in case you hadn't guessed), and bagpipe music. That's right, bagpipes. Bagpipes are fucking hardcore.

Movies:

Anything that lacks sappy love scenes and bad acting. Hence, I despise Star Wars I and II, but I enjoy Episode III (more good acting than bad). If you want a basic list... Serenity (Joss Whedon is a crazy fucking GENIUS), Lord of the Rings (especially Fellowship), Dogma, Robin Hood: Prince of Theives, Toys, Finding Nemo, original Star Wars, Independence Day, Men In Black, Duel, Troy (except for the cheesy love scenes), Kingdom of Heaven, Pirates of the Caribbean, Master and Commander, anything Muppets, Apollo 13, The 13th Warrior, Shrek, Shrek 2, Dodgeball, Donnie Darko...you get the idea.

Television:

House and LOST. And Firefly, but stupid Fox Network cancelled it!! But yeah, that's it. Modern television SUCKS.

Books:

Holy crap, you want me to list them? Lord of the Rings (everything Tolkien, really), Ringworld and its sequels, Ender's Game and its sequels, The Dragonriders of Pern series, The Halfblood Chronicles, all the Valdemar books, Windhaven, Earth Abides, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (all five books), Footfall, Inferno...really anything by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Bob Asprin, or any of the other really good sci-fi writers.

Heroes:

Kofi Annan, the Dalai Lama, Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Theresa, Paul Wellstone, the Wright Brothers, Neil Armstrong, Galileo Galilei, Mahatma Gandhi, Charles Loftus-Cole, and Steve "Zeke" Quinn.

My Blog

On My Own, Part Deux.

OK, I have a date set for my big move-out: August 27th. So, any folks available to help me get from Point A (parents' place) to Point B (my place) should show up. I probably won't need much in the w...
Posted by Browncoat on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 09:27:00 PST

Soon to be living on my own (sorta)

I'm moving at the end of the month. I'll be moving into an aparment with Sara Shipman and Nick Gradt, for those of you who know them. Crazy folks. It should be fun.Anyway, as of the last week of Au...
Posted by Browncoat on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:37:00 PST

Today

Woke up. Got my Myspace Haxored. Went to bed.
Posted by Browncoat on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:40:00 PST

I'm going to die next Friday

The day after Thanksgiving. Black Friday. I have to be at work at 4:30 in the morning. At that point I will only have a half-hour to live. The doors will open at 5:00 and the totally batshit insan...
Posted by Browncoat on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:37:00 PST

And this is why the webbernet is awesome.

Because you can go online, do a search and actually find a five-second mp3 of the sound a platypus makes.Precisely why the webbernet is teh awesome....
Posted by Browncoat on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:48:00 PST

For those about to Write (we salute you)

Yeah...yeah...it's that time again. National Novel Writing Month starts tomorrow. And yes, I'm going to commit mental seppuku and attempt to do it. Because I'm crazy like that. (My story will be ab...
Posted by Browncoat on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:37:00 PST

How I wish, how I wish you were here...

Damn. Four years. Four years to the day since one of the sweetest, funniest, most decent people I've ever known died.I didn't sleep very well last night. I kept dreaming about him. I hate dreaming...
Posted by Browncoat on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:13:00 PST

Things not to throw at your significant other, .346-J.

I mean really.This is just fucking weird. Which is, of course, why I found it on fark.com.But can you imagine what it must have been like for the boyfriend? It's bad enough to have to say that your ...
Posted by Browncoat on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:55:00 PST

Never a dull moment...

So I was at work this morning pushing carts when I hear this loud bell going off - you know, like the kind they used to signal recess in grade school (I was outside). It was this old red bell above t...
Posted by Browncoat on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 04:09:00 PST

Shoot me. No, really.

Oh. My. God.I just missed a final. I missed. A final. As in wasn't even THERE to take it.I swear, I swear on all that I hold dear, he told us it would be today from 2 to 4. I SWEAR he said it.It...
Posted by Browncoat on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:30:00 PST