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Ashley

Tempus Fugit, Dollface. Things really aren't all that relative.

About Me


Call Me LaikaAtlanta, GA
writer
female

Diary of an Anti-Chomskyite
The Absorbascon
Medulla Oblongata
Grand Text Auto
Dance.....

My Interests

Coffee, reading, walking, breathing (a new--but invigorating hobby I would heartily recommend), Austrian Economics, Libertarianism, Gnosticism, AI, physics, 19th, 18th & 17th century lit, biotechnology, human-computer interaction, rhetorical fallacies, game theory, medical pathology, politics, neuropsychology, hepatology, nephrology, DC comics, Sub-Mariner, Hawkman

bjork, all is full of love, silicon
..

I'd like to meet:



G_d--but only in the discarnate sense for now...

Music:

Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonius Monk, Sarah Vaughn, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Joan Jett,Loretta Lynn,Etta James, Henry Mancini, Bill Evans, Goldfrapp,Giorgio Moroder, Sinead O'Connor, Donna Summer,Sylvester,Rick James, X, frenetik, Bjork, Al Green, Marvin Gay, Jackson 5, Dolly Parton, Johnny Rivers, Patsy Cline,The Smiths, Metallica, Nouvelle Vague, Kylie Minogue, The Clash, Bela Fleck, ABBA, Deep Purple, Vera Lynne, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, The Kinks, Louis Armstrong, Pink Floyd, Roger Miller, Ramones, Bobby Darin, Count Basie, Alison Krauss, Motorhead, Bee Gees, Elvis Costello, Split Enz, Joy Division, New Order, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Yaz, Leonard Cohen, TLC,Pole Cats, Radiohead, Rosanne Cash, Rodney Crowell, Elton John, Cat Stevens, Foster & Lloyd, ZZ Top, Bill Withers, Bow Wow Wow, Translator, Beatles, Marc Bolan & T Rex, Tywanna Jo Baskette, XD Wei, Yoko Kanno, XTC

Movies:

Trois Couleurs: Rouge, La Double Vie de Veronique, Dekalog, actually anything by Krzysztof Kieslowski, Heavenly Creatures, Fanny and Alexander, Bringing Up Baby, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Koyaanisqatsi, Grey Gardens, FREEWAY, Aliens, The House of Mirth, Bring It On, Fight Club, The Outlaw Josey Wales, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Brazil, His Girl Friday, Entre Nous, A Place in the Sun, Suddenly Last Summer, Network, Rear Window, Husbands and Wives, The Fog of War, Spirited Away, To Live, Wings of the Dove, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, The Third Man, Brick, Waking Life, Julia, Camelot, Huit Femmes, Little Miss Sunshine, F is For Fake, The General, Gone With the Wind, Roman Holiday, Dr. Strangelove, Oldboy, It Happened One Night, Tampopo, Ghost in the Shell (1&2),The Matrix,M, All About Eve, Blade Runner, Thirteen, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Primer, Swimming Pool.......

Television:

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA--the new and improved; X-Files to the bloody end, The Closer, Law & Order--original and extra crispy SVU

Books:

Too many to mention.But, since it has come up, let's put Religion, Novels, Philosophy, Poetry and Drama together, shall we?Aristotle, Plato, Shakespeare, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas a Kempis, Augustine, St. Therese de Lisieux, St. Francis, Malory, Galen, Robert Burton, Paracelsus, Burns, Donne, Blake, Coleridge, Tennyson, Keats, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Thomas Merton, Dickens, Wharton, Bronte(s--including Branwell), Mark Twain, Austen, Hardy, Thackeray, Samuel Butler, Robertson Davies, Carlyle, Tennyson, Yeats, Wallace Stevens, St. Emily Dickinson, Wilfred Owen, Woolf, Browning, Borges, Philip Dick, Orwell, Huxley, Camus, North Whitehead...etc. etc.

Heroes:

Honey, Aeron, Penny and Maki

My Blog

We Have, What?

A billion years until our next election (USA folks...)? We will listen to non-entities speak about non-entities until we all have nosebleeds and feel, as least figuratively speaking, as if we've had a...
Posted by Ashley on Sat, 05 May 2007 05:32:00 PST

Salsa and your laptop...

If you ever have a desperate salsa (sauce--not dance--not music) accident with your laptop, (I dumped an entire plate of salsa, cheese and chips on my laptop) here are my suggestions: 1. If said sals...
Posted by Ashley on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:24:00 PST

Listening...

Listening to XD Wei. Great music and well worth a listen...
Posted by Ashley on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:40:00 PST

My level of intelligence revealed...

As I endeavored to brush my teeth last night, I found that my tube of toothpaste had developed a dry...well, let's just say scab (I know that's unpleasant, but there it is) over the top of i...
Posted by Ashley on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 06:54:00 PST

Moving tomorrow...

I love moving...I've done it 47 times now.    
Posted by Ashley on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:40:00 PST

Comics (the lit--not the verbal)

If you like DC Comics, you have to check out Absorbascon. Funniest blog I've ever read. I'm a total fangirl for this site: http://absorbascon.blogspot.com/...
Posted by Ashley on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:13:00 PST

Again with the INTJ

--> -->--> --> INTJ -  "Mastermind". Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models. 2.1% of total population. ...
Posted by Ashley on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:07:00 PST

Star

This is really sad. Star Foster died yesterday. She was a blogging presence as well as an award-winning interactive fiction writer. Tremendous loss to the internet community, which is nothing compared...
Posted by Ashley on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:33:00 PST

Good on Them....Hope they Get Out of the Charges

I have dear friends with MS. This is a crying shame: THREE people are to go on trial today (Monday, 04 December) for allegedly supplying chocolate bars laced with cannabis to help relieve the pai...
Posted by Ashley on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:54:00 PST

Benjamin on Jewish Liberalism

Benjamin hits another high note, as usual. Read the rest--well worth it... Alan Wolfe, a professor at Boston College, has added his voice to the unending chorus of hand wringers desperate to identify...
Posted by Ashley on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:23:00 PST