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About Me

I am an aspiring meddler in the boonies of the southeast, with hopes of moving to somewhere more interesting--preferably a war zone. No, I'm not a big Superman fan, I just like the quote.

My Interests

Reading, writing, movies, movie reviews, political and moral philosophy, clothes, interior decorating, international affairs, international development, economic theory (I lose interest when complicated equations are involved)

I'd like to meet:

Old friends

Music:

Soundgarden, Metallica, Godsmack, Franz Ferdinand, U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jimi Hendrix, Lennie Kravitz, The White Stripes, Alice in Chains

Movies:

Pirates of the Caribbean, When Harry Met Sally, Catch Me If You Can, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Philadelphia Story, Office Space, Mean Girls

Television:

Lost, Seinfeld, Friends, Bones, How I Met Your Mother, NCIS, My Name Is Earl, The Office, Scrubs, 30 Rock, Arrested Development [Happy now?], American Idol [I'm so ashamed]

Books:

Pride and Prejudice, The Lord of the Rings, Watership Down, Middlemarch, Till We Have Faces, Farewell My Lovely, anything by: P.G. Wodehouse, Dick Francis, Mary Stewart, Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen

Heroes:

Elizabeth Elliot, Elizabeth I, Calvin Coolidge, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Mark Steyn, Florence King, Alexander Hamilton, Jonah Goldberg

My Blog

Name of the Week

Stormy Sweat
Posted by Parthenos Nike on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:30:00 PST

Name of the Week

The Middle-Aged Mutant Ninja Guinea Pigs
Posted by Parthenos Nike on Thu, 10 May 2007 06:00:00 PST

Iran hostage crisis

When good Queen Elizabeth* sate on the throneE'er coffee and tea and such slip-slops were known,The world was in terror if e'er she did frown!O the roast beef of old England!O, English roast beef!But ...
Posted by Parthenos Nike on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:55:00 PST

odd marketing

Why does the lowermybills.com banner ad on hotmail feature a guy getting a tattoo? Do people get tattoos when they get mortgages?
Posted by Parthenos Nike on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:19:00 PST

Some Thirty Inches from My Nose

Some thirty inches from my noseThe frontier of my Person goes,And all the untilled air betweenIs private pagus or demesne.Stranger, unless with bedroom eyesI beckon you to fraternize,Beware of rudely ...
Posted by Parthenos Nike on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:37:00 PST