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Paige

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Paige --
[adjective]:
Banshee-like
'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com*Author/performer of multiple poems including the "isabel" series and the in-process creative non-fiction long piece "Sex Sells: Confessions of a Victoria's Secret Saleswench".*9th grade High Jump English comp. instructor, www.highjumpchicago.org.*Creative Writing Instructor at StoryStudio Chicago, www.storystudiochicago.com*Creative writing instructor at the Latin School of Chicago's "Live and Learn" program, www.latinschool.org/liveandlearn.*English Comp. Adjunct at St. Augustine College, www.staugustinecollege.edu.*Tutor.*MFAW from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, www.artic.edu/saic.*Bachelor's in English from Michigan State University. www.msu.edu.
Your Famous Last Words Will Be:
"I dunno, press the button and find out." What Will Your Famous Last Words Be? You are Loba.
(Your alter-ego is Paige)
Your super-hero ability:
Communicate with squirrels in order to train them to fight like ninjas on your behalf
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Your Political Profile:
Overall: 15% Conservative, 85% Liberal
Social Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Personal Responsibility: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Fiscal Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Ethics: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Defense and Crime: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal How Liberal Or Conservative Are You?

My Interests

poetry, creative non-fiction, music (classic rock), education, bright shiny objects, teaching everyone the correct use of quotation fingers and ellipses, film, NPR/Chicago Public Radio, visual arts, gaining complete control of everyone who rides the CTA so as to make them behave as I see fit, performing arts, stealing other people's dogs.

I'd like to meet:



Obama's DNC Keynote Address

Add to My Profile | More Videos Dogs, even more dogs, other writers who I am as good as/better than/not even in the ballpark with so as to goad me by sheer covetousness into finishing this book already. Alright, to name names: Aaron Sorkin; David Sedaris - again; Oprah Winfrey; Anderson Cooper - again, only this time I'd make out with him instead of just saying "I like your suit"; Kenneth Koch, Bob Dylan - totally making out; Michael Moore; Philip Gourevitch - again, only this time I wouldn't be late, pop my snaps or have my cell phone go off, a.k.a be the person I hate; Elvis Costello - makeout central; Steve Martin; Will Farell; Frank McCourt, kind of again - does being in the Rubloff auditoruim at the same time count? everyone on NPR, Anthony Bourdain, Paula Deen, Barak Obama - again, as "Secretary of Watching 'Law and Order' and Eating Pad Thai".

Music:


Get this video and more at MySpace.com Dylan, The Who, Elvis Costello (and/or the Attractions), The Beatles, Janis Joplin, David Bowie, Bob Marley, Billy Joel, The Stones, Zep, Cat Stevens, Donovan, The Dead, James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel, They Might Be Giants, The Doobie Brothers, The Clash, The Kinks, The Knack, Barenaked Ladies, Jet, TRex, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Kenny Loggins, Tommy TuTone, AhHa and/or any other 80's guilty pleasure, any and all of the great female jazz songstresses, Wally Pleasant, The Jackson 5, Jim Croce, anyone who has ever guest starred on "The Muppet Show". Mahnahmahna

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Movies:

Paige 's Random Movie Quote:
'You can never go too far.'
- Ferris Beuller, Ferris Beuller’s Day Off
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Add to My Profile | More Videos March of the Penguins, Stanger than Fiction, Dodgeball, The Pursuit of Happyness, Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Thank You for Smoking, The Science of Sleep, The Triplets of Bellville, Secretary, Bobby, Caddyshack, Pretty Woman, Philadelphia, Heathers, Pump Up the Volume, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, PCU, Clerks, Cinderella Man, Zoolander, Mystery Men, Apocalypse Now, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Anchorman, The American President, The Royal Tennenbaums, Jakob the Liar, Dazed and Confused, Meet the Parents, Brick, I Am Sam, The Dark Crystal, Proof, Rudy, American Beauty, The Majestic, Almost Famous, Being John Malcovitch, Momento, Reality Bites, Waitress, The Sixth Sense, You've Got Mail, Shall We Dance, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Goonies, Father of the Bride, Prarie Home Companion, The Green Mile, Hearts in Atlantis, Newsies, Waiting for Guffman, The Devil Wears Prada, The Wizard of Oz, The King and I, Chicago, Newsies - just about any classic/semi-modern movie musical, same goes for Pixar or anything starring dogs and/or furniture jumping crazy Tom Cruise, any short on rathergood.com, the film version of my book. PCU

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You are shy, but once you overcome that you are inspirational to those around you. You are rebellious and like to push the authority figures buttons.
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Television:

Mad Men - Preview

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Lennie Briscoe
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Quizilla | Join| Make A Quiz | More Quizzes | Grab Code West Wing, but only the episodes written by Aaron Sorkin; Law and Order, predominatly any episodes with Lenny Briscoe and Jack McCoy, though I'll take others in a pinch; Fraiser; LOST; Heroes; any reality T.V. show I think I have a chance/no chance of being cast on - as a chubby caustic replacement for Janis Dickenson on ANTM, the tasteless fire-starter on Top Chef, the scrapper on Project Runway who can't hem, The Real World: Boystown, etc.; Sex and the City; Family Guy; Futurama; Home Movies; Tom Goes to the Mayor; Mission Hill; the Simpsons; Aqua Teen Hunger Force - especially if Inignot, Ur and/or Foreigner are involved; Robot Chicken; No Reservations; any show featuring Paula Deen; Jeopardy, Cash Cab, the World Series of Pop Culture, Mad Men, the series, mini-series and documentary based on my book The West Wing Pilot

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Books:

Fiction:No one belongs here more than you, Miranda JulyThe Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian SelznickThe Book of Lost Things, John ConnollyAquamarine, Carol AnshawWhat You've Been Missing, Janet Desaulniersthe perks of being a wallflower, Stephen ChboskyThe Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey NiffengerOne Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia MarquezAtonement, Ian McEwanThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Mark HaddonHousekeeping, Marilynne RobisonThe Bone People, Keri HulmeThe Mambo Kings Sing Songs of Love, Oscar HijuelosThe Question of Bruno, Alexsandar HemonFury, Salman RushdieThe Subterraneans, Jack KerouacThe Great Gatsby, F. Scott FitzgeraldShopgirl, Steve MartinLisey's Story, Steven KingLolita, Vladmir NabokovTo Kill a Mockingbird, Harper LeeFranny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters or Seymour, an Introduction, J.D. SalingerOne Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Ken KeseyBastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy AllisonBee Season, Myla Goldberg Poets:Joe BrainardPablo NerudaDiane WakoskiNaomi ShiHab NyeCarl PhillipsBilly CollinsLouise GluckAllen GinsbergDiane DiPrimaLyn HejinianFredrico Garcia LorcaWilliam ShakespeareT.S. ElliotLewis CarrollWalt WhitmanWilliam Carlos WilliamsOtherOleanna, David MametEquus, Peter ShafferEverything by David SedarisRose, Where Did You Get That Red? Kenneth KochThe Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis Othello; Henry V, William Shakespeare Fierce Attachments, Vivian GornickRecollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane DiPrimaTeacher Man, Frank McCourtA Little Princess; The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson BurnettWatership Down, Richard AdamsAutobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse, Anne CarsonPoetry Speaks, ensembleThe Glass Castle, Janette WallsPositively Fifth Street, Jim McManusThe Pets.com Sock Puppet Book, Ben AnsenTarantula, Bob DylanSex Sells: Confessions of a Victoria's Secret Saleswench, Alyson Paige Warren

Heroes:

LOST Dramatic Chipmunk

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adopt your own virtual pet!
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My Blog

StoryStudio Chicago Youth Institute

Are you a middle or hig school student looking to improve your writing this summer? Are you 13-18 looking to take your creative writing to another level? Do you know any students who fit that bill? Th...
Posted by Paige on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:54:00 PST

NaNoWriMo

November is National Novel Writing Month. You can learn aobut it here: http://www.nanowrimo.org/"> />.." border="0" alt="Official NaNoWriMo 2007 Participant" /> In my case, it is National Finish Your ...
Posted by Paige on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:19:00 PST

Check out this event: StoryStudio Chicago November Reading

Our first reading was a huge success. November's reading is sure to follow suit and then some. Come listen to six StoryStudio students read their work at 4043 N. Ravenswood, 222 on Sunday, November 4t...
Posted by Paige on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:34:00 PST

Check out this event: StoryStudio Chicago Reading

Please join me at the first StoryStudio Chicago reading at the new space (4043 N Ravenswood Ave 222) this Sunday, Oct. 7th at 3:15. Students and instructors from the StoryStudio workshops will read o...
Posted by Paige on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:40:00 PST

Facebook

I'm on Facebook now. It's very confusing, something to do with networking, and writing things on walls and poking - I dunno. Come be my friend and explain it to me.
Posted by Paige on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:29:00 PST

Fun with Shuffle - "Dance, Sucka!"

Directions:1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS....
Posted by Paige on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:44:00 PST

You. Me. Strangers. Writing.

The subject of this blog can all be made flesh - if you just reserve a spot at my Creative Non-Fiction workshop! The workshop will be held from 10-1 on July 28th at the Uptown Writers' Workshop, above...
Posted by Paige on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:17:00 PST

Modesty

I did really well on "Jeopardy" today. I always do well on "Cash Cab" and especially "The World Series of Pop Culture", but Jeopardy, not so much. Until today. I tried screaming at the screen to help ...
Posted by Paige on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:59:00 PST

Shuffle Survey

INSTRUCTIONS1. Put your music player on shuffle.2. Press forward for each question.3. Use the song title as the answer to the question even if it doesn't make sense. NO CHEATING!How are you feeling to...
Posted by Paige on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:59:00 PST

Creative Non-Fiction Workshop Taught By Yours Truly!

"Creative Non-Fiction Workshop" and/or "Who's Afraid of James Frey Calling Wolf?" Gustave Flaubert wrote: "There is no truth.  There is only perception." Come and flex your perception at the Up...
Posted by Paige on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:01:00 PST