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And it's true what they say about me,
That I'm out of my mind
But I think that you like it

So take the chance
Be reckless with me

'cause i'm real life
and you're real life
and we're real life
we're real life
--Joan as Police Woman
I'm a single mom, a PR superstar, a coffee achiever (read: addict!) and a frustrated poet prone to fits of genius and drama-- though usually not at the same time.
And I get a SHITLOAD done in a day.

My Interests

My kitchen, my beautiful children, my gorgeous dogs, slam poetry and fiction, music, performing, hiking, skiing, art, theater, film, travel, photography, and of course getting into as much trouble as my age will allow. And BASEBALL. Specifically, the Boston Red Sox.

SLAM POETRY
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I'd like to meet:

The Funk Brothers.
George Carlin.
David Lee Roth.
Helen Thomas.
Madeline Albright.
John Irving.
George Martin.
Paul McCartney.
Dita Von Teese.

Music:

The Funk Brothers, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding,Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, The Beatles, Sly and the Family Stone, Aretha, Eva Cassidy, Nina Simone, The Who, The Doors, Charlie Parker, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin and assorted '70s arena rock, new-wave '80s, The Police, The Killers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Joan As Police Woman, Tori Amos, punk, Diana Krall, Norah Jones, Patsy Cline, Tony Bennett, Charles Brown, Amy Winehouse, Feist, Cat Power,Brandi Carlisle, Death Cab for Cutie, Radiohead, Tool, New Orleans jazz, blues, big band, anything with a Wurlitzer organ, horns or hand claps for percussion.

Movies:

Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Apocalypse Now, Harold and Maude, All of Me, The Jerk, any James Bond movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Good Will Hunting, Shakespeare in Love, Stranger than Fiction, Elf, It's a Wonderful Life, 300, Edward Scissorhands, Sixteen Candles, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Tommy Boy, Happy Gilmore, Brain Candy, Napoleon Dynamite, The Sixth Sense, Secretary, A Fish Called Wanda, all the Monty Python movies, Lock, Stock and Smoking Barrel, The Commitments, The Doors, Pulp Fiction, Enter the Dragon, Liar Liar, School of Rock, Kung Fu Hustle, The Matrix, Ed Wood, Finding Nemo, Almost Famous, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Fever Pitch, ET, About Schmidt, Spaceballs, Misery, Alien, The Breakfast Club, The Great Muppet Caper, Shrek, Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Spiderman 1 and 2, Office Space, Fargo, The Dark Crystal,Batman Begins, Idiocracy, Bourne Supremacy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Chasing Amy, Clerks 1 and 2.

Television:

The Office,The Sopranos, Deadwood, Six Feet Under, Dexter, Weeds, Dirty Sexy Money, 24, Reno 911!, Flavor of Love, Project Runway,South Park, baseball, Live From Abbey Road, Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, The Muppet Show, Futurama, The L Word

Books:

"Liars and Saints" by Maile Maloy, Chuck Palahniuk, Watchmen, The Chicago Manual of Style, The AP Stylebook, Strunk + White's "Elements of Style," Stephen King's "On Writing" (quite possibly one of the best memoirs I've ever read), "Cat's Cradle," "Hocus Pocus," "Player Piano," and everything else by the one and only Mr. Kurt Vonnegut, "Bird by Bird," Anne Lamott; "The Lovely Bones," Alice Sebold; "On the Road," Jack Kerouac, "To See a Grown Man Cry," Henry Rollins, "Brain Droppings," George Carlin, "A Patchwork Planet," Anne Tyler; "Roger's Version," John Updike; "A Prayer for Owen Meany," "The Hotel New Hampshire," John Irving; "Angela's Ashes," Frank McCourt; "Atlas Shrugged," Ayn Rand; "To the Lighthouse," Virginia Woolf. Also, plays by Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neil, August Wilson and Woody Allen. Someday I'll get over myself and write my own. For now, I'm working on poetry, plays, short stories and a novel that's been 4 years in the making.

Heroes:

Frank Zappa,Harper Lee,Hunter S. Thompson, Patricia Smith, and of course this guy:

My Blog

Job-a-palooza: Notes on the first week

Starting a new job is kinda like boot camp, except with fewer pushups. You step out of your comfort zone, surround yourself with total strangers, learn completely new processes and try to figure out w...
Posted by M on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:41:00 PST

Hey Karma: You’re Late!

Life is awesome right now, it really is. And it’s been this way for a while now. Not coincidentally, my life started looking up right around the time husband 2 and I got the big divorce. I am ex...
Posted by M on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:07:00 PST

Movin’ On Up

If you’ve been reading my blog a while, then you know that I seem to go through phases of tremendous change, followed by phases of peace and tranquility. Okay, maybe not quite peace and tranquil...
Posted by M on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:08:00 PST

An Open Letter to Ashley Dupre

Dear Ashley,I am a feminist. I really am. I believe that women are equal to men-- equal pay for an equal job, equal rights under the law, and so on. But I also believe that women are equally culpable ...
Posted by M on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:51:00 PST

GRRRRRR.

People ask me why I'm so hotheaded. "M," they ask, ever so sweetly, "Why are you such an angry little person?"To which I reply, "FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE!"No. Not really. In fact, most of the time, I am pret...
Posted by M on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:35:00 PST

Sometimes, you just gotta choke a bitch.

Certain people in my life-- well, on the perimeter of my life, to be succinct-- are long overdue for an ass-whupping. That could be a metaphorical ass-whupping or a literal one, I can't say for sure. ...
Posted by M on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:20:00 PST

Blogging for Dildos

Recently, I took a side job writing for a gossip blog. It's not great money, but it's a fun outlet where I get to blog about stupid celebrities, and readers argue, debate and gossip even more about th...
Posted by M on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:03:00 PST

Housekeeping

Okay, so I've been sick recently, and also writing and rehearsing for a poetry show. I've also been buried at work. As a result, I've been letting some things slide. It's time to get some shit done ar...
Posted by M on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:08:00 PST

The Year of Living Joyously

Today marks one year since the day I met Frank.I'm not one of those gals who typically gets all caught up with anniversaries. I mean, if you asked me the date of my wedding anniversary to my second hu...
Posted by M on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:44:00 PST

Dogs...on ICE!

My beasts, Astro and Beckett (yes, he has officially graduated from cute little furball to bonafide BEAST), are used to being walked daily. We had a routine: after my morning coffee, I pull on my runn...
Posted by M on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:21:00 PST