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janitt dott

Fear and Loathing on MySpace

About Me

Um...yes well...I would be Miss Dott. Miss Janitt Dott? I'm the unauthorized biographer and unpaid companion of the natorious lapsed gonzo journalist c.hanson tripp (and you may take that however it suits you.)At present (well I begin to dispair perminently) we're holed up with four fiesty unridden rediculously well bred Arabian horses, a half dozen loud fractious geese, two DAMNED good farm dogs, my collies Prairie & Garryson, and a colony of WAY too many cleverly named barn cats on a hundred year old civil war land grant homestead atop a four hundred foot bluff overlooking the Wisconsin banks of a gorgeous swell in the Mississippi River called Lake Pepin within the ten mile hot zone of an aging nuclear power plant built on a Dakota Souix burial mound in a small island in the middle of said upper Mississippi River near a farm store that sells fertilizer in bulk and a municipal airport that can land...small jets. When I express my, well, CONSTANT concern to Tripp, she waves me off, "Nonsense Dotty! What would life BE with nothing to Fear and Loath?" So I guess that's all for now...And it has simply exhausted me to tell you THAT much! Tripp tends to make everyone...tired. For she is, by her own admission, a bit TOO intense for most people. Oh...BTW...the original land grant holder, a Union soldier, is buried in our...front yard.

My Interests

"People who act and create and write still want to make money off of it. There's no f@#*ing Michelangelos in Hollywood regardless of who they think they are" jonathan rhys meyers ..................................................... Well, EXACTLY, Jonathan, dear, that's WHY we're in...Wisconsin. So...let me see...interests... Well,staying alive here takes considerable time and effort, And the horses demand a good deal of our attention, hmmm, one round equine rump just passed by the window...(BTW our normal avatar with Tripp & Voli The Half Arab From Hell and our normal cutline "fear and loathing at myspace" are temporarily sidelined while we fly our kites for Hillary)) And, of course, we commit ourselves daily to The Gonzo Thesis...Tripp's going for the corespondence course PhD. at the prestigeous Hunter S. Thompson School of Gonzo Journalism (alas, there is NO such college but wouldn't it be FUN if there was!) MUCH more about that...later.

I'd like to meet:

Lordy...who really knows these things! Tripp insists EVERYONE doesn't like her (except for the people who DO and they like her a lot!)I asked Hanson how we might...tempt new friends at My Space. She said crossly (she's always a bit cross when she's writing...erotica. I've never been sure...why) "Oh I dunno, Dott! YOU think of something! Hell, we got Manhatten for a bag of glass beads!"

Music:

Musically, we're entirely out of fashion but Tripp says that NOTHING that looks (sounds) good on you is EVER out of fashion. The Grand Old Gals: Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt. The Good Old Boys: Bowie, Nick Drake, Todd Rundgren, T Rex. Our Homeboy: Prince. That International Terrorist: Cat Stevens. Sountracts we actually own: Sweeny Todd August Rush. Hair, West Side Story. Almost Famous, Velvet Goldmine. Two who surprised us: Chris Gaines. Robert Downey Jr And Marvelous New Myspace Voices: The all too brief OKs, Miko, Pushing Red Buttons, The Grunts Mr. Andy White.

Movies:

Let's see, what's on Tripp's netflix list...Les Enfants du Paradise that's ALWAYS at the top with Chinatown and Blade Runner. My Dinner with Andre passes for litergy. If we're a bit peckish, Rocky Horror or Goldmine Hedwig or Starstruck will set cyninshadows right. Unsung Gems Dept: B Monkey (Asia and that boy with the...oceanic eyes) Bros of the Head, Tripp's rather MAD for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and these days...There is no place like...London.

Television:

We're still watching reruns of Ghormenghast and Twin Peaks...

Books:

A Hundred Years of Solitude, A Winter's Tale by Mark Halprin, Potter, the crime novels of James L. Burke.

Heroes:

Hunter S. Thompson, um...that's it.

My Blog

Open Letter to Washington Week in Review

Dear Gwen,I was a journalism major during Watergate, I got TEAR GASED for George McGovern, I am a lifelong hardcore liberal with a passion for PBS and I’ve made a point to watch your show for ye...
Posted by janitt dott on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:31:00 PST

Bigotry vs. Misogyny in 2008

This was post I made was a reply to an arcticle in the New York Times calledObama and the Bigots.(see comments)By now, as a Hillary supporter, you can imagine what it said.I tried to post the reply fo...
Posted by janitt dott on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:00:00 PST

In her OWN words: The First Lady In China 1995

In considering the democratic candidates, one must ALSO look at their spouses and how well they will represent America in their official duties as top emmisaries.Mr. Obama's wife has made statements (...
Posted by janitt dott on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:52:00 PST

HISTORY LESSON: blacks. women and the right to vote

It was Black History Month in FebruaryMarch is Women's History Month(and we need some...perspective..on these two candidates for...change)To women and the men who care about them,As we go forward in t...
Posted by janitt dott on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:07:00 PST

CHICAGO REPORTER: I knew Barack when...

The Huston Press asked me for permission to print this.Letter to The Editor:(Houston Press)I've lived through a lot of elections by now. And I can think of several where an article came out late in th...
Posted by janitt dott on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:17:00 PST

fear and loathing in the texas primary part two

DISCLAIMERI've been trying to tell people that there is crossover vote problemin the democratic party nomination race.But no one beleives me when I say this is happening.They tell me that barack is......
Posted by janitt dott on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:50:00 PST

fear and loathing in the texas primary: part one

To whom this may concern(like...um...the free world?)i am a lapsed gonzo journalist, ferretting out the story is what i do.And SOME people might care that... in a huge voter turnout in the democratic ...
Posted by janitt dott on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:46:00 PST

Fear and Loathing in Boomerville: part one

An open letter from janitt dott(as in disabled college educated democrat, female, living at poverty level on social security disability in rural wisconsin, we have to define our terms these days) to a...
Posted by janitt dott on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:06:00 PST

A calm case for...REAL...change.

Just in case we have not been drowned in a tidal wave of...change.I AM a liberal democrat with socialist leanings and extremely proud of it.I got tear gassed on my college campus over Vietnam.I was yo...
Posted by janitt dott on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:06:00 PST

TRIPP on HEATH: the slipping grip.

It's occuring to me that I (and others) have a LOT more to say about the subject of...suicide and celebrityAnd Heath deserves his own Mildew Magazine thread...so let's take it over there, shall we?htt...
Posted by janitt dott on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:49:00 PST