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Rachel

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About Me

I just dropped out of graduate school and I'm moving to Madrid. I think. Till April. Then I'm going to Chicago for a month and then to wait tables at a resort in Alaska over the summer. Hopefully. Then I guess I'll just grow up already.

My Interests

Hanging out on the porch, writing, reading, installing handles on small dogs. Photo booth photos, things made from broken records, the age of dinosaurs. Polt.

I'd like to meet:

People who have evolved special powers: light-up hair, ultrasensitive noses, anglerfish glow appendages bobbing off their foreheads.

Books:

Cronopios and Famas by Julio Cortazar, Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey, Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson, Madame Bovary which I actually wrote myself.

Heroes:

Julio Cortazar, Ken Kesey, Denis Johnson

My Blog

The Indian Ocean

Mammoths were of course very large, larger than any modern elephant or warehouse. By standing in one place for a long time, lame or sleeping mammoths are known to have caused widespread botanical dea...
Posted by Rachel on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:17:00 PST

Four Iterations of Home, 1995-2006

1995Home is a pink box on brown legsPerched atop a stretch of sand in the Gulf of Mexico. There is an oven inside and three beds, one large enough for two, two long enough for leg-long children. Din...
Posted by Rachel on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:12:00 PST

Bats

It never gets cold in Austin, Texas. But when it does get cold, the wind comes suddenly in one great blow from across the river. Houseplants freeze on porches and the girls on Sixth Street are left ...
Posted by Rachel on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:06:00 PST