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There's no accounting for taste,
so I'm not even going to try.
Favorite Books
1. Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on Their
Toes by Frank and Ernestine Gilbreth
2. The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
3. It by Stephen King
4. The Blood Countess by Andrei Codrescu
5. The Painted Bird by Jerzy N Kosinski
6. The Boyfriend School by Sarah Bird
7. The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute
8. God's Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell
All James Herriot books
All Sherman Alexie books |
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Favorite Movies
1. Auntie Mame -- with Rosalind Russell. Fast, sharp, funny.
2. Smoke Signals -- Sherman Alexie rules.
3. Texas Chainsaw Massacre -- original '74. Best freak-out movie ever.
4. True Grit -- John Wayne at his finest.
5. Sense and Sensibility -- with Emma Thompson
6. Almost Famous -- I really enjoyed the 70's.
7. Viva Las Vegas -- because of Elvis, I grew up believing boyfriends
would sing to me. HA.
8. Picnic -- great characters. Killer sensual dance scene.
9. Milagro Beanfield War -- loved the characters, loved the cause.
10. 13th Warrior -- makes me want to know Vikings.
11. Skins -- Chris Eyre directed, excellent.
12. Stealing Heaven -- Yugoslavian, I think. Abelard and Heloise.
13. Sixteen Candles -- everytime I watch this, I wish I'd written it.
14. Jesus Christ Superstar -- Ted Neely, Yvonne Elliman. Great rock opera.
15. The Last Waltz -- The Band's last concert. Loved it then, love it now.
16. War Dogs: America's Forgotten Heroes -- intense documentary on the
dogs and handlers that served in Vietnam.
17. This Property is Condemned -- Natalie Wood, Robert Redford.
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Music
The Band, John Mellencamp, Lenny Kravitz, Bob Dylan, The Wallflowers, Counting Crows, Bo Bice's original stuff, Melissa Etheridge, Van Morrison, Chaka Khan,
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Assorted
Animals -- you name it, I'll feed it.
Bugs -- love tracking, holding and learning them. Someday, I hope to hold a live Giant Madagascar Hissing Cockroach and a Tarantula.
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June 2004 in Maryland was a glorious Cicada-fest for those of us who liked going eye-to-eye with these bugs. (The big claw hand is mine. I was trying to hold still so they would'n't tumble off.) |
 
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Gardens, grass, trees, fields, woods. The less sculpted, the better. Mother Nature has her own agenda and I like hers much better than ours.
Also topping my list are eBay, Animal Precinct, Animal Cops, Dave Barry, the Tarot, strong coffee, patchouli oil, tomato sandwiches with unlimited homemade dill pickles, homemade noodles, Nip/Tuck, The Shield, Rescue Me, My Name is Earl, Anne of Green Gables with Megan Follows, animal adoption and rescue, meatless Hungarian cooking, German shepherds, Farscape, strawbale housing, Monarchs, ankylosauruses, weird ancestor stories, sweetgrass braids, toads and of course, dogs and cats.
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Quotes
It's the cracked ones who let the light into the world. -- anonymous
I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility. -- Mark Twain
If you think you 're too small to make a difference, then you've never been in bed with a mosquito. -- Anita Roddick
To escape criticism: do nothing, be nothing, say nothing.
-- Elbert Hubbard
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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. -- George Bernard Shaw
I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx
And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who loved only trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you ask me what I have come to do in this world, I will reply: "I am here to live aloud." -- Emile Zola |
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With malice towards none
and lizards for all.
(Sobe iced tea bottle cap) |
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