Plane crashes, perfect phrases, political changes, passion vines, theology/physics, cabbage dishes, etymology, beer, and bottles of wine.
Music
I am a sucker for pop music, like "Lover's Concerto" and "Breakfast in a America." I love Cake, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, Ozomatli, Amy Winehouse, Jason Mraz, Benjy Ferree, Squirrel Nut Zippers, and 90s club dance music. Go on and laugh.
Movies
My all-time favorite is The Manchurian Candidate, the masterpiece original, not that offensive and puerile knockoff. If I want offensive and puerile, I'll watch The Big Lebowski for the 50th time. :-) Some other favorites: The Apartment, Harold and Maude, Jaws, Better Off Dead, Galaxy Quest, Rope, Office Space, Reefer Madness The Musical, The Fifth Element, Mystery Men, Victor/Victoria, Repo Man. I just watched the 1990 film version of The Handmaid's Tale (screenplay by Harold Pinter!), and it was just awful, but in a very amusing way.
Television
Lucy The Daughter of the Devil, Rome, The Wire, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica (up to the end of season 2), Red Dwarf, TNG, Voyager, Futurama, Robot Chicken, Flight of the Conchords, Family Guy, ATHF, The Boondocks, Strangers With Candy, The Colbert Report, (BBC) Coupling, Arrested Development, Torchwood, The Prisoner...
Books
I am currently reading the complete works of Connie May Fowler, Enid Shomer, Lillian Smith, and Ana Menendez. Recent favorites include science books by Howard Bloom (Lucifer Principle and Global Brain), Season of the Witch and The Sleep of Baby Filbertson and other stories by James Leo Herlihy (author of Midnight Cowboy, another fave), Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton, Hero by Perry Moore, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (everything by Margaret Atwood), The Lost Girls by Alan Moore... All-time favorites include Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, "Coming, Aphrodite!" by Willa Cather (everything by Willa Cather), Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Pretty much everything Alan Moore's ever written (The Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, The League...), "Died and Gone to Vegas" by Tim Gautreaux, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera... John Steinbeck and Flannery O'Connor and James Purdy and Cynthia Ozick and far too many more to mention...
Heroes
My nephew, Payton, who is deeply, sorely missed.
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About me: I am the cat whisperer, and I possess the one cookie recipe to rule them all. My life's mission is to define Florida in writing and hike Cuba end to end in search of the world's finest rums. My grandfather also thinks I'm a communist, but for unrelated reasons. It is very possible Ernest Hemingway reincarnated as me, but if so, he's unhappy about it, because I hardly wear dresses at all.
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Not out yet. I fear he's trying to claw his way out the front. Went to the doctor's today and my diagnosis is something like "big fat lazy baby." He'll come out when he's damn good and ready, I suppose.
I'm only 31 at the moment-- I'll be 32 next month, though. A month from tomorrow, in fact. I'd better quickly cram in everything I wanted to do before I turned 32...
Hey Amy---Thanks for reading my piece. I still don't know where it will go, but am trying to get into Doubletake or Harper's or .....hmmm....I think I submitted it to a couple of other places. It comes with photos, too. Any ideas for me?
Amy - thank you two for making a friend of me. I have two hands for your four wealthy bossoms to welcome you to my family. soon we travel to the beach together and make nice nice in the sand... thank thank thank you. ps, are you the one staring at the blonde or the blonde staring at me... how you know i am here and how are you staring right at me. i dont understand this whole internet thing. it's a crazy.
