"My karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom." -- Jack Kerouac
Attention Authors: Do not friend me or leave me notes about your books. If you are cool and already my friend, of course I will check it out, but I don't want to be one of your mass-friending expedition. (NOTE: By "mass-friending" I mean people who are friending any- and everybody that they can on Shelfari just for publicity. If you happen to be a writer and you think we have something in common, please do leave me a note. I don't bite.)
I'm really bad at these profile things. I live in Columbus, Ohio with my fiancee and my kitten . I learned to read when I was three; I shocked my mom in the grocery store by reading the packages and saying, "Look, Mom! Buy one, get one free!" I have a million books (well, like nine pages) on my to be read list; every time I see a book I think I'd like, I add it. Otherwise, I'll never remember it. The main shelf consists of books I've read *cover* to *cover* and I've tried to cull all the kiddie stuff and teen angsty stuff--definitely I am almost positive I don't have cookbooks (except for Alton Brown's, but his were more than just recipes), picture books, or too many teenage horror novels on my shelf. My main book loves are contemporary literature/fiction and 20th century literature; I have also been known to dabble in humorous essays, well-written crime novels (of the Elmore Leonard/Carl Hiaasen ilk), biographies, and bargain-bin books that have interesting covers. You know that person that they're marketing to with those matte finish covers with intriguing cover art? That's me, as long as the first few pages don't bore me to tears. Right now, I'm really into Japanese literature. I'm going back to school in the fall to study some sort of environmental-y thing.
If you have tried to friend me without first sending me a note or two, or if you are already a friend and have invited me to a group, please don't take it personally if I decline. I don't have the attention span to be a member of too many groups at once :D
I already did this whole profile thing on my myspace, so I'll just copy what I wrote there.
things which please me:
david sedaris, food network, pink hair, bravo tv, kittens, vintage things, myspace layouts, funky artists, irony, spring showers, a nicely composed photograph, babies, the color orange, betties, my cast-iron grill pan, beef, guy ritchie movies, ninjas, taco ninja, dr. mcninja, modern british novels, mazda mx-3s, neko case's voice, coffee, texas hold 'em, casinos, playing with silver, art museums, indian food, camel turkish blends, the idea of podcasts, graphic novels, anime, h t m l, pablo neruda, jim carroll, the spanish language, kimono, geisha, the word 'kamakura,' liquor in its many glorious forms, Arial font, sleeping, alton brown, six feet under, pretty things.
things which do not please me:
hypocrisy, willful ignorance, bad haircuts, snow accumulation, modern blockbuster films, money, the fact that I can't like seafood no matter how hard I try, people who type "ur" instead of "your" or "you're," oppression, dishonest corporations and politicians, people who create drama, exclusivity, 85% or more of people on the internet, when Californians try to claim their food is "southern-fried" when it's clearly not, actual podcasts, cheap Mexican lighters, menthol cigarettes, Heineken, intolerance, gay-bashing, working for the man, Dickensian literature (sorry Dickensfan :( ), emily dickenson, robin miller, the Bush administration.
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