Emily Hilligoss

Stratford High School Is Decadent and Depraved

University of California - Berkeley, Attended 2006 - Present, Ph.D., English
University of Chicago, Attended 1999 - 2003, Class of 2003, Bachelor's Degree, English language and lit

grad student, proofreader/editor, retro feminist

Chiefs Nation, White Sox Nation, U of C dorkocracy, Mike Gravel is a Potted Plant, the Mike Gravel '08 Commemorative Herb Garden (curator and proprietor), any entity that will buy me shoes 'n' booze

literature, cooking, eating, drinking, wine, Kentucky bourbon, baseball, football, tennis, my cat, your cat, Christopher Smart's cat, really most any cat, road trips, ballparks, dive bars, going to Vegas, going to Iceland, vacationing in Forest Service lookouts, Italian sports cars, Trivial Pursuit, politically incorrect cuisine, emdashes vs. endashes, proper use of the subjunctive, hating on the Raiders (see photo), Kaukauna cheese balls, living in the '70s, vintage clothing, platform shoes, hot lingerie, confounding and dismantling the patriarchy via methodological feminism, L'Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle (OuLiPo), drag-racing Priuses. Also exercising my Second Amendment rights.

most any poetry (esp. by modernists, disaffected women, and crazy people), Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, John Berryman, the Archy and Mehitabel poems, William Blake, Joan Didion, Simone Weil, Susan Sontag, Virginia Woolf, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Annie Proulx, Anais Nin, Cormac McCarthy, Ernest Hemingway, Hunter S. Thompson (all things Fear and Loathing), Dubliners, Franny and Zooey, The Hours, Gone with the Wind, Bad Behavior, bios of dead rock stars, The Velveteen Rabbit, weird psychology stuff like Winnicott, weird Oulipo stuff, weird feminist theory, Cook's Illustrated magazine, Found magazine, the Madeline books, the work of my many talented writer friends

Taxi Driver, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Animal House, The Graduate, The Hours, Almost Famous, Lost in Translation, Rushmore, Friday Night Lights, American Pie, Million Dollar Baby, Carnival of Souls, Napoleon Dynamite, Harold and Kumar, The Jazz Singer (Neil Diamond version), It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Be Here to Love Me, The Last Waltz, Gimme Shelter, I'm Not There, No Direction Home, I'm Your Man, the Mr. Bill collection

Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Thelonious Monk, Velvet Underground, most forms of jazz, outlaw country, pretty much anything from the Fabulous '70s, yacht rock, Bonnie Raitt, Victoria Spivey, Mildred Anderson, Sippie Wallace, Big Mama Thornton, Rolling Stones, the old wacko Tori Amos stuff, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Loretta Lynn, Patti Smith, Katell Keineg, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, The Band, Hank III, Townes Van Zandt, Harry Chapin, Leonard Cohen, Led Zep, the Who, Kinks, Metallica, Brennen Leigh, Cake, Neil Diamond, cheesy classic rock (Foreigner, Supertramp, Deep Purple, etc.), Gretchen Wilson, Sunny Sweeney, Sidney Bechet, Davis, Coltrane, Mingus, Blakey, Robert Johnson, Rickie Lee Jones, Melba Montgomery, Charley Pride, Tammy Wynette, Mahalia Jackson, Bessie Smith, ZZ Top

Playmakers (sniff), 24/The Power of Bauer Hour, Jeopardy!, Nightline, sports and sports-related programming, Monday Night Fucking Football, The Amazing Race, Iron Chef, The Barefoot Contessa, Cops, Jail, Cheaters, House, Idol (ironically and as a means of procrastination), and whatever happened to Blind Date?

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

People who need a hacksaw. Hunter S. Thompson's ashes. Other people with A.J. Pierzynski jerseys. People who will buy me an Aston Martin Vanquish. Martin Bashir, that hunka hunka burnin' Nightline luuuuuuv. I dunno. You, if you don't say "snuck" and have the potential to amuse me and are not easily offended. Anyone who thinks they can make an honest woman out of me.