Maria

UW-Madison

semi-demi-employed

www.patheticgeekstories.com, www.theonion.com, After School Action Programs, Americorps/VISTA, Amnesty International, Art & Revolution, Brown University (Winter Break Program), Centro Romero, Chicago CoHousing Network, Chicago Health Outreach, Chicago Mutual Housing Network, Chicago Rape Crisis Hotline, Chicago Recycling Coalition, East Timor Action Network, Food Not Bombs, Heartland International, Kovler Center for Survivors of Torture, League of Pissed off Voters, North American Students of Cooperation, Organization of the NorthEast, PAX Christi, Parliament of the World's Religions, People's Music Network, Philippine Solidarity Network, Public Allies, Resource Center, Still Point Theater Collective, Teatro Trono, Voices in the Wilderness (the last 27 were copied from the Stone Soup Co-op profile)

Workin, ' watchin' TV, drinkin, ' sleepin, ' rubberneckin, ' bundlin' recyclables, writin' checks ass can't cash.

No favorites really. Recently had the delicious experience of reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road during a prolonged bout of insomnia. Heightened the experience, seriously. Also recently read The Secret Life Of The Lonely Doll, a dishy book about a children's author whose work I really liked when I was a kid, if you consider being overly-attached to one's mother "dishy"

Sherlock, Jr., Taxi Driver, Nashville, Little Fugitive, M, White Heat, The Conversation. But they change often, Sherlock Jr. excepting.

I still like Killdozer. I still like the Ramones. I still like Cheap Trick.

YouTube clips involving Sesame Street, ukuleles, people swimming in their clothes; TV news shows w/misspelled chyrons

Leo

100% agnostic fence-sitter. STILL elated I don't have to go to school no more. Blood sugar typically gets low around 4-5 pm. Can draw Tippy. Have said word "motherfucker" since age 11. Overly-romanticize high seas piracy. Have four eyes. Expect some awkward silences. I chew milkshakes. Am squishy in places. An African violet in my care is a dead African violet. Don't really have a dark side so much as a brown side. Could stand to wise up a bit. I have one line of dialogue in an Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode, and some butter-assed woman gets the credit on IMBD. Recently learned that the New York version of Milwaukee Magazine will print a made-up salary figure. I visit my Friendster profile when I'm nostalgic for 2003, which ranges from seldom to biweekly.
UPDATE 1/25/08: I'd be lying to you if I said I cared about Michael Cera's career.

Myself at age fifty to see if I ever wised up, and if I ever had that kid, and if the kid likes me. Somebody named Buster (no self-nicknames, please). Somebody who will make me feel 31 again. I also want to meet anyone who thinks that the world was made just for them. I would LOVE to meet this person.
UPDATE 3/28/06: Actors who play early hominids on those Discovery Channel documentaries. Who puts the fur on them? Do they stay in character throughout the shoot? Do they actually drink from the standing puddles? So, so many questions.
UPDATE 5/28/06: Someone who knows card tricks and is willing to teach me one.
UPDATE 3/17/08: OK here's a good one. I want to meet those guys (and they're almost always guys) who publish the most bleak, eviscerating and misanthropic fiction, political essays, graphic novels, and movies that depress you for years and make you utterly ashamed to be a human being, and then you find out some time later that they reproduced. And not only that, they're well-adjusted, straight-arrow family men surrounded by every semi-affluent middle-class trapping you can think of. Yeah, I'd like to meet one of those guys. More to the point, I'd like my knee to meet one of those guys' scrotums.

That said, I did meet someone who knew card tricks!!