Eliza Plous

Pilgrim Lutheran Church and School, Francis W. Parker (yeah that sucked), Beloit College

Beloit College, Attended 2001 - 2005, Class of 2005, Bachelor's Degree, History, minor in East/Central European Studies

ex-student, armchair scientist

GMB, DAZ, The Bucketeers, Townhouse A

Chicago, history, east/central europe, nationalisms, ethnography, folklore, slavs, magyars, languages even though i'm bad at them, TGMB, Blatz, wizards, ghosts, astronauts, dinosaurs, coca cola, Wheaton, vinnie, WILD CARD, sunset riders, good suits, 123-go, michigan, food, 19th-century empires, Phatty Sack, dude...Mexicans? (stein's with me on that one), ethnic stereotypes, romanticism, tangos, reels, jigs, marches, waltzes

Common Sense--good ol' Thomas Paine, Eastward to Tartary--Robert Kaplan, Pygmalion--Bernard Shaw, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay--Michael Chabon, The Rebel Angels--Robertson Davies...i also really like reading the backs of cereal boxes

MST3K, Wilson Bros/Wes Anderson productions, Wayne's World, Bill and Ted (I & II), As Good As It Gets, Amelie, Mostly Martha, Ghost World, Dead Man on Campus, Old School, Anastasia (for serious), pretty much any disney movie, Father Frost, Napoleon Dynamite, Goodbye Lenin!, Kolya, The Three Caballeros, BIRD MOVIE

andrew bird ('s bowl of fire), led zeppelin, parliament, ben folds five, tub ring, itzhak perlman, yann tiersen, built to spill, ozma, the dead kennedys, estradasphere, die fantastischen vier, the arcade fire, django reinhardt, belle and sebastian, alfonso ponticelli and swing gitan, squirrel nut zippers, bela bartok, zoltan kodaly, the shins, kevin o'donnell, the sonics, WI/FS, the unicorns, prokofiev, rimsky-korsakov, shostakovich, irish folk, klezmer, balalaika orchestras, eastern european crap, fiddles, uillieann pipes and accordions

the simpsons, family guy, futurama, STEP BY STEP, gargoyles, Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, that 70s show, the OC, life as we know it, the office, mr. romance, and most importantly: DEGRASSI

i generally prefer music without words...i also prefer Blatz over PBR...my favorite color's green and my least favorite color is blue...seeing raw meat usually makes me really hungry

Johann Gottfried Herder, man i am LAME

definitely bob saget