Robert-Marlénè Manners

McChesney Junior High, Oakland High, Renaissance Arts School, Laney College, SFSU

California State University - San Francisco State University, Attended 1995 - 1998, Class of 1998, Bachelor's Degree, English Literature
Laney College, Attended 1992 - 1995, Class of 1995, Associate's Degree, Language Arts, Arts & Humanities

Writer, Performer, Functionary

Royal Grand Ducal Council of Alameda County, Living Sober, Style Police

Writing, drag, costume jewelry, recovery, photography, mystery novels, cubic zirconia, eating, shopping, baroque and Neoclassical art, film, dessert, musicals, sleeping, fashion, porn, and dead animals recreated as fashion accessories.

Harry Potter, Ethan Mordden, The Persian Boy, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Surprising Rise of Luke Vanner, Taking Care of Mrs Carroll, Anne Rice, Gordon Merrick, Poppy Z. Brite

Auntie Mame, Girls Will Be Girls, Andy Warhol's Dracula, My Man Godfrey, The Talented Mr Ripley, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Women, Wilde, Dangerous Liaisons, Porky's, Cold Comfort Farm, Tea With Mussolini, Joy Luck Club, Queen of the Damned

Ella Fitzgerald, big band standards, Broadway, chamber music, bel canto opera, movie soundtracks, some disco, Top 40, cross-genre remixes (discoed-out showtunes mostly)

Smallville, Mystery!, Phil of the Future, Masterpiece Theatre, The Simpsons, Law & Order SVU, Kim Possible, Bewitched, The Family Guy, CSI Las Vegas

I know far too many words, and use as many of them as I can whenever possible. I am pathologically shy until I know you, and then the laughter begins. Lazy, but easily amused. Kindhearted, yet heavily armored. I am polite, if nothing else.

My only domestic quality is that I live in a house. I don't like the outdoors very much. Cats and children irritate me, but I've broken the habit of kicking them. Walking around a big shiny mall and talking with someone I like is my favorite pastime. Every couple of weeks I put on drag and become mind-numbingly fabulous. I'm just starting my career as a manic-depressive. I'm trying to write an erotic murder-mystery. I want to be a top when I grow up. I know the difference between "who" and "whom."

More?
http://www.mannersism.net/
http://worst_luck.blogspot.com/
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WHOM do I want to meet? WHOM goddammit!

Calm down, now, Missy. It's a sentence fragment, and so the Who or Whom would depend on which words are missing. For example, "Who (is the person) I want to meet" is perfectly correct; "Whom (do I) want to meet?" is also correct.

Yes, but...

Get off your high horse, honey, nobody is impressed with your erudition. In another fifty years, "whom" is going to be obsolete, anyway, and no one will miss it.

Uhm, I think they're staring at us.

What? Don't they argue with themselves about grammar? I thought everybody did.