Friends

Mar 2004

Cheshire, CT

Powers Powers Publications, MetroPussy (formerly known as the Baltimore MTA)

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Cheshire Academy, Johns Hopkins, Tulane, School of Hard Lox (yuck!)

Tulane University, Attended 2006 - Present, Master's Degree, Preservation Studies (Architecture)
Johns Hopkins University, Attended 1998 - 2003, Class of 2003, Bachelor's Degree, Writing/Spanish

Thinking too much

Chocolate City Die-Hards, Anti-Le Corbusier Society, The Baltimore School

Writing, Swimming, Lounging, Cowboys, Urban Culture, Languages, Architecture, Hard Labor, Restoration, Birch Beer, Public Transportation (no joke!)

Giovanni's Room, The Member of the Wedding, Death in Venice, Lucky Jim, Jane Eyre, Leaves of Grass, Sirens of Titan, Brave New World, The Urban Villagers, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, stories of Charles Chesnutt, various novels/stories by John Irving, Richard Russo, Reinaldo Arenas, Borges, and Henry James (esp. What Maisie Knew). I just can't get into Faulkner or Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Sorry.

Daytrippers, American Beauty, Bread and Chocolate, Central Station, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Abre Los Ojos, Europa Europa, Antes que Anochezca, La Mala Educacion, Jackie Brown, Blood Simple, The Big Lebowski, La Planete Sauvage (Fantastic Planet), Big Fish, Psycho, Vertigo

Zeppelin, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Beatles, Stones, Galactic, Cake, Ravi Shankar, The Kinks, Jorge Ben, Etta James, Curtis Mayfield, Allen Toussaint/The Meters, Nina Simone, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Theivery Corporation, Hendrix, Charlie Parker, Jimmy Smith, Beck, Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Other Funky, Souly, Sitar-y, Folky, Random Stuff, and Reggae

Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, most American cartoons, Mazinger/Transor Z, Conan O'Brien, Six Feet Under, Looking into buying the rights to the Brazilian "western" soap opera "Bang Bang" - genius, I tell you

Taurus

I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
All alone it stood and the moss hung down from the branches,
Without any companion it stood there uttering joyous leaves of dark green,
And its look, rude, lusty, made me think of myself,
But I wondered how it could utter joyous leaves standing there alone without its friends near, for I knew I could not,
And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss,
And brought it away, and I have placed it in sight in my room,
It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends,
(For I believe lately I think of little else than them,)
Yet it remains to me a curious token, it makes me think of manly love;
For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat space,
Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend or lover near,
I know very well I could not.

-Walt Whitman

I am here to help New Orleans become the new New Orleans. I haven't set opinions on everything yet, because I think there are important lessons to be learned from everything and anything that will happen here. No one knows exactly what the right thing to do is, and this is when we can learn the most about what works and what doesn't, and why.

It's a sad and lonely time here right now, but I am happy to be part of something real for once in my life. It's an opportunity that I absolutely cannot pass up. Whatever New Orleans becomes, I will undeniably be a part of it. Otherwise, I fear, I would wander the world as an outsider for the rest of my life, and at the end I would just fade away to nothing.

I'm currently in Grad School for Architectural preservation, mixed with some Urban Sociology and Urban Planning. I love it.

City planners, Sociologists, Political Scientists - get yer asses down here, or you will be missing the biggest opportunity until the world's next horrible urban planning/natural/political/sociological disaster. And who knows when that will be?!?!

My boyfriend - oh wait, I guess we've already met. Heh.