Lola Belle

Schools of thought i.e...Pubs in Ireland, Swim-up bars under Volcanoes in Costa Rica, Cobblestone streets drunk on wine in France, Tastings in Tequila, Mexico, on the backs of vespas in Positano, Italy, Safaris in kruger national park South Africa, Driving ATV's on the beach in Las Terrenas Domincian Republic, hanging with geisha in kyoto, japan, climbing the great wall at badaling, china, seeing the ping pong show in bangkok, thailand.

salad tosser

The Salad Queen

Travel, Sleeping, Eating, Learning, Dancing, Screwing, Evolving, Reading, Teaching.

Kon tiki by Thor Heyerdayl. 50 some odd years ago these Scandanavian dudes decided that Polynesia was probably colonized by South America a few centuries prior. No one believed them. So they built a balsa wood raft and sailed 4000 miles across the Pacific. I like doing things that people tell me can't be done too. Other books that resonated... The Rachael Papers/Martin Amis, Story of the Eye/Georges Bataille, The Unbearable Lightness of Being/Milan Kundera, Geek love/Katherine Dunn, How to cook everything/ Mark Bittman, To kill a Mockingbird/Harper Lee, Lonely Planet Guide to any country, Rumplestiltskin/Grimm, The Peoples History of the u.s/Howard Zinn, The Nympho and Other Maniacs/Irving Wallace. The pill vs. the springhill mine disaster/Richard Brautigan, The Man who fell in Love with the Moon/Tom Spanbauer, Selected Poems/William Carlos Williams, Low-life/Luc Sante, Any non-fiction about New York, Delta of Venus/Anais Nin, Harry Potter/JK Rowling, the dictionary. your diary.

Home movies

Lately...Donny Hathaway.

MASH, The West Wing, Sports Night, Sex in the City, Newsradio, That 70's Show, Iron Chef or Cooking shows on PBS, Oprah, Celebrity Poker Showdown, World Poker Tour, Globe Trekker, No reservations with Anthony Bourdain, Entourage

Southern Love with a Northern Fist**Socializer. Vocalizer. **Raconteur. Enabler. ** Silver spoon. Paper plate. ** Chafes easily. Lover of lotion. ** Prone to Fight or Flight response. ** Potato required at every meal. ** More sober lately than not. ** Heart affixed to sleeve. Hidden corners vary. ** More sympathetic than shocked at your behavior. ** Social Butterfly. Pop culture icon. Bar Mafia. ** Slowing down. Taking stock. Squinting and digesting. ** Arching eyebrows. (The sexual prime myth is true.) ** Latchkey kid armed with comedic bravado. ** Torch singer without a mic. Writer without a pencil. ** Extolled and heralded armchair critic. ** Stealthy and dirty mind. Obsessively clean hands. ** Lipstick tomboy. Hands of a conjurer. ** Quickest to laugh. First in line for a meal. ** Expensive perfume. Scuffed sneakers. ** Flapping my gums made my teeth crooked. ** Lessons learned. keep em coming.

Tom from myspace. take that friendster!