Hi FernArmstrong!!
(see!! If we keep the natter to a minimum, the lurkers will post!)
Tara: 'Your One-Stop Spot to Shop for Lots of New-Age and Occult Items.' Catchy. Giles: Think so? Tara: Uh huh. In a... hard to say sorta way.
'Sleeper'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
omnis_audis - Oct 07, 2009 10:19:50 pm PDT #843 of 3094
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Fern Armstrong - Oct 07, 2009 10:26:29 pm PDT #844 of 3094
TV news psychic
Coffee & toast.
Forgot the personal stuff. I'm a native San Franciscan & moved to the East Bay six years ago, now live in El Cerrito. I love my adoptive home town, which has art galleries, music stores, musical instrument stores, a sex shop, a gun store, and "Playland Not At The Beach," a museum for an amusement park I went to as a kid. I used to work for a messenger company as an order-taker, and have been looking for work for over a year. I turned 50 last month, and am single. No children, parents both gone, and I have a brother. Politically, very far to the Left.
Favorate movies include Miller's Crossing, Casablanca (because I am the World's Biggest Sap), Maltese Falcon, Holy Grail, Life of Brian, and Local Hero.
Music: Love John Cale, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Johnny Cash, '70s punk, Velvet Underground, etc.
Favorite novel is "The Name of the Rose." Non-fiction would be the Communist Manifesto or anything by James Connolly.
(I'm nothing if not complex.) (edited for wishfull thinking)
Fern Armstrong - Oct 07, 2009 10:37:06 pm PDT #845 of 3094
TV news psychic
More Breakfast
Thanks for the welcome, Omnis.
aurelia - Oct 07, 2009 10:46:03 pm PDT #846 of 3094
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Hello, Fern! Welcome.
omnis_audis - Oct 07, 2009 10:46:47 pm PDT #847 of 3094
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Look at that. You go from lurker to cereal poster! That's awesome!
Fay - Oct 07, 2009 11:07:35 pm PDT #848 of 3094
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Hi there, Fern! I'm sure I've seen your pixels around here before!
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 08, 2009 12:02:25 am PDT #849 of 3094
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Hi Fern!
Yay, lurkers posting!
Calli - Oct 08, 2009 1:45:09 am PDT #850 of 3094
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Hi Fern!I haven't seen Local Hero, but I like all the other movies you listed a lot, so I'll have to check it out.
Shir - Oct 08, 2009 2:02:57 am PDT #851 of 3094
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Hi, Fern!
Shambles - Oct 08, 2009 2:11:55 am PDT #852 of 3094
At last to guess, instead of always knowing.
Hello, fellow-lurker Fern! The Name of the Rose was one of the twenty books I carried around the world with me, and Nick Cave is probably my favourite artist. Mostly I read science fiction though, and in my case Nick Cave is surrounded by, like, Depeche Mode and Blondie and The Smiths (shut up, I will be sixteen forever), but nice intersection anyway!
Thank you for the warm welcomes way back when, everyone. In particular: thanks Ouise, and you should totally let me know when you're next in Montréal; I'll definitely try to muster up the courage for a coffee or glass of wine. And sooper seekrit message for megan walker: Montréal would be a great city for an F2F. Maybe by the next time it rolls around to the East Coast I'll be properly decloaked and can pimp it for real.
- patiently waiting for new delurkers to declare their love for, say, The Sisters of Mercy and Gene Wolfe, so I can pipe up again*