• Astoriagrrrl
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      • In response to: "What's the one thing you're never gonna give up?" Certain novels that I care about: stuff by AS Byatt, Jane Smiley, Charles Baxter, and Antonya Nelson.
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    • My Dream Pet

      • Snoopy. I've been fantasizing about owning a beagle for a decade. Intellectually, I know it's not a good "apartment dog." But it's what I want. (Image to come.)

      • answered by Astoriagrrrl on 04/15/2012
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    • Place.of.interest(lauren)

      • Gosh, just love the desert. Every time I've been to Arizona it's been a terrific experience.


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        Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Ariz., which ranks 17th on a list of 20 most-visited National Monuments recently published in the Los Angeles Times and houses "more than two dozen species of cactus and animals like the kangaroo rat," according to data appearing in the slideshow caption.

      • answered by Astoriagrrrl on 04/15/2012
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    • Three overplayed songs (I love anyway)

      • As a GenXer, naturally, I recall the overplayed but still good songs from a time before digital dominance.


        Tom Sawyer by Rush

        Love the lyrics. Love the production. And whenever I hear it now (rarely accidental, usually with sis in her car) it makes us feel 16 in a good way.

        You Shook Me all Night Long by AC/DC

        Once upon a time this song was in such heavy rotation that it appeared to be the sound track for the nation and was probably used to simultaneously sell diapers, hamburgers, and the American Dream. Still holds up, too. A testament to the eternal appeal of clean, hard riffs.

        Alive by Pearl Jam

        Sure the song is great; then, there's the reality of Eddie Vedder who, along with Chris Cornell were the fantasy men of my mid 20s.

      • answered by Astoriagrrrl on 04/14/2012
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    • I lost my cool over gmail

      • I cleaned up an earlier piece of writing. It's a little more clear now (I hope.) ;)


        Big Heart of Art - 1000 Visual Mashups

        I lost my nerve, for a minute, when confronted by a web app snafu in a [then] new workplace. Do tell, you ask: what exactly took the fizzle out of my sassy? It involved Gmail, which I found as intuitive as, say, disarming a B-41 nuclear bomb in a darkroom. Rather than engage in deep abdominal breathing and figure out the nesting methodology, I froze, then sent an email to the wrong guy in a mad rush between meetings.

        The job just didn't work out. {"But Google," I was told, "is so affordable." To which I wanted to respond, "but you get what you pay for, you cheap bastard."} Lost my nerve and heart for time. But now I've got it back.

      • answered by Astoriagrrrl on 07/09/2010
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