Join me for quirky, ludicrous and darkly humorous insights into: travel, food, the weird world of Reno (that OTHER city in Nevada), physics, music music music, being bi-polar in a world with one pole, the love life of a single woman, Stephen Hawking, death, surveys and the naughty bits.
Literature and Music are my lovers. Ragtime piano is my forte but I’m a classically trained pianist. Can’t write without music and can’t play music without creating something new with it each time.
After a gig with the Burning Man Marching Band. Myself, David Silverman (of Tubatron fame) and John Birdsong (of the Pair-O-Dice New Orleans Jazz Band)
In the other world I design websites and graphics, play keyboards, piano and flute, plan for Burning Man and agitate the hell out of idiots. Oh I write as well. Last viable source of employment was as an Executive Producer for Warner Brothers.. where my writing and directing were continually being sent back to Burbank for approval. What’s the word describing corporate hell? Oh yes. Derp. Not that it wasn’t fun using station equipment to waste days making videos for the website. Voice-overs as well.
Front Cover from Traverse Magazine. October 2003. Taken in my retail store Cabin Fever.
The 'Yogee' talking board. circa 1940, glow in the dark = radioactive.
Addicting, fun and creative diversions. Perfect for a puzzle enjoying neurotic mental kinda gal.
Oh, and I also have one of the largest Ouija and talking board collections in the world (a colorful, weird, wonderful American art form dating to the 1890′s), and have worked as an adviser to the Tim Burton Studios, Penn and Teller’s ‘Bullshit’, the production company of What Lives Beneath, along with magazine, radio, television and newspaper interviews.
Odd passion? No.
I laugh at the unimaginative who collect baseball cards and figurines. Silly people.
Love to ski. Downhill. Fast. Really fast. It’s dangerous.
That’s why I have no insurance.
Traveled Europe, the Soviet Union, the Caribbean, Mexico, Canada, the United states and Detroit. Lived everywhere from LA to NYC. Currently reside in Reno, Nevada.
Member of Mensa but don’t attend meetings. In the words of Groucho Marx ‘I’d like to join a club and beat you over the head with it.’
Consider myself an Anti-Intellectual Intellectual. The ordinary bores me, the majority of people are neither interested or interesting, and I revel in being a misanthrope. Spend a lot of life as a happy hermitress. All of this fuels a desire to learn. About everything and anything.
Will continue to write and play piano until a cure is found for suicidal ideation, the joys of being bi-polar, and NASCAR.
Yeah that’s me.
Clean up pretty well and haven’t been kicked out of a holiday dinner in years.
Thanks for adding me to your blogroll! I got you added to my rotating blogroll on the sidebar and to my blogroll page.
You responded to my comment, then you couldn’t find my site. Of course I blame myself … 000ooo… Anyway! I hope you can find me now, and be bored to death! yay..
My God, I feel right at home! I look forward to following
Thanks Pandora!
Been a bit slow in writing this month -getting ready for Burning Man (where being crazy is encouraged and if you want to be left the fuck alone it’s all good too). Will try to keep up. But certainly not on current events you’ll see on the ‘news’
Rachael, re the heist vid, thank you sweetheart, i really appreciate it…especially from a fellow musician. also had no idea how very talented, accomplished, and etc you are…it was very easy to ascertain that you possess a keen wit and are highly intelligent. so mensa comes as no surprise. i don’t hardly read these ” about” things…which i prolly should – mea culpa. so i bow deeply to you. and it only makes your appreciation of my shit all that more meaningful to me. continue…
Tony you’re a doll. and I bow to YOU. Your comment made my evening, truly.
re above: good, and you deserve it….anyway, since you posted that symphony of science/quantum physics vid (MARVELOUS) did u ever check out an early blog piece i wrote called “Matter of Life and Death”…it might be somewhat enjoyable to you – or not. continue…
enjoyed your Matter of Lif e and death -great title for the piece -grin-. Left a rambling comment there. Many thanks for making me think. It’s one of my favorite things, although many times the tools are lacking
I’ve just nominated you for a Versatile Blogger award. Not sure if you’ve gotten it yet, but you damn sure should have.
Because you rock.
http://guapola.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/there-goes-the-neighborhood/
Iit’s amusing if nothing else.
Congratulations!
El Guapo I am honored that you would choose my blog for this award, and cannot express my thanks enough. It means so much coming from a writer that I truly respect.
You have been nominated for a Versatile Blogger Award. Click here to pick up your prize. Congratulations, and please don’t let it go to your head.
http://brianwestbye.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/100-sheep-and-1-versatile-blogger-cant-be-wrong/
Thanks Brian! I WILL get to posting a list of my recent nominations/awards and comply with each. This month. I promise.
Did already receive and post the Versatile Blogger. Better check my own archives to make sure I passed it along and made the requisite nominations!
Many thanks. A nomination from you is most flattering. Dig your blog.
Rachael,
So I returned for a journey into your About Me and the travel was worth the while.
I found myself nodding at the ‘agitating the hell out of idiots’, ‘misanthrope’ and Groucho Marx views. Marx also said something to the effect that ‘he wouldn’t want to be part of a club that would have him as a member.’
Glad to discovered your blog….and a versatile personality!
-curtsy- Appreciate the kind words HaLin. Am exploring your blog as well and enjoying your wit and scathing outlook.
You uh… do clean up well. And you write well! I’m a fan.
-blush- thank you Edward. A fan of your writing and brand of insanity as well!
What an interesting life you lead!! I like to think I’d have done the same if I weren’t so damned shy. Anyway, I’ll be back when I have more time to explore. Thanks for coming by my place.
Ha! I believed yours was the interesting life. Thank you for stopping by this darkly lit little corner of the Interwebs. Appreciate your words and time. Dig your blog
Pleased to meetcha!
Going to Burning Man is on my bucket list, and hopefully I’ll get there before my bucket is kicked, and while I’m still young enough to enjoy it!
Thanks Chris, pleased to meetcha as well! Get your tush out to Burning Man and find Spanky’s Wine Bar -trust me you’ll get directions from 30,000 out of 40,000 people there -grin-. Ask for Piano Wench and I’ll appear as a dust-covered apparition holding aloft the finest in bad wine to fill your empty cup
Witty banter and floggings by request!
Well in that case, you’ve just single handedly moved Burning Man up three places on my bucket list! I mean, how could I resist an invitation like that one?
I have just been reading these fine annotations and the replies are even more wicked than the observations are, indeed the Dungeon Mistress within My Gothic Realm is often likened to a Dark and Ghoulishly Wicked Creature and the ‘Floggings by Request’ are always met with a hasty retreat from the Resident Zombies as her darkly charms are just too scrumptiously put into practice with a Zest of Evilness.
“How do you mean what the hell am I talking about?” Well to find that out you will just have to enter my Space and take the tour but do watch out where you bend over whilst edging past the tombstones, especially in the midst of those crestfallen Skeletons, as they often pinch things you know?
lol
Have an excellent rest of Friday and a
Ghoul, I mean a Cool weekend my friend…
Androgoth
Androgoth, you’ve made my Friday! I must explore more of your writings, as I see your fantabulous comments on my favorite writers’ blogs.
Many thanks my Darkly Demonic new friend.
Ouija boards, really? Sheez, three of my friends and I decided to try it years ago thinking it wasn’t real. Oh boy!!! When the dish started moving we thought it was everyone mucking around. I knew it was real when everybody took they hands off the dish except me and it went friggin berserk. Got some spirit called Bud who didn’t want to go. Did we all sleep with one eye open that night, I mean week, I mean month
Heh. Used to have an extensive website on talking boards. Ouija is actually the most common so most people refer to them all as Ouija.
I don’t ‘believe’ in Ouija boards anymore than I ‘believe’ in rocks heh. It’s due to an autonomic response in all people. Any ‘messages’ received are coming from the subconscious of the user(s).
Don’t believe in ghosts, talking to the dead, or anything else occult attributed to them. I laughed my way to the bank by selling more boards than anyone else in the world, due to the selection, and shipped them as far as Ukraine, Argentina, Ireland, and The United Arab Emirates.
I DID have a hilarious page dedicated solely to the best emails and letters I received from total lunatics and morons. Of course my answers were all carefully crafted pieces of sarcasm.
Just got a new domain and am working on re-building the site.
Fucking HTML5 and javascript lol
I was a bigger skeptic than you until that fateful night. Boo!
Don’t get me wrong Loon. As a teenager a friend and I were playing and the hallway ceiling fell in. Ummm, turned out there was a leak from shoddy contractors,
Also, while High Priestess of a long standing coven in SoCal (do NOT laugh..anymore than I do) three of us were playing and hit the lottery numbers for that day, Halloween…666. No one played it because it was so silly that we couldn’t take it seriously.
Coincidence?????
Uhhhh yeah.
Wait until you see the page I’m putting back up. Not to mention a whole new batch of idiocy -mostly from teens.
Oh, and you are not the only person with weird experiences using a;0 talking board… just look for a non-supernatural explanation as well though
Dear god – let me know when the page is up! Can;t wait to read the emails!
Will DEFINITELY send you the url EG -wicked grin-
Hi, I have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award. Details are here: http://looserornot.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/the-versatile-blogger-award-yes-im-the-chosen-one/ I hope you accept the award in the spirtit that I nominate you. Have fun best wishes!
Thank you Turber
Have already received this award and done the deeds requested. Just didn’t post the image on my page.
I am grateful you’d nominate me. Thank you!!!
Sorry, but I’m glad someone already appreciated you
As a wise person once said (I believe it was Turber) ‘No regrets, only denial!’ lmfao.
You’re so cool XD
Cool entry. I know what you mean about the weight-loss drama. I hate to out-problem you, but I am the queen of disfunction! Check out my blog if you don’t believe me!
hahaha. we must be tied then. will check out your blog to make sure you can keep the crown intact. Thanks for stopping by!
Just found your site – love what I see so far. Look forward to more!
Thank you thefibitz! Off to check out your site
I’ve only read a few posts so far……but this seems like the bizarre, funny blog that I’ve been searching for
Oh you are clearly fabulous! Thank you so much for checking in here. The fact that you identify with my eccentricity is an A+++++ would deal with you again, Off to find your blog!
Be Well
Thank you very much for following my blog, and i will call back again.
I am just calling by to have another ogle, I
lol
mean another look at your about page
Well I am just trying to visualise you with
that wooden butt slapper in your hand
Have a very nice, wicked, wild
and wonderful evening Miss. R
Androgoth XXx