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My blogs

About me

Gender Female
Location Chicago, Illinois, United States
Introduction Trying--for real this time--to blog regularly, but I do get distracted by adventures to abandoned factories filled with parade floats (see above) and such. (And sorry right now the blogroll's a couple years out of date.)
Interests abandoned buildings, Amtrak, architecture, beer, bookstores, bicycling, coffeeshops, contemporary art, diners, feminism, hockey, indie pop, libraries, the Midwest, Mod-era Barbie, neon signs, photography, public transit, the Rust Belt, thrift stores, trains, urbanism, vegetarian cooking, vintage clothes, zines
Favorite Books Backlash, Blooming, Boss, Burn Collector, Candyfreak, The Chicago L, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Fat!So?, Field of Schemes, Forever Barbie, I Want to Go Home!, Lost Chicago, Mad in America, Making the Second Ghetto, M/E/A/N/I/N/G, Mismeasure of Woman, No Logo, No More Nice Girls, Open Net, Our Dumb Century, Pink Think, The Scapegoat Generation, Speak, The Girls Who Went Away, They All Fall Down, Train Time, Unbearable Weight, Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, The Westing Game, When the Messenger is Hot, Where the Girls Are