Veda

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Gender Female
Location United States
Introduction Writing post-modern obituaries since 2002.
Interests ginger, pumpkins, aporia, themed parties, yoga, black ink, journals, poetry, grey, archaic smiles, Lake Sebago, hiking boots, Post-its, existentialism, transcendentalism, night-walks, dancing, goth-pop, mortuary science, thanatology, culture, ritual, tradition, legacy
Favorite Movies Waking Life, La Dolce Vita, Otto e Mezzo, Blow Up, American Beauty, Legends of the Fall, My Girl
Favorite Music sigur ros, Radiohead, slowdive, Joy Division, New Order, Kate Nash, Regina Spektor, Sara & Tegan, Paris After Crash, Tom Waits, The Psychedelic Furs, Jesus & Mary Chain, the Magnetic Fields, the vanishing, M83, Sonic Youth
Favorite Books In the Dark, Slaughterhouse-Five, Rules of Attraction, Virgin Suicides, A Reasonable Life, The Graduate, Bodies in Motion

How do you pronounce the 'g' in bologna?

Bologna is a notorious college town in Northern Italy. The 'gn' combination in the Italian language makes a sort of [y]sound in the English phonetics with a real soft [n] sound flowing directly into the next vowel. Hence, gnocchi, lasagna, and Bologna.