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biodiversity, enka, alternative

pedagogies, home couture, courtesans,

flarf, color samples, open source

utopianism, canon destruction, felines,

spice, rufflers, peoples of the world,

soups and salads, decorative papers,

psychedelia, temporary dependent

zones, sparrows, theories, etc.

Archaeology, Angling, Archery, Bonobos, Botany,

Ceramics, Convicts, Courtesans, Dandies, Eccentrics,

Evolutionary biology, Extra virgin olive oil, Exuberance,

Flyfishing, Gardening, Georgian History, Goldrushes,

Hermits, Homebrew, Imari, Inuit, Jivaro, Kakadu,

Kangaroos, Kilims,Colin Lanceley, Linguistics,

Megafauna, Napoleonic wars, Oral history, Orchids,

Ornithology, Peter Rabbit, Pompeii, Prehistory,

Porcelain, Primates, Puffins, Quackery, Quiescence,

Rock art, Raku, Shamanism, Skeptics, Solitude,

Taphonomy, Tarts, Victorian History, Vikings, Voodoo,

Wilderness, Wombats, World War 1, Xerophytes,

Yanomami, Zydeco, Zen ,Zoology,

Culture, ancient culture, courtesans, geisha, oiran,

tayuu, apsaras, science, religion, mother goddess

worship, incense, body adornments, unguents, herbs,

fine fabrics, silk, satin, champagne, gourmet food,

eccentric beauty treatments, opiates, jewels, crowns,

powerful women, gowns, runways, balls, affluent men,

pleasure, starts, silence, stillness, The Universe, fine

arts, wines, cheeses, Asia, whales, animals, chariots,

gems, perfumes, collyrium, mysticism, chanting, kohl,

false eyelashes, masks, characters, mystery, illusion,

everything.

alliteration, courtesans, glottochronology, women in

science and technology, Indian wines

American Chemical Society, fashion, crappy techno,

enka, listening to music, the ocean, yoga, bubble tea,

oil painting, shopping, being angry

Jesus, people, Israel, Judaism, making stuff, nebulae,

and many other things

accordions, Amélie, Anna Sui, art history, astrology,

Audrey Tautou, baking and cooking, Chris Garneau,

collecting old keys, Corinne Bailey Rae, costume

design, creative writing, dark chocolate with coffee,

Diana+, dreary weather, fashion design, fawns,

freckles on pale skin, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, graphic

design, herringbone patterning, hippie culture,

hopelandic, humming and singing, Iceland,

illustration, insomnia, La Vie Bohème, languages, les

francophones, Leslie Feist, monochromatics,

Mushaboom, New York City, obsessive compulsive

disorder, olfaction, photography, polaroids, receiving

and writing letters, Salvador Dalí, Sasha Pivovarova,

Sigur Rós, sparrows, superstitions, the supernatural,

theatre, tongue-in-cheek humor, vonlenska, wishful

thinking, Yann Tiersen

sparrows, how to live this life, chinese, japanese,

shinto, pagans, metabolism, mystics,sounds,

traditional culture, fuck post-modernism, fravashi,

photoshop, design, flower arranging, space, healing,

meditation, eclectic,

drawing, illustration, hydra-arts, illustrators, whiskey,

paper,ink, biros, beermats, photocopies, carbon paper,

travelling, pencil crayons, czech animation, books,

collage, collecting, flea markets, cipicek, car boot

sales, ephemera, stamps, plants, paper, tin toys, nick-

nacks, glass, nibs, pots, flowers, prague, barcelona,

munich, daffodils, peter blake, letraset, cats not dogs,

buttons, very small things, tortoises, rummaging,

occasionally crocheting, lego-mini-figures, pirates,

fossils, dinosaurs, pear cider, marionettes, fairy lights,

matryoshkas, stained glass, rowing boats, museums,

Lindow Man, Oetzi, conkers, allotments, Jet, Emeralds,

toys, blythe, typewriters, monchichi, hedgehogs,

libraries, nostalgia, seedlings, becherovka, sci-fi, hi-fi,

lo-fi, gameboy, yoshi, cities, rosary beads, the royal art

lodge, kitscherama, jesus stuff, insects, crypts, stickers,

badges, moths, mix-tapes, nephews, reading, small

ceramic animals from charity shops, gardening,

geraniums, pumpkins, gourds, sneaking around, peas,

childhood, bud-vases, hole-punches, bottles,

sparrows, bumble bees, dragonflies, brewery tours,

walree, news, whitby, preserved things in jars, zelda,

pomegranate, toadstools, bottersnikes and gumbles,

the 70’s, vintage catalogues, childrens books,

answering questions, love,

Photography, Tattoo’s, Hardcore, Indie, Tree’s, Boys,

Piercing’s, Colors, Pencils, Sparrows, Eyeliner, Flannel,

Skinny Jeans, Fashion, Troy, Donuts, Jr Bacon

Cheeseburger, Knitting, Polaroids, Blazers, Kurdt,

Puppies, Fabric, Jewels, Blood

super powerful female vocalists who are actually men,

obscure pop culture references, good grammar,

people watching, dancing in the rain, ridiculously cute

accessories, singing really loudly in the shower, glitter,

swings, word games, crayons, listening, sparrows,

summer evenings, unreliable narrators, conversing in

parks, heart-shaped cookies

red lipstick, tendrils of hair, bluebird flash art, dotted

lines (or dots in general), stars, Russian folk art, faded

deer, raspberries, sadness, stark white forests covered

in snow, opium poppies, owls, banana bread, brown

paper, the texture of knitting, cake in general, oriental

fabric, little glimmers of hope, Versailles, melted

crayons, sparrows, rag dolls, hula hoops, painting with

ink, gingerbread, wearing dresses, calm euphoria, art-

deco chrysanthemums, and kisses from Nathan

Interests: mapquesting, culture shock, half-smiling,

sharpies, my cat leonard, kitsch, vintage dresses,

skating on thin ice, dirt, poems, feminism, the

moosewood cookbook, hanging out with lesbians,

hair dye, trying too hard to find symbolism, npr,

books, film, thinking about going to grad school,

talking about psychiatric drugs, talking about where

to go when the zombies come, sex education, boxing,

buried treasure, laughing at the expense of others,

bodies of water, crises, puns, quantum physics,

crayons, sparrows, Jews, dropping hints, dropping

bombs, dropping balls

mice, sparrows, mice, chippy bones, mice, running

through fields of grass and mice, singing along to my

favorite tunes, mice, throwing pieces of horse hoof in

the air, mice and chasing balls and rope toys. Oh and

mice, did I mention them?

Lemons, squirrels, sparrows, sea shells, natural light,

hardwood floors, book collections, night swimming,

holding hands, nude portraits, clams, and ugly

ducklings.

Jesus Christ, Family, Friends, Genealogy, History,

Classical Education, Swimming, ATCs, Hedgehogs,

Horses, Children, Marriage, Sewing, DIY, Cooking,

Spice, Sharks, Jellyfish, Sea Turtles, Dolphins, Planets,

The Church, CS Lewis, Debate, Sleeping, Subeta.org,

Bangles, Mehendi, Amethyst, Opal, Moonstone, Ruby,

Copper, Gold, Music

india, anne frank, asian friends, black & white

photographs, bollywood, bollywood icons, books,

composing ringtones, day dreaming, designing,

dreams, dus, eating, fire, flute, friends, gelpen, harry

potter, holding hands, ice, icons, india, indian friends,

life, love, madness, marathi, moon, moonlights, mouth

organ, movies, music, night ride, percussion, playing

music, poetry, pride and prejudice, railways, rain,

raincoat, ringtones, run, sarkar, serius black, shouting,

singing, snow, spice, stars, stuff., sugar, sydney carton,

vivek oberoi, whistle, writing, yuva.

anything interesting, life, bling, money tree, history,

asians, heels, sleep, BMW X3, smell of old books,

weather, politics, gossip girl, philosophy, theories, sea,

brunch, doodle, languages

Veganism! Bicycles, traveling, journalism, networking,

sarcasm, positivity, mornings, summer, yoga, walking,

running, kayaking, camping, Japan, Korea, China,

Thailand, Vietnam, Mongolia.. and all languages

spoken in those countries and anywhere else in Asia.

Clear skies, nice clouds, full moons, jazz, good anime,

honesty, recycling, Bee’s Oriental Foods Market, punk,

foreign films, Moleskin notebooks, documentaries,

foreign newspapers, colors, black and white

photography, darkrooms, studios, urban exploration,

Swiss friends, vegetables, cats, slightly dark humor,

funk, receiving things in the mail, sending packages,

polka dots, old film cameras, road trips, inspiration,

thrifting, Europe, Russia, India, heat activated

wallpaper, animal rights, stripes, Polaroids, tasteful

body mods, my future, [some] video games, brown

and green, theories, jargon, breaking up Louis

Theroux’s probably unhappy marriage and running

away with him, Macintosh computers, laughing,

smiling, infoshops, celebrations, unique names, local

organic farmers, graduate school, boycotts, drawing,

people watching, street art, modern art, collage, men

in shorts, trains, farm labor, sewing, art galleries,

museums, tea, globes, maps, discovering new music,

learning Japanese, meeting new people, yams, saving

the world.

(in no particular order), conversation, tumbleweed,

bats, city skylines, thunder storms, modern art, my

dad, drum lines, the power of persuasion, time travel,

lip gloss, scrapbooks, doing nothing, Pulp Fiction,

football, mangos, theories, physics, genetics,

futurama, love, dreams, fire, dasies, flying, dawn,

Saturdays, apple jacks, snow, urban legends, old

Nickelodeon cartoons, outerspace, cooking shows,

beaches, dancing, music, henna, shoes, metalocalypse,

lists, hands, traveling, rollercoasters, milk, road trips,

#2 pencils, herbal tea, jelly bellies, snowboarding,

words, green, daydreaming, 80’s rock, movies, human

emotions, human behaviors, human reactions, him.

collies, botanical brews, botany, boundaries, boxes,

byzantium, camping, catnip, cats, charity shops,

charms, compost, cooking, corvidae, corvids,

costuming, cottages, crafts, crochet, culpepper,

cunning folk, cunningcraft, cures, curses, daoism,

discworld, divination, dry-stone walls, essential oils,

european folk art, fairy tales, feathers, fermentation,

finding things, folk art, folk cures, folk magic, folk

tales, folklore, frau holda, frugality, fungi, garden lore,

gardening, gargoyles, garlic, genius locii, gerrard,

greenhouses, grieve, growing, haberdashery,

hamingja, handmade, hats, haws, headscarves,

hedges, hedgewitchery, heirloom recipes, herbology,

herbs, hidden folk, hills, history, holy wells, home

brew, honey, hoods, hoof and horn, hufflepuff, igors,

kitchen witchery, leaf-mould, leather-bound books,

leechcraft, leechdoms, legends, libraries, literature,

long skirts, loup garou, make do and mend, manure,

material culture, mead, medieval, medieval clothing,

medieval europe, medieval music, meditation, moon,

mulled wine, must, mycology, myth, mythology,

myths, natural remedies, nature, needle cases, nettles,

noticing things, occult, old musty books, old trees,

oliver postgate, order of the dragon, orlog,

ornithomancy, paganism, patchwork, permaculture,

pins, poetry, polytheism, poppets, pumpkins, quite

interesting, rain, reading, rivers, roast parsnips, rocks

and moss, roots, sacred objects, sacred sites, sacred

springs, scrying, seasonal food, secret compartments,

secret diaries, seeds, sewing, sheds, shells, soil, spells,

spices, stones, streams, sun, synesthesia, tarot, tea,

thunderstorms, toads, traditional witchcraft, twigs,

vegetarian food, vlad tepes, walking, warm socks,

weather lore, weaving, weeds, werewolves, wildcraft,

wind, wisdom, witchcraft, wort, wortcunning, writing,

wyrd

books, writing, contemplating, indulging,

procrastinating, fooling around, sleeping, people,

theories, asinine behaviour

being right, convincing other people i am right, films,

helping people, hubris, knowing i am right, learning

how to spell, music, my ego, politics, pompousness,

sex, theories, vulgarities, women

things that interlock, journalism, water guns, inhaling,

exhaling, creative nonfiction, painting, linguistics, the

flaneur, London, etymology, profanity etymology,

debauchery, cryptozooology, urban legends, noir,

psychedelia, the 8-bit age of video games, Doki Doki

Panic, exotic produce, not wearing pants, Tina Fey,

outdated slang, creative text messaging, Secret of

Mana, distancing myself from crowds, David Cross,

hookah, bettas, ampersands, Dylan Dog

rationalism, rationality, rationalist, stoic, existentialist,

agnostic, meta perspective, acatalepsia, epistemology,

pataphysics, quantized form, horror vacui, art brut,

psychedelia, wonderlust, melancholia, dejavu,

surreality, neurosis, awkwardness, idiosyncrasies,

nuances, sarcasm, sociology, androgyny,

pan/sapiosexual, collarbones, abandoned buildings,

airports, chess, stride piano, hipster, raves, shrooms,

pcp, blotter, lsd, acid, four twenty

1960s counter culture, 7 inch records, Anita Berber,

Anita Pallenberg, anti-quackery, Anton LaVey,

Algonquin Round Table, Art Deco, Art Nouveau,

Asperger Syndrome, atheism, Aubrey Beardsley,

autism, autism rights, Banksy, Bomp, Carl Sagan,

cashmere, Christopher Hitchens, collecting records,

critical thinking, culture jamming, Cynthia Plater

Caster, Daniel Dennett, decoupage, DIY, DIY culture,

Dorothy Parker, drawing, Eddie Izzard, fanzines,

feminism, film noir, F.K. Waechter, fleamarkets,

freakscene, freegarianism, high heels home

improvement, home recording, George Carlin, Greg

Shaw, Hollywood Glamour, Hollywood scandals,

Hunter S. Thompson James Randi, Jean Harlow, Jinx

Dawson, Joan Crawford, Julie Doucet, KatieJane

Garside, Keith Moon, Keith Richards, Lauren Bacall,

libertarianism, lo-fidelity, lowbrow art, Mae West,

melamin, mods, Muppet Show, Neil deGrasse Tyson,

Neue Frankfurter Schule, neurodiversity, Nico,

objectivism, outsider art, painting, Pat Condell, Penn

and Teller, playing guitar, politics, pop art, pop culture,

powerpop, psychedelia, quackery, queer culture,

Richard Dawkins, Riot Grrrls, Robert Crumb, rock’n

roll, satire, science, sculpting, second hand fashions,

secularism, silk, singing, skepticism, Tallulah

Bankhead, Tank Girl, The K Foundation, The KLF, thrift

stores, underground comics, vintage clothes, vintage

magazines, vintage pin-ups, vintage Tupperware, vinyl

records, yippies, YouTube

alchemy, all things hippy, ancient cultures, astrology,

chess, cinema, crystals, dressing up, finding out the

meaning of life, flirting, healing, kinky boots, kissing,

languages, literature, love, molto chic, magick,

mythology, nipples, the occult, ogling hot people,

older men, philosophy, photography, pin ups, poetic

terrorism, pool, psychedelia, reiki, revolution, rock ‘n’

roll, shamanism, snail mail, tai chi, tantra, tarot, tutus,

universal consciousness, water balloon fights, yoga,

young hairy men

Caravaggio, Cookie Monster, absurdism, agnosticism,

anatomy, antiquity, astronomy, camp, classical

liberalism, cowbell, dadaism, demonic ramblings,

entropy, gore, great justice, grok, horror films,

journamalism, Lovecraftianism, machismo,

motherfucking snakes on a motherfucking plane,

panda bears, politics, psychedelia, schlock, science

fiction, surrealism, violent video games, writing,

zombies, Bill Hicks

Leer, Escuchar, música, fotos, fotografía, el campo,

escribir, un lugar, la civilización, papeles, borrador, el

mar, árboles, agua, piedra, draw, amigos, cine, música,

ronda, bocetos, pinceles,cuerpos, luz, bañados,

cuerpo, photos, hojas, poesía, arquitectura, artesanías,

paisajes, acuarelas, Naturaleza, Montaña, historia,

Arte, pueblos, ciudades, viajes, senderismo, poemas,

aldeas, diseño gráfico, literatura, salinas,yuyos,

apuntes, retratos, tinta, desnudos, lapiz, ilustración,

gramilla, Photography, Digital,Photography, Art,

Literature, Architecture, Interior Design, Knitting,

Travel, Education, Flickr, Canon, Eating, Sleeping,

Napping, Resting, Lounging, Walking, leica, poesía,

árboles, les arts plastiques,l’écriture, la poésie, earth,

poetry, distortion, dirt worship, music, land, sacred,

profane, collage, writing, gender, myth, archetype,

comparative religion, wine, train whistles, library,

gardening, mexico, portugal, goddess, anarchy, sex,

moon, psychedelia, travel, books, reading,

anthropology, snakes, chakras, autonomy, nature,

comics, graphic novels, photography, indians, yoga,

meditation, shamanism, indigenous, vegetarianism,

deep, Digital Imaging, Design, Factory Records,

Literature, Music, Nikon, photography, photoblogs,

images, pro-photography, professional photography,

digital photography, graffiti, modernism, Art,

Languages, America Latina, Americas Latinas, Africa,

Civilizations, Madrid, Tours, large format photography,

black & white, digital, zen, haikus, koans, satori,

cactus, trabajo, sol, espíritu, papel, madera, viento,

sandía, melón, silencio, libertad

absurdity, aimless nocturnal wanderings, all-night

diners, avant-garde, bizarre news, celebrating the

lizard, comparative religion, compulsive list-making,

counter culture, dangerous-looking men, debauchery,

decadence, devilry, divine madness, ego death,

emotion, enlightenment, esoterica, eurotrash, feeling

sullied and unusual, folly, foreign films, gnosticism,

gonzo journalism, grammar, hermetics, hinduism,

inguinal ligaments, insanity, intelligence, irreverence,

knavery, lasciviousness, literature, luxury, meditation,

memento mori, metaphysics, mischief, mysticism,

mythology, nonordinary reality, numinosity, obscene

pants, obsession, occult, opulence, paganism,

pageantry, pan, paparazzi photos, passion, philosophy,

pomp, portrait photography, postmodern bullshit,

primal religions, psychedelia, rapture, roguishness,

roma, rum, science, seduction, sexuality, shamanism,

solitude, sound and fury, spirituality, stupid celebrity

gossip, sublimity, tantra, taoism, tarot, tattoos, teh

intarwebz, thelema, theology, tight black leather,

useless books, voodoo, weird frenchmen, weird

libidinal rage, weirdness, wine

agglutinating languages, animals, applied linguistics,

case systems, Charo, dictators, domesticity, Esperanto,

foreigners, karaoke, morphology, paternity testing,

psychedelia, puppets, records, Russian, Scrabble,

Boggle, Turkic languages, free food, Central Asia

Surrealism, Postmodernist Poetry, Lee Perry,

Psychedelia, The fact that you can’t suck your elbow

strange animals, strange people, general strangeness,

synonyms of strangeness, secret cabals of the

american elite, vintage fantasy art, early animation,

new animation, gross animation, nostalgia, picture

framing, flash, avoiding sunlight, skulls, canoeing,

sitting by fires, interwebbing, thinkin about stuff,

mood lighting, sexual reproduction, asexual

reproduction, plants, echinoderms, kitty cats, bugs,

evolution, history, food, psychedelia, fractal geometry,

symmetry, syncopated rhythm, media, telemundo,

black sabbath, black magic, Sci-fi, nihilism, child care,

beer

Biodiversity, ecosystems, music, mountains, hiking,

bicycling, kayaking, nature, human nature,

photography, fossil and mineral collecting, native

plants and animals, exotic invasive organisms, invasive

plants, native bees, birds, “writing”, wild places,

figuring out what animals are thinking, figuring out

what animals are trying to tell us, gerbil racing, having

too many interests, primate behavior, deep

conversations, extraterrestrial intelligence, weather,

semiotics, mountain hiking, some aspects of

technology, virtuous cycles, landscape makeovers,

what landscapes should not wear, oenology, live

music, pop psychology, noise management,

environmental atrocities, the McCullough Effect,

contingent aftereffects, neural networks,

Oak Trees, Skulls, botany, Cacti, Dumpster Diving,

Epiphanies, Bats, Sage, Lichen, Graveyards,

Ethnobotany, Cephalopods, Moths, Native Plants, Dog

Training, Biodiversity, Pessimism, Milkweed, Onions,

Lycanthropy, Quakers, True Friendship, Pitbulls,

American Pit Bull Terriers, Slime Molds, Spontaneous

Human Combustion, Paranoia, Banana Slugs, Seed

Saving, Poisonous Flora and Fauna, Propagating

Plants, Balsamic Vinegar, Quail, Chimeras, Big Old

Trees, Manzanita, The Creosote Bush, Fewer People,

Dudleya, Chitons, Condors, Hearing Voices, Nebulous

Profundity, Parasitic Plants, Cryptobiotic Crust, Dog

Vomit Slime Mold, Ultracrepidarian

Critics, Solipsistic Introjection

current events, reporting, journalism, Kentucky,

Eastern Kentucky, coal, sustainable energy, green

technology, liberalism, equality, arts, writing, fiction,

poetry, screenplays, my cats, Jen, literature, Nietzsche,

Freud, linguistics, language, theory, theories, the

economy, piracy, getting stuff for cheaps, the pub

down the street, coffee, proletarians, Marxism, serial

novels, novels, good beer, blurred genre fiction, non

fiction, making random lists of my interests, dead

languages, exercise, hiking, spelunking,

mountaineering, fishing, tracking, organic things,

building things, woodworking, restoration, stocks,

capital investing, theoretical physics, really, would you

rather have an uninformed reporter?, opera, Russian

Formalism, Tolstoy, TOE, Atlantis, making up uses for

Stonehenge, Old English, beer, bourbon, fine dining,

cooking, cooking for Jen, certain art. I should stop

now... I could just keep on going

Nada Gordon is a founding member of the notorious

Flarf Collective and the author of Folly, V. Imp., Are

Not Our Lowing Heifers Sleeker than Night-Swollen

Mushrooms?, foriegnn bodie, and (with Gary Sullivan),

a techno-romantic nonfiction novel, Swoon. She

believes that, potentially, everything is material for

poetry. Visit her blog at http://ululate.blogspot.com.

Cover by Jillian Brall

Scantily Clad Press, 2009