Michael Burkard, James Tate, Norman Dubie, James Joyce, Anne Rice, David Liss, Amy Hempel, Donald Barthelme, Dino Buzzati, everything Sherlock Holmes, cultural studies stuff, Denning and Phillips, historical mysteries, big little books, comic books, Jung, Agatha Christie, Virginia Woolf, TS Eliot, Walt Whitman, Kafka

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I am originally from Kansas, and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1990. I have been a bodyworker for 8 years, and maintain a large private practice, specializing in injury work and reflexology. At Associated Content, I write about the occult and paranormal, healing techniques, and whatever else stikes my fancy. I'm particularly interested in aesthetics and academic deconstruction of the paranormal, not as a skeptic or a believer, but as an observer. I also sell books, & make & sell art items. And, I raise my fabulous and cool tween son, who is getting ready to travel to London and Paris for his 13th birthday. See my articles at associatedcontent.com/richellehawks

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techno gadgets, misuse of apostrophes, big glasses, abbreviations, society for creative anachronism, people who think they're really, really "weird," tattoos, piercings, meat, wal-mart, bars, chaos, sauerkraut, commercials, NPR, vampires, Paris Hilton, Linsday Lohan, Brad Pitt, celebrity culture, 'demonology', fear, people whose teeth are all black and rotting out of their head and lie about everything, plastic, people who use 'pimp' as a verb, and 'ghetto' as an adjective, ocular migraines, bullous pemphigoid, bi-lateral carpal tunnel surgery, people with narcissistic personality disorder, private schools, malls, Bush, conservativism, homophobia, Fred Phelps (look it up and be ill...)

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