Laura Turner
- Age: 30
- Gender: Female
- Astrological Sign: Pisces
- Zodiac Year: Sheep
- Industry: Student
- Occupation: Larnin.
- Location: Vancouver : B.C. : Canada
About Me
I'm a PhD student in econ at UBC. For fun, I write this blog.
Why does the taste of pennies remind you of losing a tooth?
Hmmm. Does the correct answer have something to do with copper?
Interests
- Liberal and neoliberal politics
- Soviet history
- Anglo Saxon literature
- unfashionable British pop bands hated by Pitchfork
- Allo Allo (the BBC series)
- sea kayaking
- political biographies
- Korean food
- life cycle and public policy economics
Favorite Movies
Favorite Music
- Gomez
- Ian Broudie/Lightning Seeds
- XTC
- Massive Attack
- Kate Bush
- Death Cab for Cutie
- Doves
- TV on the Radio (ack what is a cool band doing on this list?)
- Decemberists (ack another one!)
- Tragically Hip
- Arcade Fire (what have I become - I need to stop)
Favorite Books
- Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
- When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Wuthering Heights
- Heart of Darkness
- Beowulf
- Politics by Hendrik Hertzberg
- The Roaring Nineties by Joseph Stiglitz
- Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick
- Before the Storm by Rick Perlstein
- The Vital Center by Arthur Schlessigner
- Assasination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
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Team Members |
| The Galloping Beaver | West End Bob Dave the rev. paperboy Alison Edstock Boris Cheryl Noni Mausa |
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