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Kat Vapid

About me

Gender	FEMALE
Occupation	Writer, Chef-ish imposter
Location	West End, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Introduction	I write shit, mostly fiction these days, and then blog about it. In my spare time I am employed as a chef. I have some kids. I have a cat named Alice. I had a couple other cats but they died.
Interests	Cooking, baking bread, writing, kids (but only mine. Other people's kids are annoying.)
Favorite Movies	Woody Allen, W.C. Fields, Laurel & Hardy, Strangers with Candy, Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker...you know, funny shit, to detract from the pain.
Favorite Music	Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Sr., Hank III, Amy Winehouse, Buzzcocks, M.I.A, P.I.L., Gene Vincent, Destiny's Child/Beyoncé, Santogold, The Specials, Slim Gaillard, Orchestra Baobab, Getatchew Mukurya, Neko Case, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Loretta Lynn, Peter Tosh, Rudimentary Peni, Wu-Tang Clan, Subhumans, X-Ray Spex, The Damned, Digable Planets, Nicole Willis & the Soul Investigators, Django Reinhardt, Wayne Hancock, Bikini Kill, King Pleasure, Wanda Jackson, Tom Waits, Charles Mingus, Willie Nelson, Slits, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Gram Parsons, Max Roach, Edith Piaf, Snoop Dogg, John Prine, Fela Kuti, there's more but I'm not gonna get into that right now.
Favorite Books	Physiology of Taste (Brillat-Savarin), Consider the Oyster (Fisher), The Plague (Camus), Guide Culinaire (Escoffier), Civilization and its Discontents (Freud), Mary Gaitskill, Raymonds Chandler & Carver, S.J. Perelman, Jamaica Kincaid, Chekhov, Gogol, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Voltaire, Haruki Murakami, Teju Cole, the Dictionary, any book that rips on religion.