Laurie Allee

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About me

Occupation Mom, Writer, Photographer, Blogger
Location Los Angeles
Introduction laurieallee.com
Interests My family, books, films, art, photography, metaphysics, historic preservation, poetry, documentary filmmaking, myths and archetypes, analog things, nonduality, consciousness, holistic medicine, peace, typewriters, new thought, history, antique jewelry, rocks and gemstones, tarot, Community Supported Agriculture, worker-owned cooperative businesses, democratic socialism, anarcho syndicalism, serendipity, whimsy, really bad puns, really good coffee.
Favorite Movies Dr. Strangelove, The Graduate, The Philadelphia Story, Some Like it Hot, All About Eve, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, Breathless, The 400 Blows, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, My Life as a Dog, 8 1/2, Singing in the Rain, You Can't Take it With You, Harold and Maude, Grand Illusion, THe Purple Rose of Cairo, Rushmore, It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Nobody
Favorite Music Impossible to list it all.
Favorite Books The Great Gatsby, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Magus, An Invisible Sign of my Own, Tex and Molly in the Afterlife, In the Land of Laughs, The Hotel New Hampshire, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Jane Eyre, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, The Complete ee cummings, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Walden, The Collected Essays of Emerson, All Our Wrong Todays, Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore, Spoonbenders, Creating Freedom, Zinn and (of course) Chomsky.

If you were a pirate, how would you avoid laughing when saying 'poop deck'?

I am a pirate. And there is nothing funny about my poop deck.