academia,
acupuncture,
aesop rock,
alice in wonderland,
american beauty,
amnesty international,
ani difranco,
anne sexton,
annotations,
art history,
art libraries,
art nouveau,
artist's books,
australia,
bauhaus,
bdsm,
bhagavad gita,
bjork,
black holes,
book arts,
bpal,
buddhism,
calla lillies,
calvin and hobbes,
cats,
chai,
chicago,
china,
chinatown,
chinese food,
cloisonne,
corsets,
dali,
daniel merriam,
diane arbus,
donnie darko,
dorothy parker,
dresden dolls,
e. nesbit,
e.t.,
einstein's dreams,
elder scrolls,
english,
eyeliner,
fashion,
fear of flying,
feminism,
ferrets,
free tibet,
frida kahlo,
garbage,
glbtq,
goth girls,
graphic design,
grilled cheese,
gypsies,
haruki murakami,
hasidism,
health food,
hedwig-and-the-angry-inch,
hinduism,
honeysuckle,
india,
indian food,
ireland,
israel,
jeanette winterson,
jon stewart,
judaism,
julie heffernan,
julie taymor,
katamari damacy,
kate chopin,
kathleen hanna,
kids in the hall,
kink,
kissing,
lewis black,
libraries,
lilo and stitch,
literary criticism,
literature,
liz phair,
lolita,
long novels,
lost in translation,
love,
lowbrow,
m. c. escher,
macaroni and cheese,
madness,
making out,
manatees,
marya hornbacher,
mlis,
morrowind,
mst3k,
museum studies,
museums,
mysticism,
mythology,
natural history museums,
new orleans,
nyan nyan nyanko,
office space,
older men,
oriental medicine,
oscar wilde, peter murphy's exquisite head,
picasso,
pirates,
poe,
polka dots,
pop surrealism,
porn,
postsecret,
quantum theory,
queer,
reading,
saic,
san-x,
secretary,
sex,
shirley manson,
smell of old books,
smelling old books,
submission,
surrealism,
sylvia plath,
taoism,
tattoos,
the bell jar,
the big lebowski,
the daily show,
the onion,
the virgin suicides,
tibetan buddhism,
tom waits,
tori amos,
transgender,
travel,
typography,
used bookstores,
vladimir nabokov