Merrill
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The Basics
| Name | Merrill |
| Location | Oakland, CA |
About Me
| About Me | Recent transplant to Oakland. Super Gay since ’08 (or more realistically…1989). |
| Check All That Apply | |
| Religion/Spirituality/Philosophy | Currently Exploring Buddhism. We'll see how it goes. |
| Website/Blog/Tumblr | merrillamos.tumblr.com |
| Looking For | Queer Friends in my Area, Queer Friends on the Internet, Queer Friends to Make Out With, A Girlfriend, Business Contacts |
| Relationship Status | |
| Virtues | Easy-Going, Considerate, Award-Winning Smile, Excellent Gift-Giver, Love Adventures of all Sorts, truth-seeker. |
| Vices | I'm definitely too hard on myself – which is usually what causes me to indulge in the occasional whiskey consumption/emo music-listening/general honeybadger attitude. |
| Are You Out To Your.... |
What I Like
| Favorite Books | The Picture of Dorian Gray, Mrs. Dalloway, The Kite Runner, The Great Gatsby, The World is Flat, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy, The Perks of Being A Wallflower, The Book Thief |
| Favorite Queer Books | Sister Outsider/Zami by Audre Lorde; (Not a book but…) Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne Rich; Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters; |
| Favorite Movies | Stranger Than Fiction; Imagine Me & You; I Can’t Think Straight; Cinema Paradiso; La Tigre Nella Neve; My Blueberry Nights |
| Favorite Documentaries | Waiting for Superman; |
| Favorite TV Shows | 30 Rock; Downton Abbey; Family Guy; The L Word; South Park; NCIS; Dexter |
| Favorite Music | Sara Bareilles, Ray LaMontagne, Brett Dennen, The Milk Carton Kids, Neko Case, Marina and the Diamonds, Rachael Yamagata, Sia, The Ataris, Go Radio, Motion City Soundtrack, Ingrid Michaelson, The Bird and the Bee, The Black Keys, Lissie, Radiohead, Jason Mraz, MoZella, ….and it just keeps going. |
| Favorite Sandwich | Breakfast Sandwich from the Vesta Flatbread truck in Oakland. |
| Favorite Thing to Autostraddle | Riese's Recaps, of course! |
| Favorite Quotes | “Of these cutthroat busted sunsets, |
| Favorite Thing on Autostraddle.com | THE LADIES, DUH. Oh, and as previously stated – Riese’s recaps. |
| Favorite Writers | Virginia Woolf (stereotypical), Oscar Wilde, Markus Zusak, Adrienne Rich, Tina Fey…I’ll get back to this list. |