American female, born in the early 1970s (in the same hospital as J. Wales, as it happens; thanks, 60 Minutes, for teaching me a thing I would never have guessed in a jillion years). B.A., in art history and English, from a women's college, followed by professional degree, in neither art history nor English, from a former men's college; former academic-journal assistant editor; current resident of a state whose ZIP code starts with the number 8.
Favorite color: green.
Favorite movie: Bull Durham. Runners-up include, without limitation, Caddyshack, Mulholland Dr., The Hunt for Red October, Soylent Green, and Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (non-hyphenation sic; see infra).
Favorite American prose stylist/cat lover since Ernest Hemingway: Richard Posner. (See also Samuel Johnson... or not?! No, no. Hodge shall NOT be shot.)
Favorite American poems that are not "Casey at the Bat": "Anecdote of the Jar" and "Fire and Ice".
Favorite place (physically and culturally) in the history/geography of the universe: the Chateau Marmont. Silver medal: Allinges (deep cut: [1]). Bronze: Valletta.
Almost gold-medaled in the Olympics of my particular demimonde.
Topical hobby-horses include, without limitation, foodstuffs, geography, disasters (artistic/critical as well as mechanical/environmental), language, medicine, and textiles.
Wikipedia Manual of Style hobby-horses include, without limitation:
en | This user is a native speaker of the English language. |
ru-1 | Этот участник владеет русским языком на начальном уровне. |
This user is a userbox minimalist apart from the above-noted language "competencies" (or essential lack thereof). But I get one bit of lagniappe after 11,000 42,000 edits, I hope:
![]() | This user misses David Foster Wallace. |
I am in here, too. Abyssinia, dear DFW.—JDL.
July 2020 addendum: Non-lagniappe!
shades of green
Thank you for quality copy-editing ("capitalization, punctuation, and formatting corrections"), such as Shades of green and Pesto, for welcoming new users, for fighting vandalism, spam and advertising, for an exceptional effort in keeping a great editor (above), - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
You are recipient no. 2412 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:03, 4 July 2020 (UTC)