RRIVERSTONE'S PROFILE
NAME:
Rogi Allison Riverstone (born Rogi
Allison something else) Riverstone was a
suggestion by
a friend and sister poet on my 21st birthday. I
had been going by Rubyfruit (from the novel by
Lesbian author Rita Mae Brown,
Rubyfruit Jungle). My friend---Judith
Volborth----found that name ridiculous, and
suggested Riverstone, from a poem I'd written
about a mutual friend's son. I didn't want my
father's name.
HOME:
a run-down garage conversion, surrounded by gardens I dug myself.
Old description:new manufactured, on two and a half
acres of mountalin pasture, under the Milky Way,
surrounded by mountains, valleys, horses, cows
and goats. [out of date, but I hate my present
apartment in the city, so I left this in]
Homelessness happened July, '99. I'm still trying to recover from it. The people who took me in where not friends; they saw an opportunity to victimize a vulnerable person. Most of my animals were abused and/or died there. My things were stolen and vandalized. I barely made it out. I haven't had a decent place to live since. And my health has deteriorated badly. I'm still trying to recover.
HEIGHT:
5' 4, about a meter and a half, I
think....
Sex:
biological female; psychological
androgynous, with a hint of eunich.
EYES:
cat-green/gold/hazel/brown with dark
flecks, browner near the pupil.
HAIR:
Curly/kinky mousey chestnut, mixed with
blonde fine, grey, and horse-hair straight
black.
FAVORITE TV SHOW?:
NOVA, COSMOS, Nothing Sacred, Jack
Horkheimer's Stargazer, Night Line, Charlie
Rose, 3rd Rock From the Sun, MASH, Mary Tyler
Moore, That Girl, The Victory Garden, Zoom, Ken
Burns' documentaries (and things of that
calibre) Baking With Julia, Two Fat Ladies, The
Wood Wright's Shop, Hill Street Blues, Ed
Sullivan, The Carol Burnett Show, Red Dwarf,
Martha Stewart Living (I know, I know), Colores!
(local PBS New Mexico documentaries), Jeopardy.
WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?:
that cute cow print from Gateway, but
webtv uses cursor arrows, not mouses. My webtv
kbd rests on a metal, breakfast-in-bed tray with
foldable legs, along w/my ashtray, a pen, a
mechanical pencil, my cigs, my remote controls,
a note pad, a lighter and tooth picks (which r
more for cleaning food out of kbd keys, rather
than teeth).
FAVORITE BOARD GAME:
Scrabble
FAVORITE MAGAZINE:
Net4tv ezine,
Unitarian Universalist World, Highlghts,
National Geographic, Scientific American,
Skeptical Inquirer, and small press
rags--especiallly feminist.
FAVORITE SMELL:
Bread baking, Mexican and Asian
restaurants, rubber cement, sage, babies,
sun-dried bedclothes, monsoon season, sex,
chocolate, sun-soaked cat fur, rabbits, fresh
horse poo, espresso, car wax, lemon.
WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD:
Impotent rage.
BEST FEELING IN THE WORLD:
when a kid is surprised/happy to see me.
FAVORITE THINGS TO DO ON THE WEEKENDS:
The same things I do on weekdays, but
also includes the ""how-to" shows on PBS, any
good teevee movies, and going to the flea market
at the state fair grounds, when I can get a
ride.....
FAVORITE SOUNDTRACK(s) OR CD(s):
I refuse to buy a CD player & am waiting
for the return of vinyl. Soundtracks: West Side
Story, Romeo & Julliet (all but the one with
that
di Caprio kid in it), Out Of Africa, Contact,
Glory, Schindler's List, Fantasia, Peter & the
Wolf, The Sound of Music (with Mary Martin, not
Julie Andrews), Mary Poppins, 2001: A Space
Oddessy, A Clockwork Orange, Holiday Inn (the
Crosby/Cluney movie w/the song, "White
Christmas", in it--my dad was the sound
technician) Little Women (the one with Susan
Sarandon as Marmie), Edward Scizzorhands, Ed
Wood, Silence of the Lambs, The Lion King (I
know, I know), Saraphina, Beloved, Eyes On The
Prize, Ken Burns' The Civil War, The
ColorPurple, Nell, etc. I like to be moved to
tears and goose bumps.
WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THOUGHT OF
WHEN YOU WOKE UP THIS MORNING?:
Am I going to fall over a dog when I put
my feet down on the floor; will I accidentally
pee on myself if I cough; why didn't I go to
sleep earlier; is there enough coffee?
ROLLER COASTERS DEADLY OR EXCITING?
unnecessary.
PEN OR PENCIL?:
crayon, paint brush, spray can, felt
tip, icing bag. pencil: drawing/colored or
mechanical. pen: whatever doesn't require much
pressure and is either fountalin or ball point.
HOW MANY RINGS BEFORE YOU ANSWER THE
PHONE?:
I let the machine screen calls.
FUTURE SON'S NAME:
I'm pre-menopausal. This must have been
written for young people.
FUTURE DAUGHTER'S:
Dead daugher's name: Viri Diana Osorio
Riverstone.
GET ALONG WITH YOUR PARENTS?:
I have no parents, only genetic donors.
I mother myself.
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CONVICTED OF A CRIME?:
Several. Was I guilty? Well, technically
(in other words, by THEIR stadards) yes. Would I
do it again? Under the identical circumstances,
of course I would.
CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA?:
If this is a sexual reference, vanilla
with hot fudge. If this is a culinary reference,
yes.
CROUTONS OR BACON BITS:
My own croutons (I'm gonna make some
today, btw) and REAL, crumbled bacon.
DO YOU LIKE TO DRIVE?:
Oh, Gawd, YES!!!!!!!!
DO YOU SLEEP WITH STUFFED ANIMALS?
If you include over-fed dogs and cats,
yes.
THUNDERSTORMS COOL OR SCARY?
Refreshing, stimulating, heart wrenchig.
WHAT TYPE OF CAR WAS YOUR FIRST CAR?:
a white, '71 Volkswagen beetle.
IF YOU COULD MEET ONE PERSON, DEAD OR
ALIVE, WHO WOULD IT BE?:
Carl Sagan, Jesus, Mohamed, Buddha, Dr.
Martin Luther King Junior, William Shakespeare,
Harriet Tubman, Nelson Mandela, Adolph Hitler,
Alexander the "Great", Carl Marx, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Hypatia, Sappho, all the remarkably
intelligent women and people of color and people
with disabilities and uneducated poor who were
absolutely briliant and died in obscurity
(please read "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens"
by Alice
Walker), Phyllis Wheatley, Winnie
Mandela.......many of these I would lock into a
room, feed enticing things, and barrage with
questions, until I finally got some answers.
FAVORITE ALCOHOLIC DRINK?:
Good dark beers & ales; old fashions;
vodka martinis; Johnnie Walker Red, soda & a
twist, and Strega (an Italian liquer I can't buy
now that I live in New Mexico--Strega means
"Witches' Brew) and milk on the rocks.
WHAT IS YOUR SIGN?:
Trespassers Will Be Shot, Do Not Feed
The Animals, Welcome--Please Wipe Your Feet, Not
Responsible For Lost or Stolen Property, Enter
At Your Own Risk, Open Twenty Four Hours.
WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE POET?
Anybody who understands that art is
transformative, and not just and academic
excercise, me.
DO YOU EAT THE STEMS OF BROCCOLI?:
Not the dried-up part where it was cut,
but the rest makes good soup.
IF A GIRL ASKED FOR THE SHIRT OFF YOUR
BACK WOULD YOU GIVE IT TO HER?:
I never disrobe in front of children.
WOULD YOU EVER ASK A GUY FOR HIS SHIRT?:
In order to quickly leave the bedroom
without my room mate seeing me nekkid, yes.
IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB YOU WANTED, WHAT
WOULD IT BE?
Elementary, Middle School or High School
teacher, foster mother, year-'round camp
counsellor, nurses' aid in a children's
psychiactric hospital, VISTA volunteer, director
of homeless shelter for women and chldren,
women's studies professor, boarding house owner,
vendor at flea markets/swap meets, philharmonic
flautist, astrophysicist, marine biologist,
world dictator.
IF YOU COULD DYE YOUR HAIR ANY COLOR, WHAT
WOULD IT BE?
Pitch black with rainbow highlights.
IF YOU COULD HAVE A TATTOO, WHAT AND WHERE
WOULD IT BE?:
I have a tatoo of a unicorn over my left
breast, applied 25 years ago by a biker dude
named Howie who had elephants on his knees and
nipple rings b4 such things were popular. I was
sober, and went with a good friend, who got the
Ace of Pentacles over her left breast. As we
left, the waiting room was full of gruff-looking
men, and Howie said, "See you later, you
big-titted heffers." I think he was bragging to
the assembled, as women with tattoos were rare
in those days..... I was mortified. It only cost
$15.00.
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE?:
I've been in love since I was 13 with
somebody; I'm in love, right now....it's
unrequited.
DESCRIBE YOUR DREAM WEDDING:
my Lesbian wedding to Barbara on the
beach in Santa Monica at sunset, on grand ma's
quilts, with helium ballons, followed by supper
at a delicatessin and dancing at a queer disco
bar until they closed, followed by Barbara going
home with her girlfriend and me going home to
sleep. My marriage to Juan Crispin Hernandez, in
my $1.00 thrift store wedding dress tie died
purple, in the basement of the Santa Monica
Unitarian church, on the Vernal Equinox, in the
rain, followed by Mexican Pizza & fresh
strawberry wedding cake made by his aunt, while
everybody spoke Spanish (this was before I
understood conversational Spanish well), and I
stood around, feeling ridiculous and completely
left out.
WHAT IS ON YOUR WALLS IN YOUR BEDROOM?
My father's christening gown, a Kwanza
calendar, cob webs, a peg thing with my
most-frequently worn clothing, tacky wall paper
that I would not have chosen. I have tall
shelves; there isn't much wall space.
IS THE GLASS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL?:
It's cracked, and patched with Crazy
Glue, and dribbling.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SNAPPLE?:
I like to make my own juices, teas, iced
coffees, milk shakes, smoothies, etc. But I am
chronically addicted to colas.
FAVORITE MOVIE(S)?:
anything that was obviously important
enough to the creators to have put some serious
thought into. Not much involving car chases
(exception: Bogart movies), explosions
(exceptions: Gone With The Wind and Contact),
mass killings (exception: Schindler's List,
Saraphina, Malcom X), the words, "bitch" or
"nigger" (exceptions: The Fisher King and Glory)
and Mel Gibson (exceptions: Man Without a Face,
Brave Heart) or Kevin Kostner (exceptions: Bull
Durham, Dances With Wolves). Anything with Maya
Angelou. Many with Jodie Foster, Quite a few
with Johnnie Depp, and much of Wynona Ryder.
ARE YOU A RIGHTY, LEFTY OR AMBIDEXTROUS?:
more right than ambidextrous, but use
both and also my feet, mouth, armpits, and tops
of breasts for carrying things.
DO YOU TYPE WITH YOUR FINGERS ON THE RIGHT
KEYS?:
usually, when not too tired, angry,
aggravated or under some chemical influence
(which is rare--unless u include caffiene and
nicotine--which don't count under the
circumstances).
IF YOU COULD BE ONE GARDENING TOOL, WHAT
WOULD YOU BE?:
cultivator fork.
WHAT'S UNDER YOUR BED?:
my stockings which require a garter
belt, my leotards, tights and panti hose, pillow
stuffing for future projects, a cat, dust
bunnies, cigarette butts, a dog bone, my summer
clothing, and something which is nobody's
business but mine.
WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE NUMBER?
zero, 1, 13, 42 and billyuns & billyuns.
WHAT IS YOUR DREAM CAR?:
one that is perpetually insured &
registered, is easy to repair, gets over 25
miles to gallon of gas and carries gobs of
stuff.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH:
women's atheletics, Jeopardy, kids
playing
SAY ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON WHO
SENT THIS TO YOU:
I would like to take her dancing...
**These are some extra questions that were added by previous people and were not on the original questionnaire.
*** This may be taking liberties but I've deleted a few that I felt were inane. - Joel Maurer
****Me too - Michaele Maurer
Would you/have you ever bungie jumped?:
Only upon penalty of death....
Favorite Food?:
my own cooking.
Last Book you read?:
How
Children Think
Name three or four of your latest
Worldwide Web discoveries:
--
http://www.seti.org/
-
"http://www.net4tv
.com/, games
for webtv (though I'm sorry I discovered those
now, as I seem to be addicted to Tetris, at the
expense of sleeping....)
Favorite Book:
Almost anything by Louisa May Alcott,
Maya Angelou, Adrienne Rich, Carl Sagan, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, the person who wrote Pippi
Longstocking, Winnie The Pooh (I
know, I know), anything by Tom Robbins and ppl
like him, The Tao of Physics, The
Idiot's Guide to Volkswagen Repair and
The Perfect Breads Cookbook.
Do you taste-test grapes at the market
before purchase?:
With all that pesticide? Touched by
unwashed hands of oppressed laborers, who must
evacuate their bowels and bladders in the
fields???
Favorite Chewing Gum?:
Bazooka, Dentine, anything sugarless
w/wintergreen, Big Red, Mexican Chicklettes cuz
the flavors are weird--e.g.: rose, lavender, and
something that tastes suspiciously like rum).
Favorite Comic Strip / Comic Books?:
Those written by my old friend, Annie
Doczi, Calvin & Hobbs, Life Is Hell by that guy
who went on to do the Simpsons (which I also
like),Dykes to Watch Out For.
PBS or MTV?:
PBS. And 3rd Rock From The Sun, and
General Hospital--for some perverse reason that
I don't understand.
Favorite Color?:
Just about anything but Earth
Tones---the more carnival, tropical, and silly,
the better + black and also silver lame'.
Secret Hollywood Crush?:
Jodie Foster AND Sir Anthony
Hopkins, Bogart
AND Bacall, Katherine Hepburn and a bottle of
good cognac......
First Person You Kissed?:
Carrie Rickey, as we had our Barbie and
Ken engage in non-sexual intercourse.
Would you enjoy being part of an orgy?
Only as the caterer.....
IBM or Mac?
Webtv, Gawd help me.
Favorite Fast food?
Carne Asada Burrito (with extra Pico de
Gallo salsa) at Losbetos Mexican Restaurant,
Lomas & San Mateo, Albuquerque, NM, USA; Ginny's
Diner hamburgers, Frankfort Road, Louisville,
KY, USA; Taquitos, Olivera Street, Los Angeles,
CA, USA; English Tea, some hotel, Vancouver, BC,
Canada; Japanese Tea, Golden Gate Park, San
Fransiso, CA, USA; Coconut Cream Pie, that
convent on Maui, Hawai'i, USA.
If you could be one animal what it would
be?
Something damn hard to kill. <~~This
answer stolen from friend who sent me this
survey Thing. Either that, or as an animal as
well loved as mine are.
How many rings are you wearing on your
fingers or toes?
as we speak? None, but have gone thru
phases in past where I had more than twenty.
Seldom wear ear rings, but, when I do, I tend to
wear 4-6 at a time. I like to dress up as a wind
chime.
Favorite Holiday?
Halloween
Best time of year?
3-4 days after Valentine's Day, Easter,
Halloween,
Christmas---when I can buy excellent chocolates,
marketed for those holidays, at extremely
reduced (like 75-90 per cent) prices, and can
therefore consume vast quantities of the
substance for $1.00 a pound,
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