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About Me

You can email me at: me[at]shellyking.com
(just replace the “[at]” with “@”…I’m trying to avoid web spiders:-)

Location: Mountain View, CA

Age: 40

Favorite Comic Strip: Bloom County (circa 1980s)

Favorite place for brunch: St. Michael’s Alley, Palo Alto

Favorite Color: orange

Pets: Scout the Wonder Cat

Favorite Movies:

• The Godfather, “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
• Casablanca, “Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn’t advise you to try to invade.”
• The Letter, “Juries can sometimes be very stupid, and it’s just as well not to worry them with more evidence than they can conveniently deal with. “
• The Shawshank Redemption, “The funny thing is – on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.”
• Shakespeare in Love, “This is a stolen season.”
• Young Frankenstein, “YES. YES. Say it. He vas my… BOYFRIEND!”

Favorite Books: A Prayer for Owen Meaney, Wonder Boys, The Stone Diaries, Empire Falls, Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon, To Kill a Mockingbird, Possession

Favorite Plays: Much Ado About Nothing, Arcadia (or just about anything by Tom Stoppard), Glengarry Glenn Ross, Hedda Gabler, A View from the Bridge, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, Moon for the Misbegotten, The Lion in Winter, The Piano Lesson (or just about anything by August Wilson)