Hometown: Blakely, Ga.

Years in Austin: Five

Job title: Features copy editor, occasional writer

Representative topics I've written about for the American-Statesman: psychotic cats, Paige Davis

Music: Aimee Mann, Clem Snide, Jonathan Richman, White Stripes, Lucinda Williams, Weezer, Kelly Willis, Gillian Welch, Courtney Love, old-school Liz Phair, Missy Elliott, Emmylou Harris, Ramones, Old 97's, Spoon, Yo La Tengo, Alejandro Escovedo, Mary Lou Lord, Beth Orton, Rufus Wainwright, Belle and Sebastian, New Pornographers, Patty Griffin

Kindred TV spirits: Lisa Simpson, David Fisher, Willow Rosenberg (only not so much with the ladies and the dark arts)

Totally inappropriate TV crushes: Adam Brody, Ted Allen

Big or Aidan? Big

Vices: fancy perfume, tequila-based beverages, anything involving the word "makeover," online journals

Suggestion from my mom for this profile: "Tell them you were raised by hippies."