Newest
Carrie
now
blogs short non-fiction pieces at the
nervousbreakdown.com.
Carrie's reading at FESTIBA, the Festival of Books
and Arts,
was publicized in McAllen's newspaper, The Monitor.
If you are a fan of Carrie, you will be interested
in learning more about
Winston Park, the subdivision where she grew up and where her parents still
live. She titled her dissertation after it, you know.
Music
That Boy is
the most recent single from The Strawberry Explosion.
Listen.
The Strawberry Explosion released
My Humps, a
newly-conceived version of The Black Eyed Peas song.
You can also listen to the straight version of
"My Humps."
Carrie is a featured vocalist on the
song "John Waters," which can be found on Rusty
Spell's new album,
Plagiarism 2.
Carrie and Rusty recorded a new
Strawberry Explosion song at the beginning of summer, 2005.
They released it, along with 5 remixes, as a single called
Boobalean.
Carrie did the front cover art and helped write the lyrics.
Everyone's favorite big sister Pia Z.
Ehrhardt interviewed Carrie and Rusty about The Strawberry
Explosion: read
The Glory
of the Strawberry Explosion interview.
The Strawberry Explosion released
Christmas at Wartime.
And listen to the bonus, the hilarious chipmunk version
here.
The Halloween-themed Strawberry
Explosion single,
"Baby,
Baby, Boo," is out: Rusty wrote this one by himself and it's the
best TSE song yet.
Listen to the mp3 and dance.
Carrie Interviews Rusty and
Rusty
interviews Carrie about various music-related topics after the
release of the new single, "Kissy, Kissy."
The Strawberry Explosion released their second single,
Kissy, Kissy,
with lyrics, music, cover art, kiss noises, and ad-libbing by
Carrie. Lots of stuff by Rusty, too, of course. Listen
to the MP3 of the single
here,
but buy the cd for all of the funny remixes.
In March, 2004, The Mnemonic Devices
released the
Love Chewed Off Its Leg EP. Carrie sings on three tracks.
The Strawberry Explosion, Carrie
and Rusty's pop band, now exists and will be releasing singles
regularly. Their first single,
"Then
He Kissed Me", is
available for purchase. And listen to an MP3 version
here.
Listen to
Hubba
Hubba, a song Carrie recorded with
The Mnemonic Devices.
The song is featured on the
Sparkling Objective
Correlatives album, for which she also contributed the
cover art.
You can read Rusty's profile of Carrie on her
Devicette
page.
Words
Claire Zulkey interviewed Carrie about
teaching, editing, and job seeking on Mediabistro. Read it
here.
IFC announces
the winners
of the Rock Star Games Upload 4 Contest, and Carrie is a runner-up
in the Short Fiction category.
Read Carrie and Rusty's
review of
Universal Orlando, a comprehensive rating of each ride at both
Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. They consider it a
sequel to their Disney World review.
Carrie
contributed a list of her "Favorite Movies for Adults" (which
does not mean porn) to
We Like
Media's
Movies for
Adults.
Carrie is quoted in Claire
Zulkey's article about submitting to literary magazines.
Carrie guest-edited the April, 2005
Holiday Fiction issue of
the Mississippi Review Web. Her introduction to the stories is also
up.
Read Carrie's list of her
25 Most Hated Movies on We Like Media.
Read
Carrie and Rusty's Disneyworld Review, a review of almost every
attraction at every Disneyworld park, an idea sparked by their
recent 4-day trip there.
We Like Media published
Carrie and Rusty's commentary on
MTV's winter 03-04 video rotation--commentary that tells you more
about Carrie and Rusty than it tells you about the actual videos.
We Like Media solicited a list of
Carrie's
20 favorite TV shows to create a list of
We Like Media's 20 Favorite TV
Shows.
Carrie guest-blogged for
Maud Newton on June 20th. Read
Maud's introduction, which is entirely too flattering.
Carrie guest edited
Opium
Magazine in May, 2003. Read her
interview with Todd Zuniga.
Read her
famous literary
interview with Claire Zulkey of zulkey.com.
Check out the
Carrie Hoffman
entry at byliner.com.
Video
Carrie and Rusty's re-creation of the
Lisa Loeb "Stay" video is back online, now in even better quality
and in Windows Media Player format. Download it
here and
marvel at how well Carrie impersonates Lisa Loeb.
Watch me act in
the
trailer for the Fun With Numbers Bonus Disc.
Accomplishments & Publicity
Read the May 14, 1996 transcript of
Florida State Representative Carrie Meek
congratulating Carrie on receiving her Girl Scout Gold Award in
front of the U.S. House of Representatives.
An article in the print edition of The Hattiesburg American
included a
photo of Carrie, along with a caption
identifying her as the famous Rie Fortenberry.
Education
Dr. Carrie is now Lecturer
and advisor at the University of Texas-Pan American - here's
her
faculty page.
Since the Fall of 2003, Carrie has been an
Associate
Editor of The Mississippi Review.Once upon a time, Carrie was a
writing
center tutor
.
Check out
The Center
for Writers at
the
University of Southern Mississippi where Carrie got a
PhD.
And visit
Cornell University
where she went to school as an
English major.
Romance
Rusty gives Carrie another
special Valentine's tribute for 2006.
Here's the
Valentine's Day 2005 CBS Special that Rusty made.
On February 14th, 2004, Carrie had the
happiest Valentine's Day.
