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Today marks a new weekly column on Purple Blab that will introduce you to the most stylish and chic bloggeratti of the moment. Each week, you will meet a new blogger and learn “25 Things You Didn’t Know,” until now!

Blog: Feels Like White Lightning
Name: Elizabeth Spiridakis

1. I have a lifelong intense fear of the lifesize blue whale hanging from the ceiling at the Museum of Natural History. Even now I can’t stand beneath it (my heart rate is quickening even as I type this, no joke!)

2. I am first generation American. I am half Greek, half Dominican and look…all Irish? I am the only one in my family that doesn’t get really tan.

3. I wear pants once a year. If that.

4. In first grade, I took a battery of tests to be skipped to the 3rd grade (I was already young for my grade, I would have graduated at 15!) but my math skills were so poor that couldn’t be moved. (P.S. they never improved that much).

5. My grandfather (on my mother’s side) played violin in the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein in the 60s and later was a world reknowned conductor and musician.

6. The only time I ever had a cast was when I was 4 years old. I tried to make a kitchen chair rock like my rockinghorse and fell and broke my arm above my elbow.

7. I once met Yoko Ono in her apartment in the Dakota at 4am in the morning. She was in her nightgown checking email. The amount of art in that place is staggering! AND her closet is an entire room with racks for miles, it seemed.

8. I think rainbow sherbet is the most delicious dessert in the universe.

9. I’m left-handed and double-jointed.

10. Since I was 13, I have had a plan to get a dauschund and name him George Harrison (If I get a second one his name will be Sean Connery).

11. Aside from some favorite classics, I prefer true stories to fiction, in books and film.

12. Finding the perfect pair of black tights is my life goal (perfectly opaque, don’t pill, won’t run, aren’t too thick, have no weird sheen and are affordable). The 120 DEN from Topshop are nearly perfect but I still hunt.

13. The 2 coolest facts about my parents are as follows: When my dad first moved to New York from Crete, one of his friends was Taki183 – one of the first and most famous graffiti artists ever. My mom went to Woodstock! She saw Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix LIVE! They are both irritatingly BLASÉ about both awesome things.

14. I am addicted to hot sauce. Sriracha especially. I put it on almost everything (even ice cream, its GOOD, I SWEAR) and I use it LIBERALLY.

15. I have gotten really into cooking…I think I secretly want to start a food blog?!

16. I only like the yellows and greens in hard candy/lollipops/Skittles etc.

17. I can’t even begin to think about how to complete a cartwheel.

18. I once had a 6 hour layover at CDG (on my first trip to Italy and first time traveling internationally, by myself). I decided to get on the train to Paris and befriended a French boy who wrote quick directions for me to buy a coffee and croissant, see Le Tour, get back on the train to the airport, and head to Rome.

19. I love the Sound of Music more than any other movie.

20. I have horrible eyesight. I have had glasses since I was 4 and need custom contact lenses. I cannot imagine what it’s like to open your eyes in the morning and just…see clearly. I want Lasik!

21. I always bring the Big Lebowski with me to watch on plane trips. It calms me down (I am a terrible flier!)..that and an Ambien.

22. I got my nose pierced the first week of college and kept it until I was 25. I also got my tongue pierced when I was 18…I don’t think my parents have ever been angrier.

23. I moved to Los Angeles when I was 21 and drove my car there (from New Jersey).

24. I wrote a story for The New York Times in 2008 about how teenagers were taking over fashion with blogs – notably a then 12 year old named Tavi (her first press ever). Also my first major byline. All because of my friend Christine Muhlke- the best editor ever.

25. My celebrity “pass” from my boyfriend is for Larry David. I LOVE HIM. LIKE MORE THAN A
FRIEND.

Tags: Beauty, Elizabeth Spiridakis, Fashion Blogger, Feels Like White Lightening, Karen Robinovitz, Purple Lab

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