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Amy

These pretzels are making me thirsty...

About Me

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My Interests

News junkie, pop psychology, the brain, genetics, anthropology & evolution (ah, not intelligent design), contemporary plays, improv, animation

Music:

I've got no use for anything slow! 70's disco & rock, 80's dance tracks, piano bands like Ben Folds and Slow Runner. Country that's like George Strait & Dwight Yoakum. Anything on XM 44

Movies:

Napoleon Dynamite, LOTR, anything sci fi, Purple Rose of Cairo and all Woody Allen, Moonstruck, most British comedies, M.Night Shamalyan, comic book flix like Spiderman & XMen

Television:

Sweet God I love TV. Huge Muppets fan - have all episodes on DVD. Love British soaps and comedy - wish we could get Eastenders in the U.S. Scrubs, The Office, Arrested Development, Simpsons, Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. Powerpuff girls, Best Week Ever, The Soup. Fave news shows are Hardball, This Week and Washington Week. Oprah, Dr Phil and Suze Orman. Love old 70's and 80's stuff like the Waltons, Matlock and Little House on the Prarie. Yes, really.

Books:

Read a lot of nonfiction these days - currently reading Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. Just read A Million Little Pieces and don't care if it's all a lie, it was awesome! Fave books include all Jane Austen, The Fountainhead, Poisonwood Bible

Heroes:

Carl Sagan, David Gergen, Madeline Albright, Jim Henson. And Farheed Zakharia

My Blog

Today's Stem Cell Veto

Today George Bush iced the cake on his reign of idiocy.  He vetoed the bill that would fund stem cell research, which passed the House and Senate with bipartisan support.  His reason was tha...
Posted by Amy on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:38:00 PST

AA in LA

This week I'm in Los Angeles taking a sketch writing class at Second City.  Our instructor, Amy Seeley, developed the writing program at SC Chicago and is now out here "close to th...
Posted by Amy on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:53:00 PST

I'm off for the summer

I just finished up my last assignment for work and am now FREE for the summer.  I can hardly explain how great it feels!  For those of you that do not know, I am taking a leave of absence fr...
Posted by Amy on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:00:00 PST