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AMO

Paper bullets of the brain...

My Interests

Music:



In The Past Month: Bellini, Billie Holiday, Frank Black, Janacek, Morphine, My Morning Jacket, Edith Piaf, Sparklehorse, Sunday's Coming, Test Your Reflex, Velvet Underground...

Movies:

Recent Flics: The Lives of Others.
Fave little gems: After Life, All About My Mother, An Affair of Love, Bringing up Baby, Drole de Drame, Drowning by Numbers, La Lectrice, La Femme Nikita, The Thin Man, Wings of Desire.

All of dear Kieslowski.

Books:

Reading Now: Maeve Brennan:Homesick at the New Yorker by Angela Bourke.

Re-readable Authors: Akhmatova, Djuna Barnes, Barthes, Anne Carson, Leonora Carrington, Cixous, Lydia Davis, Carol Ann Duffy, Duras, Homer, Mina Loy, Kristeva, Kundera, Carole Maso, Nabokov, Saramongo, Sexton, Sontag, Szymborska, Tolstoy, Woolf.

My Blog

Bibliography for Community Forum on Women and the History of Fertility

The following bibliography accompanies our discussion about the history of women and fertility, yet far more is available on the topic. If you would like additional information, please feel free to c...
Posted by AMO on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:20:00 PST

Community Forum on the History of Women’s Fertility

  Quite often, the prevailing understanding of fertility resides in the Almighty Pill: that tiny, colored daily, so magnanimously given to us through the outspoken brilliance of modern m...
Posted by AMO on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:44:00 PST

Just for the record -

Screw Executive Privilege!
Posted by AMO on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:03:00 PST

Celebrating my Third in Chicago.

From one frigid, January to the next, today marks the end of my third year in Chicago! And despite the misery we call winter, I am happily celebrating my anniversary with the Midwest. As Jefferson not...
Posted by AMO on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:46:00 PST

The Art of Change: Education v. Incarceration at Old Town

Last year the Human Rights Watch Org. and Amnesty International declared the United States prison system to be one of the worst in the world. The U.S. "incarcerates more people (2.3 million with 53% ...
Posted by AMO on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 03:03:00 PST

Fly me to the Moon

As a Wooster Collective devotee, I have been particularly charmed by the Fly me to the Moon project that was posted on the site a month or so ago. Here is the story as given. "Yesterday, Nico woke up ...
Posted by AMO on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:03:00 PST

"Alice in Bed" at the Trapdoor Theatre

Thanks to my friend Becky, I recently renewed my interest in the work of Susan Sontag, and over the holidays went to the Brooklyn Museum to see the Annie Leibovitz exhibition that includes many brea...
Posted by AMO on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:12:00 PST

A review of randomness from the past week or so.

Loudness does not exist in the world; it only exists in the mind. A four-year-old laughs on average five hundred times a day while adults only laugh fifteen. "Don't be afraid of death, so much as an...
Posted by AMO on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:33:00 PST

Winter Months Ahead

So, being the true angel of optimism that is me .. no derisive laughter please - I have compiled the Winter List of True Happiness and Joy, with many thanks and great appreciation to all the lovely, ...
Posted by AMO on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:40:00 PST