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About Me

I really love dogs and french fries. For different reasons entirely.

My Interests

wandering, traveling, shooting (mostly motion, but still's good too), writing, arguing, theorizing, chilling, laughing, walking, swimming, being crazy (unconventional, not psychotic), and learning to play la trompeta. French, Spanish, Russian, and English, though not necessarily in that order. The Oxford comma.

I'd like to meet:

Wacky people, fellow southpaws, people with a wicked (and preferably terribly inappropriate) sense of humour, irreverent grownups, disenchanted academics, political artists, anticapitalists, and most any flavour of social thinker. People who want to make clever, insightful, and super politically charged films with me. Or audio docs. Or who just wanna tear up this city in style.

Music:

still boycotting the RIAA, but...

What I've been listening to these days: Lila Downs! ReggaetÃ³n, Pink Martini, various Buena Vista Social Club kids...

Movies:

Political: Est/Ouest, Burnt by the Sun, Aimee & Jaguar...
Clever and/or whacked: The House of Yes, Jeux d'enfants...
Funny: Office Space, Vacation, Best in Show...
Classics: Gotcha, Ferris Bueller's Day Off...
Flat-out fabulous: Wonder Boys, Waking Life, Stand and Deliver...

Television:

TV: Reno 911, Seinfeld, The L Word, Arrested Development
Radio: Didn't you mean to ask me about radio? This American Life, of course!!!
[Ira! I miss you! Come to Canada and make a new show with me!!!]

Books:

Titles: Black Boy, The Cheese Monkeys, Woman on the Edge of Time, A Girl in Parts, Push...
Nerdy names: Foucault, Marx, Bourdieu, Ewick & Silbey...

Heroes:

Heroes? How about people I love to listen to these days: Ira Glass! Margaret Cho!

My Blog

--> A.J. Palmer, you’re my hero!!

I'm sorry I'm late, A.J., but a couple weeks ago you wrote the most fabulous letter to the editor that I've ever seen (aside from my own, of course). For those of you who missed it, it starts like th...
Posted by Liberty on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:03:00 PST

--> ¡¿Revolución?!

¡¿Revolución?!: The MovieThere's nothing wrong with finding inspiration in silly places like a newspaper article about a guy giving away free copies of Don Quixote, but if you're going to make a docu...
Posted by Liberty on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:34:00 PST

--> SiCKO (work in progress)

Kudos to Michael Moore for a dead-on indictment of the disaster that is America's health care system. Is his evidence often anecdotal? Yes. Are his comparisons to other systems at times exaggerated...
Posted by Liberty on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:35:00 PST

--> Montréal

I'm for it.
Posted by Liberty on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:57:00 PST

--> SkyMall has really done it this time

For really reals:Breakfix® Cereal DispenserWith the automatic Breakfix® Cereal Dispenser, fixing the day's first meal will never again be a messy, time consuming chore. Breakfix® uses the same princi...
Posted by Liberty on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:05:00 PST

--> Yeah, it's really like that (Canada, that is) No. 2

So I'm on the sidewalk headed to my friend's house one night, and she starts telling me that she usually walks in the middle of the street when she goes home at night. I'm like, dude, I SO know what ...
Posted by Liberty on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:35:00 PST

--> Yeah, it's really like that (Canada, that is) No. 1

Just freaking imagine it: evening time, it's dark and cold out, and all the little neighbor kids have donned their hockey jerseys bearing the name of their favorite player and are out on the local ic...
Posted by Liberty on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:11:00 PST

--> Canadian/American dictionary

You think English is English? Think again!! If you're an American, try getting a Canadian to understand concepts like "free checking." If you're a Canadian, try to get an American to figure out wha...
Posted by Liberty on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 05:18:00 PST

--> Are you a subway nerd? (GAME!!)

We know who you are: You dance all over the city, up and down the trendy streets, on and off the TTC, thinking you're the coolest cat around. But sometimes, and we all know it's true, you get caught...
Posted by Liberty on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:21:00 PST

--> I mean, I love Canada, but... (No. 3)

...do you think you could stop paying me half as much and charging me double? Just a thought.
Posted by Liberty on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:45:00 PST