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About Me

Moved to the UK in 2001 and haven't looked back yet, except to miss the people I love.
Still the same punk chick I ever was. Only fatter and with grey hair--Ouch!
Still the same bookworm I ever was, only now I have an "important" job (yeah, right) so I don't get to read that often.
I have written quite a few books, including Alternative and Activist Media and several on neuropsychiatric conditions, such as autism and Tourette syndrome. Click below to have a look:

Alternative media

Autism & Neuropsych

My Interests

Journalism, anarchism, politics in general, good books, good movies, live music (which I hardly ever get any of anymore!), making things...
... my kids and my granddaughter...

I'd like to meet:

... old friends online who wisely avoid MurdochSpaceÂ®:

* Tom Vague

* Ed Ivey

* Stewart Home

* Freddie Baer

* Jerod Poore

and Jaime Trujillo, where are you? All I can find is your shop . Kevin Chronic, I miss you too.

Music:

Download this:

"Lou Reed's Hair"--Angel Corpus Christi

Currently on the CD player:

The Clash, Wire, Patti Smith, The Jam, Cornershop, Angel Corpus Christi.

Movies:

Not in any particular order...
Harold and Maude, Ghost World, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Pump Up the Volume, Frida, Velvet Goldmine, Spirited Away, Jackie Brown, Pecker, Cecil B. Demented and pretty much all John Waters movies, Beau Travail, Car Wash, Fargo, High Fidelity, What to Do In Case of Fire, Repo Man, Ed Wood, Purely Belter, Strictly Ballroom, My Beautiful Launderette, SlapShot, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, Gangs of New York.
And documentaries, lots of them, too many to mention.

Television:

Don't have one, don't want one.

Books:

Yes, please, lots.
Best book I read last year: The Fortress of Solitude by Johnathan Lethem. Best book so far this year: Redemption Song (bio of Joe Strummer). Currently reading: A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

Heroes:

Volairine de Cleyre

Patti Smith

Pietro Ferrua

Frida Kahlo

Ian Schultz

and anyone else who loves life despite all the bullshit we all have to put up with, and loves humanity despite all the harm we do.

My Blog

revisionist punkrock history

Finally got around to reading "We Got the Neutron Bomb," an oral history version of LA punk rock. Not too bad really, it's always good to hear new versions of old stories (I had heard lots of these 1s...
Posted by Mitzi on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:23:00 PST

New Year's resolutions? Oh, why not.

Yep, I do it every year. Last year I pledged to learn to knit. I managed that but didn't learn how to also purl, without which you can't actually produce much of nothin'. So I think this year I shall ...
Posted by Mitzi on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 05:03:00 PST

Grumpy-ass day out

You know what it's like if you are reading this and are around my age. If you are younger, well, this is what it gets to be like. You don't realise it until there is someone with the two of you. See, ...
Posted by Mitzi on Sat, 13 May 2006 01:52:00 PST

Thinking of Patricide

No, not the action (I *like* my dad), the guy. "Patricide" (Pat) was a guy I went to Uni with in New Mexico. He was doing an art degree and (like art students everywhere) was into interesting music--I...
Posted by Mitzi on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 05:01:00 PST

B-o-r-e-d on a Friday night

It's Friday night, and can I tell you how bored I am? My partner's been watching Brittania Hospital and I couldn't even get into that (sequel to If). I have a good book on stuff that's under the groun...
Posted by Mitzi on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST