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Patty O'Furniture

I am here for Friends

About Me

I sing from the diaphragm and laugh from the belly.

My Interests

Children. Music. Words. Minutiae of Popular Culture. Reproductive Health, Choice, and Justice for ALL. World Peace.

Music:

Yes! That's why I'm here.

Movies:

Jesus Camp. Jebus!

Television:

Can't wait for my Flight of the Conchords DVD to arrive.

Books:

Sacred Choices: The Right to Contraception and Abortion in Ten World Religions by Daniel C. Maguire, Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics, by Jennifer Baumgardner, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens, Circle Round: Raising Children in Goddess Traditions, by Starhawk, Diane Baker, Anne Hill

My Blog

...try to catch the deluge in a paper cup...

This is what happens when you don't blog on a regular basis. If I had been blogging every time I thought had something to blog about, I might have written:   A synopsis of my Masters thesis, fi...
Posted by Patty O'Furniture on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:27:00 PST

Yell Fire

Fire imagery is used with great creative and emotional effect in Michael Franti's current release, Yell Fire, and in his documentary film I Know I'm Not Alone, which I watched for the first ...
Posted by Patty O'Furniture on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:53:00 PST

Love is Real!

25 years ago, I woke up in my girlhood bed in eastern Long Island, New York, to hear my dad saying, "Your friend John Lennon died." I was 9. It was cold. I was devastated, and didn't want to get out o...
Posted by Patty O'Furniture on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 05:25:00 PST

babyproof my heart

there's nothing safe about this life...(Neil Finn) We're off to the beach for a few weeks, and I've been having an ongoing phone discussion with my mother about babyproofing the rental house so it wil...
Posted by Patty O'Furniture on Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:58:00 PST

the last time I saw Vassar

The last time I saw Vassar Clements was July 30, 2004, at the Orange Peel in Asheville, North Carolina. Vassar was participating in The BlueBrass Project, a collaboration between Appalachian blue...
Posted by Patty O'Furniture on Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:30:00 PST

bloggety blog blog

What good is a blog if I never have time to write? Daughter's favorite track on The Old Gray Whistle Test dvd: Alice Cooper. (They are namesakes, of a sort.) Least favorite: The Edgar Winter Group. "F...
Posted by Patty O'Furniture on Wed, 17 Aug 2005 04:58:00 PST

genetic predisposition for geekdom

Everybody's born knowing all the Beatles lyrics instinctively. They're passed into the fetus subconsciously along with all the amniotic stuff. Fact, they should be called "The Fetals". (Sliding Doors)...
Posted by Patty O'Furniture on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

this one goes to eleven

This month, in addition to being the tenth Death-iversary of Jerry Garcia, marks ten years since I met my husband on rec.music.beatles. And also means that it's been ten years since I first had I...
Posted by Patty O'Furniture on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST