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Grace

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About Me

i'm a neo-hippie bleeding-heart community-minded tree-hugging activist

My Interests

life . stories . music . right now ...
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I'd like to meet:

to give a swift kick in the pants to ...

Music:

everything i can dance to

Movies:

whatever skillfully, imaginatively, and convincingly suspends my disbelief

Television:

HEROES! ("I need a HIRO!") The Daily Show. The Colbert Report. Naked Science. Mythbusters. The Dog Whisperer. National Geographic. Discovery. Bravo. Comedy Central.

Books:

The Master and Margarita
Atlas Shrugged
Welcome to the Monkey House
Stranger in a Strange Land
Cat's Cradle
100 Years of Solitude
The House on Mango Street
The Tao of Physics
Where the Sidewalk Ends
On the Road
Breakfast at Tiffany's
1984
Animal Farm
The Tipping Point
Blink
Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Cancion Desesperada
...all poetry

Heroes:

life-loving, com/passionate people who take toe-curling pleasure in dragging the kicking, screaming world closer to conquering the impossible ... and do it without desire for glory.

My Blog

Ashes, Ashes, They All Fall Down ...

Yet another Republican drops out of the game: Former Speaker of the House Congressman J. Dennis Hastert announced he won't seek re-election in 2008. They're dropping like flies (I guess that's wh...
Posted by Grace on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:09:00 PST

Karl Rove: Say It Aint So!

GREAT - just what Texas needed: Karl "Bush's Brain/Turd Blossom" Rove is leaving DC and "moving on down the road" (more like sliding down the slippery slope in eel-like fashion) to Texas. Couldn't he ...
Posted by Grace on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:43:00 PST

For anyone into film ...

From the Houston Film Commission (http://www.houstonfilmcommission.com/), new incentives for film/video makers:Whether it's a still shoot, music video, commercial, or feature film, Houston has the res...
Posted by Grace on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:42:00 PST

Remembering Vincent Chin

It's been 25 years since Vincent Chin's brutal murder by Detroit autoworkers who blamed their woes on Asian imports, and subsequently on Asian Americans ... instead of on the Chrysler honchos who thou...
Posted by Grace on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:54:00 PST

L.A. : VC FilmFest

VC FilmFest is an annual production of Visual Communications, the nation's premier Asian Pacific American media arts center. The National Museum and the National Center for the Preservation of Democra...
Posted by Grace on Fri, 11 May 2007 04:41:00 PST

L.A. : APA Book Festival

"Democracy begins with ideas," says Stewart Kwoh, president and executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC). "And these ideas are expressed through words, either spoken or wr...
Posted by Grace on Fri, 11 May 2007 06:33:00 PST

L.A. : MIGRATION STUDY

May 10, 2007 MIGRATION STUDY: Studies of moving art, moving lands, moving bodies, moving voices, moving minds. Phantom Galleries of Los Angeles is pleased to present Migration Study, a group exhibiti...
Posted by Grace on Fri, 11 May 2007 06:09:00 PST

VC FilmFest : NEW CLIMATE

These documentaries raised some really interesting questions: What do we value most? How are those values created? How do we define and develop a sense of "home"? The introduction and speaker moderati...
Posted by Grace on Fri, 11 May 2007 04:59:00 PST

Kurt is up in Heaven now.

Kurt Vonnegut was a Humanist. He believed people were put on this planet simply "to fart around." In his 2005 book, "A Man Without a Country" he made a special request: "And if I should ever die, God ...
Posted by Grace on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:44:00 PST

Why I'll never buy from Walmart ...

While there are so many terrific reasons why I'll never give Walmart a single cent, here are my favorites:1. Walmart's recruitment of Andrew Young, former U.N. Ambassador and alleged civil rights lead...
Posted by Grace on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:49:00 PST