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Paula

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

i have my own portable soap box to go with my wall of rabble-rousing non-fiction. if you can be bothered, you can also see http://www.mobiletechunit.com for some really outdated details of my other lives.
Favorite rebel army: Eritrean People's Liberation Front from Hagere Eretra al-Dawla al-Iritra (a.k.a. the State of Eritrea) "With one hand we fight, and with the other we work" See my blog on Eritrean history called "Eritrea - Hope For Africa's Future"-- especially the sections titled "The Principle Of Self-Reliance" and "The Liberation Of Women Is The Foundation Of Our Revolution" Also read "Surrender or Starve : Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea" by Robert D. Kaplan. Although I gotta say the Zapatista are damned close.
OH! and fuck being attractive.

My Interests

Books, travel, books, film, books, snowboarding, books... sociocultural and international studies around areas of globalization, capitalism, sustainability, giving power back to the people, history... free land, straw houses, biodiesel, books, sleeping, books, drinking, books...

I'd like to meet:

My good twin

Music:

in alphabetical order: alien sex fiend, bauhaus, beastie boys, big black, birthday party, björk, david bowie, mr bungle, johnny cash, nick cave, christian death, circus contraption, crime and the city solution, discharge, the distillers, brian eno, flogging molly, flux of pink indians, foetus, the future sound of london, billie holliday, patsy cline, bill laswell, loretta lynn (in the 70s), mano chau, massive attack, meisce, glenn miller, misfits, new model army, the orb, peanut butter wolf, pogues, iggy pop, radiohead, rudimentary peni, st bushmill's choir, frank sinatra, sour mash hug band, dj spooky, rolling stones, the stooges, subhumans, jill tracy, underworld, uz jsme doma, tom waits, hank williams, woomwood, (damn... have to leave work. finish this later...)

Movies:

boondock saints, keep the river on your right, control room, brothers quay, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, snatch and lock, stock, two smoking barrels, underground (by emir kusturica-- thanks circus contraption for the recommend!), ronin, blade runner, the thin man, fight club, alien(s), clockwork orange, the lovely and candy-like jean-pierre jeunet, santa sangre (jodorowsky!!!), taxi driver, the cuckoo, control room, how to get ahead in advertising (richard e grant!), le femme nikita, lost boys of sudan, fear and loathing in las vegas, the deer hunter, any ol' coen bros film, big noise films, ghost in the shell, many other documentaries, blah, blah, blah...

Television:

fuck television. drug of the masses.

Books:

...fill my entire house. Mostly, I read non-fiction.

Heroes:

Robert Kaplan, Rebecca West and Big Noise Films

My Blog

Eritrea - Hope For Africa's Future

Eritrea - Hope for Africa's Future      The struggle of the Eritrean people against the annexation of Eritrea by Ethiopia more than 30 years ago developed into a liberation movemen...
Posted by Paula on Tue, 20 Sep 2005 02:33:00 PST

More Robert Kaplan: Development, not poverty, causes upheaval and terrorism.

February 23, 2002 Robert D. Kaplan, Author"Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos" Editor's Note:  We have edited the interview in this transcription for clarity and readability...
Posted by Paula on Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:08:00 PST

Robert Kaplan: The Coming Anarchy

Interview Robert Kaplan Fall 1999   ADM's Joe Sottile interviews Robert Kaplan, author of The Coming Anarchy, for Understanding Human Security   From America's Defense Monitor http://www.cdi...
Posted by Paula on Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:03:00 PST

what is it with penises? (for fuck's sake)

so. i'm sat here in bed. it's saturday night. i've blown off all my friends. in fact, i'm fired. and all for what? 1:30 am, can't even catch a cab downtown and meet them. by the way... not my faul...
Posted by Paula on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Oh, the trouble I've seen...

Me and national holidays... not so much. What is it, exactly? I thought it was just the biggies-- Christmas, Thanksgiving, both of which I injured my face, thanks very much. Maybe that's it. Holidays ...
Posted by Paula on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Favorite quotes

"A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone." --Jo Godwin The first winter rain And I shall be called Traveler --17th-century Japanese poet Basho "I cannot help but not...
Posted by Paula on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

IF YOU'RE A GUY IN YOUR MID-30'S, IT'S TOO EARLY FOR A MID-LIFE CRISIS.

so, what's with all of the guys i know in their 30's fucking 22 year-olds (give or take a year)? I'm talking pretty much ALL of them. Celeste and I were out with a group of about 10 fabulous ladies la...
Posted by Paula on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I WAS MESSED UP!!!

You know the deal... you're out, you have the BEST intentions of going home at a reasonable hour, eating dinner before hitting the liquor, or just plain keeping your hands to yourself and definitely i...
Posted by Paula on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Box (Paula Wood ©2001)

She never remembered anyone ever going to get the box, it would just magically appear from nowhere one summer morning, set up next to the brook that ran through the backyard. Mom said that it once hel...
Posted by Paula on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Super Sport by my friend Art Palmer 2001

January 1998's American Survivalist magazine contains an article explaining in detail how to ram a car off the road, as well as a companion piece on how to counteract such a ramming, if you are the ta...
Posted by Paula on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST