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About Me

Freelance writer/poet and, for the most part, a pretty good girl. Used to be a personal chef. Used to have my own catering business. Used to be a political organizer. Used to be a lobbyist. Used to be a manners columnist. Used to run a women's publishing collective. Used to get paid to decorate people houses. Used to get paid to clean people's houses. Used to manage a breakfast cafe for the homeless. Used to be a Buddhist. Used to think I was nothing and nobody. Used to think I was the best and the brightest. And here's the worst one of all - when Galipoli first came out, I used to admire Mel Gibson. Shishhhh.........that's a big secret.Now I'm happy to read a good book, watch a good video, dance in my kitchen while I do the dishes, enjoy the company of peeps because we love each other for who we really are and jam, jam, jam on the incredible vastness, beauty, possibility and foot stompin' mystery of the night sky.Oh yeah, it's nice to get paid every once and a while for a good day's work, too. God willin'.love. love. love.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Music. Cooking. Perception. Verve. Communication. Book Making. Wit. Poems. Decency. Activism. Art. the Soul. Suffering. Joy. Why. Hello.

I'd like to meet:

Other people who create things, want to do good things in the world & who don't take themselves too darn seriously.

Music:

Richard Thompson. "X". Knitters. Steve Earle. Velvet Underground & related. Uncle Tupelo. Alejandro Escoveda. One Ring Zero. Gillian Welch. Glenn Gould. Nina Simone. Warren Zevon. Boister. Wayne Shorter. Wilco. Tom Waits. Magnetic Fields. John Prine. Joni Mitchell. Charles Mingus. Waterboys. Van Morrison. Bob Dylan. Talking Heads. Keith Jarrett. David Lindley. Bruce Cockburn. Pixies.Coltrane. Neko Case. Lucinda Williams. Kevin Gordon. Dexter Gordon. Whiskeytown. Cash. They Might Be Giants. Ben Vaughn. Pogues. The Replacements. Elvis Costello. Nick Drake. Nick Cave. Doc Watson. Chet Baker. Ellington. Ornette Coleman. Howard Markman. Paul Simon. Lucinda Williams. Ry Cooder. Jonathan Richman. Ella. Neville Brothers. The Mayflies. Partridge Family. New Pornagraphers. The Shins. Kinks. Robert Johnson. The Mayflies. Jack Redell. Marvin Gaye.

Movies:

Sophie Scholl. The Last Temptation of Christ. Momento. Rushmoore. Ali. The Graduate. Thirty-two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Go Ask Alice. Impromptu. Velvet Goldmine. The Last Waltz. The Long Riders. The Station Agent. The Life and Times of Harvey Milk. Boogie Nights. The Conversation. Roger Dodger. Rushmoore. Magnolia. The Incredible Mr. Limpet. Mindwalk.

Television:

Never watch it. Not out of any moral or philosophical convictions mind you (although I admit to being one such killjoy in the past.) Presently, I live downtown in a building with very thick walls and absolutely no reception. If I got anything it would be PBS and I'd rather catch Seinfeld, Simpsons and King of the Hill reruns.

Books:

Never learned how to read because I grew up in the South.

Heroes:

Jane Goodall. Bill Moyers. Rosa Parks. Cesar Chavez. William Stafford. Kenneth Roth. Jane Miller. Helen Prejean. Jeffrey Wigan. Reuben Carter, Cynthia Rowley. Stephanie Pitter. Martin Luther King, Jr. Emma Goldman, Kendra Kopelke. Gov. George Ryan. Emily Dickinson ("I dwell in possibility a fairer house than prose..."). Emma White. Dorothy Day. Nanci Griffith for writing the song "It's a Hard Life". Edward R. Murrow. Maira Kalman. Pagan Kennedy. Lucy Grealy (left her shoes and cares behind). Dianne White. Lib Noles. Richard Thompson. Jocelyn Elders. Dennis Kucinich. Noam Chomsky. Howard Zinn, on and on and on.

My Blog

Kozol y Costello

Despite the turn south in temperature, it's going to be a good week to get out in the pm. in Iowa City. Tuesday evening, public education and anti-poverty activist/writer, Jonathan Kozol will be read...
Posted by meg white on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:53:00 PST

Worlds Greatest Grilled Cheese

With the respitory plague that's been sweeping Iowa it's probably a bit irresponsible of me to finally be taking the time to post this recipe. Consuming dairy is a pretty poor idea whe...
Posted by meg white on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:28:00 PST

Robotic Behemoths

Imagine, in only twenty years........ Popular Movements Can Confront Corporate Power and Win By Michael Marx and Marjorie Kelly, YES! Magazine By the by, YES! maga...
Posted by meg white on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:42:00 PST

You Have No Rights

Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive and author of You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression, will be reading at Prairie Lights tonight at 7pm. Any of you who...
Posted by meg white on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:12:00 PST

Campaign Reporter Quiz Answers

Here's how to score your answers: 0-5 correct. Cub. Give it a few years. You are not yet ready for the trail. 6-15 correct. Up-and-comer. Occasional campaign bus rides allowed. 16-25 correct. Trail...
Posted by meg white on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:34:00 PST

All Elite Reporters...

Introducing the ACTAT, the secret test all elite reporters must pass before they can hit the 2008 trail. By Michael Scherer (Salon.com) Aug. 16, 2007 | Get out from behind that computer! Stop w...
Posted by meg white on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:45:00 PST

Measure Your Foot

Below is a link from Redefining Progress which measures ones "ecological footprint." I just took it and I'm sadly humbled. I do not own a car, rarely eat flesh, recycle, use public transpo...
Posted by meg white on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:05:00 PST

In Coal Blood

Think before (or after) you weep, America. -meg In coal blood The tragedy unfolding in Utah says mountains about America's abuse of coal miners, the land they work -- and our government's crave...
Posted by meg white on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:37:00 PST

shopping jj

FEEDBACK FROM JAMES JOYCE'S SUBMISSION OF ULYSSES TO HIS CREATIVE-WRITING WORKSHOP. by TEDDY WAYNE - - - - Great opening hook, but do you need 96-point Garamond for the S? Kind of feels like you...
Posted by meg white on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:28:00 PST

Its Already 7.3 Million & I Like It

Word is, publishing companies are waving obscene amounts of money at Keith Richards, hoping to secure the rights to the Rolling Stone guitarist's autobiography. Reported offers for Richards have rise...
Posted by meg white on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:24:00 PST