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Renée

Done gradiated. Yahooo!!!

About Me

Substitute teacher/research historian/photographer/landscape designer
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My Interests

What doesn't interest me right now?!
1.My everchanging daughter.
2.Philosophical discussions with Macladac on Myspace.
3.Traveling on Google Earth.
4. Reading history books.
5. Fun, weird stuff from Just Kids Nostalgia (ask Gerald about his new fish pictures).
6. Wikipedia
7. My three wacky cats and my sweet dog.
8. The peaceable nature found in my backyard (Sciadopitys anyone?)
9. Hanging out with my friends and family from the UUFH
10.Staying in hotel suites for FREE!

I'd like to meet:


The Pixies at Stache's (Ya been there), Columbus, Ohio March 1988

Music:


Here we go. Random artists selected from my iPod:
The Essex Green, Joni Mitchell, Stereolab, World Party (not so much any more), Nirvana, Elvis Costello, The Bevis Frond, The Weakerthans, The Chills, Talking Heads, Sonny Boy Williamson, Wild Cherry (how's that for a wild card?!), Engineers, Beck, Led Zeppelin (gotta rock sometime), Them, Death Cab For Cutie, Pixies, Doves, The Beatles (my first love), Love, The Ramones (thanks Matt!), Matthew Sweet, The Velvet Underground, Old School Freight Train, Simon & Garfunkel, David Poe (great blogger too!), The Posies, Muddy Waters, Sam Phillips, The Monochrome Set, The Hang Ups, Greg Brown (when is Dylan going to show up on this shuffle thing?), The Clash, Keane, Gang of Four, Orange Juice, The Beat, Bob Dylan (there!), The Who, The Beach Boys (come on, Smile!), Hope Sandoval, Big Star, Donovan, (bettin' on Loudon Wainwright III next...), Cat Stevens, Freedy Johnston, The Saints, Madeleine Peyroux, Sufjan Stevens, ZZ Top (hey, how'd THAT get in there?), Brazilian Girls, Belle & Sebastian, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Richard Thompson, XTC, Marshall Crenshaw, The Soft Boys, The Flaming Lips, Wilco, The Cure, Todd Rundgren, Great Plains (I can stop now). Thanks iPod.

Movies:

Most recently: The Beautiful Mind, The Departed

Television:

Guilty pleasure: Project Runway: I'm happy for Jeffrey. Laura was just too much of a b--ch!

Books:

1491 by Charles C. Mann; any sort of revisionist American history right now.

Heroes:

Those with an open mind, heretics, UU's, college professors, people who do what they love to make a living.

My Blog

Renee's Rock-n-Roll Photo Showcase At the Gallery Upstairs!!!

Hey there everybody, I hope ya'll can make it out to the Surly Girl in Columbus this Saturday to check out my Rock-n-Roll photo showcase. It'll be at the Gallery Upstairs from 6-10 PM. Join us for b...
Posted by Renée on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 02:55:00 PST

Great streaming vintage concert website - WooHoo!!!

I'm listening to The Clash doing Police and Thieves live at the Cleveland Agora in '79 right now. Pretty awesome! Go to: http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/ Renee...
Posted by Renée on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:33:00 PST

Musings about the interconnected web of which we are all a part

Awhile back, I was having a conversation with my friend Evelyn about her roses. She was having a problem with bugs that were chewing holes in the leaves and asked me what she could use to stop insec...
Posted by Renée on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:30:00 PST

Here we go again...

I know it's early in the day but stories like this make me nervous about whether it's possible to have a clean election these days.Renee(story accessed from:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061107/ap_on_e...
Posted by Renée on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:52:00 PST

Ohio: The Purple State

For governor: Strickland has qualities needed to promote cooperation, progress Sunday, October 08, 2006 Ohio is falling behind in jobs, education and optimism. It has been riven by bitter and close...
Posted by Renée on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:41:00 PST

1980Something: The Columbus Art and Indie Music scene

1980Something A look at the 1980s Columbus Art and Indie Music scene.* The Invisible Gallery219 King Ave.Columbus, OH614-327-2793 October 13,14, and 15, hours 12 to 5 October 16 to 22, ...
Posted by Renée on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:23:00 PST

Stupid, Psychopathic, Hallucinating Dictator!!!

A description of George W. Bush? Osama Bin Laden? Heck, Adolph Hitler??? Nope. No, these are the endearing terms that my 13 year old calls me when she's in a good mood. There should be a warning label...
Posted by Renée on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:15:00 PST

The latest on the South Dakota abortion bill

From the New Yorker OnlineUnfortunately, the magazine does not archive its articles on line, so check out at the full story at your local library. This was from an online interview with the author:A C...
Posted by Renée on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:32:00 PST

cribbed form my politically astute friend kiely...

There are two different pieces here, Arthur Magazine talking to Godsmack (whose album is No. 1 on the charts) about the uses of music, and the Universal National Service Act of 2006 proposed by Charle...
Posted by Renée on Sun, 14 May 2006 06:23:00 PST

Relativity and Activism

Catagory: Really just plain bulls--t. (There are teens out there, after all.)  The song is only in my head. So many of those dissed songs of the 70's are part of my history like it or not: Fool f...
Posted by Renée on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 09:26:00 PST