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About Me

And to this saga Gwen awoke, virtuous and naïve, prey for the societal wolves that pillage and plunder, discourage and distress, maim and mangle scraps of hope. They kiss her, they love her, they fuck her, they detest her. And with gristle lodged between teeth that cannot lie, they smile that gleaming white smile of champions at the world (and we fold).

My Interests

Ja, ich habe ein paar. German stuff; learning; whacky history; travel; outdoor adventure, like hiking, camping, rollerblading, softball, etc.; kickboxing; writing; reading; Malachi, my incredibly smart, sensitive, good-looking, hilarious, insightful son; my sensational friends.

I'd like to meet:

My Grandma Ella and her husband Big Ben; my suffragette great grandmother; MLK; Edgar Allan Poe; Heinrich Boll; Stephanie Miller; Bob Marley

Music:

Okay, I'm starting to work on a list, but it's always hard to single 'em out. Nathan Smith; Greg Beever; Bob Marley; Burning Spear; Cake; Jonathan Richman; Dresden Dolls; Nine Inch Nails; White Stripes; Buddy Guy; Led Zeppelin; The Doors; Van Morrison; Queen; Radiohead; Local Legend Willie Phoenix; Linkin Park; Violent Femmes; old Liz Phair; Red Hot Chili Peppers; Squirrel Nut Zippers; Jeff Buckley; The Smiths. I'm really starting to dig on The Black Keys!

Movies:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Clint Eastwood westerns; Forest Gump; The Lady Killers; Life Is Beautiful; Goodbye Lenin; Weimar era films (Germany used to be the Hollywood of the world); documentaries, etc.

Television:

History Channel, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, and I Love the 80's (please excuse the unparallel structure).

Books:

Heinrich Boll, Wolfgang Borchert, Brecht, and other German wartime giants; Kafka (ich bin Gregor); Al Franken satire (funny, funny guy!); Robert Fulgum; Edgar Allan Poe; E.E. Cummings; Nonfiction; Currently reading Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies...two pages at a time....just like I've been writing my novel - two pages at a time.

Heroes:

My mom (my mom's the one in radiation therapy cheering everyone else up. She's amazing, and I hope I can be half the woman she is.); my Grandma Ella, who raised two kids alone as the only single mother in town, working her ass off for a fraction of her male counterparts' salaries; FDR; MLK; Rosa Luxemberg; Victoria Woodhull; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; John Stewart (The Daily Show Rocks!); Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott; Stephanie Miller (listen to the Stephanie Miller Show M-F at 9 a.m. on Progressive 1230).

My Blog

Latest Freak Dream

The latest in a series of very strange dreams was about a visit to my parents' house. I was looking through my mom's cedar chest, where she keeps the baby pictures, year books, etc. when I found littl...
Posted by WMD on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:08:00 PST

My Agenda

So I just spoke with my mom and told her I've decided that I want to add a Fulbright scholarship to my list of life experiences. She told me that since I've verbalized it, I now need to say it to myse...
Posted by WMD on Thu, 04 May 2006 12:36:00 PST

Just the facts.

These are a few facts about Bush: First president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record. Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history. Cut the taxes of the wealthiest peo...
Posted by WMD on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:22:00 PST

IMPEACHMENT? HELL, NO. IMPALEMENT.

IMPEACHMENT? HELL, NO. IMPALEMENT.I don't know about you guys, but I am so sick and tired of these lying, thieving, holier- than- thou, right- wing, cruel, crude, rude, gauche, coarse, crass, cocky, c...
Posted by WMD on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:43:00 PST

Teeth Falling Out

Last night I had a dream that I lost all of my teeth one by one, starting with the molars, and ending with my two front teeth. There was no blood, and no one else was worried. I tried to hold them in ...
Posted by WMD on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:33:00 PST