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Lisa

Deathly Hallows: you are setting too much store by the prophecy.

About Me


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I'm working on a campaign to get Santa Barbara on SOAPnet! Want to buy a bracelet? The idea is you buy two, one for yourself and one for you to mail to SOAPnet.
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Ummm... I'm in a movie :)
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"Implicit in the term 'national defense' is the notion of defending those values andideas which set this Nation apart.... It would indeed be ironic if, in the name ofnational defense, we would sanction the subversion of...those liberties...which makesthe defense of the Nation worthwhile." --Justice Warren, US v. Robel, 389 US 258 (1967) as cited in the Wiretap Ruling,8/17/2006, by Anna Diggs Taylor, US District Judge:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/ wiretap_ruling.pdf
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. -- Agatha Christie

My Interests

Concerts, genealogy, secular humanism , books, bootlegging, archaeology, grammar, vegetarianism, photography

I'd like to meet:

Living: J.K. Rowling
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Living (and alone in a dark room): Daniel Radcliffe, Angelina Jolie, Kate Winslet, Jon Bon Jovi
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Dead: Agatha Christie, Charles Darwin, Douglas Adams (I'm still kicking myself for not going to see Douglas at the San Francisco Atheist Alliance convention back in 2000...)

Music:

Folk, Tori Amos, Kristi Martel, Barbara Kessler, Ellis Paul, Mark Erelli, Jason Mraz, Matt Nathanson, Beth Amsel, Kris Delmhorst, Allette Brooks, Richard Shindell, Indigo Girls, Dar Williams, Sam Shaber, Michelle Malone, Edie Carey, Rose Polenzani, Rose Cousins, Jess Klein, Lucy Kaplansky, Concrete Blonde, Melissa Etheridge, Patty Griffin, Antje Duvekot, Charlotte Martin, Beth Wood, Chris Pureka, Barry Manilow

Movies:

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Saturday the 14th, Clue, Dangerous Liaisons, The Seventh Seal, Thelma and Louise, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Titanic, Shakespeare in Love, American Beauty, Bram Stoker's Dracula (Coppola), Yogi's First Christmas, Heathers, The Goonies, Heart of the Beholder

Television:

Santa Barbara, Moonlighting, My So-Called Life, The X-Files, 24, Law and Order, The Daily Show, Without a Trace, The Closer

Books:

In Libris Libertas: Everything by Agatha Christie, JK Rowling, Douglas Adams, Sylvia Plath, Barbara Kingsolver, Bertrand Russell, Richard Dawkins, Charles Darwin, Alice Walker, Harley Jane Kozak. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin is probably my all-time favorite book. Books rule :)

Heroes:

Ken Tipton, writer/director of Heart of the Beholder Emily Lyons, Birmingham Bombing Survivor, Richard Dawkins, Paul Kurtz, Al Gore, Albus Dumbledore and Harry James Potter

My Blog

Nineteen years later...

Flashback... nineteen years... my bedroom, Sherwood Meadows, not drunk, but equally crazy... a dance or some stupid event... my poor sister and Jen who thought it was their fault, thought they talked ...
Posted by Lisa on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:06:00 PST

No vote left behind?

Welcome to California... the home of the "modified" closed primary system. What does that mean?  That means in California you can "decline to state" your party affiliation being the bad-ass indep...
Posted by Lisa on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:04:00 PST

I’m not mad....

I'm fucking livid. Or, alternatively titled, Why I love Southwest Airlines and Why All Other Airlines Totally Fucking Suck: How do I love thee, Southwest? Let me count the ways... first, you always le...
Posted by Lisa on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:43:00 PST

Hilary’s Obituary

I thought it would be nice to post Hilary's obituary. 1984-2007 Hilary Rebecca Swaffield Hilary Rebecca Swaffield, 23, passed away suddenly on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007, in Wolfeboro. She was born ...
Posted by Lisa on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:19:00 PST

Suicide and depression

In Memoriam: Hilary Swaffield My first cousin hung herself last night at the family dock on Lake Winnipesaukee.  My sister called me this morning after talking to my mom, who'd just talked to her...
Posted by Lisa on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:36:00 PST

In Memoriam: Ingmar Bergman

Tonight we raise a glass of merlot to Ingmar Bergman.  Funny, since I was just thinking about The Seventh Seal while reading the Deathly Hallows and the Tale of the Three Brothers and The Forest ...
Posted by Lisa on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:40:00 PST

Deathly Hallows (no spoilers)

J.K. Rowling is the most amazing person on the planet. I finished the book an hour ago and my heart is still pounding. When I first heard about the Harry Potter books and the fascination people had w...
Posted by Lisa on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:48:00 PST

I don't need no stinking gall bladder....

Alas, the time has come to bid a fond farewell to my gall bladder and my gallstones... The surgery went off without a hitch, other than the fact that there are no secular hospitals left in the US and...
Posted by Lisa on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:02:00 PST

My Posse Can Do

So I typed a real review to ADP for the Precious Things mailing list last night and had just finished it when my computer decided to spontaneously shut down. So it's gone... but maybe that's ok becaus...
Posted by Lisa on Fri, 04 May 2007 10:05:00 PST

Victory is an elusive whore.

American Doll Posse (Reprise) I stick by my earlier "eclectic" comment, although ADP is definitely growing on me. It's probably going to end up being my least favorite Tori cd, but it's not bad... it ...
Posted by Lisa on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:51:00 PST