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Liz at Black Rose

I should be working instead of doing this...

About Me


Freelance journalist, medical writer, health educator, amateur historian. Anarchist, activist, street medic. Glad to be my own boss and keep as weird a nocturnal schedule as I want. Chronic procrastinator. Voracious reader. Working class with an "elite" education. Technophile. Computer geek since the early '80s. Rootless and restless. Old-school punk. Cynical...but with a seemingly unquenchable glimmer of idealism.

For more, see www.black-rose.com

My Interests



Journalism, photography, activism, politics, anarchism, civil liberties, emergency medicine, computers/Internet, tattoos, skiing, travel, tai chi, yoga, engaged Buddhism, beagles

I'd like to meet:


Radical activist/anarchist/punk women over 40...and anyone else interesting.

Music:

Old hardcore, 7 Seconds, Agnostic Front, Angry Samoans, Anti-Flag, Anti-Nowhere League, Bad Religion, Black Flag, Chron Gen, Clash, Damned, Dead Boys, Descendents, D.O.A., Dropkick Murphys, Elvis Costello, Lords of the New Church, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, NoFX, Pretenders, Ramones, REM, Sex Pistols, Social Distortion, Stiff Little Fingers, Stranglers, Suicidal Tendencies, Talking Heads, Throbbing Gristle, TSOL, Velvet Underground, X, Zydeco

Movies:

A Clockwork Orange, American History X, Blue Velvet, Gegen die Wand (Head-On), Last Exit to Brooklyn, Liquid Sky, Nightmare Before Christmas, Repo Man, Run Lola Run, Trainspotting, The Corporation, stuff by Pedro Almodovar, Kenneth Anger, Richard Kern, Radley Metzger

Books:

Most non-fiction (politics, history, philosophy, biography, technology, travel), some science fiction and cyberpunk, Isaac Asimov, Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, Patrick Califia, Noam Chomsky, William Gibson, Allen Ginsberg, Emma Goldman, Donna Haraway, Douglas Hofstadter, Ursula LeGuin, Lydia Lunch, George Orwell, Carol Queen, Wilhelm Reich, Jeremy Rifkin, Bruce Sterling

My Blog

Save Boston!

Fun game, especially if you've ever lived there.Save Boston!
Posted by Liz at Black Rose on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:37:00 PST

New Orleans/Common Ground

Damn, I'm lame about getting around to posting stuff here.Here are some photos from New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and the work of the Common Ground Collective (www.commongroundrelief.o...
Posted by Liz at Black Rose on Tue, 09 May 2006 09:52:00 PST

India Photos - Finally!

I finally put up my photos from India. See:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/liz_at_blackrose/sets/724 189">www.flickr.com/photos/liz_at_blackrose/sets/724189&l t;/a> Just click on the f...
Posted by Liz at Black Rose on Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:53:00 PST

Observations from India (Part 2 - Dharamsala)

My plan to post frequent observations has not come to pass...there's so much to see here, and the Internet connections are so poor, that I'm not spending much time in front of the keyboard. But ther...
Posted by Liz at Black Rose on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Observations from India (Part 1 - Delhi)

Delhi is exceedingly interesting, though overwhelming too. Even though one knows intellectually that many of the people here are extremely poor, it's a completely different experience to see it firs...
Posted by Liz at Black Rose on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Cool nature near San Francisco (elephant seals)

One thing to love about the Bay Area, you don't have to go very far outside the city to find some beautiful and interesting nature. Today I went to see the elephant seal colony at Ano Nuevo State R...
Posted by Liz at Black Rose on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

SpongeBob, Evil Gay Heathen

Another installment from my favorite columnist, Mark Morford, from the San Fancisco Chronicle: SpongeBob, Evil Gay Heathen: How sad to be a right-wing Christian in a world full of homo cartoons a...
Posted by Liz at Black Rose on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Report from Jan. 22 San Francisco pro-choice demonstration

My IndyMedia coverage of the January 22 pro-choice demonstration in San Francisco: http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/1709528.php
Posted by Liz at Black Rose on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Post-election thoughts

Bleh...the recent election results have left me profoundly cynical. Are people idiots, or what? I'd be happier knowing the election was stolen than believing a majority of the voting population actual...
Posted by Liz at Black Rose on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Social Distortion show

After all these years, these guys still put on a great show. Nice mix of old stuff and new material from "Sex, Love & Rock 'n' Roll." I can remember playing Social D on my college radio show in the ea...
Posted by Liz at Black Rose on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST