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I am a freelance writer living in New York, New York and currently work with HIGH TIMES magazine and as poetry editor of an Oregon based alternative monthly, The Portland Alliance. Nomadic and socially active, I like running into as far out as people go. Personal freedoms are precious to me for the preservation of the pursuit of happiness, consciousness exploration, et al. In that spirit, my travels over the last few years have included beautiful Northern California, helping out Jack Herer (author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes) while working on a book of my own in the ever-inspiring Emerald Triangle summers. Other places to comprise the last decade were Portland (Oregon), Essen-Ketwig (Germany), Los Angeles, New Orleans, South Carolina, San Francisco, New Jersey, and now NEW YORK!

My Interests

Reading, writing, poetry, journalism, drug reform, police accountability, painting, gardening, dancing, laughing, bar/lounge anthropology, the beach, humans...

Music:

Yma Sumac, Spiritualized, Tom Waits, Louis Armstrong, Sigor Ros, Modest Mouse, John Cage, Erik Satie, Yo La Tengo, Bijork, Blur, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Chet Baker, Stereolab, Chicks on Speed, Fifty Foot Hose, White Noise, White Stripes, Verve, dEUS, Dylan, Elton John, De La Soul, Beastie Boys, Ween, Built to Spill, Electric Ladybugs, Morphine, Bob Marly, Damian Marly, the Stones, GRATEFUL DEAD... The list goes on.

Movies:

Winged Migration, Benny and Joon, City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, The Life Aquatic, Lost in Translation, Historie(s) du Cinema, The Red Dwarf, Deconstructing Harry, Donnie Darko, Drop Dead Fred, So I Married an Axe Murderer, The Triplets of Belleville, Breathless, Contempt, Annie Hall, Harold and Kumar, again, the list goes on.

Television:

Perry Mason, CNN, BBC, FOX, Stewart and Colbert, Smallville, SNL

Books:

One of my favorites is 'Art and Lies' by Jeanette Winterson, but I love the classics, the Beat writers, psychedelic influenced, contemporary writers, fantastic poetry, journalism... When I was a young girl, my tops were 'Weetzie Bats' and the 'Anne of Green Gables' series.

Heroes:

*Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.*, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Robbins, e.e. cummings, Tom Waits, Rosa Parks, Dave Mazza, Erik Satie, John Cage, Bill Murray, Sasha Shulgin, James Joyce, Jean-Luc Godard, etc.

My Blog

Drug Tests! Get Your Drug Tests! My HIGH TIMES story on the ONDCP Drug Testing Summit

Drug Tests! Get Your Drug Tests! Selling Schools on Random Drug Testing Programs at the ONDCP Summit By Mary Ought Six http://www.hightimes.com/ht/news/content.php?bid=475&aid =3...
Posted by Mary Ought Six on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:12:00 PST

A HIGH TIMES Valentine to Jack Herer, by me.

http://www.hightimes.com/ht/news/content.php?bid=438&aid =3 Posted today (2/14/07) on hightimes.com.
Posted by Mary Ought Six on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:12:00 PST

Lepp Freed from Charges After Feds Seize 32,512 Pot Plants! My continued HIGH TIMES coverage.

This is fantastic news. Eddy's Medicinal Gardens and all of the strong, willful, soulful people who populate it and the beautiful Northern Cali countryside have a special place in my heart, and&...
Posted by Mary Ought Six on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:15:00 PST

Comedy Gone Wrong at Nat Sherman's

I like to smoke. Being a long time smoker of fine herb and cigarettes, one of the highlights of moving to New York for me was the ability to visit the headquarters of Nat Sherman, located on 5th Avenu...
Posted by Mary Ought Six on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 03:02:00 PST

My dad in the news!

My dad was interviewed by a journalist local to the farming area where I grew up, and she put a video of the interview and a story about my family's store on the Web: http://www.co...
Posted by Mary Ought Six on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 06:17:00 PST

My Gererated Acronym

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Posted by Mary Ought Six on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:46:00 PST

Kerry smear campaign

As the tides ebb and flow in the arena of political media coverage, it is expected that each party will have different stances, will agree on a few major/minor points, and toot their own horns when th...
Posted by Mary Ought Six on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:03:00 PST

Queening Queens...

I found an apartment! Work is still going well; since finding out that I am a writer/editor, HR and my boss have been coming to me to proof documents before making them official. I like it....
Posted by Mary Ought Six on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:49:00 PST

'Buy the New Nov. HIGH TIMES' and 'How I'm Liking New York So Far'

Ok, so featured on the cover of this November '06 HT Magazine is a picture of the Kottonmouth Kings. Way cool band, so that's awesome, but let's up the ante. See the cover line they're pointing to? ...
Posted by Mary Ought Six on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 04:55:00 PST

New York Times and Los Angeles Times Editors defend our freedoms...

The following blurb was taken from an email update by mediabistro.com . The op-ed it refers to is on the New York Times and Los Angeles Times Web sites, but in case it is removed or be...
Posted by Mary Ought Six on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 01:40:00 PST