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About Me

BTW, I may be older than 50 -- I lose track. I also lose track of car keys. And no, it's not an old photo. I'm just well preserved. I blame cyclamates. Okay, maybe 20 years clean and sober has something to do with it, but I'm going with the artificial sweetener.
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I also have a new book: DOING ORIGAMI WEARING MITTENS: How to Write for Television... and Survive. Info at http://www.ethlieannvare.com
That's my pitch. What's yours? Band? Comedy club? Remember when we used to use this thing for meeting actual people? What ever happened to Friendster, anyway?

My Interests

scuba diving, horseback riding, travel, science fiction, independent film and music.

I'd like to meet:

Fellow writers. Fellow divers. Someone with knowledge of Secret Truths.

Music:

Pogues, Waterboys, Juluka, Midnight Oil, Mozart, Bach, Etta James, Yaz, Gershwin (only Ira, not George)

Movies:

It Happened One Night, All That Jazz, City of Lost Children, The (original) Terminator

Television:

The F/X and Comedy Central line-ups, mostly. My Tivo thinks I'm a teenaged boy.

Books:

Margaret Atwood, Andrew Vachss, Michael Connolly, Molly Ivans

Heroes:

Smith and Wilson, Lady Mary Montague, Russell Alexander

My Blog

The Weather Is Broken. Get Used To It.

As I bundle up against another blustery Vancouver morning in Southern California, and listen to the radio marvel at the spring-like day the primary voters in New Hampshire are enjoying, I wonder -- wh...
Posted by Ethlie on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:08:00 PST

IT’S ALIVE! IT’S ALIVE!

I spent New Year's Eve drinking vegetable juice and meditating. That's just the kind of hippie chick I am, what can I tell ya? Actually, I was browbeaten into it by my doctor - long story....
Posted by Ethlie on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:00:00 PST

The WGA Strike is Your Fight, Too

You know, there's a connection between tax-exempt hedge fund managers eating $10,000 chocolate cakes in Manhattan -- turning what might have been, say, a college scholarship quite literally into shit ...
Posted by Ethlie on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:27:00 PST

I seem to have misplaced my husband.

I'll get around to changing my "status" eventually. Do they have "I don't know" as an option? This is not a come on to the world or anything. I'm just saying....
Posted by Ethlie on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:12:00 PST

My World and Welcome To It

Rather than repeat myself, let me send you to www.ethlieannvare.com, where my irregular column on the state of the world appears... irregularly.
Posted by Ethlie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST