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rebecca

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About Me

oaklandliving.wordpress.com

My Interests

writing, music, hiking, tea, burning man, medical marijuana reform, harm reduction, dancing, camping, traveling

Music:

london elektricity, photek, greyboy allstars, grooverider, talib kweli, jean grae, john coltrane, david grisman, de la soul, tribe called quest, matrix, thievery corporation, ani difranco, blackalicious, charlie parker, charlie hunter, karl denson, hieroglyphics, dj marky, ozomatli, quetzal, agua libre, mistah f.a.b., regina spektor

Movies:

children of men, y tu mama tambien, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, being john malkovitch, blow, garden state, batman begins, but i'm a cheerleader, pirates of the caribbean

Television:

simpsons, family guy, american dad, weeds, project runway, top chef

Books:

kurt vonnegut, sandra cisneros, jeanette winterson, michel foucault, pat califa, gabriel garcia marquez, ishmael reed, mike males, mike davis, arandati roy, edward said

My Blog

Blogging...

You might be wondering why I haven't been writing here lately, though probably not, because I've been pretty sporatic.Well, I have good news if you have been wondering. I finally started my Oakland bl...
Posted by rebecca on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:35:00 PST

The Wrong Way?

I was going through some of my old writing and stumbled upon this, which I wrote for a writing workshop led by Ishmael Reed at UC Berkeley in November, 2002... this is for all my friends who are stil...
Posted by rebecca on Tue, 15 May 2007 09:58:00 PST

Life in 100 Words

In my writing class, we had to write about a significant event in our lives, using 100 words. Here's mine: I flew to DC the day after I graduated. They trained and inspired me. I spent the summer and ...
Posted by rebecca on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:05:00 PST

Why the East Bay is Better Than the West Bay...

For anyone who knows me, you've probably heard a bunch of these reasons before. And I know I'm going to get harassed over this blog, but I don't care, cause I'm not hiding my East Bay and Oakland prid...
Posted by rebecca on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:56:00 PST

RIP Dr. Mike Alcalay

Dr. Mike Alcalay died of Leukemia on Saturday. Dr. Mike was a friend, colleague and doctor to me. He was one of the most generous and kind men I have ever known. Mike refused payment from the patie...
Posted by rebecca on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:26:00 PST

burning man insomnia

So it's finally a week away and the adrenaline has kicked in... not sure how I'm going to make it through work this week cause I can't even sleep...In my head I keep sorting supplies and planning the ...
Posted by rebecca on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:55:00 PST

burning man... not so far away anymore

so it's that time of year again, when burning man hits and i start having all sorts of wild and involved ideas that usually never come into fruition... my big (and feasible) project for this year is ...
Posted by rebecca on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 02:53:00 PST

homeland security wasting our $

so I've always been pretty skeptical of homeland security and of the enormous amount of $ we're spending on this war on terror, but last week I found out just how useless they really are... We organi...
Posted by rebecca on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 07:55:00 PST

finally i'm on myspace

I've been avoiding this for as long as possible... Cat created an account for me and even filled in most of the info... I knew I'd be better off going along with it that trying to resist... oh well, I...
Posted by rebecca on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:51:00 PST