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| User: | revolution_grrl (10064681) 
The Revolution Will Be Live
Missives from the Not-so-Underground
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| Name: | my name escapes me |
| Location: | Dist. of Columbia, United States |
| Birthdate: | 1977-10-30 |
| Bio: | And then they came for the undergrads, and no one made a peep.
I am a graduate student, pursuing my PhD at Georgetown University. I read books and write papers, and I teach history to undergrads. It is often hell. Everything else I do, I am probably not actually supposed to be doing. I sometimes do it anyway. I'm a rebel like that...
Funny thing is, when I have free time, I tend to read books, just not the ones for school. Go figure.
As an historian, I employ a weird blend of Marxian and New Cultural historiographies, with bits of other stuff pulled in. As a political animal, I am sort of an anarcho-socialist, with Marxist tendencies, and am still tweaking that characterization, as I continue to read and think more about it. Also, I reserve the right to have a different opinion about any party line I choose to, so there's a lot in there I don't get into.
I just can't seem to feel comfortable in any one cubby hole with regard to pretty much anything. Sometimes I envy people who know they're into one time or place or people, with everything they have, and it doesn't change. They can just throw all their passion into that one bottle. And I do think it's great that some people have that focus. I'm still glad I don't, and never will.
Some of my passions are fickle. I excuse it, and try to embrace it, by remembering that I'm a militant atheist - I have one life, and there's just so much to see and learn and do and experience and read, and the greatest stress of my life is that I will never do it all. |
| Memories:: | 18 entries |
| Pictures: | over 80 public |
| Interests: | 150: 42, academe, academic humor, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, animal rescue, arcade fire, beat poetry, bibliomania, bibliophilia, black books, blasphemy, books, books about books, bookstores, brit comedy, brits, buddhism, carlo ginzburg, cat power, cats, che, chiapas, china, class consciousness, class struggle, cleverness, combat boots, communism, cooking, cultural history, curiosity, cussing, deep forest, delerium, diet coke, dog rescue, dogs, douglas adams, eastern europe, eccentricity, enigma, erotica, ezln, fantasies, fantasy, faux evil, film, flappers, flirting, forests, grad school, green living, guerrilla warfare, historians, historiography, history, history through film, hooverphonic, human rights, humor, idiosyncracy, indigenous history, insurgency, intellectual history, intelligent men, internet, irony, ivory tower, joseph heller, joss whedon, kissing in the rain, kurt vonnegut, languages, latin america, latin american history, learning, libraries, literature, london, long skirts, marx, marxism, masks, meetings of minds, mexico, monty python, multilingual cussing, netwar, ninjas, novels, old books, old photographs, olive green, passion, phd, pirates, politics, portuguese, postmodernism, procrastinating, propaganda, propaganda posters, protest, purple, radical history, radicalism, rain, reading, regina spektor, rescued dogs, rescuing animals, revolution, revolutionary history, romanticizing revolutionaries, russia, russian, russian history, salman rushdie, science fiction and fantasy, shocking people, social history, social protest, socialism, socialist realism, spain, spanish, steampunk, subversion, teaching, torrents, trance music, trans-siberian railroad, travel, travel lit, united kingdom, unlikely dogs, uprising, used books, used bookstores, ussr, vampire erotica, vivaldi, washington dc, wittiness, women's rights, wpa, writing, writing papers, zapatistas |
| Friends: |  | 63: | aeide_thea, afterthecups, aiwanakademie, ambiance_zebra, baralier, bibliogrrl, brodie890, butterflyrobert, callenghast, cap_scaleman, cerulgalactus, coconutswirl, czechcakeroll, deliriumkt, escapisto, evrything_but, featherynscale, firynze, flamingatheist, flavordav, florafloraflora, freeparking, huehau, james_the_evil1, jaybe, jermynsavile, jlassen, jmfunnyface, lapsedmodernist, lexaprick, liqthemoon, lizblackdog, lmfoster, lord_whimsy, luvabull, melusinehr, milly_bogtrot, misfitina, moll_na_gig_67, mollycrabapple, motes, nectarette, oh__tsarevich, paraselenic, phoenix_riddle, qvis_contra_nos, rhiannon227, riddley_ghost, robert_from_ap, sabotabby, scar_let, silentrequiem, spride, springheel_jack, sweetsatingirl, tacithydra, themodernman, threepunchstuff, toodleskitty, trisket876, ulva, wardatyork, whatsherface87 |  | 23: | anachrotech, big_book_pile, books, booktards, daily_russian, darkvictoria, dog_lovers, dorothyparker, driveforlife, fantasywithbite, food_porn, getfuzzyfeed, historygrads, meal_makeovers, old__stuff, sf_with_bite, thedogpark, unusual_words, vintagephoto, weirdhistory, weirdwords, whatwasthatbook, world_travel |  | 3: | dictionary_wotd, overheardnyc, trisket876blog |
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| Mutual Friends: | 55: aeide_thea, afterthecups, aiwanakademie, ambiance_zebra, baralier, bibliogrrl, butterflyrobert, callenghast, cap_scaleman, cerulgalactus, czechcakeroll, deliriumkt, escapisto, evrything_but, featherynscale, firynze, flamingatheist, flavordav, florafloraflora, freeparking, huehau, jaybe, jermynsavile, jlassen, jmfunnyface, lapsedmodernist, lexaprick, liqthemoon, lizblackdog, lmfoster, lord_whimsy, luvabull, melusinehr, milly_bogtrot, misfitina, moll_na_gig_67, mollycrabapple, motes, nectarette, oh__tsarevich, paraselenic, phoenix_riddle, qvis_contra_nos, rhiannon227, riddley_ghost, sabotabby, scar_let, silentrequiem, springheel_jack, sweetsatingirl, tacithydra, threepunchstuff, trisket876, ulva, whatsherface87 |
| Also Friend of: | 11: barbarusso, dignam, dwarsement, experimnt626, ginarae40, mordwen, pigspazz, ramtops, richardfrance, slave_to_reason, zatara2000 |
| Member of: | 35: 0bsessed_reader, academics_anon, adangerouswaste, anachrotech, anarchists, bibliophilia, book_pimp, booksarelove, booktards, callsforpapers, cooking, creativecursing, creativeswears, darkvictoria, dog_lovers, driveforlife, fantasywithbite, food_porn, getfuzzyfeed, gothic1920s, historygrads, leftyprop, linguaphiles, masquerade_arts, meal_makeovers, old__stuff, paidmembers, readabook, vintagephoto, vintagesexicons, weirdhistory, well_read, whatwasthatbook, wonder_cabinet, world_travel |
| Account type: | Paid Account |
