<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from midgebop.blog-city.com</title><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2009 midgebop.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:39:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from midgebop.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/william_kunstler_disturbing_the_universe.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/william_kunstler_disturbing_the_universe.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=william%5Fkunstler%5Fdisturbing%5Fthe%5Funiverse</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Emily and Sarah Kunstler&#39;s new documentary, William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, answers Prufrock&#39;s question &quot;Do I dare&quot;; their father does indeed dare to disturb the universe, over and over, in his continuous battle against i]]></description></item><item><title>Leaves of Grass</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/leaves_of_grass.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/leaves_of_grass.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=leaves%5Fof%5Fgrass</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Part poetry, part pot heaven, Tim Blake Nelson&#39;s latest film, Leaves of Grass is sheer delight. The film stars Edward Norton, playing twin brothers Bill and Brady. Bill escaped his family roots of Little Dixie, Oklahoma, finding home in the Ivy L]]></description></item><item><title>Forgetting Dad</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/forgetting_dad.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/forgetting_dad.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=forgetting%5Fdad</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I love documentaries--the way they mediate reality, the stories that take form as scenes unfold, and the experience to learn something new about a subject I knew little about. Such was the case the other night at the Denver International Film Festiva]]></description></item><item><title>Roasted Winter Squash/Apple Soup</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/roasted_winter_squashapple_soup.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/roasted_winter_squashapple_soup.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=roasted%5Fwinter%5Fsquashapple%5Fsoup</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[With a refrigerator containing three winter squashes, I decided some type of squash soup was in order. Since Nan is not a fan of cinnamon/nutmeg seasonings, I decided to go for a chipotle flavor, and ended up producing a rather yummy (if I might say]]></description></item><item><title>PoliWood</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/poliwood.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/poliwood.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=poliwood</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Barry Levinson&#39;s film PoliWood  is termed a film essay, a meditation on the intersection of politics and Hollywood. Using a backdrop of the Democratic and Republican conventions, along with the inauguration, the film follows The Creative Coalitio]]></description></item><item><title>Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/bad_lieutenant_port_of_call_new_orleans.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/bad_lieutenant_port_of_call_new_orleans.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bad%5Flieutenant%5Fport%5Fof%5Fcall%5Fnew%5Forleans</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Each year the Denver International Film Festival  brings tons of possibilities for viewing. Werner Herzog&#39;s new film Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans proved to be an interesting flick, even if it didn&#39;t always seem to know its directi]]></description></item><item><title>Rainbow Chard Delight</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/rainbow_chard_delight.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/rainbow_chard_delight.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:07:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rainbow%5Fchard%5Fdelight</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When I got home with the weekly CSA veggie haul, I stared at the huge gorgeous bunch of rainbow swiss chard wondering what I might do with it. Here is what I ended up creating. Ingredients3 cloves of garlic, roughly chopped1 medium yellow onion, dice]]></description></item><item><title>Summer&apos;s Last Wisp: An early fall evening with food</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/summers_last_wisp_an_early_fall_evening_with_food.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/summers_last_wisp_an_early_fall_evening_with_food.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=summers%5Flast%5Fwisp%5Fan%5Fearly%5Ffall%5Fevening%5Fwith%5Ffood</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Instead of continuing to bemoan my pathetic lack of blogging, I decided to use food to inspire my committed return to some regular writing. And so, it is an evening out at Potager that transports me back to my words.&nbsp;]]></description></item><item><title>Dear President Obama</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/dr_president_obama.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/dr_president_obama.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=dr%5Fpresident%5Fobama</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, I want to have hope, but lately, that hope is fading.I remember attending a house party early on in your campaign that helped me see the possibilities of hope you carried. When I asked one of your le]]></description></item><item><title>Neil Young</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/neil_young.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/neil_young.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 13:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=neil%5Fyoung</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;ve been a fan for over 33 years, and still, when I listen to his music, I shiver a bit, touched in that core space music reaches. Tonight, watching Jonathan Demme&rsquo;s brilliant documentary Neil Young: Heart of Gold , I am reminded of Youn]]></description></item><item><title>A Return to the Blog?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/a_return_to_the_blog.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/a_return_to_the_blog.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 14:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Freturn%5Fto%5Fthe%5Fblog</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I realize that I have taken a two month hiatus from blogging, which is probably the longest amount of time I&#39;ve gone without blogging since my blog&#39;s inception. I might once again blame it on the textbook writing, but that alone doesn&#39;t a]]></description></item><item><title>RBOC--Overly Ambitious Spring Break</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/rbocoverly_ambitious_spring_break.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/rbocoverly_ambitious_spring_break.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rbocoverly%5Fambitious%5Fspring%5Fbreak</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Clearly I do not understand the word break, although I do understand the concept of separation. Not going into campus for awhile, even if I am doing work, feels rather liberating. I love my job, love the school, but there comes a point in the semeste]]></description></item><item><title>RBOC or why it&apos;s Tuesday and I&apos;m already exhausted by the week (OK a bit of a whine)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/rboc_or_why_its_tuesday_and_im_already_exhausted_by_the_we.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/rboc_or_why_its_tuesday_and_im_already_exhausted_by_the_we.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rboc%5For%5Fwhy%5Fits%5Ftuesday%5Fand%5Fim%5Falready%5Fexhausted%5Fby%5Fthe%5Fwe</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sitting here at my computer, 8:26pm, it finally dawns on me the entirety of why, on this Tuesday evening, I am feeling like I&#39;ve worked more than a full work week.I have spent many hours preparing for a Transgender Training I&#39;m piloting tomor]]></description></item><item><title>Early Evening Scenes along South Sherman Street</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/early_evening_scenes_along_south_sherman_street.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/early_evening_scenes_along_south_sherman_street.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=early%5Fevening%5Fscenes%5Falong%5Fsouth%5Fsherman%5Fstreet</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It&#39;s only with the pacing of a dog that I take the moments to stroll my street, noticing how the work day transforms into evening along South Sherman Street. Just a few doors up the block, Carmen pulls her car into her 80 year-old-neighbor Frank&]]></description></item><item><title>CCCC 2009 Initial Reflections</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/cccc_2009_initial_reflections.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/cccc_2009_initial_reflections.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=cccc%5F2009%5Finitial%5Freflections</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Inspired by reading Nels&#39; posting on the CCCC&#39;s conference, I thought I&#39;d give some initial impressions a whirl. I have a mixed relationship with the conference, at times loving and at times hating. When I first attended the conference, I]]></description></item><item><title>How I Think</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/how_i_think.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/how_i_think.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=how%5Fi%5Fthink</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nan says she doesn&#39;t get writing because she doesn&#39;t think like a poet. She doesn&#39;t know how they think. I ask her if she knows how I think. She ponders and says nope.So I get to thinking about how I think.&nbsp;I&#39;m humming Philadelph]]></description></item><item><title>Grey Gardens</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/grey_gardens.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/grey_gardens.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=grey%5Fgardens</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[part a diane arbus picture&nbsp;&#39;It&#39;s my mother&#39;s house and she owns it. And she wanted the people she wanted in it.&#39; feeding racoons white breadfilm closes with the mother singing, shots constantly of skinny cats laying in the filth]]></description></item><item><title>RBOC--Semester Checkup</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/rbocsemester_checkup.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/rbocsemester_checkup.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rbocsemester%5Fcheckup</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As I sit almost 1/3 of the way through the semester so far (and I&#39;m counting not because I dislike anything I&#39;m doing, but simply because the joy of summer shouldn&#39;t be overlooked), I figured I would reflect a bit on my classes.One of my]]></description></item><item><title>More RBOB from Creating Change</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/more_rbob_from_creating_change.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/more_rbob_from_creating_change.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:51:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=more%5Frbob%5Ffrom%5Fcreating%5Fchange</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It&#39;s been an odd day of re-entry back into the world after spending four days at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force&#39;s Creating Change Conference. It&#39;s difficult to find the right words to express how it feels to be surrounded in a se]]></description></item><item><title>Random Thoughts from Day 1 and 2 of Creating Change</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/random_thoughts_from_day_1_of_creating_change.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/random_thoughts_from_day_1_of_creating_change.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=random%5Fthoughts%5Ffrom%5Fday%5F1%5Fof%5Fcreating%5Fchange</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Conferences can be overwhelming, and so far day one of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force&#39;s Creating Change conference  holds true to that. As I sit in the cyber cafe area with my laptop, here are some of my random first day impressions.Gend]]></description></item><item><title>My Weekend of Dates</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/my_weekend_of_dates.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/my_weekend_of_dates.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=my%5Fweekend%5Fof%5Fdates</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This weekend I had two dates: a date with Nan and my favorite 6-year old (Lily) and a date with Nan. They both included dinner and movies, but the range of food and movies proved far apart.Date 1 (Nan and Lily)I am not sure who was more excited at th]]></description></item><item><title>Come On Oscar</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/come_on_oscar.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/come_on_oscar.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=come%5Fon%5Foscar</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What the heck is going on with some of the Oscar nominations?Here are some serious oversights:Actor in a Leading Role I have seen all the performances except for Mickey Rourke (will see on Saturday), but there are two serious omissions: Clint Eastwoo]]></description></item><item><title>RBC--Goals for the Semester</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/rbcgoals_for_the_semester.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/rbcgoals_for_the_semester.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rbcgoals%5Ffor%5Fthe%5Fsemester</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This morning, although a bit sleepy, I have a few goals roaming in my mind.&nbsp;]]></description></item><item><title>On the eve of a new semester</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/on_the_eve_of_a_new_semester.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/on_the_eve_of_a_new_semester.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:20:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=on%5Fthe%5Feve%5Fof%5Fa%5Fnew%5Fsemester</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Always right before the semester begins, I grow excited for the possibilities, the adventure, and the chance to travel a bit down a familiar path destined to carry new waves. Tomorrow feels that much more significant because I begin a new semester wi]]></description></item><item><title>Movie Reviews: The Snippet Edition</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://midgebop.blog-city.com/movie_reviews_the_snippet_edition.htm</guid><link>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/movie_reviews_the_snippet_edition.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://midgebop.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=movie%5Freviews%5Fthe%5Fsnippet%5Fedition</comments><dc:creator>Amy Braziller</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have seen many movies recently, and after watching The Golden Globes, here are some of my thoughts.Best Picture DramaSlumdog Millionaire so totally deserves the award for best picture. It&#39;s an amazing drama, with a well crafted narrative and br]]></description></item></channel></rss>