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I'm never going to be famous. My name will never
be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing.
Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that
any more.
— Dorothy Parker
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we have been referring to ourselves as “we” in a number of
places throughout this site, Wild Ideas is in fact largely the product
of one individual. So yes, I suppose that means that we are technically
violating Mark Twain’s famous adage that no one should refer to
themselves in the first person plural except for pregnant women and
people with tapeworms, neither of which we happen to be at the present
moment to the best of our knowledge.
I'm not sure why — I suppose I just enjoy impersonating a collective
without having to deal with actually being in one, which should tell
you something about the introverted and anti-social side of my character.
Eventually, I do plan to put a larger and more detailed profile of myself
on this page for those who are curious, but for the time being, here
are a few vital statistics (updated Dec. 16/03, as I just had the embarrassing
experience of looking in on this page and realizing that it was rather
out of date -- among other things, it said my girlfriend was moving
here in a few months, when we've now been living together for over a
year and a half).
- Name: Lynna Landstreet
- Age: 42 (although I sometimes have trouble convincing myself
of that...)
- Subcultural affinities: Pagan, environmentalist
(deep ecology/EF! subspecies), recovering anarchist/burned-out ex-activist,
semi-vegetarian, formerly lipstick lesbian but lately leaning more
toward bisexuality (as evidenced by a long-distance relationship a
few years back with a charming Australian cross-dresser), computer
geek (subspecies Macintosh, though with occasional Linux longings),
dedicated RPGer (mostly World of Darkness — see Dangerous Visions). Have been known in
the past to engage in performance art and other anti-social activities.
Frequently accused of being a Goth, which I used to deny despite having
80% black clothing in my wardrobe and at least five times more candles
than light bulbs in my apartment, but have now pretty much reached
peace with.
- Current place of residence: Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Current occupation: Web
designer. Yes, really. I get paid and everything.
- Past occupations (a sampling): University teaching assistant,
computer salesperson, graphic designer, film extra, clown, magazine
columnist, and administrative staff for various non-profit associations.
- Current academic status: Have considerably overstayed my
leave of absence from the Master's program in Environmental
Studies at York University, but am planning on going back sooner
or later -- and thinking of presenting this website as my Major Project.
- Past academic endeavours: Started as a women's studies major
in the bilingual stream at Glendon College (York's French college)
in 1983, switched to a women's studies/anthropology double major at
York's main campus the following year (after toying with several other
second majors including political science and psychology), then transferred
to Fine Arts Studies (now-defunct interdisciplinary fine arts program)
two years later. Eventually graduated in 1990 (it just couldn't be
put off any longer...). Went back to school part-time in 1995, taking
one course in biology and one in environmental ethics, in preparation
for grad school.
- Current political activities: Few and far between. Predominantly,
this web site. But I have been known to show up to the occasional
demo or meeting for one good cause or another. And I'm rather opinionated
on the same-sex marriage issue, for reasons that should shortly be
apparent.
- Past political activities: too numerous to list. One-time
member of the editorial collective of Kick It Over (an anarchist
journal) and a zillion different small anarchist-oriented political
action groups, mostly made up of variations on the same dozen or so
people. Did civil disobedience three times, in 1983 (Litton Systems,
cruise missile manufacturers), 1984 (Ontario Hydro, nuclear power)
and 1996 (Ministry of Natural Resources, clearcutting in the Algoma
Highlands).
- Current spiritual activities: Priestess of the Wiccan
Church of Canada (WCC), member of the IMBAS
council, leader of Wolf
Moon Coven (website very much under construction), exploring chaos
magic.
- Past spiritual activities: Discovered the Craft in 1979 and
practiced solitary for a few years before discovering the WCC in 1981.
Left WCC in 1984 to try to find groups more in line with my politics,
had some mostly unsatisfactory contacts with Dianic Craft and radical
paganism (including a very early version of Pagans for Peace), returned
to WCC in 1987 after becoming burned out on activism and deciding
the world wasn't about to end if everyone didn't think exactly like
me. Began studying with Tamarra James in 1988, was Neophyted shortly
thereafter, and Initiated in 1990. Briefly led a lesbian circle called
Sapphire in the very early 90s. Also experimented a bit with Yoruba
and ceremonial magick.
- Relationship status: The optimism shown in my previous answer
to this one, about the long-distance relationship I had just entered
into at the time, turned out to be quite justified: Angela did indeed
move to Toronto in May 2002, and we've now been happily living together
for close to four years, after six months in long-distance
mode first -- and we got legally married in May 2004 (yes, we can do
that -- we do live in Canada, after all!). Feel free to check out her
web site.
- Astrological sign(s): Sun and Jupiter in Pisces, Moon and
Venus in Capricorn, Mercury and Saturn in Aquarius, Mars in Leo, Virgo
rising.
- Geek Code:
GO d-(---) s+:+ a c++(---) !U P+ W++$>+++ N- K- w-- M++$ PS+++
PE Y+ R+(++) tv--- b+++ DI+ D- G e++>+++ h r- x?
- Goth Code:
GoGD5SB2 THSeJt5 P!SaMoPe B8/6Bk cDbr{Gr}-c7 V4 M3p1wS ZExGoClzPuo
C8o a36(25) n7 b46 H175 g6T??86A mEa6No1@S6 w6T v3 r7EBIS p5597Zz
D57! h5(pPe) sF0n SsYy k6Z N??94FLH RfsSp2 LcaON9
- Grrrl
Code: PA!! SF!/** TP!! F** B/F* A** Vdk!s** B** G! O!! S* K! H!
DS* TF* R!! C*
- Magick
Code: MWI/PA S++ W++ N+ PCE+++/PA+ Dr A C@ G- Q++ 666
Y
- WereCode:
WFXss/CCt6 A++ I- N- H+ T- Wr++ F N+ E++++ C+c Nk? RLCT a+ cm+++ g-
r+ e++++ w~ h iwf+++ p+ sf#
- Myers-Briggs:
INFP
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