malina (mel) lobel-karimi's Page

About Me/Us:

I am a writer and politically active via the internet, tv, a news junkie who actually knows the names and positions of politicians without a scorecard. I would love to be even more involved on a larger scale but making 'robo' calls would not be one of those aspirations. I want the President re-elected and the t.p. (either toilet paper or tea party) dumped with yesterdays trash but not in the ocean to avoid pollution.

Relationship Status:

It's Complicated

Movies

ReallY? Ok., Harold and Maude, Casablanca, The Big Chill, Star Wars (the first 3 only), The Godfather (but not Harold Kane), Michael Moore's documentaries as well as Religulous, Manchurian Candidate (original only), Being There, The Magic Christian...enough!

Television

Present Day: Modern Family, The Big Bang Theory., Criminal Minds and NCIS (nobody's perfect), Saturday Night Live (eternally), Nurse Jackie, 60 Minutes.
Past Shows: L.a. Law, Frasier, Sex and the City. Marsh, Cheers, That Girl, The Dick Van Dyke Show. Hated most 50's shows including All in the Family (later of course,

Music

99.5% of the Beatles catalog, Rolling Stones, Kinks, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel. Most rock n roll and some of todays...gulp...rap.

Books

Thomas Pynchon and most of the 'beatnik' writers, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Shakespeare (I was an English major, we can't help ourselves) along with Chaucer but hated John Miltoln and his Paradise Lost (which it should only stay that way), James Joyce (but most smoke a joint first), biographies on Churchill (my hero), Einstein, etc. etc. etc.

Heroes

Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton, Mahatma Ghandi, Indira Ghandi, Golda Meir, Moyshe Dayan, Alan Greenspan for having the courage to admit he was wrong where most people do not and last but certainly not least, my father.