Liz-Metcalfe
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Cycle Babble
- Moto-MoJo
- Popped Culture
- Ride Reports and Other Drivel
- The Planet Tour www.theplanettour.com
- wobblycat
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Writer/Editor/Web Content Strategist |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Introduction | Liz is a Toronto writer and editor with extensive experience in Web product management. Part of the teams that launched Canada.com, Yahoo.ca and AOL.ca, she has created content and content promotion strategies for almost every major portal in Canada. Known for creative problem-solving combined with solid technical skills, she has been building online audiences for almost two decades. Less well-known is her obsession with poetry and motorcycles. A motorcycle instructor for Learning Curves and a dirt girl wanna-be, over the years her rides have included a Honda CB350 and 450, a Honda Shadow 500, a BMW R75 and a Honda CRF230. She currently owns a Yamaha YZ250F and a Kawasaski ZX7-R that’s had so much plastic surgery it’s been dubbed “Hollywood Baby.” |
| Interests | Media, poetry, journalism, motorcycles, technology, cinema, music, travelling, politics, science fiction, space travel, astrophysics, quantum physics, nanotech, comparative religion. |
| Favorite Movies | Bladerunner. Apocalypse Now. Lord of the Rings trilogy. Maltese Falcon. Casablanca. Touch of Evil. Bringing up Baby. Meshes of the Afternoon. Ninotchka. Duck Soup. The Cat Came Back (NFB short). Ryan (NFB feature). Un chien andalou. Scorpio Rising (from Kenneth Anger's Magic Lantern Cycle). Amelie. Minority Report. Hellboy. Strange Days. Edward Scissorhands. Dr. Strangelove. |
| Favorite Music | Melissa Auf der Maur. Garbage. Buddy Guy. B.B. King. Freddy King. Roland Kirk. Joe Cocker. Bob Dylan. The Doors. Johnny Winter. Roy Orbison. Eric Clapton. AC/DC with Bon Scott. The Beatles. Steppenwolf. The Animals. Jimi Hendrix. Rolling Stones. Janis Joplin. Big Mama Thorton. Bessie Smith. Leonard Cohen. Doc Watson. Johnny Cash. Jeremy Fisher. |
| Favorite Books | Repent Harlequin, Said the Ticktockman (from Harlan Ellison's Paingod). Triton, by Samuel Delany. Evolution's Darling, by Scott Westerfield. Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson. Starfish, by Peter Watts. The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, by Philip K. Dick. The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov. Hacking Matter, by Wil McCarthy. |