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People need role models today more than they ever did.

Growing up, Ez remembers cutting out Dewar's Profiles from magazines and pasting them all around his bedroom. Now tell me you don't know what a Dewar's Profile is.

It's a lifestyle thing, stupid. Cool people drank Dewar's scotch. Architects, software engineers, magazine editors, jet setting photographers, guys who had penthouse pads, and dated sleek elegant blondes who shopped at a better cut of store than K-Mart. It wasn't about the booze, it was about status. Ez couldn't wait until he turned 21, be able to walk into a classy bar, no, not like the Chanticleer, more like Kilpatrick's --one with wood panelling, a shiny brass rail and cool,young, elegant professionals gathered around the rich dark wood bar, kicking back $7.00 cocktails. Ez imagined himself walking up to the bar, flashing a $50 at the bartender and asking casually for a Dewars and water with a little ice. Then all eyes would be on Ez; he'd be the apotheosis of cool and that was just fine with him.

But , when in Ithaca, do as the Ithacans do. And Ithaca's all about being rad. So Ez has decided to highlight some of the cool, trendy, rad people in Ithaca. Because we all need role models. So here's one of those young people to watch for in the future.

IS Rad Watch Profile

Megan Radcliffe-Brown
Street Name: Savage Moon Goddess
Age: 19
Occupation: Future Radical History Guru
Latest Books Read: Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States, Eckert Tolle's The Power of Now
Current Interests: Finishing all 7 Harry Potter books before September, organizing a cell phone distribution for the remote Tiriyo tribe of the Amazonian basin, " Hey, why should the hegemonic Empire deprive them of the power to organize their own social networks? Why should they have to depend on drums and smoke signals? "
(Hope they get those satellites in place.)
Greatest Achievement: Being the first person in Ithaca to watch Democracy Now on an I-Phone.
Favorite Beverage: Carmel Cinnamon Frappuccino from Starbuck's. "I like to go in to Starbuck's after class, plop down with a beat up copy of Emma Goldman, and just cozy up with a cool frap."
Favorite Place to Be: Loaves and Fishes Soup Kitchen at St. John's Episcopal Church. "I just love that feeling of solidarity I get, eating tuna casserole with the masses."

Way to go, Megan. She's our hero.
Comments invited at: ezrakidder@gmail.com - Peace, Ezra at 8:06 AM