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My Amazing Friend Rayya!

Hello all!

Followers of this page will have heard me speak before about my incredible friend Rayya Elias, who published her first book this year: "Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair and Post-Punk, From The Middle East to the Lower East Side".

I love this memoir so much that not only did I write the introduction to it, I went on book tour with Rayya this spring (and some of you came to our events — which were awesome, were they not?! NYC, DETROIT, MIAMI — we love you all!)

She's doing one more reading this coming weekend, very nearby to my hometown in NJ — at the Clinton Book Shop in Clinton, NJ. The event is on Saturday June 22nd at 1pm. Don't miss it: Rayya is THE REAL DEAL! An amazing storyteller, an amazing woman, an amazing life force.

And if you haven't read her gorgeous and harrowing book yet…do it!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15811556-harley-loco

Big love,
Liz

Rayya Elias | The Clinton Book Shop
www.clintonbookshop.com
Rayya will also be playing selected original music. Join us for what will be an amazing afternoon. Light snacks and complimentary wine will be served.

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A friend of this page sent this along, and I wanted to share with you all. I could not agree more with this notion. It is, as I have always said, a PUBLIC SERVICE to try to solve your own life and come into your own heart. Have a blessed day, everyone!
Liz

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A lovely HAPPINESS JAR from Oklahoma!

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We made our Happiness Jar today. Thanks for the idea, Liz! Much love from Oklahoma.

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WORLD WAR Z…

It is high time we spoke on this page about Zombies.

And no, I don't mean metaphorically. I mean really: Zombies.

Last night I had the delight of going to the premiere of the new Brad Pitt movie "World War Z", which was incredibly fun!

I got invited because producer, Dede Gardner, is the same woman who produced the film "Eat Pray Love" — which makes ALL THE SENSE IN THE WORLD because the two stories have so much in common! They are both about seekers conducting urgent world travel (soul-searching in case of EPL, epidemiology-searching in the case of WWZ.) Both are also about the attempt of one American soul to find answers to life's deepest questions (the search for the self in my case, and the search for the origins of the Zombie apocalypse in the other). Best of all, both stories celebrate the excitement of passionate over-eating (pizza and gelato in my case; human brains and intestines in the case of the zombies!)

Guys, for real — you heard it here first (or maybe you heard it here 100th, in this age of lightning-fast information): The movie is AWESOME. Harrowing and smart and scary as hell, and so, so good.

Here is a photo of me all dressed up in the car, on my way to the premiere. I am grinning like a fool because, when this photo was taken, I was pretty sure I was about to meet Brad Pitt. OK, as it turns out, I didn't get to meet Brad Pitt. Which is probably because he is…you know…BRAD PITT. But I did glimpse him from a distance and guess what? Handsome. Very handsome. Dizzyingly handsome. I think the kid has a future in show business.

Zombies!

Love
Liz

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OK, I must admit this is my first sighting of somebody reading "Eat Pray Love" in Macedonian at a dentist's office!

🙂

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Reading Eat,Pray,Love in Macedonian language at the dental office while the patient is waiting the anesthetic to act

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