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About Me

Paul:
25. In the Navy. Currently stationed in San Diego. Freelance Graphic designer. Digital printer. Avid video gamer. Recovering action figure collector. Comic book reader. Non-worldly traveler. Window shopper. Runner. Full House buff. Laid back for the most part. Nice guy. Hopeless romantic. Loves to cook. Wants to visit Greece. Chews Doublemint Gum. 2002 FSU Graduate (Media Production / Classics). Has never met any big celebrities. Lived in Birmingham, AL for a short while. Has no hometown to speak of. Grew up in a Navy family.
Likes oatmeal. Doesn't smoke. Drinks with friends. Enjoys cheesy movies. Once hit himself in the head with a hammer while drunk. Doesn't mind being second-in-command. Owns a $120 electronic lightsaber replica. Can't resist doodling in notebook paper margins. Loves dinosaurs. Wants to challenge you to Simpsons Jeopardy. Doesn't do complicated math. Quotes "Jurassic Park" nearly every day.
Intrigued by abandoned buildings. Wants to photograph rusted farm machinery. Loves the idea of living in a converted Cold War missile silo. Huge fan of post-apocalyptic wasteland films. Would rather die in the blast than live on the scorched earth with the C.H.U.Ds and the mutants. Prefers back roads to the Interstate. Leads a life shaped by "Ren and Stimpy" and "The Adventures of Pete and Pete." Played the clarinet and saxophone for 10 years. Was an FSU Marching Chief for 2 years. Probably can't play either of them worth a lick today.
Has never visited a nudie bar. Listens to jazz. Tunes the radio to "Prairie Home Companion" to hear the news from Lake Woebegone. Reads in the bathroom. Drinks Red Bull when it's free. Used to drive a PT Cruiser. Used to shop at Publix just to admire the scenery. Once had a pet hedgehog named Hermes. Has family in Macon, GA and Philadelphia, PA. Thinks "Arrested Development" is the best sitcom since Seinfeld, God rest its soul. Believes that "King of the Hill" has better character development than any major network drama. Hates the commercials before the movie. Watches Battlestar Galactica on SciFi. Would NOT vote for Baltar for President.
Drinks cheap wine, but not the cheapest wine. Lights candles. Burns incense. Reads cyberpunk. Loves Pink Lady apples. Prefers sit-down Chinese restaurants to buffets or takeout. Has trouble meeting strangers sometimes. I am a Guitar Hero.
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My Interests

Movies, Music, Comic books, Cartoons, Food, ridiculous Star Wars trivia, Video Games, Futurama, Family Guy, Simpsons (good ones...none of this modern crap), Pain, pain, stomach cramps, Running, Godzilla, Freaks and Geeks, Pete and Pete, Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts, Ren and Stimpy, Gundam, J-Pop, mythology, superheroes, Final Fantasy X, my Corgis, lazing around, Kaiju Big Battel (sic) wrestling, giant robots, dinosaurs, Vanilla Pepsi, action figures, wearing neckties, neckties on girls, halloween, terrible local commercials, lightsabers, TROGDORRRRRR!!!!

I'd like to meet:

Dr. Ian Malcolm, the world's leading researcher on Chaos Theory.

Music:

Dismemberment Plan, Weezer, Pain, Cake, Reggie & the Full Effect, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Radiohead, The Hives, The Doors, most all jazz, most all acid jazz, the Aquabats, Cat Stevens, Jim Croce, James Taylor, John Prine, Stevie Wonder, Kings of Convenience, Foo Fighters, Ozma, old school hip hop, Godzilla movie scores, Queen, old timey country, Modest Mouse, Mouse on Mars, Badly Drawn Boy, Sigur Ros, Tahiti 80, Giant Sand, Calexico, Air, James Kochalka Superstar, Polaris, Elliot Smith, Bjork, etc...

Movies:

O Brother Where Art Thou is probably my favorite flick of the past 5 years. I like Godzilla movies, anything with giant robots in it, post-nuclear wasteland epics, anything that's good for MST'ing

Television:

The Simpsons, Arrested Development, My Name is Earl, Seinfeld, Passions, Who's the Boss, Adult Swim, all that jazz.

Books:

The Phantom Tollbooth, His Dark Materials, Snow Crash, The Dark Tower, Chronicles of Narnia

Heroes:

Now this is a really good question. What does one gauge his response on? Super strength, keen detection skills, ability to banter well with supervillains?Iorek Byrnison is my hero right now. If you know who that is, I owe you a Coke...

My Blog

My first Sea Journal

I recently returned from my first trip out to sea, courtesy of the U.S. Navy. The following is a transcription of the journal entries I made while underway. Hopefully it'll give y...
Posted by paul on Mon, 28 May 2007 08:11:00 PST

Ignorance is a Six-Inch Sub

So yesterday I decided to walk downstairs and grab a 6-inch lunch from Subway. The sandwich was terrible, and I'm done with Subway, but that's another story. More interesting is what I fou...
Posted by paul on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:35:00 PST

McRib is BACK!

The McRib is back!Everybody knows the McRib. Whether or not you've actually eaten a McRib is another story. The font of knowledge that is Wikipedia informs me that the McRib was launched b...
Posted by paul on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 06:34:00 PST