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Det. Slug

Making my way through the valley

About Me

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My Interests

Writing, reading, music, photography and solving real-life mysteries.

I'd like to meet:

GOD -

Music:

Nick Cave, Social Distortion, Ramones, TSOL, Morphine, The Beta Band, My Latest Novel, X, John Doe, The Vandals, The Scarecrows, David Pedroza, Brett Dennen, Ann DeJarnett, Tom Waits, Joe Strummer, Alexi Murdoch, Polyphonic Spree, Pixies, Cat Power, Josh Ritter, The Doubtful Guest, Joe Purdy, Nick Drake, Arcade Fire, Bebo Norman, Jason Morant, Third Day, 999, Brian Eno, Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen, The Waterboys, Mike Scott, The Pogues, Gomez, Griffin House, Johnny Cash, Dream Syndicate, Aaron Schust, John Dee Graham, Innocence Mission, Iron and Wine, John Cale, Andrew Bird, Eric Sate, Louis Armstrong, John Prine, Warren Zevon, Throwing Muses, Cowboy Junkies, Alison Kraus, T Rex, Mott the Hoople, Swell, Todd Agnew, Ryand Adams, Billie Holliday, Nina Simone, Neil Diamond, The Dickies, Camera Obscura, Peter Bradley Adams, The Silos, Roadside Prophets (The band, Baker London and the Fuumes, Sweethurts...Josh Ritter at CAP dinner - "Girl in the War"

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Movies:

The Proposition

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Books:

The Bible, all books by C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, Paul Auster, Graham Greene, Henning Mankell, and Dickens; Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure", John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces", Alexander McCall Smith's "The #1 Ladies Detective Agency", Jim Crace's "Being Dead", Leonid Tsypskin's "Summer in Baden-Baden", Francis Schaeffer's "The Christian Manifesto", "How should We Then Live" and so many more.

Heroes:

Family -- andLove, Love my beautiful wife...

My Blog

Tagged by lana

I've been tagged! Here's how you play: Once you have been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 weird or random things, facts, or habits about yourself. At the end, you choose 10 people to be tagge...
Posted by Det. Slug on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:27:00 PST

Recovered poem

I discovered while checking through my blogs that this one somehow disappeared - accidental deletion. I backed it up in word, though. It is actually a little poem that means a lot to me because i...
Posted by Det. Slug on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:43:00 PST

TRUTH OR DARE TAG

Well, I've been hit again. I don't mind so much because this one came from dear TinHearts and it sounds like fun - that is if you keep the questions fair and within the realm of what I can answer acco...
Posted by Det. Slug on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:12:00 PST

Christmas Past

I do not advocate what this man has done nor can I get into the circumstances involving the nature of our meeting. I can only say that I picked him up and he was dressed in orange and shackled at the ...
Posted by Det. Slug on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 03:43:00 PST

Mother's Tough Street Love

What can I say? Body is left out again   Tough love   Now back in the deep dark abandoned building-ridden wasteland where Body is forced to wander until heavy load weighs so heavy over...
Posted by Det. Slug on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:33:00 PST

MY CHRISTMAS MEMORY

TO PABLO (MY NEPHEW)   I can still remember the Nike shoes tiny on the palm of my hand   the smile that fit the little feet meant for tiny shoes to grow out of   I can remember you pas...
Posted by Det. Slug on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:48:00 PST

When We First Met and You Still Stayed

Forgive all that is past and all that I will because it is my nature and out of my control   This mouth erupts from emotion run rampant an action that comes from the fear of what is thought inevi...
Posted by Det. Slug on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 03:05:00 PST

BREATH

I am feeling this again and so I am reposting it again - His soul has passed but left a valued imprint on that space that we carry always   Because his soul passed I now fear the inevitable and t...
Posted by Det. Slug on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 03:34:00 PST

PIGS, PLUNDER AND HUNTER S. THOMPSON

I've been feeling pretty nostalgic recently. I have several 3/4 inch video tapes of recording from some of the Bogart's shows in the eighties. They are the spoken word performances recorded of such lu...
Posted by Det. Slug on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:53:00 PST

Death and Fall

    Spirits rise Like leaves fall A blanket over life A nurturing soul   Death is a season And we will recall The life when it was Most colorful of all...
Posted by Det. Slug on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:58:00 PST