Robert - ProfilesArchive

About Me

non practicing taoist

My Interests

music, film, literature, photography, politics

I'd like to meet:

everyone in a 5 mile radius

Music:

tool, polyphonic spree, pj harvey, hamsa lila, crash worship, bahaus, love and rockets, shriekback, dead can dance, siouxsie, clash, and black flag, coltrane

Movies:

gas food lodging, the secretary, my own private idaho, matrix, bladerunner, office space, fargo, wings of desire, trainspotting, requiem for a dream, fight club, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, pulp fiction

Television:

the office (brit version), aqua teen hunger force, house, dexter, the wire, deadwood

Books:

the sound and the fury, cat on a hot tin roof, steetcar named desire, to kill a mockingbird, the sun also rises, the great gatsby, the invisible man, the trial, Ulysses, Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, Odyssey, To the Lighthouse, The Awakening,

Heroes:

Richard Feynman, K.,

My Blog

Coffee options are perking up

So, in an earlier and darker epoch, I wrote about the lack of coffee options in Dallas and how much to my dismay, I was a Starbucks regular. So I am encouraged that lately there are more options...
Posted by Robert on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 08:51:00 PST

bland anonymity redux

The chipotle/freebirds topic got me thinking about the more general idea of retail chains/franchises versus independently owned stores. (Yes, technically I know freebirds is a franchise, but they don...
Posted by Robert on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Chipotle or Freebirds?

When someone weighs in on this topic, after a hefty 3lbs of rice, beans, meat and dairy--it reveals as much about their culinary soul as those other perennial questions--Lennon or McCartney, Lenin or ...
Posted by Robert on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST