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I'm short, pudgy and going bald. I was born in 1957. I've been married for five years to a sweet, loving lady. I have one addiction, and that's to cigars. At this point I'm out of work. I used to run a small computer services company that has gone under several names; since 2001 it's consisted of two employees, me and my wife.Here's the "Which Firefly character are you? test.My results:
You are Wash (Ship Pilot) Wash (Ship Pilot) 75% Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) 60% Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) 60% Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) 55% Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) 55% River (Stowaway) 55% Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) 50% A Reaver (Cannibal) 45% Derrial Book (Shepherd) 35% Inara Serra (Companion) 25% Alliance 25% You are a pilot with a good
if not silly sense of humor.
You take pride in your collection of toys.
You love your significant other.
Click here to take the "Which Serenity character am I?" quiz...

My Interests

Wide and varied. Space exploration, fine foods, fine cars, one particular beautiful woman.

I'd like to meet:

Deke Slayton. Alan Shepard. Pete Conrad. Groucho Marx. Lea Hernandez. Joe Straczynski. Gus Grissom. Jo Rowling. Steve King. Clive Cussler. Buck Dharma. Peter Egan. Joss Whedon. Lois McMaster Bujold. William Powell. Robert Heinlein.Problem is, some of those folks are dead, so meeting them anytime soon is out of the question.

Music:

Blue Oyster Cult, Webb Wilder, Buck Owens, Miles Davis. Be Bop Deluxe.

Movies:

My Man Godfrey, Zathura, Serenity, too many more to mention.

Television:

Firefly, Galactica, Jericho, Doctor Who. Babylon 5. Get the idea that I'm a science fiction fan?

Books:

The Harry Potter series, the Miles Vorkosigan series, several others. And no, I'm not a fan of Star Wars, and haven't been since Lucas turned it into a marketing monolith.

Heroes:

Anybody who does what they want and gets paid for it. This includes Joe Straczynski, Buck Dharma, and Peter David, all of whom do what they love and are successful at it.Other heroes are astronauts like Deke Slayton, Gus Grissom and Alexei Leonov. They risked their lives, and sometimes lost them, in the effort to reach the stars.

My Blog

A DVD review. Want another?

I've been fooling around for the longest with movie and book reviews, mostly just for my own amusement. As these things are starting to clutter up my hard drives, I figured I'd let you guys look at th...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:48:00 PST

Look who's our next victim

We're about to invade Venezuela. Or we would, if we weren't so wrapped up in Iraq and Iran and Afghanistan. Do people really not pay attention to history? Afghanistan is the country that destroyed th...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:20:00 PST

Goodbye to one of the greats

Art Buchwald was a man without equal. A brilliant writer, columnist, satirist and wit. A playwright, screenwriter and observer of Washington culture and society. And now he's dead. Art had been fighti...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:05:00 PST

Art Buchwald

Art Buchwald WASHINGTON (AP) - Columnist and author Art Buchwald, who for over four decades chronicled the life and times of Washington with an infectious wit and endeared himself to man...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:50:00 PST

Too old and too country

I found out a few days ago that Stonewall Jackson, one of the great old pickers of the Grand Ole Opry, is suing for ten million dollars. Why? Age discrimination. Stonewall's been an Opry performer sin...
Posted by Michael on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:18:00 PST

A day after Christmas, and...

I'm fiddlefarting. Watching at Wonderfalls, reading Paul Wilson's latest Reapirman Jack novel, smoking my last cigarette, rinsing out some dirty clothes in the bathtub. Looking out the front door at a...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:31:00 PST

They just don't get it.

I found this on the blogsite of my Evil and much more successful twin, Peter David, Writer of Stuff. I'm a workin' stiff, and don't get a chance to be as observant as Pete, but when he posts so...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:44:00 PST

Jack Palance, RIP

"La Revolucion is like a great love affair. In the beginning, she is a goddess. A holy cause. But... every love affair has a terrible enemy: time. We see her as she is. La Revolucion is not a goddess ...
Posted by Michael on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:36:00 PST

Cigars

I wish the hell I had the money to get me some of these.I get offers from JR Cigars on a regular basis, and even though I'm so broke I can't pay my bills, I do whimper a bit about the goodies that Lew...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 05:53:00 PST