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Lisa♥

I love you, and you, and you

About Me

Chiefly Portuguese, somewhat happy, rabidly right-wing Republican, enamored of all things feline, and typically Catholic. Proud member of ILWU Local 13.

My daughter Corinne and her husband Evan are about to make me a grandmother soon and very soon. Thanks, she says sarcastically.

My son Nicholas is 12, a proud Young Marine, and headed for boarding school if he opens his mouth one more time.

Rick is Rick...

My Interests



Cristiano Ronaldo- Great soccer player AND he's Portuguese.

I'd like to meet:

Purt' near anybody-I'm a friendly sort. Just don't ask me for money. Flavor Flav's got problems of his own, if you know what I mean.

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God bless and protect every military serviceperson overseas and peace officer here at home. It would be impossible to overpay them.

Music:

If you know me (or live within a block of me) you know. Police, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Black Flag, T.S.O.L., 45 Grave, Social Distortion, Elvis Presley, U2, Stevie Wonder, Depeche Mode, Buzzcocks, Pete Shelley, The Specials, Madness, Oingo Boingo, The Jam, Stray Cats, Dead Kennedys, Sex Pistols, Style Council, Heaven 17, Crass, Greg Ginn, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Animal Logic, Oysterhead, They Might Be Giants, Stewart Copeland and Stan Ridgeway, fIREHOSE, Mike Watt, Morrisey, Minutemen, Celia Cruz, Lhasa Del Sela, Ofra Haza, Elvis Presley, Amalia Rodrigues, Joe Walsh, Dig it, RIG, The Clash, Spandau Ballet, Slow Children, Chris Isaak, Alan Jackson, John Anderson, Buck Owens, Peter Schilling, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, The Cure, 3rd Base, Falco, Pat Benatar, Billy Idol, Adam Ant, Andrea Bocelli, B52s, Alex Britti, Beach Boys, Bad Brains, The Sugarcubes, Blancmange, Bobby Darin, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, The Budweiser "Real Men of Genius" background singer, C Bank, Elvis Presley, CCR, World Party, Soft Cell, Nirvana, New Order, Tony Bennett, Caetano Veloso, Run DMC, The Monkees, Airplane(Not Starship), Bananarama, Louis Prima, Elvis Presley, One Ten South, Temptations, Four Tops, The Cars, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Van Halen, Ratt, Judas Priest, Hayzee Fantayzee, EBN-OZN, Sublime, Secondmen, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, The Lemonheads, The Partridge Family, Lene Lovich, Thomas Dolby, Joy Division, all permutations of any band Rick's been in, Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Glenn Meadmore, Fun Boy Three, Gang of Four, Midnight Oil, Elvis Presley, Foo Fighters, Gnarls Barkley, English Beat, General Public, UB40, Ted Nugent, Glenn Miller, Anita O' Day, Frankie and Annette, KISS, The Monkees, Shawn Cassidy, Andy Gibb, King Crimson, Thompson Twins, Elvis Presley, Tony Bennett, Donna Summer, Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, Judy Garland, Nina Hagen, Oum Kalthoum, Soggy Bottom Boys, Aretha, Chaka, Diana, Billy Squier, Genesis, Elvis Presley, Nancy Sinatra

Movies:

Police Around The World (if you look hard enough, you'll find it), almost anything with Joan Crawford or Norma Shearer, Raising Arizona, Labyrinth(David Bowie), Fahrenheit 9/11 ('cause it's just so far-fetched), The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, The Wedding Singer, North by Northwest, Arsenic and Old Lace, Far and Away, Apollo 13, Hunt for Red October, Lon Chaney or Boris Karloff movies, MST 3000, Apocalypto, and anything Mel Gibson does for that matter9 save "Thunderdome"), travel videos of far away places... You have to see "Everyone Stares". Stewart Copeland is brilliant, and it's a perspective you don't often see.

Television:

Survivor, I guess. And the Democrats' rebuttal to the State of the Union address is good for a chuckle. Not much of a TV fan. Crack a book, damn it!

Books:

Making of a Surgeon by William Nolan; A Treasury of Deceptions by Michael Farquhar; Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain; Inside the White House by R. Kessler; Shakespeare of London by Marchette Chute; The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan; Sex with Kings by Eleanor Herman; Arrogance by Bernard Goldberg; and Misunderestimated by Bill Sammon (whew!)

Heroes:

Saint Anthony of Padua, Darryl F. Gates, Elizabeth I, Ronald Wilson Reagan, my kids, anyone who does their bit for animal rescue, Stewart Copeland, Princess Anne, Ben Stein, Dick Morris, Amy Tan, Anthony Bourdain, Ian MacCulloch, Iggy Pop, Greg Ginn, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Michelle Malkin, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury can still rock it, Henry Rollins, Karl Rove, Lady Antonia Fraser, fellow San Pedran Charles Bukowski, Siouxsie Sue, Manny Moo, Kat Von D, Harry Bridges, my peeps in Local 13, our men and women in the Armed Forces and their families, and George W. Bush

My Blog

A storms coming

This foolishness last week with Local 13 staging a protest is beyond the beyonds.  Of all the times to piss off an arbitrator, 2008  is probably not the best time to do it.  W...
Posted by Lisa♥ on Sat, 10 May 2008 01:52:00 PST

On impending (grand)motherhood

Yeah, okay, I'm gonna be a grandma. Not really sure how I feel about that.  I guess it's the title that bothers me.  It's a bit like a small snowball (like that first gray hair).  Corin...
Posted by Lisa♥ on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:26:00 PST

Police again

Looks like I'm going to see The Police again at the MGM Grand this summer.  So glad Elvis Costello will be replacing Fiction Plane.  They blew.
Posted by Lisa♥ on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:03:00 PST

All that matters

I had sooo much fun last night-saw Secondmen and Toys that Killl at the Brewery.  Cool: Seeing Craig, Aaron, Tyler, Don-Don, Rob, Tomo, My Man Dave, Erin, Gina, Julie, Mike Wilder and Pat Meaghe...
Posted by Lisa♥ on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:43:00 PST

Is there a prize for filling out these damned surveys?

-->START BZOINK.COM SURVEY CODE-->a.b.c.'s times threethe letter aare you available?:no what is your age?:the big four oh what annoys you?:people who consider ebonics an actual dialect the letter bd...
Posted by Lisa♥ on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 09:44:00 PST

Blah Blah Blah, damnit

Odd Facts about MEDO YOU SNORE?:don't know-never heard me LOVER OR A FIGHTER?:both WHAT'S YOUR WORST FEAR?:electrocution AS A KID, WERE YOU A LEGO BUILDER?:nah WHAT DO YOU THINK OF "REALITY TV"?:nobod...
Posted by Lisa♥ on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:04:00 PST