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Cliffdar the Barbarian

Beware! Beware! Cliffdar the Barbarian Comes!!!

About Me

I am the all-singing, all-dancing, ninja killing pirate with a heart of gold. I play make believe, like picture books, have an addiction to serialized storytelling, and think that Dr. Pepper is cooler than all the other beverages. I like to drink, eat things made from chicken, and miss the late, lamented pink lemonade flavor of Jolly Rancher. I like reading almost as much as I like girls, and writing is, in the vernacular, "da bomb".
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Cliff
Birthday: July 26, 1974
Birthplace: Denver, CO
Current Location: Stasis
Eye Color: Hazelish
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 6'2"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: So, so, so, so, so, so, so very Anglo-Saxon.
The Shoes You Wore Today: Black ones, with soles.
Your Weakness: Dark Haired Girls
Your Fears: See above
Your Perfect Pizza: Cooked
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: World Domination
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: LOL...Oh I hate those letters.
Thoughts First Waking Up: "Where am I?"
Your Best Physical Feature: Uhm...my...calves? Smile?
Your Bedtime: Sometime around dawn.
Your Most Missed Memory: One I know long recall, it would seem.
Pepsi or Coke: Dr. Pepper
MacDonalds or Burger King: Wendy's
Single or Group Dates: Kinky...but I like one on one. Fewer witnesses.
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Neither. Ick.
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla.
Cappuccino or Coffee: Chai tea
Do you Smoke: When on fire.
Do you Swear: Fuck, I don't know.
Do you Sing: Yes, and badly.
Do you Shower Daily: I do.
Have you Been in Love: Yes.
Do you want to go to College: Been there. Found it lacking.
Do you want to get Married: Not sure.
Do you belive in yourself: I wouldn't be much of a solipsist if I didn't.
Do you get Motion Sickness: Nope.
Do you think you are Attractive: I'm attracted to me.
Are you a Health Freak: Hah hah hah!
Do you get along with your Parents: I do indeed.
Do you like Thunderstorms: I love them.
Do you play an Instrument: I play the jug AND the washboard.
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes, and it was good.
In the past month have you Smoked: No, and it was good.
In the past month have you been on Drugs: No...I don't think.
In the past month have you gone on a Date: I have. Girlfriends help make that more common.
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Yes, sadly.
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No. Not in the past month.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Ick, no.
In the past month have you been on Stage: Nope
In the past month have you been Dumped: Not that I know of.
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Nope.
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Just some folks hopes and dreams.
Ever been Drunk: Hell yeah
Ever been called a Tease: Oh yeah
Ever been Beaten up: Yeah yeah
Ever Shoplifted: Nope
How do you want to Die: Something glorious and highly pyrotechnic.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Me
What country would you most like to Visit: Someplace in Europe. Does the EU count?
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Green
Favourite Hair Color: Darker the better
Short or Long Hair: Long
Height: 5'2-5'6
Weight: 105-120
Best Clothing Style: Wearing them?
Number of Drugs I have taken: All of them
Number of CDs I own: hundreds
Number of Piercings: None
Number of Tattoos: None
Number of things in my Past I Regret: Nothing
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Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion |||||||||||| 43%
Stability |||||||||||||| 56%
Orderliness |||| 16%
Accommodation |||||||||||| 43%
Interdependence |||| 16%
Intellectual |||||||||||||||| 63%
Mystical |||||||||||||| 56%
Artistic |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Religious || 10%
Hedonism |||||||||||| 43%
Materialism |||||||||||| 43%
Narcissism |||||||||||||||| 70%
Adventurousness |||||||||||| 50%
Work ethic |||||||||| 36%
Self absorbed |||||||||||| 50%
Conflict seeking |||||||||||||| 56%
Need to dominate |||||||||||||| 56%
Romantic |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Avoidant |||||||||||||||| 70%
Anti-authority |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Wealth |||||| 23%
Dependency |||| 16%
Change averse |||||| 30%
Cautiousness |||||| 30%
Individuality |||||||||||| 43%
Sexuality |||||||||||||||| 70%
Peter pan complex |||||||||||||| 56%
Physical security |||||||||||||||| 70%
Physical Fitness |||||| 30%
Histrionic |||||||||||| 43%
Paranoia |||||||||||||| 56%
Vanity |||||||||| 36%
Hypersensitivity |||||||||||| 43%
Female cliche |||||||||| 36% Take Free Advanced Global Personality Test
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My Interests

books (history, ficton, esoterica, or just about anything lately), music, comics, gaming, movies, drinking, socializing and general carousing. As well as a multitude that are probably escaping my attention. And being right. I love that.

I'd like to meet:

The zany, the madcap, and the mentally destitute!

Music:

I like music. I tend to be a rock kid, with an appreciation for hip-hop, rap, soul, country, and classical. Not the biggest fan of opera in the world, and yodeling has never been interesting to me. I like some of the Scottish bands like the Delgados, Arab Strab, Belle and Sebastian, and Snow Patrol, as well good old rock like the Stones, the Who, and the Kinks. Also, I am a big fan of Firewater, Tom Waits, and most things that don't suck.

Movies:

Huge movie buff...I love movies. Even Ishtar. I will sit through nearly any movie at least once, unless Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich are involved. They are war criminals, and will one day be made accountable for their foul deeds. I have a soft spot for romantic comedies, with my favorite being a film called Still Breathing. Six or seven other people seem to have seen this, so I know I didn't imagine it. I grew up on Star Wars, but hate the new ones. I also think Peter Jackson did a fairly good job with his Lord of the Rings movies, though I still prefer the books. By the way, Sin City rocked me so hard my socks actually blew a hole through the floor when they shot off.

Television:

I've pretty much stopped watching television, because everything I truly enjoy gets canceled. Or starts to suck, like The West Wing. I do, however, have this weird, deeply rooted love of serial television. I love watching a story build and unfold over the course of several episodes...it's addictive, and really hits on the storyteller in me. Fuck, don't I sound like a pretentious boy princess.

Books:

I really like books. Most boring non-fiction, and any copies of the DaVinci code I happen upon, are use to prop up furniture or fill holes in masonry. Good books, which can range from non-fiction to literature to dorky fiction works and kids books, always has a home in my house. I like to think of my place for as a halfway house for reading material, where the pretty ones move on to be adopted by others while the less attractive and the quiet ones linger on my shelves, loved by only me. Perusing my shelves, you'll find Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Tolkien, Brust, Joyce, Seuss, and a host of others in the fiction sections. For non fiction, it's mainly books on history, mythology, sociology, folklore, and the esoteric. I'm a dork, and love me the books.

Heroes:

Well, basically, I'm a big fan of...well, nobody, really. I am my own best and worst example. Except for whoever it was that invented cheese food. That fucker had some seriously mad skills, and I am in awe of his ability to take something so much like food and turn it into a food food.That is seriously so potent power.

My Blog

It's funny how writing is supposed to be a habit...

I don't even recall, without reference, the last time I posted on this blog. It's not because I'm engaged in a deeply paranoid top secret research project...well, none that I can actually get funded. ...
Posted by Cliffdar the Barbarian on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:08:00 PST

A Death in the Family

    This week, I lost a friend. We'd only had a few years together, but the lost presence will be felt.I remember dark evenings as we bonded over some game, with a string of never endin...
Posted by Cliffdar the Barbarian on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 09:17:00 PST

How many monkeys does it take to assemble a Dodge Dart?

So, spring is nearly upon us, and as The Girl and I begin to go through the process of co-habitation, I've been gutting things. It's funny, when you go through old things, how you can wonder what the ...
Posted by Cliffdar the Barbarian on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 09:10:00 PST

37 Hot Teen Girls!!!

Actually, this has nothing to do with 37 hot teen girls. It just made a funny title, for reasons I might one day make clear. What makes a man? Would that there was a simple recipe for such a ...
Posted by Cliffdar the Barbarian on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:56:00 PST

Memories

  First Flight   The sound of my feet clicking on the ladders aluminum        &nbs p;         &nbs p;...
Posted by Cliffdar the Barbarian on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 03:04:00 PST

Plucking fingers for feathers

So, having taken the week off, I've been mostly reading, writing, attempting to regain some semblance of my skills as a "drawer" (love that term), and sleeping off massive amounts of fever bolstered i...
Posted by Cliffdar the Barbarian on Sat, 10 Dec 2005 09:54:00 PST

Once upon a time

Has anyone else ever found themselves in a position where they can't remember what they wanted all along? I've danced along the edge of that particular abyss a time or two in my life, but never have I...
Posted by Cliffdar the Barbarian on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:57:00 PST

Somewhere between here and there

It's October, and that always puts me in a more introspective mood than the rest of the year. Mostly, I think it's from the lack of actual human interaction, but that's just a guess. Anyhow... So, ...
Posted by Cliffdar the Barbarian on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:23:00 PST

Why can't Dokken be as good as their name implies?

It's Friday, my shoulder is dislocated, and I am listening to the petulant skitterings of teenagers and alleged adults: must be Friday Night Magic. It's been a weird week. A week of missing people, m...
Posted by Cliffdar the Barbarian on Sat, 03 Sep 2005 11:40:00 PST

Disconnected

So here I sit, with these fancy opposable thumbs, dodging people because I'm feeling isolated. Which is amusing, since being around people would actually help reduce my sense of isolation. Spending th...
Posted by Cliffdar the Barbarian on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST