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Jared

Wing it.

About Me

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My Interests

Politics, Theatre, Music, American History, Books, Movies, and Amelia.

I'd like to meet:

Myself.

Music:

Woody Guthrie, White Stripes, Tom Waits, Wilco, Weezer. I also like non-W bands such as: Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Bright Eyes, Billy Joel, Sonic Youth, Springsteen, Beck, The Beatles.

Movies:

Reservoir Dogs, The Godfather Trilogy, Citizen Kane, It's a Wonderful Life, Save the Tiger, Clerks, The Jerk, Lord of the Rings, Waiting for Guffman, Old School, Anchorman, Good Night and Good Luck, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, far too many to mention all here.

Television:

24, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Family Guy, Seinfeld, Simpsons, House, Deadwood, The X Files, Countdown With Keith Olberman, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Chappelle's Show, The Shield, The Wire, Weeds, and CNN.

Books:

On the Road, The Kennedy biographies by Schlesinger, The First American by HW Brands, Age of Reason by Paine, Age of Reason by Sartre, Shakespeare Complete Works, The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Phineas Poe Trilogy by Will Christopher Baer, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Impro, Acting Power, The Stranger, 13 by Shanley, Pure Drivel...and, yes, The Da Vinci Code...

Heroes:

Robert F. Kennedy, Tom Paine, and Barack Obama.

My Blog

My Golden Globes (Sounds Dirty, Don't It?)

Okay...I could care less about the English monarchy so I haven't seen The Queen, I heard middling reviews of Babel so I skipped it, neither of Clint's war movies interested me, so I haven't seen those...
Posted by Capt. Zubaz on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:53:00 PST

Inside the Actor's Studio with Mark Foley

This is, at once, funny and unsettling. Mark Foley: Disgraced Congressman. Suspected pederast. Actor....
Posted by Capt. Zubaz on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:12:00 PST

Wonker's Paradise

www.fantasycongress.us Fantasy Congress. No joke.Join my league: The New Frontier. The password is the mascot of my undergraduate university...you ought to know what it is.I'm listed as "RailSplitter....
Posted by Capt. Zubaz on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:19:00 PST

This Hole in the Ground

Keith Olbermann's "This Hole in the Ground" is on my profile page. Check it out. An important commentary from the only journalist who has the right to sign-off with Murrow's trademark. ...
Posted by Capt. Zubaz on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 05:46:00 PST

The Path to Rush Limbaugh's Heart

I don't know how but I missed the controversy about ABC's The Path to 9/11 mini-series until last night. By then, the controversy had escalated to the point that they weren't even talking about the pr...
Posted by Capt. Zubaz on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 09:36:00 PST

Mustachios

As Bill Maher would say, "New Rule": There are only three occupations in which it is okay to have a mustache: cop, fireman, or baseball player. A possible exception is if you are an actor playing any...
Posted by Capt. Zubaz on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 08:38:00 PST

Apocalyptico!

Here's a question: What's more shocking? Mel Gibson the Anti-Semite? Mel Gibson the Drunk? Or Mel Gibson the Oscar-Winning Director? Peace in the Middle West! Raiders! -Capt. Zubaz PS: Many of you lik...
Posted by Capt. Zubaz on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:24:00 PST

Read Tom Paine

If organized religion didn't exist, would innocent Israeli and Lebanese and Iraqi and Afghani children be getting torn apart by bombs and eaten up by bullets?Ask yourself that question. Don't defend y...
Posted by Capt. Zubaz on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:44:00 PST

Hail Comic Book Movies

The comic book movie has returned to form. After grinding my teeth through such crap as Daredevil, the tremendously disappointing Spiderman 2, The Fantastic Four, and--most horribly--The Pun...
Posted by Capt. Zubaz on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:52:00 PST

Here kitty kitty....MwaHaHaHAAAAAAA!

Sen. Bill Frist is officially creepy. In addition to being a conservative (which is automatic creepy points), he's fessed up to torturing kitties while in med school to hone his surgery skills. Okay, ...
Posted by Capt. Zubaz on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:01:00 PST