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Jamie

Lots of people dying- others trying not to

About Me

I used to be cynical, but I've lost my youthful belief in cynicism.

My Interests

Watching too much 70's TV, radical paralegalism, radio news, revisiting the games of my childhood, reading, movies, prison history, criminology, Irish history, Weimar Germany, and the fleeting dream of revolutionary re-invention of society

I'd like to meet:

Someone with two or more brain cells to rub together. Someone who thinks that hanging out at night still involves the dying art of conversation. Someone who has tasted the maggot in the mind of the universe.

Music:

Steely Dan, Dead Kennedys, The Clash, Big Star, Johnny Cash, Sebadoh, Leonard Cohen, Ween, Allman Brothers, John Prine, Madness, MC5, The Smiths, J.J. Cale, Frank Zappa, the Cars, Rufus Wainwright, Elastica, Dead Milkmen

Movies:

Jesus' Son, Drugstore Cowboy, Used Cars, Office Space, 28 Days Later, Brasil, 12 Monkeys, Threads, Dr. Strangelove, Blade Runner, The Bicycle Thief, They Live!, Dark Star, Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, Spun, True Romance, Mallrats, Killing Zoey, Putney Swope, Repo Man, The Big Lebowski, anything by Martin Scorsese

Television:

Rockford Files, Red Dwarf, Black Adder, Law and Order, Taxi, Barney Miller, WKRP, News Radio, Futurama, Secrets of the Dead, World at War, Danger UXB, The Young Ones, The Comic Strip, Absolutely Fabulous, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, Politically Incorrect, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Twilight Zone, Quark, Seinfeld, Simpsons, Columbo, Soap, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, SCTV, Kids in the Hall, old SNL, My Name is Earl, The Office

Books:

Anything by George Orwell, Camus, Charles Bukowski, Tim Robbins, Margaret Atwood, Edward Bunker, Ursula LeGuin, Robert Heinlein, Hunter S. Thompson or Shusako Endo or On Liberty, A Girl Among the Anarchists, Shock Value, The Illuminatus Trilogy, Rendered Infamous, Fugitive Days, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

Heroes:

Charles Bukowski, Jello Biafra, George Orwell (even if he did get really cranky in his old age), James Connelly, Hunter S. Thompson, Richard Kern, Bill Ayers, Kathleen Boudin, Bernadette Devlin, John Waters, Bobby Sands, George Jackson, Malcolm X, Karl Armstrong, Oliver Cote

My Blog

Wedding pictures

The wedding pictures are in the photos section now. Sorry, I haven't the time to write what happened yet. Pictures are not in order. Details later.
Posted by Jamie on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:02:00 PST

I'm married now

Yep, as of 5:45 PM yesterday.
Posted by Jamie on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:42:00 PST

So- lefty conferences

I went to the National Lawyers Guild conference in Minneapolis. It was actually far more enjoyable than I had imagined. I guess it's because you don't really have to go to anything you don't want to a...
Posted by Jamie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I need to find the brand name

So as of today, it will be five weeks since my operation. I can walk to the Pathmark and back using just a cane. I'm hoping that the doctor will clear me from the "hip precautions" when I see him on M...
Posted by Jamie on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 08:33:00 PST

Who puts the "hip" in "hippie"?

So I'm going to be officially discharged tomorrow at 10 AM with my new artificial left hip. I will still be puttering around on a walker. cleaning my incisions twice daily, and taking lots of meds, bu...
Posted by Jamie on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:14:00 PST

I am now a cyborg

First of all, I must apologize for not keeping y'all updated on what is going on with my life. I haven't had that much access to a computer recently, so my almost obsessive blogging has dwindled to a ...
Posted by Jamie on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:45:00 PST

Urban Yeti ambushed by anti-Urban Yeti forces

On Monday night, I was walking over to Iris' place. We had discussed going out for coffee, but she wanted to hang at home before coffee. I was walking down the street and passed by a guy who glan...
Posted by Jamie on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:54:00 PST

Cocaine at work and my absence from MySpace

If you have noticed that I have not been posting on MySpace as much, it is because my internet access at work at been cut as a foul attempt at getting more work out of us. A week ago- last Wednesday- ...
Posted by Jamie on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:13:00 PST

I can tell you that rebellion doesn't pay well

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Posted by Jamie on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:53:00 PST

Daddy, what is politics?

A little boy goes to his dad and asks, "What is Politics?"Dad says, "Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I am the head of the family, so call me The President. Your mother is the administ...
Posted by Jamie on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:42:00 PST