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Rob

I am here for Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

I am a work in progress. Get the skinny here: http://www.surfreality.com/robert

My Interests

Culture, Art, Buddhism, Spirituality, Meditation, Community, Altered States, Politics, Bohemia, Sex, Ecology, Comedy, Shamanism, Entheogens, Theater, Music, Tattoos,

I'd like to meet:

New friends. Artists. Thinkers. Open hearts and minds.

Music:

Almost all...

Movies:

Casablanca, A Pocket Full Of Miracles, The Man Who Would Be King, A Night At The Opera, Papillion, Mash, Cool Hand Luke, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Animal House, Blazing Saddles, Nashville, A Wedding, The Wild Bunch, Pat Garret and Billy The Kid, The Godfather I and II, Once Upon A Time In America (long version), Brazil, Field Of Dreams, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, The Fisher King, Silverado, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Blade Runner, The Milagro Beanfield War, American Beauty, Lost In Translation

Television:

My TV died. So far I'm not missing it that much... and I'm sleeping much better now too.

Books:

Ken Wilber, Choegyam Trunkpa Rinpoche, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Elmore Leonard, Terrance McKenna, Charles Bukowski, Philip K. Dick, Kim Stanley Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, Mark Twain, Joeseph Heller, Charles Dickins, Samuel R. Delany, Osho, Robert Thurman, Neil Gaiman, Robert Anton Wilson, Ken Kesey, Kurt Vonnegut, Dorothy Dunnett, Hunter S. Thompson

Heroes:

My Mom and Dad and everybody else who walks it like they talk it.

My Blog

Another haiku

A poetic joke:Two haikus are in a bar!The punch lines don't rhyme.
Posted by Rob on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:13:00 PST

My TV died last week

I was watching Olberman, when the picture tube blew. There was a small nova then darkness and silence. At first I did nothing, just sort a sat there a little stunned; then I ran the standard diagnosti...
Posted by Rob on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:49:00 PST

2 Haikus

These 2 Haikus were first published in the NY Times on Monday Sept. 4 2006 in the Metropolitan Diary in the Metro section.In my neighborhoodSongbirds mimic car alarms.Whose song do you sing?It is stil...
Posted by Rob on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:46:00 PST

Before you go

Before you go.Hey Dad, it's good to see you.You look great. I don't need to tell you that you are slowly going away. You know that better than anyone else..You..ve been on the road to far gone for a l...
Posted by Rob on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:54:00 PST