About Me

....I travel a lot and find myself in different places across the US all the time. After Hermosa Beach in California, Boston is my favorite city. Great culture, food, and interesting people. Love to train in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (www.graciebarraniagara.com). I live to train. Have lived in Japan - paradise (pics at http://ricksonu.spaces.live.com). I like to snap the occasional pic...View Slideshow My dag, Lucy Asunta MyGen Profile Generator MyGen Profile Generator........

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My Interests

Brazilian Jiu JitsuTHIS is jiu jitsu. Beautiful, smooth, technical. Master Rickson Gracie demonstrates the gentle art. If youre wondering which one he is, he is the amazing one.....FISHIN'TAKING OFFPRAGUE IS AWESOME - Great architecture, food, music, and of course the most beautiful girls in the world.MY PONDMY SALTWATER AQUARIUMPRIDE FC..reading, going to the beach, drinking wine, the odd game of Hold 'em.

I'd like to meet:

A VERY articulate discussion (by Hitchens anyway) on Religion and the StateTHE Techno Viking. Just gotta meet him......And anyone with something to say...

Music:

THE Tragically Hip....Lowest of the Low, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Dave, Tribalistas, Queens of the Stoneage, Bocelli, Dvorak, Spanish...

Movies:

Brain Candy, Goodfellas, Lost in Translation, Hero, Romeo and Juliet (1968), Anything with Audrey Hepburn, The Girl Next Door, Snatch, Reservoir Dogs, Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Kingpin, Rounders, Austin Powers

Television:

The Office (BBC version only), Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sopranos, Kids in the Hall, Trailer Park Boys, 24, TUF.

Books:

Fiction - Les Miserables. Non Fiction - The Prince, The Mythmaker - Paul and the Invention of Christianity, The Assassins Gate: America in Iraq, The Bomb in my Garden: The Secrets of Saddams Nuclear Mastermind, The Great Theft, Inside the Jihad, The OBL I know, The Life and Times of Cesare Borgia, Inside CENTCOM, Warrior Politics - Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos, Play Poker Like the Pros, Machiavelli on Modern Leadership, Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Holy War Inc, Republic, Leviathan, Adolf - Days of Infamy (Manga), The Hunt for bin Laden - Task Force Dagger

Heroes:

If I had heroes, Rickson Gracie, NM, CB. Amahd Shah Masood,****And of course those undaunting patriots of Catalonia!!*****Anyone who wears sweet pants like this is a hero of mine (White Lion pwn3d, btw!!!11one).

My Blog

The Fearless, The Ruthless, and The Clueless?

The result of spending entirely too much time discussing the issues with people finds one hearing not only the same arguments, but the same general points of view get rehashed time and again. I'...
Posted by Clarence Beeks on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:28:00 PST

The REAL Farwell Tour

Sometimes heads of state are viewed as larger than life, as those who can do what us regular folk can not. The Who couldn't do it. Neither could the Stones. But Saddam did it. ...
Posted by Clarence Beeks on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 08:59:00 PST

The Crusaders

Who are the crusaders? This is a loaded term. A relative term, since it seems inherent in religion that the practitioner thinks that his or her belief system is the one. It fol...
Posted by Clarence Beeks on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:17:00 PST

On Perception

On Perception One day, early on in my career I went to this guys house for a meeting about a project that he wanted to do. We sat for a while and talked about it. At the end I sai...
Posted by Clarence Beeks on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:28:00 PST

On Modern Discussion

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. I came across this quote by Bertrand Russell and I c...
Posted by Clarence Beeks on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:27:00 PST

On Success

I work in an office environment and although there are many people that are extremely hard working and talented, in the past we have had no shortage of dimwits. The incompetence of some of the...
Posted by Clarence Beeks on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:09:00 PST

On Heroes

My hope is that this insightful observance by the band, Lowest of the Low never becomes a reality for most of you. For me, it has hit like a tidal wave and I fear that ...
Posted by Clarence Beeks on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:05:00 PST

On Religion

No wonder so many people are put off by organized religion these days. I don't have a problem with religion as a concept. I think that by and large, religion is definately a virtu...
Posted by Clarence Beeks on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:39:00 PST

On Recognition

On Recognition Despite having traveled for most of the day and being exhausted beyond belief, I had to stay up until 11pm and keep the channel fixed on the news networks. The polls in ...
Posted by Clarence Beeks on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:43:00 PST

On Courage

On Courage The answer is twofold: Freedom, and Life. A while back I heard someone say that when Western children are playing cops and robbers, they chase eachother around...
Posted by Clarence Beeks on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:42:00 PST