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John

I am here for Friends

About Me

full time friendly ghost, map maker, wanderer around townderer, stroller extra-ordinaire, non-eater of the animals, but part time lover of those tasty dairy products.

My Interests

living simply. retiring early. riding bikes. taking walks. rolling around on my skateboard, but not doing very many tricks. exploring near and far-ish. fighting the good fight on a part time basis.

sometimes i write silly songs.

I'd like to meet:

nice folks with good stories to tell me, and, as always, al sobrante, greta shred and dishwasher pete.

Music:

a minor forest. lifetime. kid dynamite. cap'n jazz. that dog. the young pioneers. karate. dianogah. gorilla biscuits. wedding present. toots and the maytals. heavenly. halcali. miss tk and the revenge. third eye foundation. kim hiorthoy. sleepytime trio. boys life. nuzzle. operation ivy. screeching weasel.

Movies:

rushmore. the life aquatic. me and you and everyone we know. brick. dummy. harvey. hot fuzz. my boss my hero. it's a wonderful life.

Television:

I don't get any channels, but i like the daily show, my name is earl, the it crowd, ed, space ghost, dr who, 30 rock and the office.

Books:

the ride to chandigarh, the journals of lewis and clark, the road, dishwasher, american gods, cometbus, god bless you mr rosewater, the man in the high castle.

Heroes:

john muir, elwood p. dowd, and al sobrante, gentleman bike mechanic

My Blog

Free Stuff!

I have too much stuff, so I'm cleaning house. I've given a lot of things to Goodwill, but I've got a lot of neat stuff that I'm not sure they'd know what to do with, or that they might just throw away...
Posted by John on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:20:00 PST

Making Everyone Happy, One Free Soda at a Time

Wednesday was GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Day and I volunteered to help out at an event being hosted at UNT.  Leading up to the event, I got it in my head that I wanted to work the ...
Posted by John on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:06:00 PST

Back to Buisiness

Today, for the first time in a long time, I went for a long distance bike ride out into the country.  I only went about 27 miles, but still, a lot of the old things from when I first started tryi...
Posted by John on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:54:00 PST

In defence of Sluggo

A couple of weeks ago on Jim Woodring's blog, he posted a panel from a Nancy cartoon of Sluggo, floating idly in the air. The post itself was fine, but the comments are great.  Woodring's readers...
Posted by John on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 02:48:00 PST

failed media diet

while travelling, i'd planned on starting a media diet. it turns out that, when my phone has a signal, it can read, but not respond to, work e-mail, do anything gmail, browse myspace, and post blogs....
Posted by John on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 05:50:00 PST

robot fighter vs. the web

there is now a link to the robot fighter myspace page from boingboing.net, internationally renowned directory of interesting stuff.  however, it's only there as a link for my name on a reade...
Posted by John on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 06:05:00 PST

strange dream pt II

Last night I dreamt that I was walking around a giant grocery store when I saw the RZA and the GZA in the produce section working on a new song idea.  I listened while pretending to shop, and the...
Posted by John on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 06:36:00 PST

lazy friday

a haiku composed from my couch: friday night at hometime killed by cable t.v.erin brockovich...
Posted by John on Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:14:00 PST

vicarious brush with fame

my roommate went on tour and i was jealous that he was going to play with bands i like, made up of people i like, while i stayed at home and made the maps that make the world go 'round. mario rubalcab...
Posted by John on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:18:00 PST

sympathy for mr. vengeance

my roommate gave me a copy of 'sympathy for mr. vengeance,' by chan-wook park.  i'd seen 'oldboy', another of his movies, and with vengeance in the title and violence in the review on the back co...
Posted by John on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:19:00 PST