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rob

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. - Michael Jordan

About Me

I like sandwiches and skyscrapers. I live alone.

My Interests

writing. baseball. the present.

I'd like to meet:

Christopher Hitchens. Ricky Gervais. Richard Dawkins. Adam Carolla. Sam Harris. Jon Stewart. Ted Nugent.

Music:

radiohead, eminem, jay-z, bright eyes, beethoven, the streets, U2, kings of leon, tenacious d, stone temple pilots, pearl jam, nirvana, neil diamond, cake, blackstar, audioslave, tori amos, fiona apple, ani difranco, portishead, massive attack, the pharcyde, the beatles, the beastie boys, sarah vaughn, ella fitzgerald, billie holiday, michael jackson, credence...

Movies:

magnolia, the empire strikes back, the goonies, fight club, miller's crossing, the big lebowski, the color of money, unforgiven, tombstone, open range, rocky balboa, spiderman 2, sin city, apollo 13, road to perdition, shawshank redemption, the usual suspects, the professional, true romance, beautiful girls, pulp fiction, christ, how boring to list them all...

Television:

there is no television, there is only youtube. also: six feet under, the office, and family guy on dvd.

Books:

lolita (nabokov), the god delusion (dawkins), naked (sedaris), dress your family in corduroy and denim (sedaris), me talk pretty one day (sedaris), the time traveler's wife (niffenegger), ham on rye (bukowski), a moveable feast (hemingway), the great gatsby (fitzgerald), franny & zooey (salinger), raise high the roofbeam, carpenters (salinger), seymour: an introduction (salinger), the catcher in the rye (salinger), hapworth 16, 1924 (salinger), and on and on (but not too far, because I only started reading recently)...

Heroes:

naa, the word's too loaded and it's lost its power.

My Blog

ZeFrank

For those of you unfamiliar with the brilliance of zefrank, I am pleased to make this introduction. ZeFrank, Reader. Reader, ZeFrank. The following is the first truly stirring thing I've heard said ab...
Posted by rob on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 02:37:00 PST

Donn Johnson is a Fucking Prick

Not that I think I'm a bigshot, cos I don't, especially given the fact that I'm a poor speller, but. I guess that's all the disclaiming I need for this entry. I shant be accused of libel today, sir. _...
Posted by rob on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 10:54:00 PST

MySpace Instant Message, and other hilarious jokes...

So I'm sitting here in my little yellow folding chair, right leg over left, decked in flip flops and the comfiest plush bathrobe this side of a gray sheep's tookus, when I notice that Her Slinky Majes...
Posted by rob on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:27:00 PST

Uncooked

Whaddya say, kids? Who's up for a bit of fluff? (I should see everyone's hands waving furiously, the marbled flush of palms flitting like flags in a brisk wind.) What follows here will seem to be no l...
Posted by rob on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:23:00 PST

Staring at the Wall, I Can Still See Her

I woke up yesterday with a lie in mind. Not a lie that I planned to tell, but one that I told about 9 years ago. It was not, in my estimation, a "bad" lie. Not in any moral sense, anyway. To the contr...
Posted by rob on Sat, 07 Jan 2006 02:35:00 PST

To Andy

I remember there was snow that night at Kit Carson Park. We made it safely in the old Jeep, secured our spot against the outer wall of the bathrooms. It was cold, but we were young. Sitting on concret...
Posted by rob on Mon, 19 Dec 2005 07:41:00 PST

Rollin

I like this bus driver. He's the bald black guy, youngish, quiet but friendly. He has a moustache and he has never been late. Never underestimate the punctuality of a non sequitur. He also lets people...
Posted by rob on Sun, 18 Dec 2005 06:57:00 PST

New York

"There are no versions of the truth."               - Dr. Ian Malcolm (played by Jeff Goldbloom) from The Lost World: Jurassic Park I'm ...
Posted by rob on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:46:00 PST

No Evil

"God damn it, there are nice things in the world---and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked." -from Franny and ZooeyTwo little girls, sisters, lay giggling in bed. They are ...
Posted by rob on Mon, 28 Nov 2005 04:22:00 PST

i may Say it once

There's a sky blue building on Sunset Boulevard, just west of Vermont. I have heard it used to be a hospital, a place of healing, and it certainly looks like one, but that's just what someone told me,...
Posted by rob on Mon, 21 Nov 2005 01:42:00 PST