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About Me

I am a stubborn, opinionated, highly literate, fairly well-meaning, liberal-tempered individual stuck on the southern fringes of the Great American Desert. I am a thinker and a talker-- a doer sometimes, when all other options are gone from the table-- and am in love with ideas and learning. I believe (along with Mr. Garrison) that there are no stupid questions, only stupid people. And by stupid people I mean people who are willfully ignorant of the wider world or of their own capacity for greatness. I write books and I read them. I don't want the answers, not all of them and not all at once, but I would like to think the answers exist. My work occupies altogether too much of my time, so I put a greater premium on enjoying what hours I can truly call my own. I enjoy the usual catalog of cultural pastimes and a few unusual ones. My life, and my eccentricities, are an open, though only sporadically interesting, book. Just ask.

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My Interests

Outside the compulsion with past events that manifests itself in my writing career, my interests are all over the map. I am very much an "ideas" person-- I'm always reading something new or pushing some book into the hands of one suffering friend or another-- and since I was thisclose to going into film school, I am an unrepentant movie buff as well. And I rather enjoy haranguing the multitudes with my varied (always right, often totally unsolicited) opinions on events great and small, national and local, and exactly why it matters that Han shot first.

I'd like to meet:

The glorious failures and botched revolutionaries of world history-- the Jews of Masada, the Ghost Dancers of Wounded Knee, John Reed, everyone who has ever given their life or broken their spirit on the forge of great events. I admire people who wager their all and lose, far more than all the winners the world has ever produced. If the crucial events of history have not been accomplished by beautiful losers, certainly all the events worth remembering have.

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You scored as Hannibal Lecter. You are Hannibal Lecter. You dont need to eat human flesh to live, but do so because it just taste good. You are very intelligent, and enjoy using it to your advantage to keep people guessing. You arent a killing machine, but when you do decide to let loose, watch out! Dinner is served, with some fava beans, and a nice chianti!

Hannibal Lecter

100%

Freddy Krueger

80%

Pinhead

80%

Jigsaw

60%

Buffalo Bill

50%

Candyman

40%

Jason Voorhees

40%

Captain Spaulding

20%

Leatherface

20%

Michael Myers

20%
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Books:

Tolkien made me feel; Adams made me laugh; and Twain made me want to be a writer-- and even now he makes me want to be a better one. Those are the top three. On any given day I am reading half a dozen books ranging from some poli-sci rant to the more obscure Ellison or Asimov. Life's way too short for bad (or, worse, boring) literature.

My Blog

Words to remember

"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, ...
Posted by Tim on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:02:00 PST

Domo Arigato, Mister Kutaragi

Tensai-teki Let us now praise famous tech developers. Ken Kutaragi is retiring. He was the chairman and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. But titles don't mean a whole hell of a lot in the twen...
Posted by Tim on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:16:00 PST

Movie critics beware!

Well, that's interesting-- another fairly unpleasant encounter at the intersection of liberty and commerce, in which liberty (once again) has its front teeth knocked out. Here's the story, as it appea...
Posted by Tim on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:03:00 PST

Alike and different, mostly different

So there's things that remind you of other things. Innocuous things that serve as a launching-pad into contemplation of the great or at least persistent things that lurk, drunk and disorderly, in...
Posted by Tim on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:10:00 PST

Wyatt Earp Days 2007

Tombstone as it looked during Wyatt Earp Days 2007 Most people call it Memorial Day weekend. Around here it's called Wyatt Earp Days-- a three-day event (and fund-raiser) sponsored by the Tombstone Li...
Posted by Tim on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:08:00 PST

The Onion takes on MySpace

This item, from The Onion, ran on the CNN website today. Comment on my part is pretty much unnecessary, except to say that we laugh 'cos it's funny, and we laugh 'cos it's true: BEVERLY HILLS, Ca...
Posted by Tim on Thu, 31 May 2007 12:20:00 PST

future, imperfect

no reason to think of myself in these terms of yoursnor any good reason to think of myself at allfor I do not existand i cannot existas anything more than the half-filled pitcherthat grows heavie...
Posted by Tim on Tue, 22 May 2007 12:56:00 PST

Dad's music

It's that time of the month. The eleventh. It's been a month....two months....three months....four months now. Since he's been gone. For all the other crap that's happened since then-- for all the oth...
Posted by Tim on Sat, 12 May 2007 11:18:00 PST

Four Dead in Ohio

By the spring of 1970 the Nixon Administration's handling of the war in Vietnam had become immensely unpopular. Revelations that U.S. forces had invaded the neighboring country of Cambodia--...
Posted by Tim on Fri, 04 May 2007 10:19:00 PST

Frank Miller in the news geek alert

So, yeah. An article in today's Los Angeles Times has me all a-twitter, full of geek love and nerd rage and every other little thing a committed (perhaps that's should-be-committed) fan-boy could hope...
Posted by Tim on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:33:00 PST