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Chris

We're your friends, man; we're not like the others.

About Me

Intuitive, self-aware, easily entertained, quirky, musical, literary, athletic, unsatisfied.

My Interests

Running, reading, writing, music and smoking cigars.

I'd like to meet:

A genie, a leprechaun, Oscar Wilde.

Music:

(It's perfectly reasonable to judge a man by his taste in music) The Smiths, Bjork, Wilco, Tricky, Outkast (Andre 3000!), The Strokes, The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow Parliment, Bizet, Brahms, Prince, How to Win at Life, Weezer, Billy Joel, Futureheads, Bright Eyes

Movies:

Magnolia, Cinema Paradiso, The Royal Tenenbaums, Amadeus, Happy Gilmore, Boogie Nights, Tampopo, The Three Amigos, Punch-Drunk Love. I also have a soft spot for cheesy B movies.

Television:

Ali G, Sex in the City, Curb your Enthusiasm, The Colbert Report, King of the Hill.

Books:

The Brothers Karamazov, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned, Fear and Trembling, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, War and Peace, The Trial, The Sun Also Rises, The Fall, The Last Tycoon, Atonement, Everything is Illuminated.

Heroes:

Oscar Wilde, Soren Kierkegaard, Dan Rather, My parents, My sister.

My Blog

I go to the nastiest gym in Los Angeles

I go the nastiest gym in Los Angeles. And I challenge anyone to put their gym up against the filthy, sleezy and perv-filled Bally's Total Fitness where I go exclusively for the treadmill and pool. N...
Posted by Chris on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 07:41:00 PST

Best of the best emails

So my jackball friends and I take intermittent breaks throughout the day to indulge our sophomoric senses of humor -- via email. So I thought it might be fun to share some of the fruits of our immatu...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:41:00 PST

Blog: Attack of the lawyers

With some exceptions, most of my closest friends are attorneys. Going to law school just happened to be what we post-Generation Xers did. And what's great about my lawyer friends -- well, other than t...
Posted by Chris on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:40:00 PST

Everybody's got one special thing.

To paraphrase Dirk Diggler, "We've all got something, right? Everyone's got one special thing." Well I pin-pointed my special thing the other day. In fact, I have two. And I'm convinced tha...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 18 May 2007 03:29:00 PST

Call for papers...

The El Scuz and Glen Feliz Institute of Economics is issuing a call for papers for its annual essay contest.This year's topic: Inflation: Why hasn't it hit strip clubs?..:namespace prefix = o ns = "u...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 18 May 2007 09:00:00 PST

The greatest pick-up that never was

So here's the scene: It's the big Korean man's birthday, so a quadumverate of attorneys, plus one reporter, head to a restaurant, La Opera, for dinner and drinks. We're waiting for our table, drinking...
Posted by Chris on Sat, 12 May 2007 10:07:00 PST