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About Me

"When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch..."
-John Steinbeck

"We are practicing not weightlifting but commitment. Commitment spawns success. Only by redoubling our efforts do we best succeed. Expecting success to motivate our efforts is the loser's gambit."
-Coach Greg Glassman

"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."
-Oscar Wilde

And my current favorite:
"People ask me, 'what do I do for abs?'... I tell them, 'stabilize the mid-line like a motherfucker, that's what you do'."
- Coach Greg Glassman

My Interests

I am interested in that first sip of ice cold beer on a July afternoon, hitting a perfect drive on the 18th hole, Taco Bell at 2:30am on a Friday night, Saturday mornings in Norman during the Fall, waking up without an alarm clock, that fifth beer at a bar when the night starts to get interesting, and a good hungover breakfast with friends collectively trying to figure out what happened the night before.

I'd like to meet:

Bob Sacamano, Joe Mayo, Art Vandelay, The Drake, H.E. Pennypacker, Harry Fong, Dr. Van Nostrand, J. Peterman, Kenny Banya, Mr Pitt, Sid Farkus, Slippery Pete, and David Puddy.

Music:

Guster, Jerry Jeff Walker, Roger Creager, Johnny Cash, old Pat Green.

Movies:

The Princess Bride, The Big Lebowski, American Psycho, Almost Famous, Lonesome Dove, Beautiful Girls, Heat, The Shawshank Redemption, A River Runs Through It, and of course, Top Gun. I'm also addicted to those director commentaries on good DVD's.

Television:

Seinfeld, The West Wing, Scrubs, The Office.

Books:

Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, A Confederacy of Dunces, East of Eden, The 48 Laws of Power, Into the Wild, Freakonomics, Catch-22, Don't Stop the Carnival, Travels with Charley in Search of America, Survivor.

Heroes:

John Galt