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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

The Feebles.

Music:

Jethro Tull; Wagner; Mekons; Django Reinhardt; Boards of Canada; Tom Waits; T. Rex; Rameau; The Monkees; Can; Chuck Pyle; Syd Straw; John Coltrane; Spice Girls; Carrie Newcomer; Portishead; Mel Torme; Borodin; Varttina; Neil Young; Frank Sinatra; Cibo Matto; Propellerheads; Rick Nelson; Souled American; The Kinks; Brave Combo; The Polyphonic Spree; The Ice Cubes

Movies:

Inland Empire; Local Hero; The Manchurian Candidate; How to Get Ahead in Advertising; The American Astronaut; Some Girls; Solaris (Tarkovsky version); Seconds; West Side Story; Blazing Saddles; The Kids Are Alright

Television:

Babylon 5; Heroes; Highlander; Homicide: Life on the Street; Firefly; Angel; Buffy; Doctor Who (classic and current); The Daily Show; Rumpole of the Bailey; Hu$tle; Hong Kong Phooey; The Prisoner; The Hudson Brothers' Razzle Dazzle Show; Battlestar Galactica (current); The Land of the Lost; I, Claudius; Sex, Chips & Rock-n-Roll; The Second Coming

Books:

AUTHORS: Anthony Powell; Alasdair Gray; Charles Dickens; Ian Rankin; Stansilaw Lem; Harlan Ellison; Robert Caro; Antonia Fraser

Heroes:

John Paul Stevens; Jackie Robinson; Harlan Ellison; Charles Darwin; Gwendolyn Brooks

My Blog

Dont bother voting

Ron Paul has just sown up next year's presidential election. Y'see, I'm batting 1.000 with presidential candidates: if ever I attend one of their rallies (whether I support them or not), they become o...
Posted by Steve P.-O. on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:53:00 PST

the middle ages

well, i've made it.i hit 40, and survived.and now i've got an iPod. and i'm typing in lower case letters. can a red trans am like the one hooper drove be far behind?might as well embrace my second chi...
Posted by Steve P.-O. on Tue, 01 May 2007 08:31:00 PST

I'm an adult now

You know you're a grown-up when you do your laundry the day before going to visit your parents for the weekend.
Posted by Steve P.-O. on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:59:00 PST

A curse upon you Oliver Cromwell

My wife is so cool. It's not your everyday married couple that can crack jokes about the English Civil War.The other morn, as our dog, Maya, was following my every move, the missus said that she is ve...
Posted by Steve P.-O. on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:55:00 PST

Wanna know something weird?

Some galaxies are rushing away from us at speeds greater than the speed of light, so the light emitted from those galaxies will never reach us! That's just freaky.
Posted by Steve P.-O. on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:35:00 PST

I smell the blood of an Englishman!

So I went to a stellar show last night by legendary English folkies Waterson:Carthy. (Sadly, there were no technical "Watersons" there, as Norma Waterson is having some health issues and couldn't make...
Posted by Steve P.-O. on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:30:00 PST

You know it's February in Chicago when ...

You look at the weather forecast and get excited to see it'll be warming up to 18°F (8°C) today!Earlier this week, we had a day with a High of 0°F (17°C), so 18 is a very welcome warm-up. It's refre...
Posted by Steve P.-O. on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:35:00 PST

The People: 1; Chicago Sun-Times: 0

Last year, in a truly bone-headed move, the Chicago Sun-Times decided that it would no longer publish its weekly TV PREVUE supplement to the Sunday edition. Their reasoning: with so much TV info onlin...
Posted by Steve P.-O. on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:20:00 PST

Toilet training

Occasionally at work, when I head into the men's room, I'll find toilet paper on the toilet seat. I understand that there some very germ-conscious people who wish to have a barrier betwixt their botto...
Posted by Steve P.-O. on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:54:00 PST

Gettin' dirty

I'm quite excited about getting dirty this summer.I've just decided on a 6-week archaeological field school in the Four Corners area of New Mexico. It's been a few years since I re-caught the archaeol...
Posted by Steve P.-O. on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:08:00 PST