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Mike

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About Me

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My Interests

Music, Politics, Cryptozoology, Forteana, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Computers, Title Insurance

I'd like to meet:

Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Bill Clinton, Mario Cuomo, David Gilmour and Roger Waters, Bob Seger, John Edwards, Loren Coleman and John Keel, Dr. Karl Shuker, Barack Obama, Ted Rall, New York Times columnists Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman, Helen Thomas, US Senator Sherrod Brown and newspaper columnist Connie Schultz, Chris Dodd, Howard Dean

Music:

Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Eric Clapton, the Eagles, Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band, Queen, Duane Allman, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, The October Project, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Thin Lizzy, Harry Chapin, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Simon and Garfunkle, Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix, AC/DC, The Moody Blues, Art Of Infinity, Santana, The Clash, The Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Jeff Beck, Bonnie Raitt, Melissa Etheridge, Tom Petty, 38 Special, ELO, ZZ Top, Yes, Boz Scaggs, David Bowie, Heart, Van Halen, Steely Dan, Patrick Ball, Journey, Enya, John Fogerty, Leon Russell, The Doobie Brothers, Ray Lynch, The Allman Brothers Band, Jackson Browne, Cheap Trick, Mostly Autumn, Blue Oyster Cult and finally... The Cleveland Orchestra.

Movies:

Blade Runner, Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Star Wars series, Somewhere In Time, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Apocalypse Now, Indiana Jones Trilogy, The Lion In Winter, The Seven Samurai, Good Night and Good Luck, A Few Good Men, The Doors, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Airplane, The Hunt For Red October, Chariots Of Fire, A Small Circle Of Friends, Inherit The Wind, Repo Man, Crossroads, Gotham, Groundhog Day, Blazing Saddles, Seven Days In May, Highlander, 1969, The Blues Brothers, The Year of Living Dangerously, Metropolis, On The Beach, 1941, Men In Black, All That Jazz, Field Of Dreams, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, A Clockwork Orange, Excalibur, The Star Trek Series, Romeo and Juliet (1968), Fantasia, This Is Spinal Tap, Silent Running, Alien, Aliens

Television:

Current shows: Jericho and Lost. All time favorites: Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, X-Files, Kolchak, The Night Stalker (1974 version), LA Law, Cosmos, Miami Vice, the Masada mini series, the Shogun mini series, Rich Man/Poor Man miniseries, Star Trek, Beauty and The Beast

Books:

Watchmen - the graphic novel, Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, the Kane series by Karl Edward Wagner, The Amber Series by Roger Zelazny, *anything* by Loren Coleman or John Keel, Carnivorous Nights, Dr Karl Shuker, Vincent Gaddis, Stanton Friedman, The Dinosaur Heresies, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Ivan Sanderson, Out Of The Shadows - Mystery Animals of Australia, Robert Anton Wilson, The Coming Global Super Storm, The Brethren, The Antagonists, The Great Extinction, What Dreams May Come, On The Track Of Unknown Animals, William O. Douglas: The Court Years, Cosmos, The Goblin Universe, Vanished Species, Alien Animals, Tesla: Man Out Of Time, Douglas Adams, Jim Marrs, Cosmos by Carl Sagan, The Area 51 Series

Heroes:

Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Edward R. Murrow, Robert F. Kennedy, Harry Chapin, Elliot Richardson, Carl Sagan, Mario Cuomo, Earl Warren

My Blog

Whats in store for Bush in 2009

I figure that once Bush is a former president, and doesn’t have the shield of the U.S. Presidency to hide behind, he along with Donald Rumsfeld, will be indicted by the International Criminal Co...
Posted by Mike on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:49:00 PST

People who I miss...

Jane O'Toole  I miss her very much. She was the love of my life. Tom Evans  he was a very close friend. I miss his humor, I miss talking to him about comic books and super heros, tin soldiers, cat...
Posted by Mike on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:04:00 PST

An Evil Presence In America

I'm becoming more and more convinced that the Republican party is just plain EVIL. They used to run around ranting about "values" - well their values certainly aren't MY values. I have absolutely noth...
Posted by Mike on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:16:00 PST

Ozymandias and George Bush

"I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and ...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:32:00 PST

Jersey Girl - by Bruce Springsteen

A short blog: It's a beautiful song, and Bruce Springsteen does a marvelous cover of the Tom Waits song. See the embeded video on my site. Playing that song to a Jersey crowd brings out a lot of emoti...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:56:00 PST

Edward R. Murrow

Quick observation: Edward R. Murrow *was* a god. He was the type of journalist who comes along once in a century. We could use someone like him now, when the government is out of control, and the news...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:07:00 PST

Profiles In Integrity

You know, I can remember watching Elliot Richardson's confirmation hearings, for Attorney General, on TV. This was a time when Watergate was very big news, and Elliot was asked by the senators on the ...
Posted by Mike on Wed, 23 May 2007 06:11:00 PST

A War Criminal

George W. Bush  nothing more need be said. At the close of the Second World War, we had tribunals who brought Nazi and Japanese war criminals to trial. It was a time for them to answer for their at...
Posted by Mike on Wed, 02 May 2007 05:48:00 PST

The Intellect Of A Chipmunk

This is simply an observation that George W. Bush has got to be the stupidest man to ever occupy the White House. We could, I suppose, debate whether he is inherently evil - he is after all a Republi...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:52:00 PST

Misery and Suffering

I truly feel that most of the suffering and misery in this country can be laid at the feet of the Republican Party. They are almost entirely controlled by the religious fanatics of the Right Wing, and...
Posted by Mike on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:05:00 PST