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Greg

I am here for Friends

About Me

For clarity’s sake, here’s me…Jackie Greene, good. Jackie Collins, bad. Old music, good. Unintelligible bass noises coming out of small imported cars, bad. Kings, good. Lakers, bad. Gay weddings, good. Elvis weddings, good, but campy. Waterslide park weddings, unforgivable. A-Team, good. Airwolf, bad. Pork tenderloin with a balsamic, rosemary reduction, good. Vegan baked goods, bad. Movies with Italian guys named Paulie, good. Movies with ADD surfer-dude from MTV named Pauly, bad. Zoo trips with my nephew, good. Zoo trips where my nephew throws up the 14 snow cones I let him have, bad.

My Interests

Cooking, Movies, Jazz, comedy Improv, mystery novels, www.sacrag.com, www.saccomedyspot.com.

I'd like to meet:

People of various mindsets.

Music:

Cannonball Addreley, J.J. Johnson, Keith Jarret, Sonny Rollins, Grant Green, Gateway, Charles Mingus...stop me when I get to a name you recognize

Movies:

Hunt for Red October, Goodfellas, Fish Called Wanda, Dial M For Murder, Big Lebowski

Television:

The Shiled, Law & Order, Chapelle's Show, Arrested Development, Iron Chef

Books:

Free Fall-Robert Crais, Maltese Falcon, Generations of Winter-Vasiliy Askyov, anything Travis McGee, Count of Monte Cristo

Heroes:

Columbo, FDR, Phillip Marlowe, Nick Faldo, my grandma, Larry Bird

My Blog

www.sacrag.com

For all posts by Greg, check out www.sacrag.com under "sac-eats."
Posted by Greg on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:09:00 PST

Bathroom Tissue for Dummies

There are few things in this world more intimate than the relationship between you and your toilet paper. Without anesthesia, not too many folks are as familiar with your muddy starfish than your Char...
Posted by Greg on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Big Guy Upstairs

Ok, this has been taken a little too far. I just saw a guy on the world series of poker do one of those pat the chest and point to the heavens things after he won a particularly big hand. Are you ki...
Posted by Greg on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Monkey Business

There are small pieces of information you pick up along your travels, the collective roadside litter of information highway travelers. Some of this stuff is totally obscure and worthless, like a potte...
Posted by Greg on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Sad Existence of the Cubicle Monkey

I was depressed today, no wait, depressed is not nearly a strong enough word. I was dejected, whole heartedly dejected, the way you would be if you were not able to get it up on your only trip to the ...
Posted by Greg on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Labels

I need a new radio, well, not quite a radio, but a unit that will play a tape, cd, have a remote and sleep function but still be portable. Back in the day, we used to refer to these as ghetto blasters...
Posted by Greg on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Jacket and Tie Required

Has anyone else noticed that in all the photo ops and newsreels you see of Bush and Kerry, neither wears a tie anymore? When did the presidency become business casual? You are either trying to be, o...
Posted by Greg on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Inflation

I was thinking, with the pace of inflation, at some point in the past a penny would have been considered a good tip. This leads me to believe that if President James A Garfield were alive today, hed ...
Posted by Greg on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Weve Upped Our Standards, Now Up Yours

I was sitting at my computer the other day filling out one of the myriad internet profiles for the various groups out there, and I came across the question, What type of sense of humor do you have?...
Posted by Greg on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Judgement Days a Comin', Have on Clean Underwear

I, for one, was happy to see that another book about the end of the world has been received with rave indifference and passionate apathy. Pastor J.D. Faust recently released his new book (and Im not ...
Posted by Greg on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST