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About Me

I used to be cool, in my head. Then I got old. Now that coolness has seemingly evaded me, I have set my sights lower. I currently aspire to be better than: Hitler, Pauly Shore, Jan-Michael Vincent, Beelzebub, melted ice cream, black licorice, brussel sprouts, liver and onions, Culture Club, Atari 2600 joysticks (half-life = 2 months), Mama's Family, Titanic, US Olympic television coverage, fat girls wearing tight pants with midriffs bared, lame uninspired tattoos, hangnails, paper/cardboard cuts, mosquitoes, the squirrel that chewed through my garbage can, turtle doves that wake me up in the morning, life without air conditioning, my smelly socks, crack invading underwear, meth dealers, people that think Sinbad is funny, Sinbad, salmon cakes / patties / whatever else they might be called, emo- bands, and missed three foot putts for birdie. So far, I'm batting about .500 on my new-found goals . . .

My Interests

Music, sports, outdoors, wildlife, biochemical discovery, discussions of religion / philosophy, various things me mum and da wouldn't want to know about . . .(oh, and appending ellipses to a large percentage of my thoughts and writings)

I'd like to meet:

David Lowery, Neil Gaiman, Steve Earle, Tim Burton, Lou Holtz, Charlie Weis; in the off-chance that none of the aforementioned are hanging around myspace looking to meet me, then I'm also up for meeting anyone with similar tastes in music, non-bandwagon sports fans, people with cool tattoos, animal lovers, people who live in cool places that like to offer up their sweet living quarters to virtual strangers, open-minded christians, anyone who makes or knows where to find good mexican or cajun/creole food, anyone who wants to serve as my personal punching bag when i get frustrated, or anyone else who doesn't think they're better than me (until / unless they've proven it . . .)

Music:

Cracker, DMB, Son Volt, Wilco, Queens of the Stone Age, Garbage, Audioslave, Soundgarden, Steve Earle, Del McCoury Band, Whiskeytown, Ryan Adams, Guster, Tift Merritt, Radiohead (especially The Bends), Jayhawks, U2, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, The Who, Hem

Movies:

Nightmare Before Christmas, The Usual Suspects, Batman Begins, Hoosiers, Sin City, School of Rock, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars (even the new ones, but not as much), Garden State, Dumb and Dumber, Top Secret, O Brother Where Art Thou, American Beauty, The Matrix, Shrek, Austin Powers, Punch Drunk Love, Tommy Boy, The Ring, V for Vendetta

Television:

The Simpsons, Family Guy, NFL, NHL, PGA, college basketball and football

Books:

Anything by Neil Gaiman or C.S. Lewis; Fantasy (especially A Song of Ice and Fire, Otherland, and what I've read thus far from China Mieville), science-related non-fiction; Bible (Ecclesiastes affirms much of my view of the world)

Heroes:

Jesus; I admire many others, but wouldn't aspire to be exactly like any other . . .

My Blog

Living in the Vacation State

We have friends staying at Disney for two weeks, and we're off to see them at one of the Disney waterparks today. We now have season passes to Seaworld, and after staying at a hotel tonight, we'll be...
Posted by Keyser Soze on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:52:00 PST

I’m a real writer now . . .

I received my first rejection. I assumed that I was aiming too high, but I thought (and still believe) that it was worth a shot. I'll aim high 2 or 3 more times with this story, looking for someplac...
Posted by Keyser Soze on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:28:00 PST

Any football fans out there . . .

who might be interested in a fantasy football league -- let me know. I've got a few slots open still. The draft is set for this coming Friday night . . .
Posted by Keyser Soze on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:07:00 PST

Happy Birthday!

Today is my wife's birthday. She's 21, I believe (or perhaps a bit older -- we don't age quite the same here in the land of faerie).. I don't talk much about her here because there are pieces of me ...
Posted by Keyser Soze on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:07:00 PST

Things I Found at the Community Pool Today . . .

Or, I Don't Mind If People Want To Live on the Edge and Have A Good Time, but I'd Prefer That They Clean up after ThemselvesOur community has a pool. Almost everyone who lives in this area is forced ...
Posted by Keyser Soze on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:17:00 PST

A Thousand Tales to Tell

and only five minutes to tell them . . .My parents are in town for the week, and that makes the week a vacation for us. Golf today and Monday (at the supposedly wonderful World Woods golf complex), d...
Posted by Keyser Soze on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 05:36:00 PST

I'm getting better . . .

"No you're not." Thud.This past Wednesday evening, I began feeling ill. I was awake most of the night with fever, chills, nausea, and giant green monsters in my closet. By Thursday evening, my feve...
Posted by Keyser Soze on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:06:00 PST

On the verge . . .

Still no submission yet, but I'm on the verge. I've decided to call the completed story "Bad Hair Days" -- the beginning of the story was posted here several months ago. In approximately 6500 words, ...
Posted by Keyser Soze on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:22:00 PST

Freedom

It's still in great abundance in your home town. It's all around us, begging us to open our eyes, to drink until our thirst is quenched. We cry out against perceived slights and injustices, against...
Posted by Keyser Soze on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:02:00 PST

The Long-Anticipated Return . . .

Well, perhaps that's an overstatement. Someone will probably read this, though. And I've had some personal anticipation of posting something new . . . I'm going to skip the normal blog ro...
Posted by Keyser Soze on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:44:00 PST