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geoff tate

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About Me

I do stand up comedy. I prefer baseball to the other sports, and I think you're wrong if you disagree with that. Football is for meatheads and basketball is for rap fans. I like sandwiches and sleeping late. I like to read and I hate the glorification of stupidity. Smart people are better than dumb people-by definition.

My Interests

the Chicago Cubs, watching television, the never-ending quest for the perfect sandwich

I'd like to meet:

Hunter S. Thompson, Thompson's lawyer, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Petty, the Earl of Sandwich, people who know what the Alamo is all about, Kerouac, Mitch Hedberg, Jesus and/or Santa Claus, Bill Murray, Mark Grace, Peter Gammons, Warren Zevon, David Letterman, Al Franken, Bob Dylan, any member of Monty Python, Bill Cosby

Music:

Tom Petty, Todd Snider, Ryan Adams, Robert Earl Keen, Waylon and Shooter Jennings, Drive-By Truckers, Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis, Elvis Costello, Wilco, Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, The Band, Jerry Reed, Bob Dylan, James McMurtry, The White Stripes, Warren Zevon, Matthew Sweet, Jay Bennett, The Black Crowes, Lyle Lovett, Bruce Springsteen, The 77s, Counting Crows and pretty much anything else the puts me back in high school

Movies:

Fletch, The Big Lebowski, anything with Bill Murray or John Cusack, the original trilogy, The Princess Bride

Television:

Arrested Development, Psych, The Office (US), Seinfeld, Cheers, Baseball Tonight, Curb Your Enthusiasm

Books:

Ball Four and any other book about baseball, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Nick Hornby, Douglas Coupland, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Friend, Al Franken's books, books about the Zodiac killer...I also read alot of mystery novels. Alot. Like three a week.

Heroes:

I'm still sticking with Mark Grace.

My Blog

once again...

ESPN should really look into starting their own Yankees-Red Sox network.  The baseball season started two weeks ago and they have already shown 100 games from each of them and 50 games where they...
Posted by geoff tate on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:03:00 PST

Tuesday night...

...the Women’s College Basketball Championship game will be played.  I knew you didn’t know that. ps:  I think it’s on TV this year. ps:  The WNBA Draft is also on TV ...
Posted by geoff tate on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:51:00 PST

new blog

Baseball season has started.  You know how I know?  Ken Griffey, Jr just got hurt.  (I wrote that joke in 2003.)  I hope Paris Hilton one day gets control over the entire hotel ch...
Posted by geoff tate on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:47:00 PST

buffalo

I was in Buffalo, NY, with Mike Birbiglia and Christian Finnegan and after the show the owner of the theater gave us a tour which included going on the roof.  To get to the roof, we had to walk a...
Posted by geoff tate on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:45:00 PST

massage

I stayed in a really nice hotel in San Fransisco that was also a spa.  The spa had a massage parlor so decided this would be a good time to get my first massage.  There are two time incremen...
Posted by geoff tate on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:41:00 PST

before I was born...

...my parents thought I was going to be a girl.  This happens like 8% of the time and if this happens to you, I have a few suggestions.  1.  Never tell your son you thought he was goin...
Posted by geoff tate on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:09:00 PST

tis the season...

I bought my wife a puppy for Christmas this year.  He is adorable.  My wife says it's the best Christmas ever.  Two years ago, on Christmas, I proposed to her.  Sounds about right.
Posted by geoff tate on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:40:00 PST

San Diego

I did University of San Diego yesterday.  Usually, a college sends a college kid in a Saturn or a Jeep I can't smoke in to get me from the airport, but this one sent a car service.  There wa...
Posted by geoff tate on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:35:00 PST

Nebraska

I am somewhere in Nebraska and about to go to the Buffalo Bill Wild West Museum and Ranch and Gift Shop.  I have never been more excited about anything in the last two days.  Plus, I am driv...
Posted by geoff tate on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:29:00 PST

Madison Wisconsin

I had a burger today that came with bacon, cheddar cheese and a bratwurst on a pretzel roll.  I wonder which Belushi thought it up. 
Posted by geoff tate on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:52:00 PST