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Prince of Dorkness

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About Me

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My Interests

Food, good beer, good wine, hiking, backpacking, music, good cigars, films, the paranormal, preparing for the coming zombie invasion...

I'd like to meet:

Cranky misanthropes, Les Claypool, Joe Montana, someone who can take a joke, an honest politician, anyone who realizes that our freedom is slipping away.

Music:

KMFDM, Clutch, Radiohead, Reel Big Fish, Stereolab, Stereophonics, The Whole Bolivian Army, The Black Keys, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, Rage Against the Machine, VALIS, Place of Skulls, The Crystal Method, The Prodigy, Fanny Alger, Morphine, Tenacious D, The Mos Generator, Fugazi, Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Tool, Dream Theater, Sublime, Gomez, Primus, Willie Nelson, Fu Manchu, Johnny Cash, Bob Mould, Tito Puente

Movies:

The Matador, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, The Animatrix, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Brotherhood of the Wolf, The Princess Bride, Super Troopers, Office Space, How to Steal a Million, Clerks, Mallrats, 28 Days Later, Hellraiser, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Ravenous, The Hunger, Cat People, Godzilla Versus Mothra, True Romance, Bruce Lee films, Fargo, Raising Arizona, Uncle Buck...Any Jackie Chan movie, Old School, Dark City

Television:

There is no better show on television than Boston Legal. Shatner is the man. Also, Doctor Who and Torchwood aren't bad at all. Oh, and Curb Your Enthusiasm is great. Can't get enough of Flight of the Conchords...

Books:

Ishmael, The Holographic Universe, The Roots of Coincidence, Fingerprints of the Gods, Catcher in the Rye, A Clockwork Orange, Deep Thoughts-Volume I, The Snow Leopard, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hell's Angels, The Tao Te Ching

Heroes:

Holden Caulfield, Tyler Durden, Tommy the Cat, Bruce Lee, Brandon Lee, Hunter S. Thompson, M. William Cooper, any parent who busts their ass to support their family and still makes time for their kids.

My Blog

Conquering with inaction

I haven't been reading the Tao for quite some time now, but sometimes I find things there that make sense at a time when I have questions, or at least they sound like something that could be applied t...
Posted by Prince of Dorkness on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:32:00 PST

The Good Life

No matter how fantastic life is, I think the tendency is to want more. Nothing is ever quite good enough. Well, I volunteer to be the exception here; I’m very happy with my life, and I don&rsquo...
Posted by Prince of Dorkness on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:13:00 PST

Blogging out my blowhole

WARNING: Contains adult language and anger. Proceed at your own peril.For those who have missed my angry venting, your prayers have been temporarily answered. Too many things have been sticking in my ...
Posted by Prince of Dorkness on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:18:00 PST

Digital Revisionist

When we look at photos from our family albums, we find ourselves amused at how we've changed, how our friends and relatives have changed. The funny things we used to wear, the odd hairstyles, the unwr...
Posted by Prince of Dorkness on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:29:00 PST

The Lorax Winds Down

Facing the mortality of our parents is something that most of us will have to face someday, if we haven't already. With both of my parents in poor health, this is on my mind in a significant way curre...
Posted by Prince of Dorkness on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:57:00 PST

Smoke on the water, and fire in my ashtray

When you finally make the decision, after using your ashtray as a coin holder for twenty-some years, to use that device as God intended it to be used, you can no longer attempt to disguise yourself as...
Posted by Prince of Dorkness on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:04:00 PST

Now rocking you twice as hard

After fourteen years of being without a guitar, I now own two. It's going to take me a while to learn things all over again, but I'm damn good and ready. I've heard rumors that Meatbomb is looking fo...
Posted by Prince of Dorkness on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:39:00 PST

The "M" Word

Metrosexual is a word that's bandied about all too much these days. It seems to be a catch-all to encompass any male that's comfortable enough in his sexuality not to wear the macho façade too serious...
Posted by Prince of Dorkness on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:33:00 PST

Something to think about

"It is easier to extinguish the light within yourself than to fight the darkness around you"Paraphrased from the Russian film "Night Watch".
Posted by Prince of Dorkness on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 09:00:00 PST

Helloween pictures. Finally.

Pictures from the Helloween party can be found @http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLandingSignin.jsp?Uc=ag65p fi.8d82wse&Uy=-f0wpcu&Upost_signin=Slideshow.jsp%3Fm ode%3Dfromshare&Ux=1...
Posted by Prince of Dorkness on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:35:00 PST