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Toren Atkinson

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

I'm the lead singer for The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - listen to samples at www.thickets.net and buy our albums on amazon or cdbabyI'm an illustrator (mainly of fantasy, scifi and horror) - View my gallery and order prints at http://torenatkinson.deviantart.com/gallery/I am a professional voiceover artist for cartoons, video games, etc and you can hear my character and commercial v/o demos at http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~thickets/spamfilm.htm

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Nerds in Vancouver

My Blog

Best of Toren’s blog

If you aren't already a regular reader of my blog, here are my choices for THE BEST OF TOREN'S ABSOLUTE BLOG entries for 2007DEEPLY PERSONAL ISSUES = HILARIOUSChristmas Magic Came Out of My Guthttp://...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:28:00 GMT

Why I Don't Like Patriotism or Competitive Sports.

"There can be no world peace while patriotism exists" -someone.see also [old blog entry link]Patriotism is kind of like hockey. We cheer for our club out of pride - sometimes pride for excellence, but...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:32:00 GMT

Slackademics: Another Nerdy Success Story

Slackademics: Comicology 101 went over bright and beautiful tonight. Martin gave a bit of a talk on the social origins and development of American comics which sparked some intriguing discussion. Ther...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:13:00 GMT

I was Interviewed for Night of the Living Podcast

If you've got 42 minutes to kill you can listen to me being interviewed by the gents at Night of the Living Podcast. We talk about HPL (of course) in film and gaming, Nomeansno, the origins of the ban...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:08:00 GMT

World Wildlife Federation of Justice

Just in case you haven't seen them yet: http://www.thickets.net/toren/archives/2006/06/20/world-wild life-federation-of-justice-and-their-foes/...for all your funny animal superhero needs!
Posted by on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:01:00 GMT

Slackademics

Yeah, school is okay, but theres another way to learn things. People I know have lots of skills. They are willing to share them, and they want to learn new ones, and nobody has to spend any moneyjust ...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:18:00 GMT

Hoctor Doo

Joe lended me (yeah, I said lended) the complete first season of the new Dr Who (Christopher Eccleson), which I am now going to talk about. I like Dr Who. My favourite doctor is probably the first ...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 01:10:00 GMT

Migraine

I was working on a new Horribles at work to post tonight, but at about 3pm I noticed a hole in my vision. A blind spot that is the precursor to a migraine. Ive had 5 or 6 of them in my life. The ve...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 01:09:00 GMT

Enron Hubbard

The Enron goons were convicted of fraud and conspiracy and face many years in jail. Which I think is wrong, and Ill tell you why. I read that the judge set a $5 million US bond. I dont know what the d...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 01:08:00 GMT

Lazy Layman Part 2

So I've been further considering this "Introduction To..." communal grassroots (god I hate that word) educational system. I could make a new blog for it (vancouverfreelearning.blogspot.com?), which wo...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:47:00 GMT