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Chris

I dreamt I was eating a large, tasteless gumdrop

About Me

When you sneeze, I won't say "God bless you" because I don't believe in that higher power hocus-pocus. I'll say "Gesundheit" - even though I'm not German - or "You're soooo good-lookin'" because that was funny on Seinfeld.

My Interests

soccer, movies, t.v., reading, cooking, hiking, board games, subject/verb agreement

I'd like to meet:

A gangster's moll.

Music:

Pixies, Sinatra, Cinerama, Pet Shop Boys, Postal Service, My Favorite, Red House Painters, Frozen Embryos, Indomitable Spirit, ZookeepaZ

Movies:

The Apartment, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Shop Around the Corner, Manhattan, Metropolitan, The General, Safety Last, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Kicking and Screaming (1995), Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Grease 2

Television:

It's Like You Know, The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm, My So-Called Life, Seinfeld, Three's Company, The Dukes of Hazzard, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Psycho Dad, Pale Force

Books:

Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Less Than Zero, Post Office, Election

Heroes:

Papa Smurf and the inventor of string cheese (assuming they're separate entities)

My Blog

Liberating Paris...with Hilarity!

The most brilliant stuff re: Paris Hilton.  Thank you, Jake Byrd! http://www.dailymotion.com/tag/paris/video/x27niv_paris-hilt on-jake-byrd...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:06:00 PST

Spiderman, Discombobulation and the Great Bane

You know how epileptics are having seizures when they see the new Olympic logo? That kind of how I felt at a certain moment when watching Spiderman 3. Well that's probably an exaggeration. Alright, yo...
Posted by Chris on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:46:00 PST

Biweekly Thoughts of the Day - Billy, Frank, Peter, Bjorn and John

Sweater FashionThe other day I was watching Twin Peaks and it got me to thinking about sweater fashion. Billy Zane was wearing a really sweet-ass sweater, only he had it tucked into his pants. What ...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 28 May 2007 12:11:00 PST

Weekly Thought of the Day - the Afterlife

Everybody always talks about the afterlife.  Well what about the beforelife?  If life has a finite start, why not a finite end?  Or conversely, if it is infinite after death, why not be...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 15 May 2007 12:28:00 PST

TV Censorship and Religious Ninnies

O.k., so I'm watching Scrubs on Comedy Central the other day and Dr. Cox says, "I swear to Aisha..." followed by something that was rubbing him raw. Who the hell says "I swear to Aisha?" Who the hel...
Posted by Chris on Sun, 13 May 2007 01:43:00 PST

10 Things That Are Pissing Me Off Right Now

Allow me to figuratively doff my cap to those that have done this list before me and offer up my own rant. This list is apolitical; otherwise 7 of the 10 would be occupied by King George, the WH Admi...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 11 May 2007 06:57:00 PST

Weekly Thought of the Day - The Ultimate Mad Genius?

Why do deists usually believe that God acts in a comforting way that they want God to act, that God is fair, just and caring despite a complete lack of evidence attesting to that?  Why not b...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 07 May 2007 09:51:00 PST

Brilliant quote

from The End of Faith by Sam Harris:"Imagine that we could revive a well-educated Christian of the fourteenth century.  The man would prove to be a total ignoramus, except on matters of faith.  His be...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 01 May 2007 11:25:00 PST

Weekly Thought of the Day - Ghosts & the Living

If most people who are alive don't want to be dead, why do we assume that people who are dead want to be alive?  Seems to me that the living are very self-centered with that life-is-so-much-bette...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:35:00 PST

All Hail the Cucumber Cartel

There are many vegetables which are pickled:  onions, cauliflower, beets, asparagus, carrots, snap peas, hell, even beans which of course aren't vegetables but are earth-grown and healthy so they...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:59:00 PST