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About Me

I love my wife.
I love my family.
I read a lot of books.
I train in Aikido and play Capoeira to keep my body healthy.
I play chess to keep my mind healthy.
I want a bulldog.
I play a lot of video games.
I'm back in school.
I'm lazy.
I have a strong work ethic.
I play drums.
I watch anime.
I wrote a lot of poetry when I was a teenager.
I like Disney.
I love food.
I plan to have a child or two one day.
I often wish I had more money.
I'm afraid of what I would be like if I had more money.
I am an actor.
I will publish a book one day.
I daydream a lot.
I don't have many friends, but I trust the ones I have implicitly.
I'm often insecure.
I once had long hair.
I like British candy.
I can probably destroy you at Tekken or Soul Calibur.
I'm very good at Mario Kart, but not great.
I'm a sitting duck in Halo.
I am intelligent.
I get frustrated at not being as intelligent as I want to be.
I am scared of losing my wits.
I don't talk much.
I sometimes talk too loudly.
I am a procrastinator.
I can dance passably well.
I am shy.
I crave adulation.
I don't know how to take a compliment.
I'm bored.
I'm generally happy.

My Interests

Tea.
Discovering the small pleasures in life.
Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Libraries and Archives.
Music of any kind.
Martial arts.
Chess.
Good restaurants.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet myself, on stage playing "Johnny B. Goode" on the guitar. Temporal paradoxes be damned. Great Scott!

Music:

Currently: Queens of the Stone Age, R.E.M., Muse, Phenomenauts, The Ditty Bops, Polysics, Gogol Bordello, Flogging Molly, Foo Fighters

Movies:

Too many to name.

Television:

Arrested Development, The Sopranos, Heroes, Journeyman, The Office, Rome, 24, Scrubs, CSI: Las Vegas, Firefly, Stargate: SG1, Stargate: Atlantis, MI-5

Books:

Most recently: Shadowplay by Tad Williams, A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin, Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay, and Candy Girl by Diablo Cody

My Blog

Shocking.

Former NBA ref alleges a 2002 fix in Kings-Lakers seriesAnybody who watched Game Fix... I mean, Game Six could have told you that. I don't even regularly watch or particularly care about basketball (o...
Posted by Ars Legendi on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:57:00 PST

Hi, Im Daisy

I came to a realization tonight, after the fiftieth or so time that I've had to restrain myself from flinging my Wiimote directly at my television: I have played Mario Kart ever since the very first ...
Posted by Ars Legendi on Wed, 07 May 2008 09:19:00 PST

Wait until you see Funky Kong

Reason 823,793 that I love my wife:Jill: *quietly plays Sudoku*Justin: *occasionally curses loudly while playing Mario Kart*Diddy Kong on the TV: "OOOOoooo! Waaaah!"Jill: "...I hate Diddy Kong."Justin...
Posted by Ars Legendi on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:00 PST

Warriors Drink

So, I've finally started Aikido again, at an Iwama-style dojo in Davis. I've never been very good at weapons work (which this style emphasizes as a way of refining the hand techniques), and there are ...
Posted by Ars Legendi on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:17:00 PST

Mangia

I made pasta sauce from scratch for the first time tonight. I always feel somewhat lame using jarred sauce for the sake of convenience, so yesterday I decided to pick up some ingredients and do it rig...
Posted by Ars Legendi on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:24:00 PST

Am I a bad person because....

...I fervently wish for the turd who drag races outside my bedroom window every night at 1 a.m. to have a non-fatal convergence with a lamp post?...I gave a homeless man who was asking for change a fi...
Posted by Ars Legendi on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:56:00 PST

Leafblower at 6:30 am?

Really?6:30?*sigh*You know, it's almost worse that it's so close to when I get up to go to work anyway. If it was at 3 in the morning, at least I can go back to sleep. When my alarm is going to go off...
Posted by Ars Legendi on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:13:00 PST

Moving Right Along

Yesterday, I was offered a position as an admin assistant for the marketing department in the Sacramento Public Library, working in their admin offices downtown. At the end of this month, Jill and I a...
Posted by Ars Legendi on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:59:00 PST

Free time kicks ass.

So, Jill and I are not going to be in rehearsal for a show this summer for the first time in about four years, and with school done until August, I actually have time to do... well, anything. It just ...
Posted by Ars Legendi on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:32:00 PST

Yearbooks

While trying to clean out an eyesore of a bookshelf in our living room the other day, I ran across my high school yearbooks. I had recently looked at Jill's with her, but I haven't looked at my own in...
Posted by Ars Legendi on Tue, 15 May 2007 03:01:00 PST