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About Me

Both animal and vegit-able.

My Interests

Chicken sandwich?

I'd like to meet:

Let Sam Zell run the country. Or Bloomberg. Seriously, just find a Jewish billionaire, and I'll vote for him.

Music:

Anything Greasy.

Movies:

Pickle Surprise, Ivan the Terrible Pt. 2, Rules of the Game, Ghost Busters, Little Murders, Dr. Zhivago, Night of the Hunter, Anything with Robert Mitchum, Alexander Nevsky, The Shining, Donnie Darko, Stalingrad, Das Boot, Treasure of Sierra Madre, Chinatown, Bad Santa, Monster in a Box, Crocodile Dundee, From Russia with Love, MASH, Live and Let Die, Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Ran, Gallipoli, A History of Violence (Why do women hate this movie so much?), Apocalypse Now, All Quiet on the Western Front, Gallipoli, The Grand Illusion, 2001.

Television:

Red Wings, when my tiVo is working (the Rangers haven't been the same since Michael Nylander and his sixteen children moved to Washington D.C.) The Wire. South Park

Books:

Pulp novels that pretend to be high art, like Cormack McCarthy, Gunter Grass, Ernst Junger, Bukowski, etc. E.B. Sledge. The intranet.

Heroes:

Zata. Foppa. Jagsy. Percy Mayfield. Oscar Mazerath. Andre Williams. Andrew Jackson. Saul Bellow. Bobby Womack. Reggie Young. Tommy Cogbill. The Orange Guy!

My Blog

Something I Overheard at Work

Like most midtown Manhattan offices, mine has a number of outer-borough greaser types who perform menial tasks for the corporation. There's this one guy, about 55 years old: goes outside every five mi...
Posted by But the Chairman! on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 10:40:00 PST

10 Reasons Why the Sabres Suck . . .

Other than the fact that the Sabres beat my beloved Rangers in the crucial Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals (and let's face it, nobody comes back from a Game 5 loss), there are plenty of o...
Posted by But the Chairman! on Sat, 05 May 2007 07:48:00 PST

Magic Sam Almost Got Me Fired

I shouldn't have gone into work today. I should have just listened to Lindsey and STAYED PUT. I've got like an inner ear infection so every time I stand up it feels like I'm tripping on four hits of ...
Posted by But the Chairman! on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:58:00 PST

Why Am I So Fat?

For those of you who know me and haven't seen me in some time, you might be stunned to learn that I haven't had a cigarette in a month.To put things in perspective for those who don't, there have been...
Posted by But the Chairman! on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:09:00 PST

FUCK YOU, JOE THORNTON!!!

Seeing this photo on ESPN pretty much ruined what was shaping up to be a kick-ass day. I HATE JOE THORNTON. Everybody knows that the Art Ross (scoring title) and Hart Trophy (MVP) are the rightful pr...
Posted by But the Chairman! on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:40:00 PST

Pollack: The Movie

Have you ever seen that movie "Pollock," directed by and starring one of my favorite actors, Ed Harris? It's all about that schizo artist Jackson Pollock and how everything he ever touched turned to s...
Posted by But the Chairman! on Wed, 10 May 2006 10:42:00 PST

This is my dream-- This is my nightmare

A preface to the dream-- I have always loved primates of all shapes and sizes my entire life. I think of them as a purer, less corrupted, and gentler form of human, free of all the evolutional wrong t...
Posted by But the Chairman! on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:43:00 PST

My Thoughts on Jan. 30 Rangers Vs. Flyers . . .

Paryshnikov: jagr: "no big deal" Paryshnikov: renney: "my bad" Paryshnikov: ugh Pbass0307: TELL HIM I WANT MY FUCKING MONEY BACK!!! Paryshnikov: i think the beat guy...
Posted by But the Chairman! on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:53:00 PST