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About Me

I have been myself all this time and it would be kind of hard to boil me down to 50 or 100 words. But let me give it a shot: I sleep in the earth, a missionary to the worms, and my dreams cause the plants and trees to grow. My mind is turned inside out and I am filled with nature. I fought with the righteous Mexicans at the Alamo, with the justified Indians at Little Big Horn and with the blameless Vietcong. My country, 'tis of thee I sing about your cruel brutality and war against millions of innocents here and around the world. I am a missionary to the monsters who rule the world. Soon the monsters who rule the world will remove their boots from the necks of the meek and be clapped in chains. Let there be enlightenment. I am in full battle armor galloping on my destrier toward the chasm. I am a wrecking ball swinging wildly in a city made of glass. Each of my ideas is a lotus, each thought a lily, my mind the sun that makes them bloom. I am the primordial organism, light emerging from Chaos. I am half tiger, half fairy and half Buddha. I am the gay heterosexual, God's gift to women. I am frightened, awaiting the worst possible fate for the fifth time while playing to a hostile audience. I am tickled pink by the subatomic particles that bombard me all day long. My mind is asleep and I am on autopilot, with just enough intelligence to function, but I am brilliant nevertheless. I am a failure, though I shall achieve the greatest feat of all time, the triumph of good over evil. I am on a mission from the God who has cast me out into a vicious, polluted world.

My Interests

I love nature and animals, especially mammals and birds. I like to dance to the music, just free style. I like to work out, play basketball, go to the beach, go to movies, read, write and draw but have been unable to do any of it for the past four years because of a serious neck injury. All I do is work (I am a journalist) and watch television. I have a love/hate relationship with TV; if I weren't injured I wouldn't watch it much at all, but now that I am injured I don't know what I would do without it. I like to talk, but I will shut up and listen, too. I am interested in mythology, religion and spirituality. I like to read about the 3,800 (three thousand eight hundred) or so gods who have visited mankind. I like to get high on marijuana and draw or write, but I don't need to get high to do either. I also like reading the profiles on people's myspace.com sites. People are endlessly fascinating, even the boring ones. I like to burn incense and drink whisky. I like to watch Jeopardy and play along and am good at it but wouldn't win all the time. I like to take photographs. I like to talk to God. I was in a stock car race once and loved it and would love to race again. I like the wildest rides at the fair. I like to go swimming in clean fresh water and in the Atlantic Ocean. I like going to the beach. I have a big collection of things both nature-made and manmade. I like filling out my profile on myspace.com. Can you tell?

I'd like to meet:

God, W.C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin

Music:

Van Morrison, Wilco, Lucinda Williams, classical Spanish guitar, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Sade, Bob Dylan, Steve Miller Band, Neil Young, Cure, Norah Jones, Al Green, Otis Redding, Gipsy Kings, Electric Light Orchestra, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Joao Gilberto and Stan Getz, Neil Diamond, The Carpenters, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, Paul McCartney and Wings, the Cranberries, Pete Seeger, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Beach Boys, Bjork, Alicia Keys, Mya, Joan Osborne, Annie Lennox, Miles Davis, Toni Braxton, the Bee Gees, Bob Marley, James Taylor, Fiona Apple, Fleetwood Mac, The Animals, Bjork, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, Joan Baez, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Counting Crows, Black Crowes, Sheryl Crow, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Aaliyah :-(, U2, The Cranberries, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Nick Drake, Creedence, Miles Davis, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Bob Marley, Queen, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Jewel, Ozzy, Lauryn Hill, Tone-Loc, Rolling Stones, Santana, Thelonius Monk, the Eagles ... the list goes on and on. I can't even remember all the music and songs I've loved.

Movies:

The Outlaw Josie Wales, Unforgiven, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Midnight Cowboy, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, The Godfather I and II, Full Metal Jacket, The Wizard of Oz, Eyes Wide Shut, Moulin Rouge (2001), W.C. Fields movies, Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, The Seventh Seal, Taxi Driver, Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Deer Hunter, Gladiator, Amarcord, Blade Runner, The Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction, The Black Robe, Schindler's List, R. Crumb, Fellowship of the Ring (I have yet to see the other two), Braveheart, Casablanca, Ran, Erin Brockovich, The Shining, Being There, Toy Story, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Cool Hand Luke, Falling Down, American Beauty, Dreams by Kurosawa, Amelie, Star Wars, ET, Starman, The King of Masks, The King of Hearts, Dinner at Eight, High Noon, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Wherefore Art Thou, Amelie, Lawrence of Arabia ...

Television:

Basketball, sports in general, The Animal Planet, Nova, Nature, poker tournaments, The David Letterman Show, public television, documentaries, The History Channel, Antiques Roadshow, Classic Arts Showcase, Jeopardy, the news, The Ghost Whisperer, Monty Python, Arts 21, Jeeves and Wooster, The Andy Griffith Show, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Northern Exposure, The Real World, music videos ...

Books:

The Good Soldier Svejk, Catch-22, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Don Quixote; Men Are Pigs, Women Are Bitches; The Brothers Karamazov, Henryk Sienkiewicz's trilogy (fantastic), Lord of the Rings, The Bible, One Hundred Years of Solitude,The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Ka: The Mind and Stories of the Gods of India, Lonesome Dove, The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, Neuromancer, Cannery Row, the Thomas Covenant books, Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain in general), O Henry stories, Stranger in a Strange Land, Nelson DeMille's books, Thomas Berger's books, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Gulliver's Travels, The Book of the New Sun, P.G. Wodehouse books, The Idiot, Simplicissimus, Hero with a Thousand Faces, Dune, The Odyssey, Never Smile in the Men's Room, 1984, The Odyssey, I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream, Michael Moorcock's books, Riverworld, Dune,

Heroes:

Jesus, Buddha

My Blog

George W. Bush's criminal regime

In a great article at tomdispatch.com, Chalmers Johnson explains why George W. Bush should be impeached:George W. Bush has, of course, flagrantly violated his oath of office, which requires him "to pr...
Posted by Mark on Wed, 16 May 2007 10:00:00 PST

U.S. military budget: huge and growing

The United States spent nearly $1 trillion on the military in 2006, on weapons and soldiers that are meant solely to bring death and destruction into the world. From an article by Chalmers Johnson at ...
Posted by Mark on Wed, 16 May 2007 09:41:00 PST

U.S. attacks Somalia; no one reports it

The United States and Ethiopia attacked Somalia earlier this year, and United States has caused a yet another very bad humanitarian crisis. Last year Somalia had peace under the Islamic Courts for the...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 14 May 2007 02:05:00 PST

A moral obligation to lose the war

Robert Shetterly, writing at Common Dreams (via informationclearninghouse.info):None of the offered plans now before us to de-escalate the war disavow what we all know to be its original goals contr...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 14 May 2007 01:43:00 PST

U.S. military: enforcer for corporations

U.S. foreign policy in a nutshell, as quoted at informationclearinghouse.info:Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nati...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 14 May 2007 01:12:00 PST

Bush Administration: 155 scandals and counting

A blogger at Daily Kos has documented 155 Bush administration scandals. It's enlightening just reading the list. See here.
Posted by Mark on Fri, 11 May 2007 08:45:00 PST

Iraqi Parliament, people want U.S. out

From alternet.org:On Tuesday, without note in the U.S. media, more than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected the continuing occupation of their country. 144 lawmakers signed onto a legisl...
Posted by Mark on Thu, 10 May 2007 11:32:00 PST

The rich get much richer

From an article by Richard C. Cook at informationclearinghouse.info:According to the Congressional Budget Office, the top one percent of U.S. households owns 57 percent of all income, capital gains, d...
Posted by Mark on Fri, 04 May 2007 10:29:00 PST

The utter failure of 'the war on terror'

From Lew Rockwell:We are now more than half a decade into this war on terror. The State Department now says, based on its own data, that the results of the war are "mixed." In government parlance, the...
Posted by Mark on Thu, 03 May 2007 08:44:00 PST

Mayhem after the 'the surge'

Tom Englehardt, at tomdispatch, describing just three days of mayhem in Iraq after Bush's "surge" of troops:All of this is no less extraordinary -- verging on obscenity -- as a collective description ...
Posted by Mark on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:40:00 PST