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steven!

i've got conversational momentum

About Me

i love the english language. i am a member of the grammar police. i am a neologist.

i'm a karaoke star. i dance on the ceiling. i prefer zucchini to cucumbers.

i'll beat you at boggle. i'll lose to you at scrabble. i'll tie you at sudoku.

i ride my bike to work. i sing in the shower. i make cool flash sites.

i love stand-up comedy. i love improv. i love stand-up improvedy.

i love this song:

My Interests

music, reading, cycling, internetting, dancing, movies, food, video games, art and design, card games (spades, pinochle, poker, hearts, etc.), puns, dry humor, wet humor, physical humor, laughing with friends, taste testing root beers

I'd like to meet:

meeting people is easy

Music:

radiohead, ledisi, steely dan, tom waits, broken social scene, billy joel, modest mouse, bloc party, bjork, tribe called quest, dntel, death cab, miles davis, ebtg, muse, elliot smith, dead can dance, nick cave, tori amos, lionel richie, operation ivy, queen, smashing pumpkins, the sugarcubes, the police, talking heads, portishead, tricky (maxinquaye), thievery corp, u2 (achtung and prior), zapp & roger, deee-lite, the beatles, the jacksons (janet, black michael, one song by germaine, the 5, not tito), jurrasic 5, kruder and dorfmeister, lifesavas, ltj bukem, bob marley, adult, beck, depeche mode, jazzanova, the doors, kool keith, the faint, frank sinatra, hall and oates, jamiroquai, dungeon family, erykah badu, jill scott, james brown, j-live, outkast, missy elliott, mos def, sublime, the strokes, it's the capital s oh yes i'm fresh n double o p d o double g y d o double g you see

Movies:

grindhouse, fight club, lost in translation, i heart huckabees, vacation, the royal tenenbaums, rushmore, best in show, die hard, when harry met sally, pulp fiction, heathers, wayne's world, amelie, city of lost children, aladdin, zoolander, good will hunting, saving private ryan, office space, run lola run, adaptation, being john malkovich, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, death to smoochie, the 40 year old virgin, the american astronaut

Television:

the colbert report, lost, family guy, home movies, the boondocks, the daily show, deadwood, rome, sopranos, seinfeld, curb your enthusiasm, mr show, south park, chappelle show, aqua teen hunger force, robot chicken, yakitate japan (making bread was never so action packed!)

Books:

anything by chuck palahniuk and neal stephenson, on the road, lord of the flies, hitch hiker's guide, fear and loathing in las vegas, 1984, most stuff by vonnegut, calvin & hobbes, shogun, king rat, catcher in the rye, all quiet on the western front, paradise lost

Heroes:

cesar millan
"I rehabilitate dogs, I train people. I am The Dog Whisperer"

My Blog

Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs

A minifesto on Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs.Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, the Chuck Klosterman tour de force, as it were. This is a book that has been gifted to me twice. The first time by an ex-girlfrie...
Posted by steven! on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:01:00 PST

Dentro Mi Alma translated

One of my favorite tracks at the moment is Jazztronik "Dentro Mi Alma" (Yoruba Soul Mix). My friend Alexi was kind enough to translate it for me from Spanish into English.I always look inside my soul...
Posted by steven! on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:37:00 PST

Comedy Death Ray

I am now officially a regular (officially because I've gone every Tuesday since I found out about it) at the wonderful Comedy Death Ray.What's magical about this show, to me at least, is that you've g...
Posted by steven! on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:42:00 PST

Brain Age is a cheater

Brain Age is a cheater.  Yes it is. Well, maybe it's not a cheater, but it certainly was wrong and cost me 16 extra minutes on my score for Triangle Math on hard.  How, you ask?  I'll s...
Posted by steven! on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:39:00 PST

good things come in threes

Somebody sent me this top 3 form to fill out.  Here are my answers.Three names you go by:1. steven2. nutty3. vThree screen names you have had:1. djwrangla2. ultimante3. cardboardbazooka...
Posted by steven! on Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:05:00 PST

Project 3:16

Project 3:16 - For Client so loved the work, that he told his one and only Developer, that whosoever listens to him shall not finish, but have eternal changes.-me...
Posted by steven! on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:44:00 PST

fun with smarterchild vol. 1 - "seafood avoidance"

SmarterChild is an AIM bot you can chat with.  Just add it to your buddy list and the fun begins.  Sometimes, I do it just to see where conversations go.  Here's a funny one from a...
Posted by steven! on Thu, 18 Aug 2005 04:12:00 PST