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Kirk

Christmas for breakfast!

About Me

Did you ever wonder when stuff has to happen, it happens to happen to who it happens to? And then when it happens, why it has to happen when it happens to happen to you?

Alter Egos:
The Foreign Menace, an anti-American wrestler in the UCBW .

Professor Shovecraft, an announcer for the Gotham Girls Roller Derby .

The Littlest Baron , current whereabouts unknown.

My Interests

Improvisation, RPGs, Dungeons and Dragons, Disney World, EPCOT Center, Knitting, Accordions, Haunted Mansions, Arkham Horror, Settlers of Catan, Marshmallows, Breakfast Cereal Mascots, Robots, Puppets, Vaudeville, Burlesque, Old Video Games

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who recognizes the above quote.

Rose Tyler.

And this guy:
....

Who I Wouldn't Like to Meet:
Strangers who show up on my Friend Requests... who the heck are you people?

Stop bothering me!

Music:

They Might Be Giants
The Unlovables
The Pipettes
People Are Wrong!
Gaijin a Go-Go
The Hazzards
Riders in the Sky

Movies:

Instant Cinema , The Royal Tenenbaums, Back to the Future, The Goonies, Ed Wood, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, I Heart Huckabees, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Toy Story I and II, Ghostbusters I and II

Television:

Cakey! The Cake From Outer Space
My Wife, the Ghost
Doctor Who
Channel 102
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Battlestar Galactica
Churasan
Red Dwarf
Azumanga Daioh

Books:

Harry Potter, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Discworld, Maison Ikkoku, The Little Prince, Dan Clowes, David Sedaris, Rumiko Takahashi, Harry Turtledove

Heroes:

The Doctor
Rose Tyler
Walt Disney
Jim Henson
Mr. Rogers
Harold Lloyd
Art Clokey
Dr. Emmett L. Brown
Scrooge McDuck

My Blog

I have 399 Friends (on MySpace)... but there's room for one more.

This blog is a few days coming... there are a few Friend Requests sitting in the inbox, and a few people I've been meaning to add but just never got around to in all these months and months (Nick Gibb...
Posted by Kirk on Sat, 05 May 2007 09:45:00 PST

Breaking Headlines

2007 means it's time for a new MySpace Headline!My main headline for 2006 was "Christmas for breakfast!"  This is a song lyric from "American Beach Party U.S.A." by the Kung Fu Monkeys.  It'...
Posted by Kirk on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:55:00 PST

I have 299 Friends (on MySpace)... But there's room for one more. (Redux)

I ended up removing a number of profiles.  Almost 40, in fact.  They were mostly shows and improv teams that I was not really involved with, so I cut them.  It's nothing personal, every...
Posted by Kirk on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:01:00 PST

I have 299 Friends (on MySpace)... But there's room for one more.

Who will it be?!?!Last time, my 200th friend was none other than Ms. Erika Kern, a wonderful lady, a talented craftster and the creator of Cakey himself.I have a feeling the 300th friend will be a "Fa...
Posted by Kirk on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:40:00 PST

"You shaved your moustache!"

"You shaved your moustache!"Yes, I did.I had a beard since August of last year - I needed to fuzzify my face for the final episode of "My Wife, the Ghost" and kept it. The beard was all right, althoug...
Posted by Kirk on Sun, 07 May 2006 07:46:00 PST

"How's the new job going?"

The question I've been getting a lot lately is, "So, Kirk, how's the new job going?" because I recently started a new job.  I no longer work as a Copy Editor at WireImage, I'm now a Closed C...
Posted by Kirk on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:40:00 PST

I have 199 Friends (on MySpace)... But there's room for one more.

WHO WILL IT BE?!?! I find it so funny that Anthony (AKA Burt Convy) is my newest friend.  I don't know why.  Maybe it's just that he goes by that alias for some strange reason.  ...
Posted by Kirk on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 05:59:00 PST

I no longer have a beard.

I shaved my six-month-old beard for Instant Cinema's final performance. Now I have a thin, John Waters-esque moustache. I'm not too happy with it. I had gone to the Russian barbers with a picture o...
Posted by Kirk on Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:38:00 PST

I learned how to purl!

This week I learned to purl! (If you don't know what purling is, it's a type of knitting.) And yes, I knit.  I'm one of the very, very, very few heterosexual guys who  does it, and lemme t...
Posted by Kirk on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 08:54:00 PST

Who I'd Like to Meet

SPOILER ALERT: This post lists some Christmas presents I've purchased.  If you think you might be getting a present from me (which is unlikely), read no further until December the ...
Posted by Kirk on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 02:19:00 PST