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geoffk™

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I don't feel comfortable being in the sort of place I'd feel comfortable in.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Scratch Perry, Jellyroll Morton, Jenna Fischer, Adrian Sherwood, Charley Patton, Torry Castellano, Lenny Bruce, Sarah Silverman, Charles Nelson Reilly, Gore Vidal, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mark Messier, my great-grandfather on my dad's side of the family.

My Blog

robo call

So I got a robo call from Barak's camp last night that said to be sure and attend the caucus on Sunday....except the caucus is on Saturday here in WA. Sadly it didn't occur to me that I might have bee...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:01:00 GMT

tv guide movie reviewer

I first noticed this a while back when I saw that the movie "10 Things I Hate About You" was given one star by whatever human/robot gives stars to movies in the local tv guide. Now, I don't think that...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:12:00 GMT

thought for the day on the Iraq war

So according to the AP & Wa Post today Shiite cleric Al-Sadr's party is leaving the Iraq government because he's frustrated that they haven't set a timetable for US troop withdrawl. So let's...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:22:00 GMT

pop culture rant number 9342

So there's a lot of stuff in the news today about someone lifelessly mouthing words they didn't write and most likely don't understand while moving awkwardly on a stage viewed by millions, and then we...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:04:00 GMT

things I don’t understand pt 3000

Why are there so many cigarette butts outside the door to my health club? Suddenly I'm seeing folks using the Brit spelling of words like color all over the place. I admit that when I was ten years ol...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:52:00 GMT

taking a virtual stand

So unindicted war criminal Bush is visiting my neck of the woods tomorrow in order to help raise funds for the campaign of Congressman Dave Reichart. One of the folks who've started their campaign aga...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:30:00 GMT

Padilla trial

You may have heard about Jose Padilla, the guy that was going to kill us all with his dirty bomb. The man who was so dangerous that the 800 year old protection of habeas corpus had to be ignored so he...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:11:00 GMT

a rant about creating a peace department

  Recently Representative Jim McDermott wrote an editorial in favor of the creation of a Department of Peace. You can read this at Seattletimes.com or commondreams.org. This is my response. With...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:19:00 GMT

thoughts about Lt. Watada

Lt. Watada is the gentleman who's being court martialed for refusing to go to Iraq. I keep reading letters to the editor or seeing quotes from folks saying something like 'He signed up for the Army an...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:07:00 GMT

Ins and Outs 2007

Some years back I predicted that Foppery would be IN as a clothing style and strangely enough the Seattle Times had "Fop" on their list of Ins and Outs for 2007. In that spirit and because I always&nb...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:10:00 GMT