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Riseball

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About Me

I'd leave this damn Valley but I'm addicted to the heat.MySpace Layouts - Black Smoke myspace layoutsVideo: BEULAH... My son's band.

My Interests

Music: Keyboards in Bad Luck and Trouble (blues) and The Electrons (defunct but always in my heart); sports (fastpitch softball, Dodgers, 49ers), working out, history, writing, politics, newspapers.

I'd like to meet:

People who play and sing the oldies. Grab your woman, it's Louie Louie time!

Music:

Oldies, classic rock, classic country, folk. All the one-hit wonders (Music Machine, Love, Country Joe and the Fish, ? and the Mysterians ...) and gimmick bands (Paul Revere and the Raiders, Sam the Sham...)of yore. Folk singers who say something (Guthrie, Seeger, Ochs, Dylan, Tom Russell, Young..). And, of course, the bands I miss the most: Beulah, The Beatles, and The Beetles.

Movies:

Miracle on 34th Street, Field of Dreams, Gladiator, Remember the Titans, A League of Their Own.

Television:

Sports, Comedy Central (Daily Show, South Park, Mencia, Colbert), and The History Channel.

Books:

The God Delusion, God Is Not Great, Man Created God. Children's literature, poetry, Irish history.

Heroes:

In no particular order: The Pumpers, Mark Morford (SF Chronicle), John Lennon, John F. Kennedy, Jon Stewart, Felix Cavaliere, Mickey Mantle, Sean Bonniwell, Neil Young, John Anthony Pontremoli, my dad and his millions of buddies who won WW2, Tommy Lasorda, The Raiks Progress, Eddie "The King" Feigner.

My Blog

Our Nations Principles

So, I read where John McCain said he wouldn't vote for a nonchristian because "our nation was founded on Christian principles."  This is one of those falsehoods that repeated often enough becomes...
Posted by Riseball on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:48:00 PST

Bible Believability Factor

So, my stalwart Christian friends, the Bible is the unerring word of your god?  At times I have envied your blind faith, but I can't accept your dogma because I have this weird brain that is wire...
Posted by Riseball on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:18:00 PST

Neo-cons...please!

I am really tired of the neo-cons telling me that our troops are in Iraq fighting for MY freedom.  Bullshit.  They are there for George W Bush and the people who control him.  What... D...
Posted by Riseball on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:26:00 PST