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Mark

All things to everyone, the reptiles and I.

About Me

I'm the Cadillac of nerds. I am an engine fueled by nerdery that emits 180hp of pure unfiltered awesome. I can go from zero to rad in under four seconds. My body is made of sunlight. I'm a multiclassed robot ninja/pirate. I block banner ads...with my mind. My tongue moves mountains. My iPod is full. I've had one lung replaced with a drip-feed full of high-quality psychedelics. Metaphorically speaking, of course. I'm a storehouse of useful trivia. I aim to please, persuade and provoke. I'm egoless. I'm fabulous. I read science fiction books on my science fiction futurephone. I am science fiction. I am a goddamn rockstar.

My Interests

comic books, video games, anime, gaming, game design, writing, sf/fantasy, cooking, baking, high weirdness, rpgs, d&d, board games, the creative process, monkeys, zombies, robots, pirates, ninjas, IP law, creative commons, public domain, hacker issues, anarchist thought

I'd like to meet:

You know me and you miss me, even if we've never met. I've been in your dreams. Love, to you, is not a finite resource. You're a sexy robot with psychic powers, a medusa-haired mermaid, a wicked devil girl with a halo caught on her horns. You'll read choice bits to me of whatever you're reading, with voices. You'll leave the lights, and your boots, on. You want to get fucked like the Republicans are fucking my country. You laughed at the last bit but it also turned you on. You think I'm cute. You think you're cute. You believe that "it may be time, in spite of all indications to the contrary from the exterior society, to begin thinking in terms of heroes again, of love instead of hate, of energy instead of violence, of strength instead of cruelty, of action instead of reaction." You say things that make people laugh and wonder what's wrong with you. You wonder what's wrong with you but you know that nothing is. You're tired of being "the crazy one" in the relationship. You dream lucidly. You're not afraid. You still hope. You're epic. I love you. Find me.

Music:

Just click here:

Movies:

Jacob's Ladder, Big Trouble in Little China, Better Off Dead, Some Kind of Wonderful, other b-movie classics. I don't watch a lot of movies because I don't like watching movies alone. Now that I have a roommate, I've been slowly catching up.

Television:

I likes me them crazy jappernese cartoons. Also Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Spongebob Squarepants and The Venture Bros.

Books:

Some people are bibliophiles. I am kind of a bibliomaniac. I feel most comfortable surrounded by books. Libraries and used book stores make me feel like Scrooge McDuck in his money bin. There's this perfume that is supposed to smell like old books, and I think that is one of the hottest things ever. I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy and a lot of comic books and then I read whatever those things lead me to, and they've led me to a hell of a lot. I am always up for something new. Broaden my horizons.

Heroes:

Spider-Man, my grandfather and my dad.

My Blog

WHAT FUCKING DAY DOES MYSPACE THINK IT IS

I'M NOT THIRTY FOR ANOTHER FIVE WEEKS YOU HORRIBLE BASTARDS
Posted by Mark on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:42:00 PST

Billings Learned Hand, A Pledge of Allegiance, May 20 1945

We may not stop until we have done our part to fashion a world in which there shall be some share of fellowship; which shall be better than a den of thieves. Let us not disguise the difficulties; and,...
Posted by Mark on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:24:00 PST

Alex Steffen, worldchanging.com, "Night, Hoover Dam"

And sitting there by the slack and dirty water, I had one of those moments of scorching self-vision. I realized that I'd been hiding underneath the skirts of the apocalypse for decades now. I'd daydre...
Posted by Mark on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:24:00 PST

Lester Bangs, "Richard Hell: Death Means Never Having To Say You're Incomplete"

Just for the record, I would like it known by anybody who cares that I don't think life is a perpetual dive. And even though it's genuinely frightening, I don't think Richard Hell's fascination with d...
Posted by Mark on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:23:00 PST

Lester Bangs, "Peter Laughner"

In a sense, Peter reminded me of a character in an old Terry Southern story, "You're Too Hip, Baby." It was about a guy in the bohemian scene in Paris around 1960, who followed all the jazz musicians,...
Posted by Mark on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:22:00 PST

It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.

I've started my Legend of Zelda blog at thelegendofzeldog.blogspot.com. Watch me wax philosophical on game design, mythology, fairy tales, and the art of storytelling while I work out my deep-seated c...
Posted by Mark on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:22:00 PST

reposted from 6/14, Blog Like It's the End of the World Day

I'd be posting more about the zombies if it weren't for the brownouts, the earthquakes, the tsunamis, the werewolves, the rumors of anthropophagic deer, the internet organizing itself into an uncaring...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:18:00 PST

adventures in customer service pt 2, or Microsoft is actually not that bad.

I purchased my Xbox 360 from Tower Records back in October. It has a manufacture date of 2/06 and it crapped the bed about two weeks ago, shortly after the system update, which is super-fishy to me, b...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 09:55:00 PST

adventures in customer service pt 1, or Comcast sucks.

As it turns out, in Montgomery County MD you can pay $60 to Comcast for cable internet alone, or you can pay them $60 for cable internet and basic analog cable TV. I don't watch a lot of TV, but you r...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 09:54:00 PST

dreaming.

We are the story lovingly whispered in God's ear as he sleeps. If the story ends, he will awaken. When God gets restless, the story is made more exciting, to please him. When the story is pleasing to ...
Posted by Mark on Wed, 30 May 2007 09:36:00 PST