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ROANOKEJOE

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About Me

You ever notice how Goober is always leaning on things on the Andy Griffith show? Barney, poor Aunt Bee, and hell,he practically mugs poor opie... ..

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My Interests

Taekwondo, guitar, chess, TOTAL GYMMING, Triathlon, learning French and Italian

Music:

Bruce Springsteen, Ryan Adams, The Proclaimers, The Boomtown Rats, Kinks, Pink Floyd, Nickel Creek, Chet Atkins, Stacey Hobbs, Buster B Jones, Doc Watson, Jeff Buckley (may he rest in peace), The Pretenders, The Visible Shivers, The Lap Dogs, The Police, The Clash, Johnny Cash, The Traveling Wilburys,and Chopin's Nocturnes are current faves.

Movies:

Miller's Crossing, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, The Princess Bride, The Three Burials of..., V for Vendetta, It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Tombstone, Gross Pointe Blank, Almost Famous, Say Anything, The Quiet Man, Titanic, Like Water for Chocolate...and many many others.

Television:

The West Wing, Smallville, The Gilmore Girls (shaddup...I don't want to hear it), The Boob Whisperer, Supernatural, M*A*S*H, Sports Night,

Books:

All of the Harry Potter series (back off, man...wrote my Masters thesis on them), The Dubliners by James Joyce, Hamlet by Big Bad Bill Shakespeare, The Narnia Chronicles by C.S. Lewis,One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, pretty much any of Hemingway's books, and a go-zillion others.

My Blog

Wayne Blankenships Passing

A friend of mine died recently.  His name is Wayne Blankenship.  He's the father of a couple of the best friends of my youth, Ronnie and Bobby (Bo) Blankenship. After six years fighting the ...
Posted by ROANOKEJOE on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:42:00 PST

One horrible Spring in the mountains

It has been over a week since a deranged lunatic walked into the dorm rooms and classrooms of Norris hall and West AJ here on the campus of Virginia Tech and took the lives of thirty-two students and ...
Posted by ROANOKEJOE on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:04:00 PST

The Great MySpace Purge

Today I became a MySpace man.  A real MySpace man I mean.  How did I remove my childish training wheels?  By purging the hell out of my MySpace Friends List.  I went through and sy...
Posted by ROANOKEJOE on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:23:00 PST

Mama C's gazette

Dear Friends, On a crisp October day two Saturdays ago, I had the melancholy pleasure of attending a memorial service for Elizabeth Day Cadora (until that day, after knowing her for...oh...90 years...
Posted by ROANOKEJOE on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:06:00 PST

The French are just fine by me...

I am sick of stupid Americans.  In general, but more specifically when it comes to "French bashing." Those ignorant fucks on the right (yes, it's usually the righties, but I have a couple of "lef...
Posted by ROANOKEJOE on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:28:00 PST

Name calling doesn't do a body good...

OK, from the private e-mails I have gotten, I need to clarify a couple of things about my Iraq blog.  Please don't assume that I am a far left tree hugger (although that kind of appeals to me).&n...
Posted by ROANOKEJOE on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:19:00 PST

ONE

Go here:http://www.one.org/Join.  Lend your voice.  Do something.  Either be a part of the human race by making it better, or get the fuck out of it.  You don't have to give any mo...
Posted by ROANOKEJOE on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:33:00 PST

BS Fighting for my Freedom

OK, I have had it up to here with people using the phrase, "the soldiers are fighting for our freedom." Bullshit.  There isn't a soldier in Iraq currently laying down his life so I can be free.&...
Posted by ROANOKEJOE on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:17:00 PST