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Tickparasite

"I am impressed. What a brain, Mister Vandemar. Keen and incisive isn't the half of it. Some of us a

About Me

I'm a father to two wonderful little boys, divorced, entomologist, scientist, bass player, macro photographer, writer, mt biker, jogger, costume and puppet maker, etc. Those are just skills though, they are not me. I am a fairly active person with enough merits and flaws to destroy or create as I see fit. I do the best I can with what has been given to me. I go through natural cycles of emotions, but tend to be a positive force. I get obsessive with things sometimes. When I get an idea for a story, puppet, costume, landscaping, house project, etc.; I put a lot of focus on it and almost become oblivious to everything else around me until it is done. I take any excuse to get out of the house and experience anything social or physical. Anything is better than TV. I don't drink (hate the taste of alcohol), never did drugs, and don't smoke. I'm still looking for that special someone who is close to who I am and on a similar journey. I do run into them on occasion.
I'm 35, Pisces and I like disease carrying invertebrates. See?
Author and photographer, but all entomologist baby!
Blacklegged ticks
I'm also a proud alumni of Evil Science University
..Also I never plan to post pics of my little ones here as you never know what creeps lurk out there.

My Interests

Bass playing, Canoeing, weight lifting, jogging, Video games, RPG's, insect photography, insects, invertebrates, writing material for my friends radio show, being Dr. Moreau and other characters in my friends cable access show, hiking in the woods, playing bass in Deathbed Bride, etc

adopt your own virtual pet!

I'd like to meet:

famous historical dead people and people with intelligent or crazy looking eyes. Vagabonds, bohemians, intellectuals, fops, the odd, the unique, scientists, madmen, madwomen, etc. If you happen to look anything like Johnette Napolitano or Fairuza Balk...my head es'plode Strong Bad like

Music:

Deathbed Bride, Lacuna Coil, System of a down, Ghouls night out, Flyleaf, Muse, Sarah McLachlan, Evanescence, Rage against the Machine, The Killers, Tori Amos, Garbage, Coldplay, Rob Zombie, Concrete Blonde, Tool

Movies:

Nightwatch, Daywatch, Hellboy, Dune (Lynch and Sci fi channel versions), Stardust, Mirrormask, Neverwhere, Lord of the rings extended versions, Pirates of the Caribbean, Fight Club, Nightmare before Christmas, Big Fish, Matrix, Dracula, The Craft, Tim Burton things, Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket, The Thing, Lawrence of Arabia, etc.

Television:

The grim adventures of Billy and Mandy, Family Guy, Sci FI channel, Cartoon Network, Red Dwarf, Talk soup, Scrubs

Books:

Nightwatch, Dracula, Frankenstein, H.P. Lovecraft, E.A. Poe, The Raven, The house of seven gables, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, etc.

Heroes:

me, Ghandi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., people who stand up for what they believe, but don't enforce their views on others
people with integrity
people who do the right thing

My Blog

Alister! Go to Blazes!

Alister was flying through the air in a hot air balloon basket, but instead of a balloon there was a beautiful cloud harnessed.  Isabella (the hailstorm cloud) loved being taken out for a 'walk'....
Posted by Tickparasite on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:41:00 PST

Why I have a backup page.....

Why I have a backup page...... I had received a message saying that the tickparasite main site was phished and that I needed to change the password.  Going through the steps to change the ...
Posted by Tickparasite on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:07:00 PST

Natural Cycles of Life

I go through what I think are natural cycles.  Nature is full of them and I'm a part of nature.   Sometimes I'm depressed for absolutely no good reason and sometimes there is a good rea...
Posted by Tickparasite on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:23:00 PST

the musings of my 10 year old son

Terror of Heartfire?   Heartfire is a powerful fire deamon swordsmaster .he also uses dark fire magic ,with that power he can't be beaten easly but learns every battle ,enough about him time to s...
Posted by Tickparasite on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:30:00 PST

Alister gets ice cream!

Alister stood at the window of the abandoned warehouse watching the rising sun.  A fresh new start.  A new slate washed clean by the darkness.  It doesn't matter what happened years ago...
Posted by Tickparasite on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:31:00 PST

Alister and the Everfall tea party

The air resonated with the sounds of Deathbed Bride's practice session.  Lady Valentine passionately and energetically struck her drums.  Buzz's fingers danced across the fret's like a posse...
Posted by Tickparasite on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:32:00 PST

Deathbed Bride - The Movie - Get involved!

  Dear fellow lurkers, I bring a message from Buzz.... "Much to the dismay of my classmates, I first picked up a friend's big hulking VHS camcorder about 15 years ago to film a final project fo...
Posted by Tickparasite on Tue, 20 May 2008 09:10:00 PST

Dr. Moreau’s Fried Dinos

My Dearest Penny Dreadful, You haven't heard from me in a million years.  No I'm not actually exaggerating.  I went back in time.  Oh, but I'm getting way ahead of myself. You see, my r...
Posted by Tickparasite on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:26:00 PST

Alister and the leaky happiness

Alister Marsh lay comfortably atop Isabella the storm cloud thousands of feet in the air while gazing at the other clouds with Death by his side.  They held hands while saying very little.  ...
Posted by Tickparasite on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:55:00 PST

Circles

I work in a lab that gets dirty really easy.... might have something to do with the soil... Anyways I was cleaning it with my lab tech and he says "I don’t know why we do this, it’s just ...
Posted by Tickparasite on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:25:00 PST