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boB

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

About Me

"Just 'cause I don't believe everything said to me
Don't ask me questions of faith" - Enertia, "The Sky Is Falling" "She says the way he grinds his molars is really sexy
She thinks he's so darn dysfunctional and Generation X-y
She likes his brooding angst and his wild-eyed stare
Yeah, he's her very favorite slacker-multi-millionaire"
- "Weird Al" Yankovic, "My Baby's In Love With Eddie Vedder"

My Interests

Nutrition:

    The South Beach Diet Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load Vitamin World
Sports:



    Tennis, racquetball, sand/court volleyball, baseball, football, softball, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, curling, cardio/weight training The un-sports: billiards, ping pong, darts, air hockey, bowling, frisbee, croquet, bocce

(All team logos are used without permission of their respective copyright holders, and may be deleted without notice. Kids, don't try this at home!)

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who's witty/cynical or has interests similar to mine... but most especially local friends from the Cleveland area.
I need someone to play tennis with!

Music:

Underground and mainstream rock/metal, and some other genres

View my CD list

Favorite bands:Morgana Lefay Savatage Enertia Dio Iced Earth Cephalic Carnage Nile Memory Garden Biomechanical Antithesis Stevie Ray Vaughan Jewel Alanis Morrissette


Favorite websites:
    Perpetual Motion: X 2 ProgPower USA ProgPower Europe Chicago Powerfest Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles Seismic Radio Pollstar.com

Movies:

    The Internet Movie Database Netflix.com
Filmmakers:
    David Lynch Clive Barker Kevin Smith Tim Burton Joss Whedon Morgan Spurlock Tim Minear Bryan Fuller Aaron Sorkin
Actors:
    Tommy Lee Jones Jason Lee John Hurt Mandy Patinkin Nathan Fillion Edward Norton Jennifer Connelly Kristen Bell Natalie Portman Caroline Dhavernas Ellen Page A.J. Cook

Television:

    Chuck Supernatural Heroes Reaper Pushing Daisies Battlestar Galactica Bones Dirty Sexy Money Samantha Who? My Name Is Earl The Office 30 Rock The Shield Scrubs Ugly Betty The Daily Show with Jon Stewart The Colbert Report Trigger Happy TV Attack of the Show Wonderfalls, Firefly, and every other great show that FOX has canned within a month of its premiere Stand-up comedy "Reality" shows suck

Books:

Authors:

    George R.R. Martin Dave Barry Issac Asimov Robin Hobb Jacqueline Carey China Miéville Sergei Lukyanenko Clive Barker J.R.R. Tolkien William Shakespeare Edgar Allan Poe Homer Greek dramatists: Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus, Aristophanes

My Blog

Help me pick an apartment

I'm single, and I'm switching apartments in a couple months.  I'm trying to decide between three places right now:1) I could move to a building in the middle of an urban area.  The crime rat...
Posted by boB on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:40:00 PST

boB the TV Geek reviews ABC's upcoming fall schedule

You know, I wasn't always a TV geek.  In fact, from 1996 (when I started school at MSU) until circa 2003, I didn't even own a TV.  So, eat me!Last year met with a plethora of great new shows...
Posted by boB on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:20:00 PST

I can change a tire in five minutes flat -- no pun intended

Wanna know how?Lots of practice.What is it with me and fricking flat tires?  Why does the Tire God (I'm picturing the Michelin Man with a sceptre) feel the need to smite me so?Also, why do people...
Posted by boB on Mon, 21 May 2007 09:55:00 PST

Driven to the edge of a deep, dark hole...

I'll say it for you: Wah.I've been in a pretty major funk ever since my thirtieth birthday, in October.  No biggie.  Everyone goes through these things from time to time; they come, and they...
Posted by boB on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:12:00 PST

Myspace surveys

I've noticed that every time I receive (and actually read) a Myspace "survey" bulletin, it is always missing a question -- sometimes several.  Where do these questions go?  I suspect that th...
Posted by boB on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:13:00 PST

I usually have nothing interesting to say

...and today is no exception.  So, instead, I think I'll make shadow puppets.
Posted by boB on Sun, 07 May 2006 09:47:00 PST

"Firefly" Season 2? It's worth a try!

For those of you who are fans of Joss Whedon's short-lived sci-fi/drama, "Firefly":Apparently, this organization is trying to take over the rights to the show, produce a new season, and make it availa...
Posted by boB on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:54:00 PST

God Dethroned (where's my death metal fans in the house???)

I'm kicking myself for not having listened to this disc sooner. Not only is this making a late entry into my top albums of 2005... but it may end up being my favorite death metal disc of the year! Ni...
Posted by boB on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 11:24:00 PST

A Netflix rant; feedback requested and appreciated

Has anyone else noticed a sharp downgrade in the service they've been getting from Netflix recently? 1) For the first several months after I signed up, they would send out my next DVD within a day (2...
Posted by boB on Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:29:00 PST