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About Me

I am a geek.

I have reached that point in my life when I have begun to look into the past and regret the things I didn't do. However, I have not yet reached the point in life when it is too late to do anything about it.

I enjoy reading. Exploring someone else's imagination and fusing it with my own is an activity that could quite possibly sustain my life if oxygen and food ran out. I prefer hardcover books to paperbacks but I'm not a snob about it. Paperbacks are superb for travelling or when money is tight. When I have the money though, I love the feel of a hardcover book. The weight of the book makes me feel like I am holding the weight of the author's effort and ideas in my hands.

I am a sarcastic, dry witted chocoholic with a taste for wine. My sense of humor gets me into more trouble than it gets me out of. I laugh from deep within when I am with people I love, causing my eyes to squint and a vein to throb in my forehead.

My Interests

Books, movies, video games, Dodgers baseball, comic books, anime, Italy, travel, WH40K

I'd like to meet:

Rick Remender, Brian Wood, Brian K. Vaughan, Warren Ellis, Cliffy B. of Epic Games, Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb of X-Play, Ted Price of Insomniac Games, Eric Powell. I want to meet fellow gamers, comic book geeks, and people who challenge me intellectually.

Music:

Foo Fighters, Green Day, Barenaked Ladies, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Oingo Boingo, The Killers, John Williams, Depeche Mode, The Cars, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Peter Gabriel...

Movies:

The Usual Suspects, Rushmore, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Adaptation, Fight Club, The Lord of the Rings, Swingers, Lost in Translation, Starship Troopers, Say Anything, Sideways, Tombstone, Shaun of the Dead, The Godfather, Heathers, A Clockwork Orange, Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line, Gladiator, Heat, Jaws, Good Will Hunting, Napoleon Dynamite, Rear Window, Sleepy Hollow, Reservoir Dogs, American Beauty, Apollo 13, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Matrix...

Television:

Lost, Heroes, The Closer, The Simpsons, The Family Guy, King of the Hill, My Name is Earl, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, X-Play, The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross

Books:

A Confederacy of Dunces, The Monk, I Am Legend, Catch 22, Hyperion, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Harry Potter and the _________...

Heroes:

Dean Karnazes

My Blog

Look out, lady!

Excuse me, ma'am. I'm trying to turn left and you're standing in the middle of the crosswalk looking down the street for the bus. Ma'am? I... I really need to turn left now. Oh...
Posted by Sassy Nutwood on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:17:00 PST

this can't be good

It is a bad sign when the top rack of my dishwasher fills up with beer steins and wine goblets before a single plate or bowl appears in the bottom rack.Just sayin'.
Posted by Sassy Nutwood on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 09:14:00 PST

Welcome back, Baseball

I am one of those people for whom there are two annual seasons: baseball season and winter. For me and people like me, spring does not begin until the first pitch is thrown. As summe...
Posted by Sassy Nutwood on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:07:00 PST

FarCry

Boo-yah, Granny! I finished FarCry this morning. Holy toledo, that is a beautiful game! Last July, games like FarCry, Doom 3, Call of Duty 2 and F.E.A.R. would make my six year old c...
Posted by Sassy Nutwood on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:11:00 PST

rest in peace Richard Jeni

On March 10, 2007, the world was robbed of one of its greatest comedians when Richard Jeni died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. As someone once said, sometimes the funniest people are the mos...
Posted by Sassy Nutwood on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:01:00 PST

Spider-man / Doctor Octopus: Negative Exposure

Originally published in 2003 as a 5-issue mini-series, Spider-man / Doctor Octopus: Negative Exposure was printed as a trade paperback collection in 2004. Written by one of my favorite writers, ...
Posted by Sassy Nutwood on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:10:00 PST

Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth, as clearly noted on all available research materials, is rated R for graphic violence. Therefore, I feel no sympathy for the idiot woman who brought her 2-, 5-, and 7-year-old c...
Posted by Sassy Nutwood on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:41:00 PST

High School Horror

I don't typically do these things but I figured I'd give it a shot.Fill this out about your YEARS of high school! The longer ago it was, the more fun your answers will be!( doubt it ) 1. Who was your...
Posted by Sassy Nutwood on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:55:00 PST

Day Trip to the Santa Maria Valley

We checked off one more winery from the "Sideways" map. Fess Parker Winery, known as Frass Canyon in the film, was the first of two wineries we visited on Saturday. It was deep in the v...
Posted by Sassy Nutwood on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:57:00 PST

Children of Men

I wasn't sure what I was about to see when I plopped my butt down in a blue, plush theater seat at the 2:20 showing of "Children of Men" today. Within five minutes, it became deafeningly clear."...
Posted by Sassy Nutwood on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:50:00 PST