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Fidd

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

freelance advertising writer, creative director, walking electromagnetic brainstorm and aspiring ditch digger. i enjoy juggling small woodland creatures, staplegunning things and patching holes in swiss cheese. i've been getting into my photography a lot more these days too. here's a sample:'n there are a ton more at flickr.com/photos/fidd.

My Interests

stuff that causes a couple neurons to rub together. writing, independent films, photography, the dogpark, mexico, monkeys, cosmos, cool music, drunk softball/kickball.

I'd like to meet:

anyone with wicked sense of humor, a crooked smile and an open mind. also, the chinaman who peed on my rug (it really tied the whole room together.)

Music:


tom waits, santa maria by the frames, nina simone, spoon, hayseed dixie, a perfect circle, bob schneider, calexico, bill withers, stevie ray, coltrane, john lee hooker is a badass, corky and the juice pigs, ben harper, blind boys of alabama, james brown ladies and gentlemen james brown, johnny cash, franz ferdinand, janis joplin, modest mouse, schoolhouse rock, hendrix, jack johnson, guy clark, push stars, jesse malin, me first and the gimme gimmes, miles davis, morcheeba, nick cave, martini five-0 by the blue hawaiians, the mona lisa's sister by graham parker, brother where are you by oscar brown jr, seu jorge doing bowie cover songs in portugese, i think.

Movies:

royal tennenbaums, barcelona, igby goes down, the cooler, little miss sunshine, big lebowski, the graduate, office space, rushmore, napoleon dynamite, killer clowns from outer space, zentropa, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, team america, spinal tap. have to stop now…brain hurts.

Television:

mostly watch movies, but sometimes i catch entourage, the family guy, daily show, cnn, sportscenter, the sopranos or my reflection in the black tv screen.

Books:

wired john belushi's bio, some book on hitchcock, anything by bukowski, david sedaris, skinny legs and all, the world according to garp, catch-22, midnight cowboy, aztec by gary jennings, augusten burroughs, the chosen by chaim potok, plan of attack by bob woodward, archive magazine and once upon a midnight dreary, i cracked a thick book of edgar allen poe's work.

Heroes:

gene gene the dancing machine. i mean, come on…

My Blog

the blogless wonder

i never did blog a lot, but i realized i don't do any blogging anymore. aside from my usually-tardy one-on-one interpersonal ramblings, i generally just post pics to flickr these days. i don't like po...
Posted by Fidd on Mon, 26 May 2008 11:51:00 PST

my sister’s gone hollywood

being a suburban st. louis mother of three, my sister jodi is about as un-hollywood as is possible. but her old friend michelle lanson has been the personal assistant for mary kate and ashley olsen fo...
Posted by Fidd on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:43:00 PST

a ginormous development

i've used this word for years, but i didn't think this would ever happen. all i can say is keep screwing with the language, people. After visitors to Merriam-Webster OnLine declared it to be their "Fa...
Posted by Fidd on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:34:00 PST

eighty-three freakin' pounds

ok, i took roxanne to the vet to get spayed this morning and she weighed in at 83 lbs. that's 20 pounds heavier than the last time i weighed her. and she's not quite 6 months yet! man, i hope she does...
Posted by Fidd on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:37:00 PST

contagious humor

i'm just picking a few of the better ones, but these are so contagiously funny. i was literally in tears by last one. http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/aus/314979450.htmlhttp: //www.craigslist.org/a...
Posted by Fidd on Fri, 25 May 2007 10:02:00 PST

i'm stealing this.

my friend tanya sent me this. and since my address book is so messed up, i'm going to post it here instead of trying to forward it. it's some unknown dude's review of the film 300 and it could easily ...
Posted by Fidd on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:52:00 PST

Willie Got A Dog.

In the time since Stella passed away, her little brother Willie has been depressed, bored and skittish. He even started picking fights at the dogpark. The poor guy was up to 8 or 9 bowls of beer a nig...
Posted by Fidd on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:59:00 PST

Friends of Stella,

I have terrible news for all friends of my big, goofy Stellapup. Twice Stella survived attacks of a rare blood disease when doctors said she wouldn't, and she was making an incredibly strong comeback....
Posted by Fidd on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:16:00 PST

The Datsun 210 Chronicles.

The bulk of my seventeenth year on earth was spent in a dented white 1981 Datsun 210 hatchback with a big, ineffectively sporty blue stripe down the side. And I drove like an animal. Loved doing donut...
Posted by Fidd on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:52:00 PST

Eye got this fortune.

a while ago, i found this in a fortune cookie. everything looks rosy. right? wrong! after reading it for the ninth time, i figured out what was troubling me. is it a veiled prediction that i'm goin...
Posted by Fidd on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:44:00 PST