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Robert

Irish sensibility.

About Me

Im a recovering workaholic. 6 months clean. If youre not laughing at life you just dont get it and when a five year old says youre fat its because you are; lose some weight fat ass. Im too clever and too cynical to be really fond of. It takes a lifetime to be a real asshole but it only takes a minute to be a bastard.

My Interests

Being Ernest, Bortsova, bunburying, guns, tennis, sunkist, blue, tiles, grout, guitar, jeans, sweet tea, showers, being tidy, signing my bike out, laughing, reading books, history channel

I'd like to meet:

Mr. Bunbury, Irving Washington, Washington Irving, John Milton, Milton John, Ylayali.

Music:

al chairs. But with countries. And Wagner.

Movies:

I Heart Huckabees.

Television:

I got a radio for good behavior. And sometimes I snore while I'm awake.

Books:

Hunger, Catch 22, Sherlock Holmes, The Kid Stays in the Picture (on tape), The Importance of Being Earnest, Confessions of Zeno, Dead Souls, Flashman

Heroes:

Harry Flashman. Sherlock Holmes. O'Yeiski. And this guy:

My Blog

Love

What's wrong with you, with us, what's happening to us? Ah our love is a harsh cord that binds us wounding us and if we want to leave our wound, to separate, it makes a new knot for us and condemns us...
Posted by Robert on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:50:00 PST

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma per ci che giammai di questo fondo Non torn vivo alcun, s'i' odo il vero, Senza tema...
Posted by Robert on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 05:47:00 PST

At One O'Clock in the Morning

Alone, at last! Not a sound to be heard but the rumbling of some belated and decrepit cabs. For a few hours we shall have silence, if not repose. At last the tyranny of the human face has disappeared,...
Posted by Robert on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:06:00 PST