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Charlie

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About Me


Also, here's me, looking at stuff. Photo by Jenny.

My Interests

Religion, humanity, science. What makes people do what they do? What makes the world act the way it does? In short, "What's the deal?"Also, this: Charlie Chaplin at the end of "The Dictator," where he looks right at the audience and delivers this awesome speech. ..
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I'd like to meet:

My evil, mirror-universe self; Calvin and/or Hobbes; everyone from Futurama.

Music:

iPod

Movies:

Jurassic Park, Punch Drunk Love, and Dr. Strangelove; you know, the whole trilogy.

Television:

Mystery Science Theater 3000, Futurama, Lost, Arrested Development, nerdy science programs.

Books:

Everything is Illuminated, The Master and Margarita, Calvin & Hobbes collections. So far, anything by Alan Moore.

Heroes:

The first human that said, "You know what? Screw you guys, I'm drawing on the wall of this cave."

My Blog

Your A Retard

Not that anyone here does this, but I need to get this off my chest:"Your" is posessive. Like, "I really enjoy your grasp of the English language, Charlie."Whereas "You're" is a contraction, meaning "...
Posted by Charlie on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:38:00 PST

Lovitz vs Dick

Best thing I've ever heard- Jon Lovitz just beat the ever-loving shit out of Andy Dick. I am totally, 100% not joking. This is amazing for so many reasons, not least of which being the fact that Andy ...
Posted by Charlie on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:43:00 PST

Cheese Heroin

I just read on (double-you, double-you, double-you, dot) CNN (dot, com) about a new heroin craze that's sweeping the nation! They call it "cheese heroin," and it's an extremely cheap form of heroin th...
Posted by Charlie on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:32:00 PST

Google Map Stuff

Reason # 5,372 why Google is the coolest company out there: Google Maps "Street View."So far, it's only in select cities (New York, Miami, LA), but here's what it does is this- you go to Google Maps l...
Posted by Charlie on Wed, 30 May 2007 09:01:00 PST

I'm Manly Now

This week has seen a few manly firsts for me. I:1) Learned to drive a stick shift (in a pick-up truck!)2) Changed my own oil.My hands are currently blackened from grease and oil. I've got it under my ...
Posted by Charlie on Thu, 03 May 2007 08:58:00 PST

America and Religion Again

Was America founded as a Christian nation? Hard to know, because our forefathers were so vague on the subject, right?Like this passage from the Treaty of Tripoli (1796), written by Joel Barlow (Americ...
Posted by Charlie on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:33:00 PST

Don't Make Me Laugh

I hate it on TV or in movies, when a character laughs really hard at something, and the other characters start laughing along, reluctantly at first, then harder and harder, and eventually everyone's l...
Posted by Charlie on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:45:00 PST

A Confederacy of Dunces

Thank God, this isn't a blog about Christianity. Close, though...it's about the south.More specifically, it's about the confederacy.I was behind a truck today, and it was emblazoned with a couple rebe...
Posted by Charlie on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:05:00 PST

Beetles and Viruses

[note- This post is about natural selection. However, none of the following is meant to dissuade any belief in God. I don't know why we can't believe in God AND natural selection both. It seems to me ...
Posted by Charlie on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:06:00 PST

Legitimate Businessmen

My uncle has owned his transmission shop for as long as I can remember. I used to tell my friends not to go there, cause he was crooked and would rip you off. Apparently he's not crooked anymore, but ...
Posted by Charlie on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:30:00 PST