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Mark

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

No one's ever called me "Stretch", except Arielle...and Jenn.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Those people whose voices I keep hearing in my head.

My Blog

10 Things You Don't Know About Me

This is some kind of twisted head game I've been roped into. If you've been tagged, you're doomed to repeat the same exercise. Deal with it. 1. The only marriage opportunities that have ever come my w...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:37:00 GMT

It's Been 40 Years Already?

You may have already heard, but if you haven't, this is the 40th anniversary of the release of the Sergeant Pepper album. To a lot of people, it was just another Beatles album, but it actually had so...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:40:00 GMT

Am I Awake Yet?

So far, this has been one of those days when my subconscious and conscious minds seem to exist on the same plane, as if I've been living in a dream I have yet to wake up from. For example, I...
Posted by on Fri, 18 May 2007 14:49:00 GMT

Let's hear it for Senator Zelda!

This is an email I got from CA State Senator Sheila Kuehl, who used to play Zelda on the Dobie Gillis show back in the early '60s. Her signature cause is Senate Bill 840, which would establish a state...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:14:00 GMT

This should make me unpopular...

This is something I found on Netscape on the Populist Party website. It makes a lot of good points about why our country fights wars, none of which are likely to go over well with the average American...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:12:00 GMT

Invasion of the Wedding Snatchers

"Are we in Bush country?", Sarah asked nervously. "Oh yeah," Tracy replied. We were lost in Camarillo, with Brad & Tammy's wedding about to start any minute. We tried asking directions, but the lo...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:40:00 GMT

New Newspeak!

Ten years ago this month I got my first Mac and, hence, my first exposure to what our Prez calls "the internets". I never allowed myself to succumb to the use of those esoteric abbreviations that litt...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:40:00 GMT

I'm Just an Old Softy

"Drop down on all fours and make like a goat", said I. Business is, after all, business, and business is what I meant. But I found her response less than professional as a complete set of Japanese kit...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:22:00 GMT

LIFE IMITATES PROCTOLOGY

All those years as a medical proofreader finally paid off, but not in the way you might think. (CUE WAVY FLASHBACK EFFECT)It was Sunday afternoon, a scant 3 hours before the Academy Awards broadcast. ...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:50:00 GMT

Farfel Speaks

An interview with an icon (originally printed in LOCA)June, 2000Today they are but a dim memory to the millions of then-children who worshipped at the shrine of Saturday morning television. Between 19...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:53:00 GMT