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About Me

I got my name in lights with notcelebrity.co.uk

A friend once described me as an "aficionado". Not of anything in particular, but of EVERYTHING - art, movies, TV, literature, music, cigars, food, cocktails, etc. I guess that's true. I'm always expanding my horizons, too. Looking for new things to be an "aficionado" of. Another friend once described me as "obsessive" for the same reason.Perhaps the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

This is Dudley. He loves string!

My Interests

Music, books, movies, TV, art, legerdemain, cigars, meeting people, hanging out, goofing off

I'd like to meet:

You

Music:

Sex Pistols, Ramones, Dead Kennedys, The Clash, Flogging Molly, The Pogues (Shane MacGowan era), Bjork (I'm addicted to her voice), Pink Floyd, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Joe Venuti, Esquivel, Martin Denny, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Ravel, John Cage. I listen to just about everything!

Movies:

The Godfather, Seven Samurai, Reservoir Dogs, Swingers, American Movie, Gummo, Brazil, A Clockwork Orange, The Hills Have Eyes, Suspiria, Near Dark, The Killer, Chinatown, Apocalypse Now, Clerks, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver

Television:

Sopranos, The Shield, CSI, ATHF, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office (BBC), Match Game (Gene Rayburn era), Deadwood, Spongebob Squarepants

Books:

Ulysses - James Joyce, Home Land - Sam Lipsyte, Choke - Chuck Palahnniuk, Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck, The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner, Tishomingo Blues - Elmore Leonard. The list goes on and on. . .

Heroes:

Gene Rayburn Monkey!

My Blog

Steal This Room

There's a little plastic sign in my room at the Quality Inn in Reno. It's a thinly disguised warning about stealing items from the room. It reads, "Items listed below are available for purchase. If yo...
Posted by Tim on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:38:00 PST

What Is It?

"Go through that door and follow the yellow footprints." These are the instructions I received after giving some old guy in a cowboy hat a dollar. Those footprints led me through 3 large metal storage...
Posted by Tim on Tue, 20 May 2008 10:50:00 PST

The Girl Next Door

Her name was Darlene. Her family moved into the house next door when I was in high school. We were friends. We had some classes together and hung out a little. I fondly remember the nights I would com...
Posted by Tim on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:17:00 PST

Last Meal

The morbidly fascinating tradition of the last meal for the death row inmate goes as far back as the ancient Greeks. The idea was that a condemned soul shouldn't be hungry on its journey to the kingdo...
Posted by Tim on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:58:00 PST

Laundry Day

I hate laundry. The baskets, detergent, fabric softener sheets, machines, hangers all of it. It's the "choriest" of all household chores. Cleaning cat puke off the carpet? Great! Scrubbing the toile...
Posted by Tim on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:55:00 PST

Cant Even Re-Gift It!

The TVR Tuscan is a British-made "supercar" that features a 2361 mm wheelbase, double wishbone suspension and an inline six engine with 380 brake horsepower. It can go from 0 to 60 in 4.2 seconds and ...
Posted by Tim on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:27:00 PST

Lobsterquest

I got to spend last week in Portland, Maine because my employer thought it would be a good idea for me to attend a class that was being offered at Southern Maine Community College. Class was from 8 am...
Posted by Tim on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:19:00 PST

Opportunity Knocks

I spent some time in Barnes & Noble this afternoon. As I turned away from a shelf in the fiction and literature section, I bumped into a tall, skinny, youngish, professional-looking guy. We said our s...
Posted by Tim on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:39:00 PST

U.S. Invades Mexico!

Earlier this year I became aware of a disturbing statistic. It was cited in a television commercial that ran during the broadcast of The Kentucky Derby. The commercial was for Yum Brands, Inc., the Lo...
Posted by Tim on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:14:00 PST

The Rules

A friend of mine enjoys the bar in a restaurant near my home. From time to time I get calls or text messages inviting me to join him for a drink or two. Even thought it's not "my kind of place," I bel...
Posted by Tim on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:47:00 PST