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Lil' Big Tom

Most of us try to make our mark; it's a rare group of humans who can look themselves in the mirror a

About Me

It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama. God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Now, when you finally discover how something works, you get some laws which you're taking away from God; you don't need him anymore. But you need him for the other mysteries. So therefore you leave him to create the universe because we haven't figured that out yet; you need him for understanding those things which you don't believe the laws will explain, such as consciousness, or why you only live to a certain length of time — life and death — stuff like that. God is always associated with those things that you do not understand. Therefore I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.

My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

Howlin Wolf - Dust My Broom

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Music:

Old-school rock, hard rock, blues, jazz, swing, big band, celtic/bretonian, cajun, zydeco, appalachian, bluegrass, western swing, honky-tonk, country, rockabilly, conjunto, ska, rocksteady, dancehall reggae, soul, r&b, surf, garage, funk, punk, psychobilly, southern rock, sacred steel...stuff that kicks ass

Movies:

Golden Age gangster, post-war Samurai, 80s White Ninja/Black Ninja, hairy ape action no-brainers, dialogue driven indie, sci-fi, screwball/gross-out comedies, decent horror, war flicks, psychological thriller/crime...

Television:

News8 Austin RadarNow, The Weather Channel, MST3K, Law and Order (all but Trial By Jury-that one blows goats), Dogfights, The Office (BBC and NBC), Squidbillies, Fishing With John, House, The Sopranos, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Deadliest Catch, My Name Is Earl, Family Guy, da Ali G Show, The Simpsons, Hell's Kitchen, Seinfeld, Firefly, Trailer Park Boys, Saturday Night Live, Chapelle's Show, Davis Rules, Sanford and Son, Pants-Off Dance-Off...

Books:

Yes, please...

Heroes:

Archimedes, DaVinci, Edward Teach, Eddie Hinton, Richard Feynman, Danny Gatton, Robert Heinlein, W.C. Fields, Skip James, John Milton, Waylon Jennings, H.L. Mencken, Don Mattingly, James Jamerson, Jack Burton, Wild Bill Hickok, Bushwick Bill, Bill Hicks, Cadmann Weyland, Howlin' Wolf, Rob Roy, Chick Webb, Buddy Emmons...

My Blog

I Had Enough Before I Started

There is a direct inverse relationship between a person's intelligence and the volume of their 'ooohhs' and 'aaahhs' directed towards fireworks.I feel we're a few thousand years away from being totall...
Posted by Lil' Big Tom on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:46:00 PST

Sunday, May 25th @ 909 South 2nd Street...

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Posted by Lil' Big Tom on Wed, 21 May 2008 02:50:00 PST

Weekend Eco-Warriors...

Towards the end of June I'm heading back to the NE for just shy of two weeks to go camping/visiting friends.  Air travel is out due to the pooch, rail in the United States is a central planning S...
Posted by Lil' Big Tom on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:22:00 PST

Compared to Jim Bridger, Kit was civilized and tame...

I've just realized it has been over a year since I last posted a blog.  Partially due to the fact a bunch of my writing energy has been going to a novel, it is mostly due to the fact I've had a l...
Posted by Lil' Big Tom on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:23:00 PST

I Don't Want To Settle (Just Settle Down)

The true mob-rule that an unadulterated democracy embodies not only has never been implemented on this rock, but entails such naked social force that few are equipped to handle it.  One of the ma...
Posted by Lil' Big Tom on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:51:00 PST

Just A Few One Night Stands

The word nigger has officially lost all of its cachet for me. The times I hear it, it comes from drunken youngsters having verbal my-wang-is-bigger contests, debris-blanche (white trash with money) da...
Posted by Lil' Big Tom on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 10:25:00 PST

A Week And A Day

I feel that punishment needs to be cruel and unusual by design.  Now I'm not talking a sentence of standing in the pillory for a kid crying in the supermarket, but an incisive proactive response ...
Posted by Lil' Big Tom on Thu, 18 May 2006 11:01:00 PST

Sometimes, the bar, well, he gets...

"To ignore the immoral, unethical and outrageous behavior of government is to endorse it."     -George Green At this point, I'm getting pretty accustomed to the current nation...
Posted by Lil' Big Tom on Tue, 09 May 2006 04:44:00 PST

A slow, quiet disaster

"Democracies die behind closed doors."                        -Judge Damon J. Keith, U.S. Court o...
Posted by Lil' Big Tom on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:10:00 PST

If'n I Ever Did

Admiral Hyman Rickover was in charge of the U.S. submarine fleet during a large portion of the Cold War.  A big nerd who was excited by all of the latest technological innovations, Rickover insis...
Posted by Lil' Big Tom on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:02:00 PST