Qubit aka Groucho Marxist - ProfilesArchive

About Me

How many Marxists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
1) The light bulb contains the seeds of its own revolution.
2) The light bulb cannot be changed â€” it has to be smashed.

Which Trainspotting Character Are You?
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My Interests

Fine art photography, electronic and acoustic music, literature: fiction and non-, essaying and essayists, film, comics, fine art, particle and astro-physics, found sound, bass playing and drumming, The Boston Red Sox, FC United of Manchester, Manchester United Football Club, and journalism.

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Music:

A forever changing playground of tone and color. This week's obsession: Wilco, Teenage Fanclub, Redd Kross, the Orb, and Four Tet.

Movies:

Good Will Hunting, Ghost Dog the Way of the Samaurai, Million Dollar Baby, Serenity, Lost in Translation, Die Hard, True Romance, Star Wars.

Television:

Firefly, House,MD, Bones, Monk. Essentually, a small smattering of modern drama, cartoons, documentaries, etc. I enjoy losing myself in it, though I'm finding the interest waining over time. I generally only watch DVDs...

Books:

Currently, I'm dipping into the classics with Oscar Wilde and H.G. Wells.
My favorite novel of all time is probably Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, my favorite mind-bender Leon Lederman's The God Particle.

Heroes:

Eric Cantona, Muhammad Ali, Leon Lederman, The Thing, Supergrass' Micky Quinn and anyone who can play a funky Fender Rhodes.

My Blog

Wherever I Hang My Hat...

The following was composed as an email in response to a friend abroad's query about my hometown. As it expanded and expanded, I realized that it was more an essay than an email, so I've chosen to shar...
Posted by Qubit aka Groucho Marxist on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:37:00 PST

So F**king Easy

Well, it's been some time, hasn't it? I must be slipping in my old age but to be honest, very little has struck of late worth writing an essay about. The world is falling apart around our ears, a bunc...
Posted by Qubit aka Groucho Marxist on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:31:00 PST

An Eye for an I

"It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions." - Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 03-24-07 "I've always found paranoia to be a ...
Posted by Qubit aka Groucho Marxist on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 06:24:00 PST

Roger and Me

"This is historic & who ever heard of a rat jumping ON a sinking ship?" - John F., Red Sox Fan Today, I am a very happy man. Not necessarily because of the great things that have been happening in my...
Posted by Qubit aka Groucho Marxist on Wed, 09 May 2007 04:05:00 PST

Evoking the Sanity Clause: I Can't Tell You How Much Fun We're Having, Part Two

"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid." - Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856) "I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity." - Tom Stoppard (1937 - ) "Old a...
Posted by Qubit aka Groucho Marxist on Sun, 06 May 2007 05:58:00 PST

What's in a Word?

"A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things." - Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) "When ideas fail, words come in very handy." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) Anyone wh...
Posted by Qubit aka Groucho Marxist on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:13:00 PST

Tripping the Finite Fantastic

"To see a world in a Grain of Sand,And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,And eternity in an hour." - William Blake (1757 - 1827) "Falsehood has an infinity of combinatio...
Posted by Qubit aka Groucho Marxist on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 04:08:00 PST

I Can't Tell You How Much Fun We're Having...

"To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent." - Berton Averre "Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world." - R. D. Lang Oliver Wendell Holmes once said that "Insanity is oft...
Posted by Qubit aka Groucho Marxist on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:04:00 PST

Happy New Year - Who Am I?

"It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back." - Mick Jagger (1943 - ) Happy New Year. Who are you? Do you know where you were before it was 2007? Was the...
Posted by Qubit aka Groucho Marxist on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:57:00 PST

A Time for Self Discovery

"He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical." - G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), The Fad of the Fisherman (19...
Posted by Qubit aka Groucho Marxist on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:20:00 PST