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Brendan

These pipes are clean!

About Me

My martini: dry, Beefeater, double olive, on the rocks. Tanqueray will work in a pinch.sometimes i capitalize, sometimes i don't.I will likely die if I don't have at least 3 cups of coffee each day.I hate socialists & communists.

My Interests

Puppies, brunch, napping, quality beer, scrabble, tapas, ireland, the irish, federalism, disestablishmentarianism vs. antidisestablishmentarianism, various eggs, bacon, angels baseball, sleeping, snacking, martinis, gin & tonic, business books, history, pulp crime novels, shooting pool, coffee and smokes, sarcasm, aimless driving, hitting snooze, conversation, salty more than sweet, the sports, business, and food sections of the paper, not doing stuff, austrian economics, etc. HO 00 15, Special Personal Property Coverage

I'd like to meet:

a nice girl, with good values, who likes quality beer and baseball, who can appreciate my sarcasm, slightly nerdy, enjoys napping, isn't too fussy about her looks (or mine for that matter!), and who can forgive my faults. there are many.

Music:

weezer, the cure, depeche mode, new order/joy division, john coltrane, they might be giants, elvis, sinatra, beatles, the clash, dr. octagon, dj shadow, de la soul, pet shop boys, morrissey/the smiths, radiohead, pulp, johnny cash, johnny mathis, bing crosby, lush, the ocean blue, trash can sinatras, david bowie, the jesus and mary chain, blur, the church, beck, the pixies, etc.

Movies:

Miller's Crossing, Trainspotting, Army of Darkness, High Noon, The Longest Day,Akira, Blazing Saddles, The Big Lebowski, Office Space, The French Connection, Cabin Boy, The Usual Suspects, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in The West, Donnie Darko, North By Northwest, Rushmore, Team America, Dog Day Afternoon

Television:

Family Guy, Simpsons,Futurama, Mario Eats Italy, Myth Busters, The Western Tradition, This Old House, New Yankee Workshop, Mail Call, Venture Bros., A Cook's Tour, Globe Trekker,South Park, Angels Games, Dodgers Games, Cubs Games, This Week in Baseball, Baseball Tonight,Lydia's Italian Kitchen, FOX News, Secrets of the Dead,Band of Brothers (mini series), Invader Zim, Penn & Teller's Bullshit, Are You Being Served, Father Ted, Jacques Pepin Fast Food My Way, Good Eats, How I Met Your Mother, NCIS

Books:

A Monk Swimming, 1984, The Stranger, The Grifters, The Killer Inside Me, The Getaway, The Road To Serfdom, A Confederacy of Dunces, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Among the Thugs, The Simpsons and Philosophy, More Guns Less Crime, Adventure Capitalist, The World of Jeeves, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The IRA a History, The Big Sleep, Strangers on a Train

My Blog

Car Insurance Basics

Car Insurance Basics   If you drive a car in California, you must have insurance.  We all know that.  And every day, we're bombarded with car insurance advertisements, some stressing se...
Posted by Brendan on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:07:00 PST

Confused about insurance?

I bet that insurance is one of the last things you want to think about.  To most people it's a boring topic to be avoided unless absolutely necessary.  To others it brings angry thoughts of ...
Posted by Brendan on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:15:00 PST