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Tom Z

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About Me

Engineer, musician, weirdo, father, friend, lover, weirdo, confidant, searcher, weirdo, ...
You Are From Neptune
You are dreamy and mystical, with a natural psychic ability.
You love music, poetry, dance, and (most of all) the open sea.
Your soul is filled with possibilities, and your heart overflows with compassion.
You can be in a room full of friendly people and feel all alone.
If you don't get carried away with one idea, your spiritual nature will see you through anything. What Planet Are You From? HAH!! And here I thought I was from Venus all this time. Libra, I would have never taken you for the Pretender. You wound me!Einstein and Fuller are cool, but Fay Wray?!?!?! I have to keep remembering that I supposedly LOOK like these people. ............................................................ ............................................................ .. hey, I've got the right now. I'm licensed! ...

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people (duh!), Stephen Stills, Joni Mitchell, Thomas Jefferson, Neil Armstrong, Leonardo da Vinci, Ludwig van Beethoven ... half of those people are dead! I think I'd like to meet Thomas Aquinas (I'm named for him) for a glass of wine and conversation; Augustine (I'm also named for him) to give him a bitch slap and a beer; Stephen Colbert to polish his shoes; and whoever is responsible for Foamy, the Wrathful Squirrel.

My Blog

Fool me once, shame on you ...

... fool me twice, shame on me. You've heard this before, haven't you? People don't generally enjoy feeling shame, so if you have done the first thing, don't expect the second to be so easy. ...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:45:00 GMT

Gonna be a grandpa!!!

No more need be said!
Posted by on Thu, 29 May 2008 17:13:00 GMT

Strength

Strength   Whining is not strength. Being rude is not strength. Hurling epithets is not strength. Being opinionated is not strength. Being short-tempered is not strength. Taking another for grant...
Posted by on Wed, 21 May 2008 08:24:00 GMT

The Old Paiute, Wovoka

(I’m sorry this is so f’n long & it’s the backstory.)At the end of Old Crow Medicine Show’s song, "I Hear Them All" is the wonderful verse:"I hear the tender words from Zion, I...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:19:00 GMT

Two weeks and a day ... it must be love.

A number of my local friends already know how I started the two week triple digit heat wave.  For those of you who haven't, here it is.  A couple of weeks ago, on a Tuesday with temperatures...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:44:00 GMT

Stephen Stills at Workplay, Bham, April 26, 2007

This is a shotgun spray of memory fragments, songs played, things I think, and it's LONG.  So, be warned.  It will likely get longer with time. There is no particular significance to the ord...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:34:00 GMT

Heriocritony (here  ee  AH  crih  tun  ee)

Heriocritony (here  ee  AH  crih  tun  ee)& Most would consider Thomas Jefferson to be a hero in the slow but steady advancement of the concept of individual, and inalienable or natural, human ri...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:42:00 GMT

Music that influences your life

Some of you, my gentle readers, may know of the "Soundtrack" project ... a periodical publication wherein ordinary people, like you and me, write stories about some kind of music that has m...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:36:00 GMT

Commentary about some of my playlist songs

Commentary about some of my playlist songs    I find these songs and stories interesting, and maybe y'all will too.   'Round the Bend (Stephen Stills):  A song about a year or t...
Posted by on Sun, 13 May 2007 13:55:00 GMT

This is my neice, this is my neice, this is my neice!!!

As I have bragged to some of you, my neice, Jennifer Hope Wills, is a Broadway actress. She is presently "Christine" in "Phantom of the Opera".  She is and has always been the apple of my eye. h...
Posted by on Thu, 03 May 2007 19:20:00 GMT