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Larry

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Always trying to remember to just be here now. It's really that simple. I said simple, not easy.

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My Interests

Not necessarily in this order :) Best Friends Animal Society - highly intelligent women - life in general - DNA - origins of life - natural history and evolution (or from whence we all came) - cooking good food and eating it with friends - cosmology - the Buddha - good, cheap wine - oh, and highly intelligent women, too...

I'd like to meet:

Ram Dass

Music:

Tom Petty, Kathleen Edwards, Patti Griffin, CSN, Grateful Dead, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris (Boulder to Birmingham), Jethro Tull, Lyle Lovett, Dylan, and the list goes on...

Movies:

American Beauty, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion, The Green Mile, Driving Miss Daisy, Star Man, Fargo, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona...

Television:

Sunrise Earth (HD), Six Feet Under, Nova, Iron Chef America, Kathleen Edwards on Austin City Limits in HD (her skin! wow!)...

Books:

Ms. Kirchner's Liasons And Private Affairs , The Kite Runner, Stephen Jay Gould essays on evolution, Time Traveler's Wife, Awakening the Buddha Within, Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker series, Prodigal Summer, Poisonwood Bible, anything by Poul Anderson.

My Blog

The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain -- Final Chapter

For as much as a year Satan continued these visits, but at last he came less often, and then for a long time he did not come at all. This always made me lonely and melancholy. I felt that he was losin...
Posted by Larry on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:03:00 PST

Another year goes by -- remembering June 4, 1989

The Sichuan earthquake is a reminder for the Chinese that deaths cannot go unmourned. Now they have to extend that understanding to the victims of Tiananmen. China's Grief, Unearthed...
Posted by Larry on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:21:00 PST

R.F.K., R.I.P., Revisited

What America looked like, 40 years ago, from a slain candidate's funeral train. NY Times Magazine Article...
Posted by Larry on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:53:00 PST

How Tyra Banks Turned Herself Into a Brand

Oh, be real!  You didn't actually think I would care about something like this!  Ha!
Posted by Larry on Sat, 31 May 2008 02:58:00 PST

On Mortality

Well, there it is again.  It's over there hiding in the bushes -- just peering out at me and waiting for me to show any sign of weakness.  But I'll not give in that easily! I'm staying, dam...
Posted by Larry on Sat, 31 May 2008 12:50:00 PST

No Country for Old Men *****

No Country for Old Men I experienced this film last evening with friends.  I had been wanting to since it was first released but never did for some reason. I give it 5 stars.  It was dark an...
Posted by Larry on Tue, 20 May 2008 10:05:00 PST

Old friends

Had a great conversation today with a few very good friends from way back when.  It was good to reconnect with them for a few minutes.  They each recalled events from back then that I had co...
Posted by Larry on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:05:00 PST