Captain Cockknuckles the Cruel

About Me

I dislike wearing shorts.

My Interests

1940's London minus the Stukas and Messerschmitts, Giants (the football team not people that are really tall), Yankees (the baseball team not people from the North), LFC, crosswords, books, Germany, Patents, Seven and Sevens, cheese plates, Boston, travel, T shirts and jeans, legal stuff , cartoons, self proclaimed anglophile, a master in the art of frivulous spending.

I'd like to meet:

The guy who has he answer key to certain state bar exams.

Music:

Funeral Daydream Nation Lonesome Crowded West Deep Cuts Apologies to the Queen Mary In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Replicas Tallahasee Feel Good Lost Dragnet The Warning Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Six Demon Bag Rubies Fevers and Mirrors Conundrum Ok Computer Power, Corruption, Lies Drums Not Dead Return of the Rentals Rubber Soul Sung Tongs

Movies:

The Sting.

Television:

Law and Order Mr. Show Arrested Development The Wire (shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit)

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Books:

Fun Time

Freakonomics
A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius Crime and Punishment 1984Mother Night
. . . I read alot.

Heroes:

He'll make you pay with guns and fists.

My Blog

I am very fond of string quartets and this medley

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Posted by Captain Cockknuckles the Cruel on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:57:00 PST

Call me slow . . .

But today I finally had one of those wow, I should have realized THAT along long long long time ago. Let's delve deeper, dangerously deeper....If I had a brother, which I do not, people would re...
Posted by Captain Cockknuckles the Cruel on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:53:00 PST

I too hated Top Gun

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Posted by Captain Cockknuckles the Cruel on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:56:00 PST

Greatest letter ever written

To: John Madden CC: Electronic Arts Sports From: Ethan Albright Re: Being the worst rated player on Madden '07 Hi, John, my name is Ethan Albright. I play line for the Washington Redskins. You probabl...
Posted by Captain Cockknuckles the Cruel on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:41:00 PST

Fucking Germans stole my idea....no not that idea, a different one

A while back (check archive) I wrote about doing this. Lack of venture capitalists aside, I thought of it first you krauts. Agency makes breaking up easier ...
Posted by Captain Cockknuckles the Cruel on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:35:00 PST

Hey look man, I ain't fighting for no race.

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Posted by Captain Cockknuckles the Cruel on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:40:00 PST

Seeking ideas for my illegal backyard fireworks display finale.

Its that time of year where we celebrate quite possibly the greatest moment of human history, where ordinary people decided that if they did not like the form of government over them, they had the rig...
Posted by Captain Cockknuckles the Cruel on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:53:00 PST

Hard times hit the funny pages.

Read me first. So, since John Arbuckle's arrest on marijuana charges, pictures like this are much easier for authorities to explain. Furthermore, authorities are uncertain as to the future of his hous...
Posted by Captain Cockknuckles the Cruel on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:15:00 PST

Too pretentious to call it football.

So as Bono is constantly telling us all, the World Cup changes everything, in its impressive arsenal it even has the power to stop wars in countries you havent heard of, nor could find on a map given ...
Posted by Captain Cockknuckles the Cruel on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 03:27:00 PST

Attention NYC haters.

Apperently NYC is the safest city in the country, and to indicate that fact the Daily News in their article thought it would be a good idea to use a photo of the skyline with the WTC still in it...
Posted by Captain Cockknuckles the Cruel on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:38:00 PST