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Rifleman

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Life changes too much for an About Me to linger as long as my old one did. To all of you, my friends, I apologize. To those of you who've never met me, I can only say "Bugger off" with the most heartfelt compassion available to my dark, twisted heart. Yay!So what do I have to say about myself now? Stop holding your breath, this may take a while...I've never been a fan of listing off my attributes, whether positive or negative. It's a no-win situation at best: either I'm an egotistical ass for extolling my obviously trumped virtues, or else I'm a pathetic worm with no self-confidence. Instead... I think I'll amble through the re-creation of this profile without making any actual value statements. There. Happy now? ARE YOU? Dammit.I knew I'd get too emotional about this. But what would somebody want to know to make 'em either decide to talk to me, or else get to running away as fast as they can? I suppose the best way to get to know me would be to read between the lines. I know there's not much space there, but I talk a lot and you only have to catch snippets. ;o)Hm. In retrospect, I guess you just wanted to know the boring stuff, huh? Well, I like to write and draw, play softball and catch as many sporting events pertaining to San Diego as possible. Do I look too dorky if I were to scream out "Go Padres!" in my *outside voice*? Probably. I DID promise myself to not do anything that could be construed as a valuative statement, and such a vocal declaration is far too evaluationatory at this juncture of our relationship.

My Interests

When it's baseball season, it's all about the Padres -- who they should acquire, why they aren't winning, who's the next star in the making... come football season? Replace the word "Padres" with "Chargers". Huzzah!In my spare time I bust out with a pencil and eraser and huge sketch pad. Not much comes of my drawing any more, but it's still fun to get lost for a while. When I have a LOT of time (or simply plan better) I'll sit in front of a computer and write. I'm always starting something new, or constantly proofreading some poor story that gets off the ground but whose wings I keep clipping with over-editing. :o)Every Monday and Wednesday night (and sometimes weekends!) you can find me on a softball diamond. I played soccer when I was younger, but all that running and... coordination... naw, just give me a big ball and a big bat (gotta compensate, don'tcha know?) and I'm set.Funny thing? It seems I've got profiles for each for my interests. Now THAT'S bad!

I'd like to meet:

First off, don't let me get stuck in the "I want to meet all sorts of new people!" shtick, because we all know it ain't true. Yeah, Allah loves wondrous variety (at least, that's what Morgan Freeman once told me), but I don't. Not really. I'd love to meet people who can broaden my horizon a bit, but in the context of a non-dingleberry way.I gotta warn you right off if you're gonna talk to me: I'm a bit of a Grammar Nazi (a term which I understand is highly insensitive to Germans, facists, totalitarians AND proper grammarians, but I needed the shock value -- so I half-apologize) so if you have a problem with properly using "you're" or "your" I suggest you stick with "yer" and I won't get a rash about it.O, and I'm not saying I'll HATE YOU for improper verbage, but I will probably say something about it in a very annoying manner... so you're not allowed to hold that against me.What I DO look for in a MySpace friend is somebody who can keep a conversation. *Special note: emails coming from me tend to be long and vague. You are forewarned, and encouraged to respond in kind.

Music:

Every few years my musical tastes tend to adjust themselves. As a result, I really can get into most anything from rap to heavy metal to country, although I tend to exist somewhere in the mid-range of all three.I'm stuck in past decades in a lot of ways; I get down with 80's music despite my lack sentience through most of that decade. ;o) The other day I began to realize that the 90's are becoming the 80's of the 90's. Yeah. I think that made sense. Whatever. I still like all of it.A few favorites? In no particular order: Pantera, Disturbed, Toby Keith, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Stone Temple Pilots, Van Halen, Dierks Bentley, Tim McGraw, Johnny Cash, Will Smith, Sheryl Crow and Rascal Flatts.O, and I'd be remiss to not mention the musical stylings of one Ms. Ren Stewart. ;o)

Movies:

I LOVE movies! I'm a fan of any "2nd" film: Empire Strikes Back, Aliens, The Two Towers, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Back to the Future II... wait... screw that movie. What tripe. But everything else applies. ;o)I'm a big fan of almost every genre, but some of my favorite flicks are Black Hawk Down, The Crow, Braveheart, Titanic, Napoleon Dynamite, Starship Troopers (hey, this is MY list, sucker!), Forrest Gump, Jurassic Park, Office Space... of COURSE, in addition to the Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Back to the Future, Lord of the Rings and James Bond flicks.Of course.

Television:

I was a child of television in my formative years. I was raised on Robotech, Transformers and The Simpsons; educated by Growing Pains and Family Ties; seasoned by Mad About You and Friends. I get endless enjoyment these days from Alias and Lost, Reno 911! and The Office. Funny thing? The only show I ever watch live is Baseball Tonight. Everything else? DVD city. I'm such a television putz. ;o)

Books:

Many of my favorite books ever are either in movie form, or soon will be: Lord of the Rings, Black Hawk Down, Princess Bride, the Chronicles of Narnia, DaVinci Code... I just got a book named Power V. Force, so keep tuned to see how that turns out. You better be right, Tom! :o)

Heroes:

'Nuff said.

My Blog

mid-season form

The Dodgers wasted their money on perennial Gold Glover and either-20-or-50 home run guy Andruw Jonesbut what if this becomes second 'career year'? His bat alone could make this lineup 'make sense', ...
Posted by Rifleman on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:08:00 PST

webisodes and requisitions

As a youngster growing up under the benefactoresque protection of the General Dynamics corporation, it seemed my father (who was employed there for many years) was in a perpetual state of picketing, o...
Posted by Rifleman on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:20:00 PST

ROBOTECH: the movie

My buddy Marcus and I play a casting game whenever a movie's on the horizon, or in the planning stages, or any other time we say "Wouldn't it be cool if& ?" In honor of Tobey Maguire's rumored acquis...
Posted by Rifleman on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:19:00 PST

Love

September 11, again. Today is a day without acrimony -- or else it should be. Remember that day, six years ago? For a good two weeks or more, the world no longer hated us; Democrats and Republic...
Posted by Rifleman on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:46:00 PST

locker rooms and The Mikey Show

It wasn't that long ago when two kids in trench coats walked into a Colorado high school and killed twelve classmates. The nation was shocked. Another instance hit closer to home in the years that fol...
Posted by Rifleman on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:33:00 PST

Five reasons why Marty Schottenheimer should ALREADY be fired...

1 - How many Superbowl-bound NFL players catch the ball with their crotch? Answer: none. Heaven forbid we teach our players to catch the ball with their hands -- maybe even at its highest point? There...
Posted by Rifleman on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:30:00 PST

a bout of football gout

I don't know what that subject line means, but the word "football" was in it. I'm excited about this year's NFL playoffs, and that must means this is an even-numbered year and a butterfly fl...
Posted by Rifleman on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:10:00 PST

"...you get stuck in Iraq."

You're kidding me, right? This is still a story? This lame attempt at a jab (yes, it was an INSULT -- not a joke!) continues to worm its way through talk radio and CNN as recently as this morning on m...
Posted by Rifleman on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:23:00 PST

if I had money...

I was thinking this morning: what would I do if I had a ton of money? I'm talking 'win-the-Lottery-quit-your-job' money. I was alone, with nothing else to occupy my thoughts, so of course a list poppe...
Posted by Rifleman on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:44:00 PST

too much time, too many labels

(or: A Hideous Bulletin Turns Blog!)The MySpace Quintuple is defined as:- new Message- new Comment- new Picture Comment- new Blog Comment- Friend Request (don't try to pad your stats with spam adds)Th...
Posted by Rifleman on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 03:03:00 PST