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About Me

I have two 11 year-old kids. They are smarter and cuter than yours.
My name is Tommie, and I'm a radioholic.
(Hello Tommie)
Hello. Anyway, it started off as just a weekend thing, you know? Just a couple overnights...never any of the hard stuff, write a spec script here, produce a commercial there, cue up records and learn how to build carts. Hang out late nights, talk to people, read my Warren Ellis comics and eat chinese food.
Then it got to be an every night thing. I was finding myself doing it night after night after night, until 5:30AM, all week long. I'm sure some of you can relate. But I had no idea I had a problem. I was 19, my hair was long, and my girlfriend modeled underwear in local catalogues. Life was good. What else was there?
I was convinced I could give it up anytime, y'know? But before I knew it, radio had consumed me. I quit college. I went through women faster than Madonna did. I did whatever I had to do to get my fix, even if it meant pulling up all my roots and moving to a new city. And another. And another. And still, my appetite grew like a pile of discarded Milli Vanilli CDs.
Before I knew it, 16 sets of call letters and nearly two decades had gone by. A wife had come and gone. I'd worked in Oldies, in Top 40 where everyone sounds alike...I'd even experimented with alternative and country (and alternative country...). I'd even worked semi-regularly in a building I had never set foot in.
But it's just radio.
Don't judge me. I can quit anytime I want. My crap is here , here , and here .
(scratches at arm furiously, blinks rapidly several times and shudders)
- I have also never intentionally eaten mustard -
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My Interests

Reading and writing. Whatever my kids are doing. Playstation hockey, where I am King.

I'd like to meet:

Jon Gruden. The Guys from Rush. Warren Ellis. So I can thank them. This guy, too:Then...I'd like to meet the people who do the voices of every character on Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends on Cartoon Network. So I can destroy them on some permanent molecular level...

Music:

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Television:

The Sopranos, 24, The West Wing, My Name Is Earl, The Simpsons, Buffy (Yes, Buffy...shut up...), and British Comedies (even bad ones like The Vicar Of Dibley). Of all time, we're in WKRP and M*A*S*H territory.Realize: I can quit watching Survivor any damn time I want! (scratches forearm)

Books:

Terry Pratchett, Warren Ellis, Christopher Moore, Harlan Ellison, Edgar Allen Poe, David Sedaris, Neil Gaiman. And any well-written historical fiction.

Heroes:

Creative heroes: John Lennon, Donald Fagen, Neil Peart, Salvador Dali, Terry Pratchett, and Roy Cunningham...

My Blog

Van Halen - Pregame

Van Halen with DLR is in the tray, because they comprise the bulk of Van Halen v4.0, which I am off to see tonight in Chicago. I have a river of scripts to sift through first, and a little voice...
Posted by Tommie Lee on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:55:00 PST

BattleCatholics!

(sounds like a bad cartoon from the 80s...) Ah yes, two mighty Catholic Universities fight it out, and even The Pope reaches for the popcorn. (Popecorn?) During the course of wandering from tailgate t...
Posted by Tommie Lee on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:42:00 PST

What I Did On My Sunday Vacation by Tommie Age 5

My wife and me we went to a football game it was really neat and we sat in the end zone which was neat too. My wife really really really likes the Colts and really hoped they would win and they did s...
Posted by Tommie Lee on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:07:00 PST

New Bucs Column

for The Captains Deck dot net Pewter & Marooned: A Lonely Bucs Fan In The Midwest "These Seasons Happen" by Tommie Lee [email protected] Soooo...my Notre Dame Fighting Irish are a joke this...
Posted by Tommie Lee on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 06:23:00 PST

Storage

Isn't it interesting how songs you haven't heard in over ten years stay fresh in your head...you know every word, you remember the structure of the song. Faith No More reentered my life tonight, thank...
Posted by Tommie Lee on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:18:00 PST

Entirely too nice...

...of a day out there right now. So I'm about done here. But first, I have about ten more minutes of dubbing work to do. I'll let it run in the background while I type and think out l...
Posted by Tommie Lee on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:17:00 PST

Bliss is...

...listening to XTC's Nonsuch album in the basement, clearing away some email detritus, while my son practices his trumpet upstairs. And noticing that somehow, oddly enough, his practice fits in with ...
Posted by Tommie Lee on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:23:00 PST

Namaste

Josie found this and it's worth repeating to another audience: Namaste Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by Tommie Lee on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:59:00 PST

Addressing The Explosion

(I just posted this at Tommie And The Bartender dot com about an hour ago) To Address The 2,000 Pound Elephant In The Room With Us: Yes, the house that exploded at 8:13 Thursday Night was one of...
Posted by Tommie Lee on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:35:00 PST

Bucs Column - Week Two

From The Captain's Deck Dot Net Pewter & Marooned: A Lonely Bucs Fan In The Midwest092007 12: "FFFFA"by Tommie Lee [email protected] Ha! And again I say HA! During The Season, every Friday o...
Posted by Tommie Lee on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:06:00 PST