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About Me

"Bipedal, knuckle-dragging beerswiller." Often I see more on a daily basis than most people ever see. I work in tv news. You probably don't watch tv, do you? Good for you. Anyway, work is almost always interesting. I really enjoy the creative part of telling the story. From lighting, interviewing, shooting and editing from 9 am to 7 pm I find a challenge. Hundreds of thousands of people see my work every day. Occasionally almost everyone sees it. That's kind of rewarding. Mostly I like covering stories of "human interest" or stories about people. My philosophy is such that all stories are about people. I also like covering what people in the industry call "feature stories." Work has brought me the opportunity to meet a lot of incredible people and I've done some unique things. I've interviewed lots of big shots, freaks, astronauts, Olympians & bad guys like Charles "Tex" Watson. I interviewed "Wubba" when he was just the not-so-great governor of Texas. Speaking of Texas, it's a great place. Ever been to San Marcos, San Antonio, or Austin? Beats the heck out of L.A. if you ask me. Then there's music. I'm not much of a scenester anymore, in fact, I can be kind of shy if you see me out. I still love all kinds of crazy rock and roll and musical oddities. That's enough for now.

My Interests

Sleep, when I can get it...

Music:

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Movies:

Step Across the Border, The Loved One, Capote, Defending Your Life, The Magic Christian, Quills, Papillon, The Man Who Would be King, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Homegrown, The Idiocracy, Being John Malkovich, Brazil, Man Bites Dog, Tuvalu, Delicatessen, Any Monty Python, esp. : The Meaning of Life, John Waters, Marx Bros, Coen Bros, Eating Raoul, Team America, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, To Die For, Election, The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, Help! Early Woody Allen, City of Lost Children, Blue Velvet, 8 1/2, The Godfather, Kingpin, Blazing Saddles, The Professional, Good Night And Good Luck, The Wizard of Oz, The Bad News Bears to name a few...

Books:

Kafka

Heroes:

Curly Howard & The Frankenstein Monster

My Blog

Biafra 50

i interviewed jello biafra last night - he was great. kind of a cross between lenny bruce and if any of my old friends remember creepy paul - like him. very intense. but he imparted a few w...
Posted by Pokechoppums on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:05:00 PST

California Lawmakers Plan To Jack Up Porn Tax And Fill State Coffers

Officials hope to lubricate slumping economy http://www.nbc11.com/slideshow/news/16242380/detail.html...
Posted by Pokechoppums on Tue, 13 May 2008 05:58:00 PST

Current photo

My current cover photo is with Ben Fong-Torres in front of the Palace of Fine Arts. We were both nominated for Emmys this year but we were not recipients.
Posted by Pokechoppums on Mon, 12 May 2008 10:43:00 PST

San Francisco stories

Do you have a cool/visual story to tell? An art opening? A performance? An unusual human interest story? Comming soon - very soon as a matter of fact by Thursday: I will be shooting early in the...
Posted by Pokechoppums on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:21:00 PST

"Live" from Harry Dentons Starlight Room in Beautiful San Francisco

Strike one up for the Meat Man as he takes home two NATAS EMMY nominations: 1. Producer: Light Feature 2. Editor: Under 24 hour deadline Two outta three entries aint bad!
Posted by Pokechoppums on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:33:00 PST

if it’s warm saturday...

i’m going to the beach. it’s eight minutes from my house.
Posted by Pokechoppums on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:27:00 PST

this was great

this showed up on sfist a while back. yikes!http://sfist.com/2007/10/11/sf_works_peep_s.php
Posted by Pokechoppums on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:52:00 PST

i want one of these!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJoDXgvdaiM
Posted by Pokechoppums on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:24:00 PST

a cool primer to "that weird music porkchop likes."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skd_70BINEQ
Posted by Pokechoppums on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:27:00 PST

tabernacle!

i liked it when my friends used to respond to my emails!
Posted by Pokechoppums on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:45:00 PST