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About Me

Phinneus Gage was a foreman on the railway. An explosion accidentally sent a 3 foot long, 13 lb. metal rod into his skull, removing his left frontal lobe. He survived somehow and the only damage done was a dramatic change in personality.

Before the accident he was "dependable, industrious, well liked."

When he recovered, he was "restless, loud, profane, and impulsive."

His doctor described him as "manifesting little deference to his fellows, impatient of restraint or advice when it conflicts with his desires, at times pertinaciously obstinate, yet capricious and vacillating, devising many plans of future operations, which are no sooner arranged than they are abandoned."

"The Irish do not lend themselves to psychoanalysis." -- S. Freud

I often feel scared and out of place...

My Interests

Indoor Enthusiast
slashdot
SA Goon
Massage
Tantric Yogurt
Mortuary Sciences
Medieval Siege Weapons
Power Tools
Alcoholism
Guns [lots of guns....]
Stunt Driving [2 and 4 wheeled]
Skydiving
SCUBA diving (NAUI, bitches)
Clowns
Goths
Midgets
Black-Belt Kegel Practitioners
Scrabble, word play, and other Trivial Pursuits
Your Mom

I'd like to meet:

How about your profile and my profile have a relationship and we just blog it?

Music:

Milo Aukerman is the one true God.

Lamb of God
Mastodon
Meshuggah
Tool
I'm in the midst of a metal renaissance... Others:
Muse is pretty cool. Like Radiohead, if Radiohead didn't suck. There's way too much to put here. I like music. All genres. Yep, even a little country and western, but I tend more towards the classics in genres I'm not heavily into. Which are few. I'm working on my classical: I'm leaning towards the Russians. Shostakovich was a badass. My music player is better than yours. Deal with it.

Movies:

Directors: Takashi Miike, Abel Ferrara, Gaspar Noe, David Fincher, Darren Aronofsky, Takeshi Kitano
Preferences: sex, blood , and religious symbolism.

Television:

I watch TV on my laptop.

Books:

Opus Pistorum (Under the Rooftops of Paris) | The Silmarillion | As Bill Sees It

Web:
somethingawful
the agonist
/.
O'Reilly
crooks and liars
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I read obsessively. Like a crazy person. I have books all over the house and I'll just pick one up, read a few pages and put it down. No, really.

Currently Reading:"Mere Christianity" - C.S. Lewis
"A Man Without a Country" - Kurt Vonnegut
"The Death of Media and the Fight to Save Democracy" Danny Schechter
"Democracy for the Few" - Michael Parenti
"The World's Religions" - Huston Smith
"1000 Places to See Before you Die"
A shitload of CSS/AMP books.

your blog.

Heroes:

Me.

My Blog

Honoring the Troops

I honor the troops w/ a bumper sticker on my SUVOne that says "I support the troops" and one that says "Bush/Cheney," while I drive a vehicle that gets 9 mpg.I honor the troops by pretending Saddam Hu...
Posted by John on Tue, 29 May 2007 05:25:00 PST

The Failure of Multi-culturalism

Cobras make shitty babysitters....
Posted by John on Fri, 25 May 2007 11:59:00 PST

Amen Brother

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Posted by John on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:52:00 PST

The Truth About Anal Sex

Venn diagrams rule!
Posted by John on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:10:00 PST

AlterNet: Maybe We Deserve to Be Ripped Off By Bush's Billionaires

By Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.comPosted on February 20, 2007, Printed on February 21, 2007http://www.alternet.org/story/48278/"Now, after she shaved her head in a bizarre episode that culminates a mont...
Posted by John on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:44:00 PST

Creative Writing

Behold... Conan the LibrarianIn other news... I'm engaged....
Posted by John on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:36:00 PST

Outwardly Expressed Anger Affects Some Women's Heart Arteries

... not to mention they tend to die alone living at their parent's house. Original ArticleWhile previous studies have shown that anger and hostility, in and of themselves, can increase risk of heart d...
Posted by John on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:09:00 PST

Doomsday Clock ticks closer to Midnight

By Karen Jowers - Staff writer Posted : Thursday Jan 18, 2007 9:16:25 ESTOriginal article hereGlobal warming, a new factor being used by U.S. scientists in their "doomsday" predictions, has helped pu...
Posted by John on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:01:00 PST

I WANT TO DIE

I sprained my ankle (and it looks like my wrist) yesterday, so I'm in bed with an air cast and bags of frozen peas. Unfortunately those bags of frozen peas didn't come with cute, giggly massage therap...
Posted by John on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:42:00 PST

Pelosi and Reid Tell Bush - No Surge

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi today sent the following letter to President Bush urging him to reject his reported plan to esc...
Posted by John on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 07:54:00 PST