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BGJR -- Freelance Writer & Editor

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About Me


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Fantasy/Creatures Comments & Graphics

My Interests

Writing, Entertainment, Ring Sports (Boxing, Wrestling, Martial Arts), and Chilling Out on the Weekend.

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Your Birthdate: January 31
You're a pretty traditional person. If it's lasted, it's probably good.
You seek stability - both in your career and your romantic relationship.
In return, you're very loyal and predictable. Which is usually a good thing.
Without a partner, you feel lost. Being with someone is very important to you.

Your strength: Your dependability

Your weakness: You hate being alone

Your power color: Midnight blue

Your power symbol: Shell

Your power month: April What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Music:

Heavy Metal, Techno, some Classical, World Music, and Latin Jazz.

Movies:

Horror, Martial Arts (Jet Li, Bruce Lee, Tony Jaa, etc.), Adventure, some comedy, and documentaries.

Television:

pro wrestling (incl. TNA and WWE; I also get a local federation on my cable system), Comedy Central, HBO (I love Real Time with Bill Maher), Inside the Actor's Studio, or A&E.

Books:

The Odyssey by Homer, the Aeneid by Vergil, Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, the Sounds of Poetry by Robert Pinsky, Heretic's Guide to Eternity by Spencer Burke & Barry Taylor, and mostly recently, The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War by David Livingstone Smith.

Heroes:

journalists Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, writers John Updike and Norman Mailer (shares my birthday on 31 January), poet Francesco Petrarca (PETRARCH), musician Jimi Hendrix, composer Franz Schubert (shares my birthday on 31 January), photographer Helmut Newton, and director George Romero.

My Blog

A LITTLE PIECE OF TRIVIA ABOUT ME ....

I am a huge Science Fiction and Fantasy fan.  Unfortunately, because I live in Cleveland, we barely get any conventions of this sort, EVER.   If I had a huge pay-off for an article, I w...
Posted by BGJR -- Freelance Writer & Editor on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:15:00 PST

A CRY FOR HELP ... FROM AN ADOPTED MOTHER

Originally written by Carolyn Griffin. To All Ohio Legislators: I am the mother of an adopted child.  He is grown up now.  Can you understand how painful it is not to have any information on...
Posted by BGJR -- Freelance Writer & Editor on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:37:00 PST

SHAMELESS PLUG(S)

http://www.myspace.com/beaohio If anybody has read my GOVERNMENT WATCHDOG blog, I wrote about an Ohio legislation, House Bill No. 7, giving all Ohio adoptees unlimited access to their birth records, i...
Posted by BGJR -- Freelance Writer & Editor on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:27:00 PST

A MESSAGE TO ALL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ....

How about doing your day jobs for once.  Just because you are all presidential nominees, it does not mean you should stop being senators.  That's right.  For as long as I can remember, ...
Posted by BGJR -- Freelance Writer & Editor on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:00:00 PST

GOVERNMENT WATCHDOG NOTEBOOK

@@@@@ CURRENTLY ON THE FLOOR OF THE U.S. SENATE: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:s.01494:S.1494& nbsp; Title: A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the special diabe...
Posted by BGJR -- Freelance Writer & Editor on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:03:00 PST

HORRORFEST 2007 REVIEW

Okay, let's start by saying "it went."  Not well, but it went anyway.  In Cleveland, and other, other parts of Cuyahoga county, the attendance was dismal.  It showed in 4 theaters ...
Posted by BGJR -- Freelance Writer & Editor on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:04:00 PST

STILL FIGHTING .... PLUS A TV REVIEW

I’m on the comeback trail.  Unfortunately, I haven’t had a chance to see any movies lately.  Maybe, before the holiday season, I might catch a couple movies.  I’m wait...
Posted by BGJR -- Freelance Writer & Editor on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:43:00 PST

STEM CELL RESEARCH, DIABETES, & OUR GOVT (WORK IN PROGRESS)

I have an abbreviated copy of this blog posted on a CompuServe forums website.  I will provide a link at the end of this article. Some time back, I heard through the grapevine something that...
Posted by BGJR -- Freelance Writer & Editor on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:54:00 PST

BRAVELY FIGHTING AN ILLNESS

About a few weeks back, I wound up going to the hospital for severe abdominal pains.  It was so bad, that I nearly passed out.  Knowing my luck, it was something I ate that I should not have...
Posted by BGJR -- Freelance Writer & Editor on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:32:00 PST

DVD REVIEW -- GHOST RIDER (4 OUT OF 5)

Just to let you know, off the bat, I am not a comic book reader.  I am not familiar with the mythology of Ghost Rider, a.k.a. Johnny Blaze.  I just know that it is a Marvel Comics character ...
Posted by BGJR -- Freelance Writer & Editor on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:15:00 PST