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About Me

"I Don't even know you....." but....First and foremost & foreleast, I am the author of the daily Holiday From Showers blog on MySpace--we are into being funny-- yeah, about as funny as a can of Beets--and trying to make our readers smile and not have to think too much--we don't use big words; happy?--potential Myspace friends--we do not make rude comments on pictures, unless it's a hot looking girl---- I am a well educated New Jersey native; exit 37 off Rt 80--you're welcome...bright--well-read--modest. Seriously, I pocess a sparkling wit and a nice basset hound too. Have seen America from Portland East to Portland West--have been in and out of NYC thousands of a couple of times--experience is always the best teacher.

My Interests

I am as flexible as a yard of aluminum foil-- and about as exciting. Like going to ball games--the movies--plays--"live" S & M shows--the usual things folks do in a College town. + Writing uproarious blogs on MySpace--subscriptions available to "Holiday From Showers"!!!!!

I'd like to meet:

Mark Twain; Moby Dick; Duke, the Bush Beans dog; Ann Margret

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Music:

Hank Williams (Hank being perhaps the greatest musician/songwriter in the history of popular music) Carlene Carter; Jesse Ray Carter; Maybelle Carter; Paul Rodgers; Jan & Dean; Brian Wilson; Johnny Horton; Wilco; My Morning Jacket; Loudon Wainwright; Steve Earle; Neil Young; Joni Mitchell; The Kinks; Black Rebel Motorcycle Club; Frank Sinatra; Johnny Cash; Dwight Yoakam; Roxy Music; Granddaddy; Lou Reed; White Stripes; Emmylou Harris; Gram Parsons; Waylon; Miles Davis; Dion; Margret Whiting; The King Famliy; Ed Ames; Lawence Welk; Sheb Wooley; Nick Lowe; Porter Wagoner; Marty Stuart.

Movies:

Kiss Me Deadly; Goodfellas; Breakfast at Tiffany's; Viva Las Vegas; Casablana; the Third Man; Citizen Kane; The Stranger; the Big Heat; Touch of Evil; The Wild Bunch; Shane; The Searchers; The Man who shot Liberty Valance; anything directed by David Lynch; Summer of Sam; Polyester; Elizabethtown; Angel Heart; It's a Wonderful Life; Winchester 73; Rear Window; Vertigo; North by Northwest; Bringing Up Baby; Walk the line; O Brother Where Art Thou; Shadow of a Doubt; Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein; The Producers; Airplane;Thunder Road; Out of the Past; THe Night of the Hunter; Cape Fear-1962; angel Face; Boogie Nights.....

Television:

Superman with George Reeves-- Great Caesar's Ghost! the coolest show ever; Abbott and Costello show; Desperate Housewives; My Name is Earl;30 Rock; Seinfeld; B & W episodes of Gunsmoke; Man From Uncle;The Weekly Farm report; Oprah After show.

Books:

The Big Sleep; The Long Goodbye; Summer of '49; Huckleberry Finn; Henry V; Ball Four; Moby Dick--in the original Hebrew.....

Heroes:

Sid Fields; Mickey Mantle; Bud Abbott; Raymond Chandler; John McCain; James Stewart; Tina Fey; William Holden; Stephanie Powers; Audrey Hepburn; Ann Margret Dwight Eisenhower; Hank Williams; George Reeves; Rosa Parks; Jackie Robinson; Elston Howard; Bill Veeck; Celia Newby; Audie Murphy; Branch Rickey; John Ford; Herman Melville; Jonas Salk; Field Marshall Erwin Rommel. Dave Davies; Ray Davies; Brian Wilson; Dennis Wilson; Carl Wilson; Nick Lowe.

My Blog

Eternally Young Ideas

Hey---writing these thought-provoking blogs is not the only interest in my life-- Heck no, I got so many irons in the fire, I should have an infomercial---here are ...
Posted by tomfoolery on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:20:00 PST

He lives so far out in the woods, his house got reviewed in Field and Stream

Heard recently that the original name for Life magazine was going to be Spy magazine... Hmmmm...got me thinking about some of the other ma...
Posted by tomfoolery on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:30:00 PST

Now let’s get serious

Intelligent readers may have noticed my past few blogs have dealt with an inane topic--the John Kennedy assasination of 11/22/1963---- for this I am &...
Posted by tomfoolery on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:04:00 PST

While I was outside, in the sandbox.....

Sunday morning, the rain had stopped---my brother George and I went outside around noon to dig holes in the now very damp sand box in the backyard. We had become tired of Kennedy co...
Posted by tomfoolery on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:40:00 PST

Lying in State

I'm pretty sure it rained all up & down the East Coast on Saturday, November 23, 1963--it sure rained in my home town--buckets--the Sky, crying over the loss of our friend ...
Posted by tomfoolery on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:54:00 PST

The Day our President Died

The 22th was Thanksgiving in 2007---so not much really got said today about the 44th anniversary of John Kennedy being murdered---three NFL games to watch and discuss--and all the Family stuff that go...
Posted by tomfoolery on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:31:00 PST

Whelmed

the word whelm doesn't really have a whole boodle of meaning when you take away a word like over or under from the front-...
Posted by tomfoolery on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:22:00 PST

The First Thanksgiving

Well, it's almost here--Thanksgiving!!! A wonderful time, when we realize, that for God Sakes, Christmas is right around the MF ing corner... &n...
Posted by tomfoolery on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:02:00 PST

Sing me Back home.....

So how long have you been singing to yourself--thought nobody was watching--but we all know that.... You sing and hum to yourself---ALL th...
Posted by tomfoolery on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:48:00 PST

If its on the internet...IT MUST BE TRUE!!!!!!!!!

I am one of the Poohbahs at a discount movie theatre, in a South East Conference city. Things are fun sometimes--entertaining most of the t...
Posted by tomfoolery on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:14:00 PST