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Steven Meyer

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About Me

I work on my own webcomic called STRIP MALL, and at a used bookstore full time. I was born in Texas, lived there for 5 years. Ohio 1 year. Virginia 11 years. Minnesota 3 good years. Now Virginia again. It's my favorite place, even though it's kinda sad and dirty. 1 older Sister, 1 older Brother, plus I just met my long, lost, older Half-Sister! She's in Utah. I've got a couple of Step-Brothers too. I love 'em all.

My Interests

Stories. Drawing. Families. World History. Politics. Science. Inventions. Woods. Wild Animals. City Animals. Pollution. Bicycles. Occult stuff. Funny stuff. Psychology. Religions. Podcasts. Radio.

I'd like to meet:

I like meeting most people.

Music:

Stuff with Pianos. Bright Eyes. Bob Dylan. David Gray. Regina Spektor. Damien Rice. Thelonious Monk. Ben Folds. Fiona Apple. The Beatles. Rilo Kiley. Tracy Chapman. Randy Newman. Blues Traveler. Satellite Radio (Sirius).

Movies:

When a movie actually gets made, based on a story someone's passionate about, something went so right, and I applaud it. And it's still possible to sit through a two and a half hour movie without constant advertising bombardments(once it finally starts) as opposed to:

Television:

Meh-

Books:

I work with used books all day, I love them. Kurt Vonnegut. Dave Eggers. Steve Martin. Alan Moore. Grant Morrison. Robert E Howard. J D Salinger. Patrick Suskind. Mike Mignola. Daniel Clowes. Shel Silverstein. Mark Twain. Margaret Atwood. Kurt Busiek. H P Lovecraft. Nelson DeMille. Edgar Allan Poe. Philip Jose Farmer. Scott Dikkers. Douglas Adams. Paul Feig. T C Boyle. Brian K Vaughan. Herman Hesse. Will Eisner. Winsor McCay.

Heroes:

I meet heroes every day. They're everywhere.

My Blog

I Actually Went to the McCain Rally Today

Going to the John McCain rally was like walking into a Women's bathroom, but not as hot. I tried to remain open minded about it, I tried to convince myself that I really am a Woman, and nobody seemed ...
Posted by Steven Meyer on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:50:00 PST

Exploring PWC Forest w/ Brother.

Yesterday Glenn and I were going to hike Old Rag Mountain again, but it was going to rain so we went to Prince William Forest instead. We found this old building foundation that turned into a mini swa...
Posted by Steven Meyer on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:56:00 PST

My Local Commercial

This is the commercial I did a few months ago. It's pretty painful for me to watch.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANFhAe-3bAI ...
Posted by Steven Meyer on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:20:00 PST

Ethical Milk

As much as I support the ethical treatment of animals, lately I think PETA has been acting crazy, but I do sort of like the idea behind what they did demanding that Ben and Jerry's ice cream start usi...
Posted by Steven Meyer on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:16:00 PST

NAS Award Ceremony.

My Mom and I took the Metro to DC to see my Sister get her award from the National Academies.  It was more of an employee appreciation thing than I thought it would be.  I thought there ...
Posted by Steven Meyer on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:16:00 PST

Religulous

I went to the 10:45 pm show of this, and was glad to see the theater almost half-full of people.  I'd been dying to see this for about a year.  I read a review before going in that said, "Bi...
Posted by Steven Meyer on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:00:00 PST

My Academy Award Winning Sister!!

I am bowled over with pride for my Sister.  On October 7th she'll be recieving an award by the National Academy of Science in Washington DC.  She sent this to me as a "By The Way..." kind of...
Posted by Steven Meyer on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:15:00 PST

Self Portrait

It's been a few years since I drew a self portrait, and I felt like doing one today.  It's way smaller than it looks on this screen, it's about two inches from ear to ear on paper.  I haven'...
Posted by Steven Meyer on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:51:00 PST

Obama Responds to the 14 Science Questions.

I've been annoyed by Obama lately, but he's finally issued a detailed response to the Top 14 science questions facing America, issued by the Science Debate 2008 group, which McCain still hasn't respon...
Posted by Steven Meyer on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:41:00 PST

The thing that Irked me about Obamas Speech.

There were only two words that really bugged me tonight in Obama's acceptance speech - CLEAN COAL. He said he'd invest 100 billion dollars in a number of technologies including clean coal.  There...
Posted by Steven Meyer on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:18:00 PST