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Gary Dunaier

Aristophanes is RIDICULOUS!

About Me

I love to laugh and I love to make other people laugh. I'm no Jackie Martling... actually, that may be a good thing... but I do have my moments.

My Interests

  • Comic Books
  • Celebrity Signed Checks
  • Stamps
  • Coins
  • Sports Memorabilia
  • Ballparks and Arenas
  • The areas where ballparks and arenas are located
  • All-you-can-eat Chinese buffets
  • Restaurants that give free refills on sodas
  • The New York Mets
  • Taking pictures with my Digital camera, especially at ballgames
  • Portable video games, specifically the Nintendo DS and, to a lesser degree now because I have a Nintendo DS, the Nintendo Game Boy Advance

    • I'd like to meet:

    People with similar interests... who like to laugh, who can make me laugh, who are on my wavelength. Also looking for that "special" someone...

    Music:

    Mainly classic rock and pop, 1960s-1990s, but there are exceptions.

    Most of all I loathe putting music in classifications, for example I hate "lite" music because it sounds watered-down, but I'm sure there are songs I like that would be formally classified as "lite."

    Also, there are some genres that I'm not "officially" a fan of but there are individual songs from these genres that I do like. And that's O.K.

    Some of my fave raves:

  • The Beatles
  • Bruce Springsteen
  • Frank Sinatra
  • The Village People
  • Culture Club
  • Chuck Berry
  • The Doors
  • Prince
  • Devo

    • I'm really not into "hardcore" but thanks to the Morton Downey, Jr. show (don't ask!) I became a fan of GG Allin, and there are a few Mentors tracks I dig.

    Movies:

  • American Splendor
  • Crumb
  • Hail, Hail, Rock And Roll (Chuck Berry)
  • Coming To America
  • Trading Places
  • Torch Song Trilogy
  • The Queen
  • Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

    • Television:

    In no particular order:

  • The Apprentice
  • The Odd Couple
  • The Simpsons
  • Family Guy
  • Frasier
  • The Price Is Right
  • Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
  • Monty Python's Flying Circus
  • Fawlty Towers
  • M*A*S*H
  • Iron Chef (the Alton Brown-hosted American version as well as the original Japanese version with Fukui-san)
  • Match Game
  • The Amazing Race
  • The Weakest Link, especially the British version
  • Little House On The Prairie
  • The People's Court
  • Judge Judy
  • Judge Mathis
  • Judge Joe Brown
  • Divorce Court
  • The Sopranos, which I'm now discovering on A&E

    • Back in the days when I had more free time I went to many TV show tapings:
  • Morton Downey, Jr. (both at WWOR and CNBC)
  • Donahue
  • Maury Povich (early on, before all his shows were paternity shows and lie detector tests)
  • People's Court (with Ed Koch as judge)
  • Geraldo

    • Books:

  • American Splendor (Harvey Pekar)
  • True Story Swear To God (Tom Beland)
  • Box Office Poison (Alex Robinson)
  • Tricked (also Alex Robinson)
  • Magic Whistle (Sam Henderson)
  • Strangers In Paradise (Terry Moore)
  • Wimbledon Green (Seth)
  • Hard Time (Steve Gerber)
  • Peep Show (Joe Matt)

  • The Spirit (Darwyn Cooke's version!)

    • Yes, these are all comic books... and there's nothing wrong with that!
    Also:
  • The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide
  • The Early Dated Coins of Europe 1234-1500 by Robert A. Levinson
  • The Scott Stamp Catalogue
  • A Guide Book of U.S. Coins (a.k.a. the Red Book)
  • Coins of England and the United Kingdom (Spink)
  • one-lot auction catalogues
  • auction catalogues dealing with sports memorabilia, autographs, pop culture
  • Hagstrom's street atlases from NYC and the NYC metropolitan area, preferably Laminated

    • But wait, there's more!
    I also like reprints, replicas and facsimiles of magazines and old books, that way I don't have to worry about taking care of them for collectible purposes or from catching "age cooties."

    Heroes:

    I don't know if I'd call these individuals heroes, but they're all people I like... and some of them aren't even real...
    (And the list isn't all-inclusive... there are probably people I've forgotten to put in here, just because they don't come to mind at the time I edit this thing...)

  • Morton Downey, Jr.
  • Harvey Pekar
  • Howard Stern
  • Bob Barker
  • Bruce Springsteen
  • The Beatles
  • Yoko Ono
  • Ellen DeGeneres
  • Bernard Meltzer
  • Donald Trump
  • Tony Randall as Felix Unger
  • Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison
  • Tom Beland and Lily Garcia
  • Yev Kasem (the soup guy on "Seinfeld")
  • Al Yeganeh (the real-life inspiration for the Yev Kasem character; I don't care for his soups, they're too spicy for me, but I respect the man nonetheless)
  • GG Allin
  • Benny Hinn
  • Dr. Frederick K.C. Price
  • Tina from Rina Piccolo's comic strip "Tina's Groove," which unfortunately no longer appears in a New York City newspaper
  • Meg Griffin from "Family Guy"
  • Lisa Simpson
  • Mona from the Wario Ware games for Game Boy
  • Mario, originally known as Jumpman, from Nintendo
  • Vince McMahon
  • Rosey the S.H.I.T. ("Super Hero In Training") from the WWE
  • Gene Gene The Dancing Machine from "The Gong Show"

    • And very, very special "props" (as the kids like to say) to a couple of My Space friends for their guidance and support through the years... ladies, gentlemen, and those of you who aren't sure, let's have a big My Space hand for
  • Mr. Jim Salicrup and

  • Mr. Fred Hembeck!!!!!

    • (cheers and applause)