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Marrus

About Me

I actually live over at Livejournal - you can check me out there at http://marrus.livejournal.com. No insult meant to the fine folks here at Myspace, I just like LJ better;)

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

People living life in the fronts of their mouths. The fearless. The honorable. The successful. Pragmatic optimists. The brave. The quick. Folks that inspire me, and who I can look up to:)

My Blog

I think Ive figured out an underpinning of success...

...in life, love, and moving through the universe:It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people, that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak alw...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:01:00 GMT

On "Big Ones"

Im 39 years old.  Yup.  There.  I said it.  I dont mind it one bit.  Im proud of what Ive accomplished, happy with who I am, excited about whats around the corner.I dont color my hair.  Ive got...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:13:00 GMT

I havent written about this because it hadn't been mine to write about...

...but he broke the seal and said something publicly, so Im finally free to speak. Jay joined the Army Reserves.  He sprung the idea on me only a couple of weeks ago, and while I understand his reaso...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:04:00 GMT

7th puzzlepiece of Dreamstag...

I think I'm only gonna do one or two more of these.  Here's a good, chewy cornerpiece:I've been quiet on here cuz I've been depressed as hell, and not a little frightened.  My July show just  disappea...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:44:00 GMT

In the last two weeks, and in no particular order, I have:

Done my 2008 taxes.Refinanced my house.Done battle with New Orleans over the right to sell prints of my own work. This has included talking to various lawyers, policemen, the ACLU, Councilpeople at Ci...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:22:00 GMT

Am I becoming a Southerner...??

While I was making groceries at the Rouse's, I saw a gentleman stocking milk.I was there to buy milk! And while I had no preference as to which brand of milk came home with me, I took one of the ones ...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:40:00 GMT

On Manual Transmissions & Manmade Disasters

So, the one thing in the entire world that Jay doesnt know how to do is drive a stick shift. And I do. And since my car is a manual, and sometimes blocks his pick-up, and he should really know how to...
Posted by on Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:02:00 GMT

Oh, wow, the book’s becoming REAL and I feel so nauseous...

I just got off the phone with my publisher. I sent the revised manuscript, a TON of sketchbook drawings, and a HUGE stack of originals to be scanned to New York.He said, "It's my baby now. It's out of...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:30:00 GMT

So, the movie I storyboarded this past spring...

Which you can read all about here: http://marrus.livejournal.com/2008/02/13, will be airing on TNT on December 7 at 8/7c.  It's called The Librarian:  Curse of the Judas Chalice (http://www....
Posted by on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:05:00 GMT

Threw my back out HARD yesterday...

I don't know what the hell I did to it. LARF runs three Kids' Days, back to back, and I worked all of day 2 just fine, despite the deluge, despite the pack of hormonal adolescents crammed into my ...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:00:00 GMT