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Christopher

Wanna go drink our problems into opportunities?

About Me

I'm two steps ahead of you and both of them are whiskey.

My Interests

Vespas, Oscar Wilde, webcomics, John Gray, neologisms, commodification, portmanteaus, crosswords, vintage Star Wars action figures, art nouveau/ le style mucha, Aubrey Beardsley, Victorian literature, psychomachia, gin and tonics, whiskey, vitamins, and formal attire.

I'd like to meet:

Jim Dixon.

Music:

The Divine Comedy, The Magnetic Fields, The Gothic Archies, Momus, Gary Numan, Jonathan Fire*Eater, The Octopus Project, Adam Ant, The Pulsars, Barcelona, The Rentals, Knapsack, Bendthaus Lassigue, Rainer Maria, Pulp, Gorillaz, The Pixies, The Jam, The Kills...

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, Bottle Rocket, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Bubba Ho-Tep, City of Lost Children, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Down by Law, Edward Scissorhands, Empire Records, Gangster No. 1, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Howl's Moving Castle, I Heart Huckabees, Laputa, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Mars Attacks!, M*A*S*H, Max, Porco Rosso, Quadrophenia, The Royal Tennenbaums, Rushmore, Spirited Away, the Star Wars Trilogy, Trainspotting, V For Vendetta

Television:

Law & Order: SVU, Top Chef, The IT Crowd, Scrubs, Metalocalypse, The Venture Bros, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Evangelion, Fooly Cooly

Books:

Recently Frankenstein, Lucky Jim, Invisible Man, Around the World in 80 Days, At Swim-Two-Birds

Heroes:

John Gray. Nick Currie. Stephin Merritt.

My Blog

Denton Ride

  Usual suspects    Originally uploaded by vespathetic Today Aaron hosted a mini-Denton rally at his house. About a dozen of us ventured out to Krum, though misadventure split us up ...
Posted by Christopher on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:17:00 PST

stuff sucks

I just spent the last hour reading a rather delightful comic strip called Stuff Sucks, by Liz Greenfield. Stylistically it reminds me of Vera Bee's old comic Return to Sender. Notably because both com...
Posted by Christopher on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:20:00 PST

a tangent: wedding crashers

Recently my best friend and I tried to sit through what is generally considered to be a very funny movie. I'm taking about, of course, Wedding Crashers, the summer comedy flick starring Vince Vaughn a...
Posted by Christopher on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:49:00 PST

scooter boy (non-fiction exercise)

Scooter Boy The Piaggio Vespa is a simple machine. Once you've dropped the engine, a simple matter of undoing all the gear, clutch, and brake cables, the wiring, and support bolts, all you really nee...
Posted by Christopher on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:18:00 PST

a fiction (writing exercise)

    She had a porcelain beauty with a fine featured face framed by coal black ringlets. Her curves were unobtrusive and pleasing, accentuated by her seeming preference for quite fitted ...
Posted by Christopher on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 12:11:00 PST

very close

The 50 Special is half way there. The engine is out but the case halves still aren't completely apart. It seems the spring gear is hitting a lip on the right side case. I'm not sure how to go around t...
Posted by Christopher on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:07:00 PST

1980 Vespa 50 Special

  Cousins    Originally uploaded by vespathetic. On Saturday my 50 Special arrived, though sans accesories. Not working and bearing a meager 50cc engine this little scooter is going ...
Posted by Christopher on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:29:00 PST

a finished scoot

photo sharing">   rebuilt    Originally uploaded by vespathetic. It took the better part of five months but the scoot is finally up and running again. Granted three of those months we...
Posted by Christopher on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:19:00 PST

the END

I'm a bit sad that today is the last day I'm going to go out with Woody and buy the final volume in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Today, Friday the 13th, Book the Thirteenth, The En...
Posted by Christopher on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 08:07:00 PST

five and twenty

Thank you Woody, Eve, Bryan, Rose, Tina, Jenn, my French teacher Wendy, Fletcher, and all the people I likely don't recall interacting with after the mysterious red shot Eve brought me. This morning I...
Posted by Christopher on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:23:00 PST