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Johnny Danger

Bliss!

About Me

I have more dislikes than likes. I am a complete misanthrope--not to mention malcontent--most of the time. I can't seem to navigate everyday life the way that most people do. My mother tells me that this is because I have expectations that are different than those of regular folk.

I currently live in Cairo, Egypt. Fucking Egypt.

For more about me, please visit: johndmartiniii.com .

My Interests

I like: Arabs, meat-replacement technologies, bowling, new card games, being an American citizen--despite our domestic and foreign policy problems, This American Life from WBEZ in Chicago, my fiancé Jeff, my mother and father, typewriters, organic gardening, the memory of my late Grandmother, wireless network compatible devices, spinach, Ubuntu Linux those pictures that people put up on MySpace of themselves out of which they have clearly cut their friend or girlfriend, local businesses, swearing like it is punctuation.

I dislike: television, reality television, American Idol, American Idol fans, people who don't know the difference between "your" and "you're", policies or laws that are either nonsensical or not apparent, meter-maids and parking service workers, bacon, all things unsolicited, restaurateurs, unnecessary new traffic signs and signals, flowers which have no medicinal or culinary value, automobile engineers, shallow-buried telephone cables, poor grammatical skills due to ignorant laziness, ill-conceived trivia-game questions, lazy postal employees, cinnamon gum, spinach-phobes, Florida, politically correct speech.

I'd like to meet:



The Cher Robot, David Sedaris' boyfriend Hugh Hamrick, the Fidel Castro Robot, Ira Glass.

Music:

"My religion prohibits music because if there are two people dancing the third person dancing with them is the devil." "Yeah?" "Yeah."

Movies:

I never used to, but I like shitty American films overdubbed in Arabic. It makes me feel like I'm at home or some shit.

Television:

Read a fuckin' book.

Books:

I will read anything with words printed on pages as long as it is in a language that I can understand, or barely understand, especially if it is about: aliens, vampires, zombies, distant-future Earth follies, dead prophets, bad political decisions, gay cowboys, or food. I also read a great deal of non-fiction, by virtue of being a grad student as well as for my own personal intellectual growth.

Heroes:

Those brave souls presently imprisoned without charges, evidence, rights, or habeas corpus at Guantanamo Bay and other secret detention facilities in the United States. Your mom.

My Blog

http://johndmartiniii.com/blog/

So, I have never really liked the MySpace blog. But now  I actually have one of my own now  hosted at my site. It is more a discussion of my activities and travels, but should be entertainin...
Posted by Johnny Danger on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:41:00 PST

House Party Fundraiser in Kalamazoo

If you are in Kalamazoo, you should come to this party.
Posted by Johnny Danger on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:22:00 PST

One month

It's been a month since I blogged.  News is terrible, politics are fucked up.  I suppose that that is par for the course.  Terrible, terrible.  
Posted by Johnny Danger on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:43:00 PST

Happy Effing New Year.

I suppose that it is terribly trite, but Happy New Year.  I would have written sooner but I woke up yesterday afternoon still so drunk that I coul barely function.  This state rapidly turned...
Posted by Johnny Danger on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:20:00 PST

Christmas addendum

So, as an addition to the best Christmas celebration ever, my parents and grandfather came down today and we went for Chinese food.  We celebrated Christmas with the Jews![1]  I have been tr...
Posted by Johnny Danger on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 05:23:00 PST

The Best Christmas Ever

I think that I am experiencing the best Christmas possible.  For those of you who are uncler on my feelings regarding this time-honored holiday: I fucking hate it.  I hate the music--except ...
Posted by Johnny Danger on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 05:34:00 PST

A New Man

So this is an artist's rendering of a surgery to correct a left-side inguinal hernia.  I had this done on Monday, but it went a bit differently of course.  First, I was not totally naked, be...
Posted by Johnny Danger on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:41:00 PST

Eid ul-Fitr

This week is Eid ul-Fitr, the three day feast that comes at the end of Ramadan.  I am celebrating this event this evening by creating a bit of a Middle-Eastern Feast over here for some of my frie...
Posted by Johnny Danger on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:30:00 PST

Arabic Airport Fun Times

http://parkerstudio.com/AAW/JFK_story.htmlRead the above story.  It should make you cringe.  If it doesn't, you should sit and think until it does.  ...
Posted by Johnny Danger on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:21:00 PST

Tombstones

Hey, I just read, from a terribly credible source, that tombstones were originally placed in order to keep the dead from escaping.  This is an interesting idea, and backs up my theory, in part, t...
Posted by Johnny Danger on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:55:00 PST