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Robb

tryin like the devil to find the lord

About Me

This is another essential characteristic of Philadelphia fandom. When expected disaster does not arrive, irrational ebullience sometimes intercedes.

My Interests

Travel, discussion, drinking, music, movies, literature, Marxism and assorted similarly intelligent philosophies and political theories, backgammon and tennis, tattoo's, philadelphia and cities in general, camping, cooking, eating, sleeping, hating Dubya, my kittens, Scout and Mississippi.

I'd like to meet:

shatner stealing mexico touchers, cheese eating surrender monkeys

Music:

most things that are good, most of which was not written recently, ethnomusicology

Movies:

save the green planet is tied with hard candy for best movie of the past 5 years

Television:

the simpsons, the office (uk), documentaries.

Books:

ian flemming, cornell woolrich, biographies

My Blog

white people

preface- if you don't know this, i live in a condo development in the grad hospital area of philly.  the area is changing as is most of center city and anything close.  there is of course so...
Posted by Robb on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:09:00 PST

Hank Bernbach

hank bernbach died last night.  he was my grandfather, sort of.  we weren't actually related.  he was my mom's best friend's father.  but my mom's dad died when she was a teenager ...
Posted by Robb on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:54:00 PST

aftermath

it's 9am, i couldn't sleep any longer.  9am here is, i think, noon in argentina.  god knows what time it is in uruguay which everyone swore was an hour later than argentina but actually wasn...
Posted by Robb on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:15:00 PST

uruguay

i´m about an hour from leaving uruguay.  we´ve spent 2.5 days exclusively in montevideo, and although i know i´ve missed out on a bit, it´s been great.  thing is, there isn´t a single travel...
Posted by Robb on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:47:00 PST

see ya suckers

tomorrow afternoon i'm off to south america.  first buenos aires.  then, uruguay.  turns out that there hasn't been an english language travel guide on uruguay printed since 2002. ...
Posted by Robb on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:26:00 PST

hollywood mike miranda

    for a short period of time while i lived in seattle, i was in a band called hollywood mike miranda.  zane and dylan started the band, god knows how someone as talented as burke...
Posted by Robb on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:46:00 PST

all hail hail

i finally made it to the shore this summer.  last year after only going 3 times, i vowed to go more often this year.  alas, it's early august, and i finally went.  brian, tracy, and mys...
Posted by Robb on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:07:00 PST

hey duck, you been cheatin' on me

i'm reading a book called "the motel life."  my dad lent it to me, borrowed it to me if yer from the midwest.  it's good, sad, american.  about 2 hardluck alcoholic brothers in reno.it ...
Posted by Robb on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:04:00 PST

i'm not a pretty girl

mostly out of boredom, but also because the lack of musical diversity in this city is pretty annoying, i'm now arranging for 2 separate dj nights.  i mean, if not for those ridiculous cities in t...
Posted by Robb on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:25:00 PST

whistle solo!

this past week was our second installment of "rent a cabin in the poconos and get hammered."  the first was brian's birthday, this was tracy's.  essentially the same people, essentially the ...
Posted by Robb on Tue, 22 May 2007 02:51:00 PST