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Monkey Boy

I am here for Friends

About Me

Lawrence is a very interesting fellow.

My Interests

Rock Climbing, The Gunks, Climbing History. Squamish. Joshua Tree. Seneca Rocks. Writing; fiction, non fiction, scifi/fantasy, erotica, Scrabble, Dungeons & Dragons (I haven't played it in like 15 years and I still have all the books... GEEK!) Making beer, Sushi, NPR, Wikipedia, Abby Winters, Juggling, Crossword puzzles, Ice Climbing, pirates, used book stores, Wallace and Gromit

I'd like to meet:

Friends. Climbing partners? Interesting people. People who know how to write in cmplt sentences. Readers, writers. Funny people. People with multiple brain cells to rub together. So drop me a line!

Music:

Punk, Country (old timey-NOT pop), Bluegrass, Hardcore, Psychobilly, Trad Irish; Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Black Flag, The Pogues, Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Reverend Horton Heat, The Cramps, Le Tigre, Barnyard Playboys, Talking Heads, Jesus H Christ, Red Molly, PDQ Bach, Dos, They Might Be Giants, William Shatner, Moxie Fruvous, the Dishwashers

Movies:

porn, marx brothers, lord of the rings, pulp fiction, lawrence of arabia, brazil, princess bride, kung fu, jackie chan, drunken master, repo man, shakes the clown, shakespeare in love, godfather, godfather II, true romance, the matrix, riding giants, x-men, x-men II, touching the void, black hawk down, bend over boyfriend, nightmare before christmas, peewee's big adventure, walk the line, oh brother where art thou, blade runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Run Lola Run, The Usual Suspects, porn (but only good porn. mainstream stuff is kind of gross.)

Television:

Don't own one. Haven't had one for about 8 years now. However I do have to confess to an obsession with The Simpsons; I own the first seven seasons on DVD.

Books:

Authors: JRR Tolkien, William Gibson, Neil Stephenson, Laurie R King, Maurice Sendak, Karen Armstrong, Jack Kerouac, Jon Krakauer, Patrick O'Brian, Roald Dahl, Susan Cooper Books: The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Master and Commander (Aubrey-Maturin series), Where the Wild Things Are, The Elephant and the Bad Baby, My Side of the Mountain, Lost in Thin Air, Into The Wild, Wordfreak, Cryptomonicon, Snow Crash, Swallow and Amazons, The Dark is Rising Currently reading: Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

Heroes:

Fritz Wiessner, Hans Kraus, Bonnie Prudden, Jim McCarthy, John Stannard, John Bragg, Rich Romano, Hugh Herr

My Blog

fear, thy name is 580

You have not known fear until you have been up in a fully-extended 36' Genie life, pushed around by a motivated gang of ironworkers.
Posted by Monkey Boy on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:10:00 PST

Writing Tips From a So-Far-Unpublished Writer (Manifesto)

1) Write a lot.  Write every day if possible.  2) Read a lot.  Read well and read widely.3) Steal like a Klepto.  No, I'm not talking plagarism.  Steal details.  If someb...
Posted by Monkey Boy on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:51:00 PST

Have a nice summer? Have a great fall!

Monday, beautiful day for climbing.  Me and C actuallly got an early start.  She wanted to lead CCK direct (!).  We got to the base and racked up... I got stung by a bee!  First ti...
Posted by Monkey Boy on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:23:00 PST

Anastasia

When I first met Anastasia, about ten years ago now, she was a tiny little grey slip of a thing, afraid of her own shadow.  I was working a downtown show at the time, and a Kindly Actress had res...
Posted by Monkey Boy on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:35:00 PST

Christmas and Other Natural Disasters

So I went and got sick just in time for Christmas.  The last day of work I was feeling a little off; next morning (6:30 a.m. flight, thank you very much), I am full on miserable sick.  Stuff...
Posted by Monkey Boy on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 04:03:00 PST

Bonnie

My dear friend and adopted grandmother Bonnie Prudden just had a triple bypass operation.  She is 92, turning 93 next month.  She got through the surgery ok, but is recovering slowly.  ...
Posted by Monkey Boy on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:41:00 PST

Lame Blog Week

Ok, so I've been really lame about my blog this week.  Oh well.  I haven't gone anywhere, I'm just being lame.  And I've had some other stuff going on.  Stay tuned...
Posted by Monkey Boy on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:55:00 PST

A Rare Treat

A rare treat:  I got to go climbing yesterday.  T-shirt weather, if you can credit it.  (I wore my "Gin Makes A Man Mean t-shirt; nobody else seems to think its funny.  But it alwa...
Posted by Monkey Boy on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:07:00 PST

malcontent

I feel like a Ramones song
Posted by Monkey Boy on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 05:14:00 PST

Bitching about the Post Office

My post office is from Hell.  From Hell.  Especially this time of year.  When I went there this morning to pick up a package (they don't even bother trying to deliver), pink slip in han...
Posted by Monkey Boy on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:43:00 PST