Tim McIntire - ProfilesArchive

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Discordians; flyfishers; unabashed sluts; shootfighters; peyoteros; radio pirates; Jerry Remy.

Music:

Movies:

Duck You Sucker, The Big Lebowski, Waking Life, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, The Matrix, The Professional, Kill Bill vols. 1 and 2, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Ice Station Zebra, O Brother Where Art Thou, Empire Records, Hell Comes to Frogtown, Once Upon a Time in the West, Magnolia, Star Wars (pre-suck), FailSafe, Manchurian Candidate, Django

Television:

Lost. Heroes. BSG.

Books:

Pattern Recognition, A Prayer For Owen Meany, East of Eden, 1919, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Snow Crash, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, The Scar, The Old Man and the Sea, Still Life With Woodpecker, Zombie, White Jazz, The Cold Six Thousand, Shella, The Getaway Man, Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, A Scanner Darkly, An Unfinished Woman, Travels With Charley, On The Road, The Last Picture Show, Gorky Park, South of the Border West of the Sun, The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, Devil in a Blue Dress, Dune, Blue Highways, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Blindsight

My Blog

An Open Letter to Orange Line Employees

Let's cut to the chase: if any of you had even a shred of professional pride, you would immediately hang yourselves - if you could possibly find rope with the tensile strength to support your flabby, ...
Posted by Tim McIntire on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:06:00 PST

Fear and Loathing in Hyannis

I apologize in advance if this turns into spluttering gibberish. I'm writing it in the dizzy afterglow of the most insane spinning class in the history of yuppie sports clubs. New teacher today, some ...
Posted by Tim McIntire on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:16:00 PST

Last Comic Caring

I write this with full knowledge that it could be on a judge's desk someday labelled "Exhibit A."But:The next person who asks me, "Hey, how come you didn't try out for Last Comic Standing?" is getting...
Posted by Tim McIntire on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:44:00 PST

Heavy Rotation

Less than 48 hours to the Drag the River show, and I'm in Musical Realignment Mode until then. Nothing but country music until the show in order to be sure that I'm vibrating at the proper musical fre...
Posted by Tim McIntire on Wed, 17 May 2006 08:18:00 PST

Apres Moi, Le Drizzle

The rain wrecks me. Ruins me. The medical term, I believe, is Seasonal Affectation Disorder, though I seem to have a slightly different strain of the disease. In my case, it's more like Seasonal Assho...
Posted by Tim McIntire on Fri, 12 May 2006 06:28:00 PST

Americana

In 1992, I graduated from The College of Santa Fe (motto: "Like Community College With Dorms!"), tended bar for a couple of extra months, bought a dog (a crazy German shepherd named Thelonious Mutt) a...
Posted by Tim McIntire on Tue, 02 May 2006 10:30:00 PST

What I Love Best About MySpace

What I love best about MySpace is that it's gathered in one convenient and easy-to-read place all my friends who are now too famous to write me back.
Posted by Tim McIntire on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:43:00 PST

Drop Day Redux

Scatterbrain in the news and on the web!Nick Zaino in the Boston Globe:Tim McIntire launches his new CD, ''Scatterbrain," tonight at the Comedy Studio. The disc is a mix of old favorites and new mater...
Posted by Tim McIntire on Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:22:00 PST

Thaw

And sometimes, everything happens at once. Winter is all but over. Poor Richard and that skittish, mangy rat in Gobbler's Knob may disagree, but we all know it to be true. Last Sunday's blizzard? When...
Posted by Tim McIntire on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:22:00 PST