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Darren

Victory.

About Me

Origininally from Tampa, I have now made my home in Orlando for the last decade or so.. I live with my gorgeous wife of 4 years, Nadia, and our three aquariums of tropical fish. I am part of the ensemble of improvisors at SAK Comedy Lab, and I work as a Blues Brother at Universal Studios. Recently, my wife inspired me to return to college, and I'll be graduating with an BA on December 2007. I love wine, the occasional smoke, and politics. Be careful mixing the three when talking to me.

My Interests

NFL football, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, politics and political humor, PS2 and PSP games, guitar, jazz and blues, 1970's soul music, painting, CSI, Apple compter software, culture jamming, setting fires, overthrowing governments

I'd like to meet:

Al Gore, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Hawking, Jon Gruden, Derrick Brooks, Mike Alstott, Regina Spektor, Bjork, the guy who took my bike and my PSP, Che Guevara, Danny Treanor, anyone from the cast of CSI (especially Jorja Fox), the guys at the Don and Mike show, Merrill Howard Kalin and the ghost of Gene Rayburn.

Music:

Yes, Radiohead, U2, Ween, They Might Be Giants, Regina Spektor, Isaac Hayes, Earth Wind and Fire, Steely Dan, Beethoven, Beatles, Elvis, Pink Floyd, James Brown, any older R & B, Blues Brothers

Movies:

Casablanca, Blade Runner, Citizen Kane, Dangerous Liasons, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Big Lebowski, Godfather, Godfather 2, Real Genius

Television:

CSI, X-Files, Star Trek, That 70's Show, The Electric Company, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and it's clone, The O'Reilly Factor. That Bill O'Reilly is hilarious. Unless he's actually like that off camera.
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Books:

1984, Noam Chomsky, People's History of the United States, Catcher in the Rye, ohmigod! I'm an assassin, aren't I?

Heroes:

Tony Danza, for his unsung ability to land roles in which the character's name is also "Tony." God bless you, Tony Danza.

My Blog

a little fun with iMovie

With apologies to Craig Ferguson, I think Bush was drinking a bit when he sat down with George Stephanopolous a couple weeks ago... width="425" height="350">..>...
Posted by Darren on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:28:00 PST

St. Mel comes to do some faith healing

Central Floridians know Mel Martinez. Like most people nationally, the Schiavo memo from the junior senator's office reminded folks of the craven machinations of many people during the Schiavo debat...
Posted by Darren on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:48:00 PST

A video thank you card

What a great day! Our good friends at Down With Tyranny!, Blue America, and Christy at firedoglake posted this for everyone, youtube honors us with 53rd most watched video in one day, and Where's Moo...
Posted by Darren on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:31:00 PST

Have You Had Enough?

The past week has been full of door-knocking and talking. We have found that many Republicans are voting a straight Democrat, due to the rampant corruption found at the national level. Hopefully, th...
Posted by Darren on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 07:51:00 PST

Another ad. WARNING: this one's graphic.

This is my "Daisy" ad. I am very proud of this one, but I must warn you, the footage is very graphic. The music is "Industrial Justice" by Zombies Under Stress and is available for open source usage...
Posted by Darren on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:09:00 PST

A new ad!

We just learned that Sheri McInvale has surpassed the $1.2 million dollar mark. That's basically $80.00 per voter in Orange County. All for a $30,000 a year job. Watch her become a lobbyist sometim...
Posted by Darren on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:56:00 PST

Two new mailers from our opponent

Last week voters in District 36 received two mailers supporting the current Republican incumbent, Sheri McInvale..  One came directly from the Republican Party of Florida, questioning Scott Rando...
Posted by Darren on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:12:00 PST

What a fantastic night! And my first campaign commercial.

I was set to go canvassing voters today (knocking on people's doors, for those of you not hip to the political lingo) but Scott Randolph wanted to know if I would like to go to a fundraiser at the Mil...
Posted by Darren on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:31:00 PST

The email I sent to my mom about tracking her candidates' contributions

I recently talked about the upcoming elections with my mom, and as I started typing this email, I thought it would make a great blog. I've been very busy through the last few weeks, and I'll try to k...
Posted by Darren on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:33:00 PST

Our opponent tries very hard to get negative

Any good trial lawyer knows how to cast doubt in the jurys minds by painting his opponents witnesses with broad strokes of generality.With enough passion to rival an Oscar winner, these broad strokes ...
Posted by Darren on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:05:00 PST