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Neal

I've come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of ass.

About Me

I like music and wrestling and haunted houses and that's about it. and chocolate milk and marketing coordinators.

My Interests

depraved and vulgar forms of Latin, depraved and vulgar forms of humanity, depraved and vulgar forms of wrestling, McDonald's

I'd like to meet:

I am trying to complete a documentary on real-life superheroes, so if you are a real-life superhero, know one, or have had an interaction with one, please let me know.

my Gizfolio profile

Music:

morrissey / the smiths, the the, the prids, swing out sister, ace of base, super furry animals, flaming lips, head of femur, the KLF, public enemy, blur, grant lee buffalo, (early) matthew sweet, pre-1997 REM, built to spill, george michael / wham!, bauhaus, the boo radleys, the beta band, stone roses, and I have recently developed a strange fascination with Bad Religion and gospel music after catching a really cool gospel show on an early Sunday drive through Mississippi (that was kind of a run-on, but to clarify, the gospel show wasn't playing Bad Religion)

Movies:

o brother where art thou, face, tombstone, the kingdom, dead man, unbreakable, back to the future, donnie darko, blade runner, transformers the movie, goonies, waiting for guffman, harley davidson & the marlboro man, and god spoke (the making of), usual suspects

Television:

Space Ghost, I'm Alan Partridge, Lost, As the World Turns, wrestling, Seinfeld, This Morning with Richard Not Judy, the Fast Show, Ren & Stimpy, Beavis & Butthead, Kim Possible

Books:

45 by Bill Drummond, night thoughts of a classical physicist, illuminatus trilogy, for the time being by annie dillard, the authentic life of billy the kid by pat garrett, comic books in general, anything by Elmore Leonard, Harry Potter...currently reading "the Inferno" and "Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps"...I thought I'd like the second more but I'm giving more attention to the first

Heroes:

CM Punk, Craig Montgomery, Zinedine Zidane

My Blog

It was five years ago today...

WOODSHAFT 2002...
Posted by Neal on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:30:00 PST

Letter I sent to AT&T / Cingular and Subway on why I'm boycotting them

Dear AT&T and Subway,I write to you jointly because I am currently a regular customer of both of your companies and I also read that both of you have recently joined sponsorships with World Wrestling ...
Posted by Neal on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:17:00 PST

The origin of Flag Day

read the rest at nealo.com......
Posted by Neal on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:58:00 PST

My personal history of flip-flop wearing

For the purpose of my own entertainment and self-mythologizing, I will now tell my personal history of flip-flop wearing.The most wonderfully comfortable pair of flip flops I ever owned was actually a...
Posted by Neal on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:55:00 PST

survey stolen from JXZ

90 Things You Might Not Know About Me...1. ONE OF YOUR SCARS, HOW DID YOU GET IT?I was hitting a ball of wadded paper around with a pencil and swung at the ball and stabbed myself in the calf with a s...
Posted by Neal on Thu, 31 May 2007 09:49:00 PST

I do survey

I'm trying to wind down for bed and I saw JXZ did this, and what Jill does, I sometimes do.MOUTHOLOGYQ. What is your salad dressing of choice?A: I most often use ranch, but there's this fluorescent ye...
Posted by Neal on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:09:00 PST

felt

This was a movie I made back in December of 2002 that was a finalist in the 2003 Great Plains Film Festival. I finally put it on YouTube, so here it is, in three parts (each part is roughly 5.5 minute...
Posted by Neal on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:45:00 PST

healthy marathon eating

Since the St Louis Marathon is this Sunday, I had decided to try to eat healthy this week.Monday I ate at home and made ham and cheese sandwiches. But then for dinner, we had a friend moving out of to...
Posted by Neal on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:28:00 PST

cartoon site redesign

I redesigned nealo.com, my cartoon site, last night. Check it out.
Posted by Neal on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:05:00 PST

documentary progress

Over the past few years, one of the most commonly-asked questions I get is "When's that documentary going to be done?" For the past few years, I always thought it'd be done in time for the next gradua...
Posted by Neal on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:25:00 PST