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About Me

V6, highway miles, runs like new, A/C, AM/FM radio with CD player and cassette deck, automatic transmission, 2 door coupe, oh wait.. Enjoying this life. Work hard, play hard. Still holding out hope. Florida native, homeowner, college graduate, college student, independent, well balanced, Masters Degree from the Old School, working on New School Bachelors Degree, meat eating vegetarian, passive activist, fashionista without a wardrobe, on the guest list, player of sports not games, someone who will have your back, good listener, good talker, comedic, serious, philosophical, and realist.

My Interests

one point two five

I'd like to meet:

Bill Clinton, Vernon Reid, Marvin Gaye, Gilda Radner, Tina Fey, Huey Freeman, Malcolm X, Benjamin Franklin, or someone who likes to go to concerts, movies, dancing, the beach, bicycle rides, the gym, and someone who likes to chill at home. Someone who is comfortable in their own skin, someone who knows the difference between right and wrong, someone who can be a good friend, someone who is independent, someone who can engage in intelligent conversation, someone who appreciates the arts, someone who is a good companion - good peoples, someone who can hold their own, someone who can push me to go for it, and maybe someone with a washer/dryer.

Music:

old school, new school, sunday school, night classes, adult education classes, .. university, XMU, and drop out.

Movies:

Citizen Kane, Brando, The Godfather, Style Wars, Spike Lee Joints, Scorsese, Woody Allen... ok ... New York films, foreign films, documentary films, shorts, silent, Hitchcock, Tim Burton, The Blues Brothers and Spinal Tap - to name a few.....

Television:

My TV plays XM - and the news

Books:

Books on music - live performances, bios, recording. Books by black women like Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrisson, Alice Walker. Biographies and books on historical events.

My Blog

Base On Balls

Here is a copy of a letter I sent to city council, the mayor, county commissioners, local papers, and skywriters.Emanuel MatalonSt. Petersburg, FloridaI am a Rays fan and I attend games at Tropicana F...
Posted by mode on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:09:00 PST

Nude Pics. Sun Bathing Au Natural

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Posted by mode on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Another year, another friend gone. A few newspaper articles about Jeff

here are a couple of articles about Jeff that ran just after he died, and one from 04 after his first surgery.From the Tampa Tribune September 14, 2007. Jeff Wood Kept The Beat For Tampa's Music Scen...
Posted by mode on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:18:00 PST

Who Is This Guy?

I am easy-going. Respectful of different people and different opinions. I like to take the best ideas from different doctrines and form my own beliefs - like the best from capitalism and socialism, or...
Posted by mode on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Girls & Boys aka Adagio For Violin

Birds do fly, looks like rain
Posted by mode on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:11:00 PST

Musings on Muhammad

Ali. Truly an inspiration physically and principally. What a gift to be so fast with the hands, light on the feet, and quick with the mouth. Easily, one of the most remarkable things anyone has ever d...
Posted by mode on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 02:33:00 PST

Mike O'Neill Obit.

Musician Poured Heart Into His Songs By GRETCHEN PARKER The Tampa Tribune Published: Jul 19, 2006 TAMPA - Mike O'Neill, well known in the Tampa Bay-area music world as an uncompromising, passionate ...
Posted by mode on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:06:00 PST