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RS

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About Me

"Blunders, gropings, disappointment; surely the Cupid serving him was lefthanded, with a weak chin and no imagination." -Nabokov, Laugher In The Dark

My Interests

Carronades and laudanum.

I'd like to meet:



Music:

This will be on the rekkid player all winter:

BRENDA LEE. SAM COOKE. AND SO ON.

Movies:

All kindsa documentaries - Errol Morris and the Maysles especially, the Coen Bros, Punch Drunk Love, Election, Rushmore, The Changeling, blah blah blah...

Television:

FRONTLINE.

My Blog

Dog in Doodletown.

So I took the dog for a 7 mile hike up in Bear Mt. yesterday. Doodletown is a abandoned community that dates back to the early 1800s, and the hike goes through a short leg of the Appalacian Trail. O...
Posted by RS on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:57:00 PST

I will soon be an Italian citizen.

Today I went to the Italian consulate in NY to submit my application for citizenship via jure sanguinis (right of blood). It was accepted. 99 years and 11 months after my great grandfather, Raffaele...
Posted by RS on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:26:00 PST

Reef, Haul, and Steer.

Patrick O'Brien is the name of my cousin. My mother's maiden name is O'Brien. Even though I found out over Thanksgiving that I was a mistake, I am honestly just happy that my dad stuck around and my...
Posted by RS on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:40:00 PST

It was worth the food poisoning...

Just found out the documentary that I shot in Cambodia about the Khmer genocide won an Emmy for best documentary. It seems like forever ago that I was over there. If you haven't seen them yet, I hav...
Posted by RS on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:17:00 PST

Random Squares (250 x 250)

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Posted by RS on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 09:56:00 PST

Good night, and good luck?

So I just found out that I won two Edward R. Murrow awards, which I guess is pretty big. One is for videography for a cutesy story I shot about a Thanksgiving day high school football rivalry, and the...
Posted by RS on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:42:00 PST

Weekend at the Cougar Chalet

I know, it's late. Time Warner just gave me the interweb in NY, relax.On a brisk, bitter cold weekend at the beginning of March, a bunch of adult children went to play up north, where "skiing" actual...
Posted by RS on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:56:00 PST

Lamont

Holy crap what a great show. First time I have seen a band at the Reel Bar, and it was loud and good. Here are some pictures. ...
Posted by RS on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:10:00 PST

Wiffleball Season is Over

It is sad, I don't know what I'm going to do with myself on Sundays for the next 6 months. For those of you who don't know, every Sunday in the summer a bunch of degenerates meet down at a street hoc...
Posted by RS on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 06:10:00 PST

NOLA Part II

On Saturday morning we went with the Guard and a rescue team to go door to door looking for survivors - and victims. This meant wading through that rancid, toxic flood water, in near 100 degree heat....
Posted by RS on Tue, 27 Sep 2005 05:58:00 PST