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Doug

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About Me

Work in Progress.

My Interests

comic books, film, short stories, writing, philosophy, comedy, history, Zombie Cinema, Zombie fiction, superheroes, children, video games, science fiction, stand-up comedy,

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who wants to hang out with me and my wife.

Music:

Mark Lanegan, Pearl Jam, Mad Season, Clutch, R. L. Burnside, Louis Jordan, Shoveljerk, Satchel, Queens of the Stone Age, The Real McKenzies, The Pretty Things, Motorhead, Karma to Burn, Kenny Brown, Hayden, Steven Lynch, Supersuckers, The Sonics, Presidents of the United States of America, Foo Fighters, Blind Willie McTell, Desmond Dekker, Symarip, Toots and the Maytals, Tinariwen, the Gaylads, Prince Buster, Buzzcocks, Bad Brains, Agnostic Front, Cock Sparrer, Alton Ellis, Black Flag, Captured! By Robots, Reverend Horton Heat, Aggrolites

Movies:

Naked Lunch, Night of the Living Dead, Cemetery Man, Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness, Clerks,Resevoir Dogs, Sanjuro, Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Daredevil, Re-animator, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Fahrenheit 451, Doctor Strangelove, Being There,

Television:

MythBusters, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Justice League Unlimited, The Venture Bros., Saul of the Mole Men, Futurama, Chobits, La Blue Girl, The Adventures of Superman, Gargoyles, Mystery Science Theater 3000, FLCL, The Young Ones, Monty Python's Flying Circus,

Books:

Brave New World, The Martian Chronicles, Bone, Liberty Meadows, The Zombie Survival Guide, the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Weapon X, Ringworld, The Filth, Top Ten, Birds of Prey, Morbis Gravis, Sandman, She-Hulk, The Walking Dead, Y: the Last Man, Dicks, Plastic Man, The Tick, Wolverine, Uncanny Xmen, Mystique, Xmen the Hidden Years, Xtreme Xmen Astonishing Xmen, Avengers, Watchmen, Transmetroplitan, Preacher, Consider Phlebas, Monster Island, A Princess of Mars, 1984, Green Lantern, She-Hulk, the Pro, Plastic Man, Planet Hulk, Birth of the Demon, the Longbow Hunters

Heroes:

Douglas Adams, Kevin Smith, Frank Cho, Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Jack Kirby, Jeff Smith, Greg Rucka, Warren Ellis, Brian Michael Bendis, Joss Whedon, Grant Morrison, Geof Johns Barry Windsor-Smith, Stanley Kubrick, Quinten Tarantino, Salvador Larroca, John Cassaday, Superman, Wolverine, Green Lantern, Doctor Doom, Priest, Black Panther, the Beast, Professor Charles Francis Xavier, Fone Bone, Daredevil, Green Arrow, Plastic Man, Captain America, Mohandas K. Ghandi, Barbara Gordon, Metamorpho, Jeffery Combs, CLAMP, Jack Cole, Ed Brubaker, Mike Grell, Darick Robertson

My Blog

Rudy Giuliani and Incest.

I heard about this on the radio today, and I was surprised.To some this may be old news... I just found out.Rudy Giuliani was married to his second cousin, Regina Peruggi,  for 14 years (1968-198...
Posted by Doug on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:48:00 PST

Politics....

The Democrats have lured me back in againDennis Kucinich is the only candidate that matches my personal stances on the key issues. Breaking monopoly, truly free healthcare, cutting defense spending, p...
Posted by Doug on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:23:00 PST

Doug reccomends....

I cannot reccomend anything more highly than "Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan" or "Beating Angel Dokuro-Chan."   It's the story of a young Japanese boy who awakes one day to find a beautiful an...
Posted by Doug on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:41:00 PST

Already jazzed for Emerald City Comicon.

May 10th and 11th 2008 can't get here soon enough.The early list is looking great...  X-men's Humberto Ramos will be there. Very talented. I love his takes on Rogue, Lady Mastermind, Mystique, Om...
Posted by Doug on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:43:00 PST

They don't call it hard science fiction for nuthin!

Trying to write a serious science fiction novel is hard. I've just started, and I'm running into a lot of research barriers. I've gotta pound some physics text books, and paw over some other people's ...
Posted by Doug on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:32:00 PST

When I say hip thou shalt not say hop!

Okay, so if you haven't heard this song on the radio... "Thou Shalt Always Kill" by Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip is fucking brutal.Very nearly everything about this song is awesome. Go watch the thing...
Posted by Doug on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:43:00 PST

The Pulps! - New Goal.

Okay, so I have a love affair with trashy science fiction... If a spaceship piloted by a brain in a jar meets a tentacled blimp alien in the atmosphere of a gas giant, I'm happy. When they fall i...
Posted by Doug on Thu, 24 May 2007 11:03:00 PST

Whuffie!

No, it's not the nickname of a small dog.   Although it would be a good name for a small dog, if I had one.I just started reading this book called Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.  It's a ...
Posted by Doug on Thu, 17 May 2007 12:49:00 PST

"I reject your reality and substitute my own."

I frequently get tagged as being a bit flippant and irresponsible. I'm not going to refute that.I spend a lot of time, and an unwise amount of money on video games, toys, and comic books. Generally sp...
Posted by Doug on Tue, 15 May 2007 02:04:00 PST

Video games

So, as some of you know I'm a former video game tester.I don't really consider myself much of a video game consumer, but that's relative to people I have known that are real joystick junkies. Here's ...
Posted by Doug on Wed, 09 May 2007 12:20:00 PST