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About Me


I am strange...maybe even crazy...but there's never a dull moment!
"I am made of all that I have seen." -- Henri Matisse
"Aime moi moins mais aime moi longtemps." -- Les chansons d'amour
"Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings." -- Jane Austen
"Everytime I read Pride and Prejudice, I want to dig her up and hit her over the head with her own shin bone". -- Mark Twain
"You should not isolate me from my epoch, to which I belong with every fiber of my being...I should be regarded by posterity as a contemporary of Stephane Mallarme and Claude Debussy. Like them, and like Baudelaire, I say there are points at which the arts meet." -- Claude Monet
"For when stars glitter, and the eyes of men are closed, you are my brother." -- Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking." -- Christopher Isherwood, "Goodbye Berlin" in The Berlin Stories
"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance." -- John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice
"She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo." -- Truman Capote
"And why does an angel have wings on his shoulders? Cause that is where the weight of the world can be found." -- Suzanne Vega
"And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo." -- Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
"In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other." -- Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
"The question isn't who is going to let me, but who is going to stop me." -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." -- Lao-tzu
"Study the past if you would divine the future." -- Confucius
"Living plants are flexible
In death, they become dry and brittle.
Therefore, stubborn people are disciples of death,
But flexible people are disciples of life." -- Lao-tzu
"Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues." -- Confucius
"The cautious seldom err." -- Confucius
"If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it is acceptable." -- Confucius
"Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes." -- Confucius
"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." -- Confucius
I put the fun in dysfunctional!
My last name is...
I love to tour and walk through old cemeteries...I see dead people once in a while...I actually worked with a ghost named Max for years, true story...
"All that I was, all that I wept for, all that I loved." -- Pierre Loti
"Des villes, encore des villes: j'ai des souvenirs des villes comme on a des souvenirs d'amour." - Valery Larbaud
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Baudelaire in an opium den...

Someone who appreciates a Giorgio Moroder soundtrack.

"Remember, remember, the 5th of November
The Gunpowder Treason and plot ;
I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot."

My Blog

Kickstarter - Help to fund an album for the Georgia Theatre!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/veniceissinking/help-us- press-our-third-album Around 7 am the morning of June 19, the historic Georgia Theatre in downtown Athens, Georgia caught fire, and the int...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:13:00 GMT

I was right all along!...but you knew that already...

For years now, I have always said that most everything on TV is crap and reality television is nothing but worthless trash. And last night, on national television, the Emmys broad cast proved me right...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:25:00 GMT

Georgia Drought photographs

Someone recently asked how bad the drought is...so I took some photographs, although they are a bit dark.These are of Lake Allatoona, which is just as large and important as Lake lanier, though not as...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:58:00 GMT

Are you a disgruntled employee? Angry at your boss?

Well, then, just move to the great state of Georgia... In Kennesaw, every male head of household is required to own a gun, and now...drumroll please... Apparently, our illustrious Georgia General Asse...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:16:00 GMT

I’m sorry...but it’s NOT the Civil War...

According to locals and family members in Georgia, what Yankees call the Civil War is known here as either "The War Between the States" or (my personal favorite)..."The Great War for Southern Ind...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:39:00 GMT

2007 VMAs on MTV...well that was crap...

I'm sorry, it's 9:23 and I've already shut MTV off. Britney Spears: lame, disgusting, extremely poor performance...Sarah Silverman: not funny on any occasion, especially tonight...loved the part where...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:22:00 GMT

CAT FIGHT!!! CAT FIGHT!!!

"Miiiiike!!! Heeeelp!!!" Hearing my mother scream this at the top of her lungs, I rushed up the stairs from the lower level fearing the worst: someone's dying, someone's collapsed, the house is on fir...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:16:00 GMT

The state of Georgia is on fire...

You can tell how bad the wildfires are today because the sky has turned a dark, hazy gray from the smoke. The smell has gotten bad too, it's difficult to stay outside for extended periods. I feel as t...
Posted by on Thu, 31 May 2007 11:42:00 GMT

Mom is going to be fine...

So my Mom's back surgery went very well, a little longer than expected (5 hours), but the damage seems to have been repaired. The cist that was dislocating the 3 vertebrae and pinching the spinal nerv...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:23:00 GMT

FINALLY!

57 pages later, the first completed/revised thesis draft has been submitted to my committee. Yay for me :)
Posted by on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:36:00 GMT