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KenWats

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About Me

Ingredients: sugar and/or corn syrup, humor, sarcasm, refined flour, snippiness, caramel color, frustration, idleness, sloth, smoke flavor, cheese globules, talent, grain alcohol (as a preservative), vanillin, ninja skills, nun-chuck skills, computer hacking skills, uncanny typing ability, natural flavors, mild irritation, citric acid, soy lecithin, Red #40, hope.

May contain nuts

My Interests

Lindy hop and Balboa, Pinkberry frozen yogurt, e-props, drawing and doodling, Johnnie's Pastrami, lox and cream cheese on a plain bagel, illustration and illustrators, comics and animation, Donut Man doughnuts, Japanese animation, pupusas with yuca frita con chicharrones, art books with lotsa pictures, art supply stores, hitting the snooze button over and over and over again...

Oh, and ponies.

I'd like to meet:

Someone who will bring me a shrubbery.

Music:

I'll listen to almost anything. Beatles, Thelonius Monk, The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn, Benny Green, Dave Brubeck, Casey MacGill, Campus Five, Mora's Modern Rythmists, the theme to Land of the Lost, Bizet, whenever David Sedaris sings like Billie Holiday...

Movies:

Christopher Guest mockumentaries, Napoleon Dynamite, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, Borat!: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Amelie, Tampopo, Shall We Dance?(J-version), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Princess Bride, M*A*S*H*, The Three Kings, The Incredibles, Lost in Translation, Sanjuro, Ikiru, The Seven Samurai, Young Frankenstein, The Fifth Element, Fargo, Oh Brother where art Thou?, Cars, Miyazaki flicks, Raising Arizona, et cetera, et cetera...

Television:

Cartoon Network, Get a Life, The Naked Truth, that Girl's Gone Wild paid programming that loops over and over and over again, wildlife shows where animals eat each other...

Books:

"Me Talk Pretty One Day" and "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim" by David Sedaris, Richard Scarry picture books, Charles Bukowski's "Love is a Dog From Hell" and his books of letters he's written, William Goldman's "Princess Bride", "Which Lie Did I Tell?" and "Adventures in the Screen Trade", "The Lovely Bones", "Running With Scissors", "In Me Own Words" & "Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir" by Graham Romieu, Roald Dahl, my books full of illustrations, the Thomas Bros. Street Guide, and the very first sex-ed book I accidentally stumbled across...

Do comicbooks count, too??

Heroes:

I like spandex and capes in primary colors, if that's what you're asking me...

I'm a sucker for boots.

My Blog

One less thingy...

Ah, our garbage disposal unit has been replaced so now we could use BOTH sinks in the kitchen!  Instead of buying the exact same Insinkerator model, we went to Lowe's and got a Badger 10s.&...
Posted by KenWats on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:05:00 PST

"Some Lame Shit to Think About..."

If a tree fell in a forest and no one was around, who would yell "timberrrrrrrr!!" so no one get's squished? When a recipe calls for eggs to be beaten, will someone be there on the eggs' behalf so the...
Posted by KenWats on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:59:00 PST

"Rant-a-licious!"

I am in a ranting mood today. Why? I don't know, but I feel sparky like, uh... er... a sparkler. I don't have anything to rant against at this particular moment, but I feel like complaining about some...
Posted by KenWats on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:45:00 PST

"Its Not Easy Being Green"

Today I had to recycle against my will. It wasn't aluminum soda cans, plastics, wooden pallets, or newspapers; it was navy khaki pants. Somehow, my internal laundry schedule got jacked up and I woke u...
Posted by KenWats on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:39:00 PST

Ill Be with You in a Pinche Puto

I went to get our aluminum cans recycled the other day. There's a certain satisfaction I get when I recycle our soda cans.  It's not about "being green" or saving the planet Earth one c...
Posted by KenWats on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:45:00 PST

Nuts to YOU!!

I haven't eaten these in a long time: Pink's hotdogs King Taco Pupusas from Atlacatl really good pizza really good mac n' cheese Yummy pastrami sammich I miss them!!  I just had a Nature V...
Posted by KenWats on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:43:00 PST

Yes, You CAN Eat Just One...

Friday, I went to Tommy's for lunch with my girlfriend. She got off of work early, came down to J-Town, picked me up, and we drove into east Hollywood. Some of my readers probably don't know what a T...
Posted by KenWats on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:42:00 PST

Crazy Bicycle Man

Among the homeless people we see from our lobby desk, there is a crazy guy on a bicycle that comes around the museum on a regular basis.  He usually wears a long sleeved shirt, probably denim, an...
Posted by KenWats on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:15:00 PST

They Call Me Ken... No, KEN!!

I went to Starbucks the other morning.  What I ordered doesn't matter.  What matters is what they wrote on my cup:   Ted. Now, I'm totally paranoid.  If they called me a ...
Posted by KenWats on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:10:00 PST

Constant Vigilance

I can't stress enough the importance of being aware of your surroundings. I'm not talking about walking back to your car in a deserted parking structure or using a dark alley as a shortcut to the jew...
Posted by KenWats on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:45:00 PST