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Tyster

Thank goodness for alcohol . . . I would not have been born had it not existed

About Me

Was born in San Bernardino, California - For the unaware, I share the same birthplace as McDonalds and the Hells Angels. What a country!
Richard and Mac McDonald opened McDonalds in 1948 in San Bernardino. Ray Kroc, a traveling milkshake salesman, convinced the brothers to allow him franchising rights and opened the first outlet in Illinois in the mid-50s. In 1961 he bought the rights to the name and company.
Trivia Add: Both Kroc and Walt Disney served in the same ambulance corp in France at the end of World War I; Each DESPISED the other; both eyed "Berdoo" as a site for an amusement park; and both would go on to create monumental empires.
Trivia Add 2: In the late 1950s Kroc approached Disney with a plan. Wanted to open one of his restaurants in the Magic Kingdom. Walt was furious and reportedly told his staff that "Over his dead body would there ever be a McDonalds on his property." Furthermore, he retorted that the then-fledgling chain would be a dismal failure in the future.
Trivia Add 3: Disney chose the area where the present-day Inland Center Mall is situated for his theme park. The water table was too low and it would not have been cost effective to pump said water out. In addition, the infamous San Andreas earthquake fault runs directly thru the area.
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My Interests

Reiki; UFOlogy and the paranormal; Astrology; Tennis and Table Tennis; Motorcycles; Gymnastics; Weight Training; Traveling; History: Specifically World War I and II, American Civil War, Boer War, Russian Revolution, Crimean War, Boxer Rebellion.

I'd like to meet:

W.C. Fields - "My ex-wife drove me to drink . . . I never had a chance to thank her."

Mae West - "Marriage . . . what a wonderful institution . . . I just don't want to be in an institution;" When West was bound by contract to star in a horrific motion picture she asked of a co-worker, "Who do I have to sleep with to get OUT of this movie."

Captain James T. Kirk - "Landru has done damage to the body . . . therefore, Landru is defective . . . execute the Prime Directive."

Bacteria is the rear entrance to a cafeteria

In science, Nitrates are cheaper than day rates

Of all the labor-saving devices invented, which do you suppose has had the biggest impact on society?

1. Washing Machine
2. Dishwasher
3. Breast pump
4. Artificial Insemination
5. The condom - which ultimately saves the woman from going INTO labor!

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There is overwhelming evidence of alien spacecraft visiting our planet. If so, what might they be in search of?

1. Another planet to colonize
2. To warn us of impending danger
3. Find and destroy all of the existing Lawrence Welk albums
4. Settle the age-old argument as to whether lite beer is less filling or tastes great
5. Making inter-galactic drug deals with Keith Richards

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The Mayans may have accurately predicted the end of our planet in 2012. If so, what do you believe will doom the Big Blue Marble?

1. Global Warming
2. Nuclear holocaust
3. Human consumption of fast food, which greatly accounts for the overproduction of methane gas
4. The end of Western Civilization, which started when TV star PeeWee Herman was arrested for masturbating in an adult bookstore.
5. Starbucks closes, which causes the U.S. economy to tank, which causes global wars, riots, and natural disasters, causing the earth to permanently shift off its axis

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This is my twin brother, P. Diddie Dukie. As a former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, he dated Patty Hearst in the early 1970s until she "left" the organization to relocate to a "gated community" in Northern California. Heartbroken, he moved to West L.A. where he currently counsels at-risk teens of the dangers of online video games.

P_Diddie_Dukie

Music:

Chicago, Spiral Staircase, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Classics IV, Waterlaso, Szylvia, The Russian Futurists, Chris Botti, Xiren, Radiohead, Queen; Michael Jackson; Jackson 5; Earth, Wind and Fire, Blue Magic, Stylistics, Mamas and the Papas, Paul Simon, Mono, Sade, Def Leppard, Paul Anka, Peter Cetera, Diana Ross, Christopher Cross, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, Crash Test Dummies, Alannah Miles, Beth Hart, White Lion, Stone Temple Pilots, Reo Speedwagon, SuperTramp, Tori Amos, Billy Joel, Ricardo Montaner, Marc Anthony, Thalia, Alejandra Guzman, Veronica Castro, Christian Castro, Olga Tanon, Charles Anzavour, Yuri, Sting, Rod Stewart, The Rat Pack (Sammy, Sinatra, Dean), Tony Bennett, Benny Goodman; Peggy Lee; Amy Winehouse, Andy Williams (specifically "Moon River"), Eartha Kitt (specifically "Santa Baby"), Billie Holliday, Satchmo, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Herbie Hancock, Spyro Gyra, Europa, Perry Como, Brothers Johnson, Marvin Gaye.

Movies:


The Classics
Breakfast at Tiffanys; The Guns of Navarrone; Sayonara (Marlon Brando at his coolest); Casablanca; High Noon; Jet Pilot; How to Steal a Million; El Dorado; The Defiant Ones; Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; Clockwork Orange; Dial M. for Murder (where Grace Kelly dons the sexiest voice I have ever heard on a woman); Vertigo; Psycho; Last Tango in Paris; Santa Fe Trail; Kellys Heroes; Charro (the only Western Elvis ever made); 2001: A Space Odyssey; The Imitation of Life; The Maltese Falcon; Streecar Named Desire; A Boy and His Dog; Double Indemnity; It's a Wonderful Life; Citizen Kane; The Forbidden Planet; Soylent Green; Little Caesar; The Cain Mutiny; The Barefoot Contessa; Sunset Boulevard; An Affair to Remember; Stalag 17; Bridge over the River Kwai; North by Northwest; Arsenic and Old Lace; It Happened One Night; 55 Days at Peking.
Modern-day Favorites
Earthgirls are Easy; Two Weeks Notice; Rumor Has It; Great Expectations; Rocky I-IV; D.E.B.S.; The Game; Lucky Number S7evin; The Ghost and The Darkness; The Jerk; The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three; Star Wars I-VI; Blade Runner; Firewall; Miss Congeniality; Bruce Almighty; Shawshank Redemption; Black Snake Moan (Samuel Jackson's and Christina Ricci's best ever movie); Reservoir Dogs; Scent of A Woman; Traffic; Pulp Fiction; Idiocracy; Home Fries; Shadow Boxer; Dirty Harry; Sudden Impact; Blazing Saddles; The Producers; Minority Report
Foreign flicks
Belle Du Jour; Like Water for Chocolate; Tie me up! Tie me Down!; La Dolce Vita; A Man and A Woman; Red-Blue-White (a well-written trilogy of a Polish-produced series); Seven Samurai; Godzilla (1954 original); Amelie; A Very Long Engagement; The Beast (an excellent Russian film about a lost T-62 tank captain in the early days of their involvement in Afghanistan.)

Television:

Three Stooges; Love American Style; S.W.A.T; Hawaii Five O; Hart to Hart; I Love Lucy; All My Children (began watching in 1975); Baretta; Starsky and Hutch; Twilight Zone; Star Trek (original series); BattleStar Galactica ( original series); Mission Impossible; Night Gallery; Columbo; Perry Mason; Bonanza; Get Smart; The Big Valley; Gun Smoke; Room 222; Peyton Place; Route 66; F Troop; That Girl.

All My Children Close
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bn18z7L5u8

Books:

To Kill a Mockingbird; Hunt For The Skinwalker; The Taos Saucer Story; All the President's Men; The Phoenix Lights; Alien Agenda; Strange Highways; Worker in the Light.

With his city's budget $400 million in the red, L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has gladly accepted free help from the homeless in assisting with traffic congestion. If the program is successful they will be utilized on an upcoming subway construction project.

L.A. officials outsource to offset budget shortfall

Heroes:

My Mum; Grandmother; Marlon Brando; Sammy Davis Jr.; Winston Churchill - specifically his actions as a young soldier in the Boer War.

My Blog

July 4th

Happy Birthday, America. The golden girl celebrated her B'day recently and her age still belies her appearance. At 232 or 219, depending on what date one considers to be her beginn...
Posted by Tyster on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:01:00 PST

The Papal Ride

Pope Benedict XVI celebrates his 81st birthday today on American shores, first stopping at the White House and onto a host of other eastern U.S. cities. He'll be rolling in a higher-end, more pimped ...
Posted by Tyster on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:54:00 PST

Pre-primary Pandering

I've been loosely following the various debates of all the presidential candidates on both sides of the isle. All are posturing to become the next prize pony in this media-saturated derby. Person...
Posted by Tyster on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:22:00 PST

Rodney Revisited

Rodney King, the infamous motorist caught on tape being batoned by L.A.'s finest and the catalyst for the 1992 riots, was blasted with shotgun pellets late Wednesday night as he refused to hand over h...
Posted by Tyster on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:42:00 PST

Labor Day Larceny

Was at Venice Beach on Labor day with longtime friend Rick. Was amazed at the sea of people and police dotting the landscape - from the beach to the pier to the streets.We heavily imbibed al...
Posted by Tyster on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:14:00 PST

Blasted Babe Roulette II

The ongoing saga of Tinseltown's demon-seed-celebutants-run-amok continues unabated. This week, Lindsay Lohan commandeered a party goer's vehicle along with two (un)willing occupants in...
Posted by Tyster on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:28:00 PST

Blasted Babe Roulette

While watching the Paris Hilton/Sheriff Baca debacle on every major tv outlet, I couldn't help but notice how close Ms. Hilton's abode is to Sunset Blvd. Why is this my utmost concern, one might ...
Posted by Tyster on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:43:00 PST

Prostitution . . . and mind-altering substances

I now unequivocably and undeniably understand why crack whores exist. Read several passages from the hot-selling, new book entitled, "Secrets of a Hollywood SuperMadam" by Jody "Babydol" Gibson, a for...
Posted by Tyster on Tue, 01 May 2007 10:38:00 PST

Women and Chains

Recently saw the new Samuel L. Jackson flick entitled "Black Snake Moan." Must admit to being pleasantly surprised with the acting and the direction of the movie.Jackson, an honest, bible-fe...
Posted by Tyster on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:08:00 PST

Everything ISN'T coming up Roses

Hasta La Vista, Stephanie, Baby. The clueless and prickless suits at the new CW gave longtime host Stephanie Edwards her walking papers. This is pathetic on so many levels. Edwards, the perky an...
Posted by Tyster on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:23:00 PST