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About Me

I started this page on April 7, 2006 when my son, Nathaniel Luke Pinzon, was suddenly struck by a systemic infection that nearly killed him. He has a lot of friends and most of them use MySpace. This is where I chronicle his struggle to recover. Watch my blog for the first and most complete account of what the doctors say about his progress day by day. Nathaniel might remember none of this when he comes out of his coma--but by reading here, he can see how we all rooted for him to pull through.
Nathaniel has begun a very long journey to complete recovery. In order to help with all of the financial hardships arising from his brush with death, Renee and I, as Nathaniel's parents, have set up a benefit account to help him. If you would like to contribute to the account, please click the Donate button in this paragraph. You can donate by PayPal, debit card, or credit card. A contribution of any amount is most welcome. Absolutely every penny will be used to get Nathaniel's life back on track. Thank you so much for your heartfelt notes, your friendship, and your generosity!.

My Interests

The power of story in almost any medium, but especially novels and movies; hackers and computer security; film and video production; finding out What Is Really Going On; SSP Wrestling and video production!

I'd like to meet:

Fusobacterium necrophorum so I can give it a motherlovin' beat-down of metaphysical proportions.

Music:

I like stuff that surprises me. Lately, Junior Senior and Modest Mouse and, speaking of surprises, I officially like some country music. (See "power of story," above.)

Movies:

Michael Clayton, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rumble in the Bronx, Die Hard, Alien, Sixth Sense, Donnie Darko, Bad Santa, Terminator 2, Sneakers, Fight Club, The Princess Bride, Firefly/Serenity, The Matrix, Pulp Fiction, Cowboy Bebop, Danny Kaye in The Court Jester, Lost in Translation, but absolutely nothing that starts with "Fantastic Four." .. -- -- -- -- -- -- START YOUTHINK.COM QUIZ RESULTS --
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Television:

Project Runway 4, Entourage, Deadwood, Heroes, Top Chef, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, Venture Brothers, and I support the Writers Guild strike wholeheartedly.

Books:

Anything by Christopher Moore; Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora; The Adventures of Kavalier & Klay; Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell; Lee Child's Jack Reacher series; David Sedaris; Ann Lamott; David Eggers (sometimes); the Hardy Boys shall rock forever; Neal Stephenson; Terry Pratchett. Airplane fiction sucks. Death to The Da Vinci Code, not because it's controversial, but because it's bad, and its sales inspired a jillion even-worse imitators.

Heroes:

Most "heroes" are bullshit. You and I can try hard and rise above.

My Blog

Zombies go plush

What a perfect Halloween tchotchke from ThinkGeek.com. "Dis-member Me," the Plush Zombie!http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/ac4a/?cpg=79H Zombies are always trying to eat our braaaaaains... the le...
Posted by Lingo on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:43:00 PST

The Strongest Force in the Universe: Montage

It's so hard to change anything. Your weight, your boss's opinion, your income, your habits, your level of success, your friend's minds... In theory, all of these are completely malleable. In reality,...
Posted by Lingo on Wed, 21 May 2008 09:45:00 PST

Why You Might Possibly Maybe Want a PS3 for Christmas

Ratchet and Clank Future is as close to "the perfect video game" as I ever expect to play. In high def, it's so gorgeous that at first you can hardly make yourself play it. You just want to look aroun...
Posted by Lingo on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:00:00 PST

Threepeat

MySpace posted my latest blog entry three times, each time telling me there was an error and it didn't post at all.So, sorry if you saw the repeats. I think they're gone now.
Posted by Lingo on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:58:00 PST

MySpace is Borked

what's with MySpace? too popular for its own good?Whenever I log on, Tom is apologizing to me for something he did wrong. That slacker!
Posted by Lingo on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:59:00 PST

The King of Kong is Killer!

Saturday night, I had the privilege of seeing a little-known documentary at The Big Picture in Redmond Town Center. First of all, the Big Picture is awesome. It's a high-quality movie theater with an ...
Posted by Lingo on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:59:00 PST

Jackson 5 + B52s + Devo = Junior Senior

Wow, I haven't laughed and shake-ified my groove thing like this in a long time. I'm talking about the overdue release of Junior Senior's album, "Hey Hey My My Yo Yo," in the US. I got it from iTunes,...
Posted by Lingo on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:41:00 PST

The Crass Menagerie

Over this last weekend, Renee and I participated on team Ultra Digital Films in the 48-Hour Film Project http://www.48hourfilm.com/seattle/ . If you haven't heard of it... teams have 48 hou...
Posted by Lingo on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:14:00 PST

Deeevious News Watch, Part 1

What a difference a year makes!In May a year ago, a leftover remnant of Nathaniel 7 had been released from Harborview Hospital, clutching his bag lady Ethyl. Since then he has recovered fully, gotten ...
Posted by Lingo on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:01:00 PST

Help Martha Feel the Love!

Sometimes in my life, I find myself working for a company whose ability to screw up far exceeds my ability to Hang In There. When the going gets tough, my tough gets going for awhile. But some compa...
Posted by Lingo on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 08:40:00 PST