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Doug

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My Interests

fetch, hubris, power(s), ghosts, fish, food, fishfood , osmosis, politics, ark, shopping!

Music:

field music, clap your hands say yeah!, grizzly bear, panda bear, bears, wire, the shins, the unicorns, detroit cobras, snowden, love

Movies:

CHILDREN OF MEN, the passenger, half nelson, election, all the real girls, all about eve, the heavenly kid, nashville, spirited away, safe men, back to the future (all), art school confidential, idiocracy

Television:

dr. katz, arrested development, tom goes to the mayor, the office, six feet under, assy mcgee, lost (but they better stop procrastinating)

Books:

love in the time of cholera, confederacy of dunces, manuals, a people's history of the united states, flow my tears the policeman said, the business of memory, the shining

Heroes:

turkey, fresh basil, cherry tomatoes, hot peppers, provolone, oil & vinegar on semolina.
or
the frizzle: roastbeef, onion rings, tartar sauce on rosemary focaccia (trust me on this one)

My Blog

how many more sandwiches am i going to have to eat in order for you to notice me?

i feel like an idiot. i mean what does it take for a guy to get noticed. i had pastrami& nothing. corn beef& nothing. i thought maybe it was all the meat, so i just sat there with a potato knish, a wo...
Posted by Doug on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:40:00 PST

The Kiss

The Kiss (1896) (aka The May Irwin Kiss, The Rice-Irwin Kiss and The Widow Jones)This most popular short film (an Edison Vitascope film made in Edison's Black Maria studio) was thought to be scandaliz...
Posted by Doug on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:47:00 PST

it burns because it's hot!

never in my life have i felt such hot burning nose pain then when i just ingested these wasabi green peas. my eyes welled up with water and touched on a nose pain so fierce that i actually had to sit ...
Posted by Doug on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:48:00 PST

living in the future

coming home from work last night, i sat in a car in the midtown tunnel and thought, holy shit. we're living in the future. the midtown tunnel looked the same as it did when i was 9 years old only slig...
Posted by Doug on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:36:00 PST

why i ate out of the garbage

1. i'm fat2. it was right on the top3. i can't let food go to waste4. especially chicken cutlet parmigiana5. there was nothing else to eat in the house except an old kiwi and jelly6. people eat of gar...
Posted by Doug on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:03:00 PST

why a spaghetti is sexier than baked chicken

it has come to my attention that spaghetti, and by spaghetti i'm referring to those long, thin noodles in a tomato based sauce, comes off as sexier than baked chicken. i've taken it open myself to fig...
Posted by Doug on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:13:00 PST

polar where?

Lake Havasu, ArizonaFebruary 6, 2007In a strange turn of events, local party organizer and haberdashery security guard Ankel Bear (featured left) and his neighbor Shep Kimble commandeered a 17 foot, d...
Posted by Doug on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:47:00 PST

what an uneventful year

it might be too early to call but 2007 is shaping up to be the most boring year ever. i can't recall a year, in recent memory, where less things happened. i'm starting to think i should've had a more...
Posted by Doug on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:24:00 PST

children of men

Children of Men (niños de hombres) is a new movie by director alfonso cuaron who has directed both Y tu mamá también and more recently Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. i can't stop thinking a...
Posted by Doug on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:25:00 PST

this must end tonight, tila

i admit that i jumped on the bandwagon with everyone else. i mean, come on, who wouldn't want to be friends with the most popular girl on myspace? but if i've learned one thing from my "friendship" wi...
Posted by Doug on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:15:00 PST