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Troy

Thoroughly entrenched in the vulgarity of everyday life.

About Me

Not much to tell. I like most of the stuff you find on myspace, except in real life.

My Interests

reading, writing, meditation, soccer, indoor soccer, music, second language acquisition, grammar, vernacular, poetry, beats, rhymes, food with mad flava, coffee with chicory, vegemite, mangoes, liquor, beer and wine, oolong tea, Japanese food

I'd like to meet:

Pretentious scenesters and people who build canoes. Today is a good day for a canoe ride, eh William Blake?

Who I'd NOT like to meet:
1) Authors promoting self-published books.
2) Bands that suck.
3) WebCam Girls & Get Rich Quick Scammers.
4) Would be mail-order brides.

Click the back button on your browser and nobody gets hurt.

Music:

Spitfire Tumbleweeds, Bridges And Blinking Lights, Burntsienna Trio, and the screams of my enemies.

Movies:

Donnie Darko, Captain Ron, The 25th Hour, The Remains of The Day, Blue Velvet, Brain Candy, Waiting for Guffman, Ghost Dog, Dave, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Solaris, Romy And Michele's High School Reunion, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

Television:

cartoons

Books:

I like books.

Heroes:

"Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps."

My Blog

Wrong Number

Some of the crap I get in my inbox is not exactly spam but a good old fashioned case of wrong number.  I guess since I've had my gmail account since its inception way back in 2004 I don't have a ...
Posted by Troy on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:43:00 PST

Illegal Bookmark

So I went to the local thrift store today to browse around.  A friend of mine suggested it to me as a place to donate old clothes etc about a year ago.  The proceeds of their sales go to hel...
Posted by Troy on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:12:00 PST

To Live and Learn

I'm just going to say I'm tired of learning experiences.  There have been far too many of them lately and I think I'm wise enough.Too many, I say.That is all.
Posted by Troy on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:52:00 PST

Battle With The Cable Co.

I had a lovely adventure with the oh-so competent people at the local cable company office.  I don't want to say which company outright but it rhymes with "farter."  Those nic...
Posted by Troy on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:00:00 PST

Comedy In Two Americas

I clicked an ad for the FOX News Channel's 1/2 Hour News Hour out of morbid curiosity.  What makes conservatives laugh scares me. FOX News wants to jump on the comedy news bandwagon. I watched a...
Posted by Troy on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:16:00 PST

A Trip To The Dump

I went to the landfill today because they have a place there to recycle old computer equipment.  I had held on to some old computers for far too long.  My inner-hippie told me not to just th...
Posted by Troy on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:41:00 PST

No Water / MacGyver hygiene

Real Life Adventure #807.I got up early for a day off and was doing real good for a while there.They're doing some sort of maintenance at the apartment complex and they turned off the water at 10 this...
Posted by Troy on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:43:00 PST

Once It's Out, It's Out

There are certain thresholds that cannot be un-crossed.  My GF was tickling me and then I farted.  I had been a little gassy all night and was trying not to in front of her but it just happe...
Posted by Troy on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:42:00 PST

Tubtime, 2/10/07

So I took a bath after work.  I had a fairly long day filled with nothing in particular.  Last week I had taken a hot bath after work and had a couple of beers and it was good.  So I de...
Posted by Troy on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:30:00 PST

Some Assembly Required

On the advice of my old friend FF, I went to IKEA for the first time yesterday.  I wasn't so sure, but since I secretly admire minimalist design, I went out to Frisco.  I took the northern r...
Posted by Troy on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:50:00 PST