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About Me

My Fall, Winter, and Spring Reading List
Finished July 2, 2007!
Experience: a Memoir by Martin Amis
The Road to Wellville by T. C. Boyle
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Yes, I Can by Sammy Davis Jr
The Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Up Late with Joe Franklin by Joe Franklin
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
The Lighthouse by P. D. James
For Laughing Out Loud by Ed McMahon
Franklin and Winston by Jon Meacham
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Star Trek: The Ashes of Eden by William Shatner
Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho's House by Steve Stoliar
Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow
My Summer Reading List
Completed as of 9-27-06
Foundation by Issac Asimov
Dune by Frank Herbert
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
MASH by Richard Hooker
Great Apes by Will Self
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pulman
The Amber Spy Glass by Philip Pulman
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes by Willie Nelson

My Interests

I enjoy defeating nazis, surviving zombie infestations, overthrowing intergalatic tyranny, toppling mighty empires, single-handedly crushing opposing forces, killing bunnies at an expert level, and conquering the world...one beer at a time.

I'd like to meet:

A Bajoran. Or this random girl I see occasionally. Or this girl that is in my PA 520 class.

Music:

Paul Simon, The Floating Men, Son Volt, Jay Farrar, Jayhawks, John Hiatt, Old 97s, Wilco, Bob Seger, Jimmy Buffett, They Might Be Giants, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, David Bowie, Grateful Dead, Devil in a Woodpile

Movies:

Arthur, Casablanca, The Godfather, Ghostbusters I & II, Three Amigos, Short Circuit, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Clint Eastwood movies, Shaun of the Dead

Television:

Simpsons, King of the Hill, Star Trek, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9, Freaks and Geeks, History Channel, Blackadder, Coupling (UK), Men Behaving Badly (UK), Father Ted, Arrested Development

Books:

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Dark Tower series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, hardboiled detective fiction, Harry Potter, memoirs of cool people, The Great Gatsby, Plainsong

Heroes:

Pop (my grandfather) and Pa (my other grandfather)

My Blog

Love and Beer, or My Relationship with Beer

I posted this on my xanga about a month back, but since it has now been published in over 3000 copies of the Full Monty, I thought I would post it on here as well. Apparently it has stirred up s...
Posted by Wally J. Awesome! on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:08:00 PST

Check out this event: Wally's Wing-Ding

Hosted By: Terry, Donna & Jordan MarshWhen: Saturday Sep 09, 2006 at 5:00 PMWhere: The Marsh Home5408 Mainsail DriveHermitage, TN 37076USDescription:Terry, Donna & Jordan Marsh Click Here To V...
Posted by Wally J. Awesome! on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:05:00 PST

Go West Young Man

As most of you know by now, I am about to move to Oregon to begin the next chapter of my life. In fact, I will be leaving in less than three weeks. My estimated day of departure is Septemb...
Posted by Wally J. Awesome! on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 01:32:00 PST