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Doug

I told my wife I wouldn't drink tonight. Besides, I got a big day tomorrow. You guys have a great ti

About Me

overworked doctoral student...education reform consultant...midwestern jet setter...reader of books...watcher of movies...kicker of sweet jams...private dancer...

My Interests

education reform, politics, sociology, movies, reading, cooking, beer, wine, chillin'

I'd like to meet:

Bill Clinton, Jon Stewart, John Dewey,

Music:

lately...My Morning Jacket, TV on the Radio, Amy Winehouse, Postal Service, The Decemberists, Yo La Tengo, Ted Leo, Ghostface Killah,

Movies:

lately...Sparta, Dodgeball, Anchorman, Hotel Rwanda, The Departed,

Television:

Battlestar Galactica, The Wire, Rome, Lost, My Name is Earl, either The Office

Books:

lately...The Children in Room E4 (Susan Eaton), The Shame of A Nation (Jonathan Kozol), The Road (Cormac McCarthy), Tinkering Towards Utopia (Tyack and Cuban)

Heroes:

A bear standing in the middle of some lava, holding a sword and drinking a beer; or, Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, same difference...Paul Wellstone, Wendy Kopp

My Blog

Weird...

...it's more fun to get up early on the weekends than stay up late on the weekends.  Christ, I'm old...
Posted by Doug on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 07:01:00 PST

The Plan...

Starting Weight: 300.6 lbsI don't really expect anyone to find this interesting, but here's the plan to drop approximately 135 pounds over the past year.  Like all awesome plans, it has multiple ...
Posted by Doug on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:53:00 PST

Here goes nothing...

So for those of you haven't seen me lately, I'm pretty much the heaviest I've ever been.  I weighed 292 pounds this morning, and that was before some fast food for lunch and ribs for dinner. ...
Posted by Doug on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:46:00 PST

How I wasted my morning...

So I've spent the past two hours watching almost every one of these videos:http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/36588/S taff_List_100_Awesome_Music_Videos/Two things of note:1.  How do I ...
Posted by Doug on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:23:00 PST