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bloomdude

Please visit my website: CelebStoner.com

About Me


I'm Steve Bloom - the former editor of High Times and High Times' Grow America. I'm currently freelance writing for Relix, The L Magazine and Helio. I have a website CelebStoner and a blog Blooming Ideas
I've written 2 books, "Video Invaders" (1982) and "Watch Out for the Little Guys" (1989). My next book Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language & Life written with Shirley Halperin, will be published in April 2008. I produced the cds, "Hempilation: Freedom Is NORML" (1995) and "Hempilation 2: Free the Weed" (1998); was executive producer of the movie, "High Times' Pot Luck" (2003); and founded the High Times Stony Awards and Doobie Awards.
My cd reviews of Jack Johnson and Mike Doughty are in the latest issues of Relix. My movie reviews are posted at Blooming Ideas
I'm the commissioner of the New York Media Softball League. The NYMSL playoffs will take place on Sept. 8.
I'm an animal lover. I have a dog (Wiggles the beagle) and 2 cats (Minnie and Lennon).

My Interests

Music, movies, sports, entertainment, media and marijuana.

I'd like to meet:


Anyone who shares my interests and would like to read about them in my website CelebStoner and my blog Blooming Ideas.

Fellow Met, Jet & Knick fans. Animal lovers. Potheads.

Music:

Currents faves: Kottonmouth Kings, Slightly Stoopid, Lily Allen, Galactic, Stephen Marley, the Capitol Years, the Butterflies of Love, Sean Lennon, Sasha Dobson, Wolfmother, K.T. Tunstall, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, George Clinton, Keller Williams, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Manu Chao, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Steel Train, Seu Jorge, Los Amigos Invisibles

Movies:

My faves include: The Godfather (Part 1 & 2), GoodFellas, The Wizard of Oz, Duck Soup, Annie Hall, Up in Smoke, Dazed and Confused, Easy Rider, The Big Lebowski, Ghost World, Brazil, Dances with Wolves, Titanic, Bonnie and Clyde, On the Waterfront, Raising Arizona, The Fast Runner, Mountain Patrol, The Train

Television:

Current faves: Real Time with Bill Maher, Snoop Dogg's Fatherhood, 30 Rock, SNL, Gossip Girl, TMZ, My Fair Brady, Daily News Live, Breaking Bad
General faves: Weeds, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Sarah Silverman Program, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Flight of the Conchords, Californication, The Dog Whisperer, Baseball Night

Books:

Currently reading: How Not to Date by Judy McGuire; Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy by Jane Leavy, Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich by Mark Kriegel, The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight by Marc Weingarten, The Boy Who Cried Freebird by Mitch Myers, Dixie Lullaby by Mark Kemp, Marley & Me by John Grogan

Heroes:

T.C. Boyle, Hunter S. Thompson, Mark Jacobson, Pete Hamill, W.P. Kinsella, E.L. Doctorow, the Beatles, Willie Nelson, Tommy Chong, Bill Maher, Bob Marley, Richard Linklater, Pete Fornatale, Lenny Bloom