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Stroogie

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About Me


This is why Glen Keane does, and always will, rock.



It's such a long wait till 2008...

My Interests

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In Memoriam...


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Music:

Thomas Newman, Iron & Wine, The Killers (more to come as I get more musically educated)

Movies:

The Shawshank Redemption, Rear Window, Gosford Park, Titus, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Waiting for Guffman, Fargo, Ikiru, Little Miss Sunshine, United 93, Children of Men; Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Goodfellas, and Raging Bull (but not so much The Departed); La Jette, Wings of Desire, Brick, Alien, Jurassic Park, The Matrix, Beauty and the Beast, ANYTHING Pixar or Robert Altman (except Popeye)

Television:

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (the new one), Heroes, Lost, NewsRadio, King of the Hill, Futurama, Firefly, ST:TNG and DS9

Books:

Till We Have Faces (C.S. Lewis); Narnia and LOTR, of course; A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens); Franny and Zooey (J.D. Salinger); Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen); The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor (even though I don't understand most of them); Eats, Shoots and Leaves (Lynne Truss); Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond); Blackhawk Down (Mark Bowden); Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Ross King); Heat (Bill Buford) Michael Crichton, Stephen King...

My Blog

Why Does Maggie Have to Go Potty Three Times in an Hour?

Beautiful neighbor girlWith the beautiful car,When you take your dog out,Your voice travels far:        "Maggie, go potty."        "Maggie, ...
Posted by Stroogie on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:01:00 PST

Things I'm Not Allowed To Do at Barnes & Noble (anymore)

THINGS I'M NOT ALLOWED TO DO AT BARNES & NOBLE (anymore):1)   Not allowed to take pre-orders from customers for my own conclusion to the popular series:  "Harry Potter and the Deat...
Posted by Stroogie on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:50:00 PST

A Great Day at the Movies, Part III

9:45pm Little Miss Sunshine:  The AMC Theatre folks knew what they were doing.  After the dark intensity of the previous two films, this movie was just what everyone needed to restore the s...
Posted by Stroogie on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 09:08:00 PST

A Great Day at the Movies, Part II

3:45pm The Departed:  I sat this one out because I'd already seen it, and my butt needed a break.  Plus, my right knee has gone bad on me (it's hell pushing 30), and it gets worse the longe...
Posted by Stroogie on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 09:02:00 PST

A Great Day at the Movies, Part I

             What do you call 500 people crammed in a room all day to watch movies?  The Lock-In From Hell?  Nope.  Strangers who w...
Posted by Stroogie on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:55:00 PST

Friends Don't Let Friends Wear Starbucks T-shirts

(My obligatory advance apologies to those of my friends offended at strong language.  I gotta vent.)     It's gone too far.  I log onto MySpace today, and there's an anim...
Posted by Stroogie on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:01:00 PST

My personality test came back negative...

     I took one of those Myers-Briggs tests as part of an internship application.  I've taken one before, and I think they're pretty much horoscopes slathered with pyschobabbl...
Posted by Stroogie on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:44:00 PST

IHC5: The Second-to-Last Chapter

     I can't remember everything I recounted in my last blog, and I'm too lazy to go back and read it.  But yes, the saga continues, and God willing, is about to come to an en...
Posted by Stroogie on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:25:00 PST

IHC4: Just When You Thought It Was Safe

I'll try to make this quick, 'cause I didn't think I'd be writing any more of these "I Hate Cars" blogs.  Naive, ignorant, hopelessly optimistic me...Yeah, so the car broke down again.  Over...
Posted by Stroogie on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:09:00 PST

I Hate Cars, part 3

Don't get the wrong idea about me from my first three blog postings.  I'm not a negative, complaining person.  This whole car thing just seems to be a recurring theme lately. Late June. ...
Posted by Stroogie on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:38:00 PST