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About Me

As someone who has read Roland Barthes and been punched by Jacques Derrida, I welcome you to my MySpace.
I'm a journalist and copy editor and technical writer ("technically, I'm a writer.") Right now, however, I work in retail. I have been a member of the Magnificent Glass Pelican -- MGP -- since 1991.
As part of my ongoing Blyther-Carney Post Holistic Need Spectrum analysis -- BCS -- I am compelled to question the Governor every week at around 7.34 PM, even though he seems to think he's coaching a football team at the moment. Speaking of the BCS, there should be a national college football playoff.
I once never played for the Chicago Cubs in 1987.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Alexander Hamilton, Dr. Finster, Mr. Conclusions. Bob Dylan. William Shatner, Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks, Helen Thomas, Timothy McSweeney. Brian Scolaro , Ghosty. Obviously I've met the last two. Angelo Badalamenti. Sophia Loren and Claudia Cardinale circa 1964. That can't happen, can it?
Robbie Cevik. People on MySpace. The list is endless, isn't it? Stephen Gardragowler
My next girlfriend ("call me").

My Blog

a grandma update

According to my family, she is doing well; I imagine the town is looking out for her.
Posted by on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:24:00 GMT

An ankle update

It still hurts a bit. I am using a cane, which I haved named "John." "John MyCane." I don't use it full-time. My fall last month was potentially spectacular, but I thank whomever that it wasn't. Feet-...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:01:00 GMT

A cuppa

Here's weirdness: a customer enters my retail establishment and tells me that, via a different social networking site, let's call it "Facebook," an ex-girlfriend of mine asked about me. Of course, I w...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:35:00 GMT

R.I.P. Richard Aldrich

My uncle, Richard E. Aldrich, 75, died this weekend in an auto accident. He was the primary caregiver for his mother, my grandmother, Edith, who lives on her own and is 97. She has outlived three of f...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:18:00 GMT

Red Bull

So I'm sweating out my first Red Bull. I made my way to work today by jumping into oncoming traffic and then leaping from vehichle to vehicle. Incredible stuff. May I have another? So then I lo...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:48:00 GMT

Ow!

Mark Aldrich is back online again, and will soon re-jigger the MGP page. But I've somehow broken this lender computer ...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:41:00 GMT

The BCS moves on

tMGP, through my "going concern," no longer deploys the use of the Blyther-Carney Spectrum. Filligree, in his finest wanderings, posited that it no longer worked. For him. Or for us. I have proposed i...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:30:00 GMT

A Cytophebia update

So, um, today, in the retail environment, on a Friday evening next-door to a movie theather showing "Harry Potter." we had some teenagers browsing. Well, we had located some new desklamps on the ...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:13:00 GMT

'The Sopranos' ...

ended spectacularly tonight.
Posted by on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:38:00 GMT

Well, I was probably wrong in my post, 'Celebrity'

He could not have been Ehud Barak, even if I still think he was. R.I.P. Richard Rorty: http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2007/jun/10/richard_ rorty_1931_2007
Posted by on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:32:00 GMT