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About Me

These words will convey to you nothing of the essence of who and what I am. But we will politely agree that they do, for the sake of brevity and etiquette.Communication is crucial to human endeavors. If you really want to include me in your life and its sphere of influence, you must make the attempt to communicate with me. You should anticipate that if you know me, I will attempt to maintain a dialogue with you.I write. I create. I experience. And of course, I do many other things. I am other things. But we define ourselves far more by what we do than by what we are, because we erroneously believe that our nature is not unique in itself. We are neither special, beautiful snowflakes nor Jack's raging liver disease. We are individuals with a range of possibilities that we realize every day of our lives. Every moment, in fact.If you're curious about my art, go here.My interests are many. If not confined to doing boring things, I'm almost never bored. Inactivity is always a choice, but rarely chosen, in my world.Now tell me about yourself.

My Interests

More than a lifetime's worth.

I'd like to meet:

My quotas.

Music:

More than before.

Movies:

Acres and acres.

Television:

Many DVDs-full.

Books:

A myriad.

Heroes:

Are more within ourselves than not.

My Blog

Weary ’n’ bleary

Dunno why, but I'm extremely tired as I ready myself for work today -- just very slowly pulling myself together and feeling sluggish. Yesterday was not very eventful; got some stuff done, and sk...
Posted by Richard A. Becker on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:50:00 PST

The midnight report, for no good reason

Hung out with Hal at the pirate-themed Redwood Bar and Grille in Downtown L.A. -- it's got good fried calamari, tasty rum-based drinks, movies on screen (20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA!), a fun crowd, a...
Posted by Richard A. Becker on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:17:00 PST

Sleep, sleep, sleep

Spent much of last night just sleeping. Was awakened for another late-night gabfest by Miss Brazelton's phone call, then back to sleep.Got to dance class late, because I'd been sleeping. H...
Posted by Richard A. Becker on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:30:00 PST

Last Friday of June, 2008

Last night was interesting, with my first attempt at tango turning out rather dubiously -- my form was bad, I could hardly remember the steps I'd just been taught, and I stepped on one partner's toes....
Posted by Richard A. Becker on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:39:00 PST

I can’t afford it and I don’t have time

But I'm still going to waste 15 bucks and an hour of my time on going to a tango class tonight before I meet up with the usual gang at McCormick and Schmick. With the help of friends, things'll ...
Posted by Richard A. Becker on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:37:00 PST

Time for a commercial break

Thanks to the lovely Micki, here's a beer commercial you need to experience: And the remix: ...
Posted by Richard A. Becker on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:24:00 PST

I went to Hell and now I’m tired

I went with Hal to Club Hell last night, where there were free vodka drinks, all manner of (ahem) extreme performances, a bunch of good art, Mister J, and good distractions overall from a highly stres...
Posted by Richard A. Becker on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:45:00 PST

Absolutely nothing interesting happened last night

Well, I pretty much just caught up on rest. What can I say? It can't all be interesting!I'll try and have something worthwhile for the blog later...
Posted by Richard A. Becker on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:30:00 PST

Lucy on the assembly line

That's what my job is like for me now.There's a rewrite and an outline and a first draft and a trademark review and a pitch-in on proofing and... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!It's piling up here, and I've go...
Posted by Richard A. Becker on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:46:00 PST

A picture from the good part of the weekend

Very few people want their picture taken with me (it's sort of like the general aversion to any physical contact with me), but here's a shot of me and the Patron Saint of the Smackdown, apparently aud...
Posted by Richard A. Becker on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:20:00 PST