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Suffering Bastard in Maine

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About Me

Living in Maine. Happily married to the best damn thing in the world. Working to make a difference. Got the best tiki bar in all of Maine.

My Interests

Tiki Culture, mid-century modern stuff, googie architecture, election reform, ethics, history, design art, I'll keep adding stuff as I feel like it

I'd like to meet:

Nobody.

Music:

They Might Be Giants, Raveonettes, The Shins, Death Cab for Cutie, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Cabaret Voltaire, Love and Rockets, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Pixies, The Cult, Hoodoo Gurus, Midnight Oil, Beat Happening, Screaming Trees, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Girl with 100 Heads, Studfinder, Ms. Led, Big Black, Social Distortion, Killing Joke, Elvis Costello, The Clash, Tones on Tail, David J, Reverend Horton Heat

Movies:

Blade Runner, Pulp Fiction, Spinal Tap, most Tim Burton films, most Coen brothers films, V for Vendetta, Monty Python (all), Office Space, Straight to Hell, Mystery Men, X-men series,

Television:

Daily Show, Adult Swim

Books:

Good Omens

Heroes:

Ben Franklin, Peter Garrett, Jon Stewart, Fannie Lou Hamer, Don the Beachcomber, Trader Vic, V.

My Blog

Walking Moais Raising Money for MS Society!

Aloha!I just set up the team webpage for the 2008 MS Walk in Portland.In the last two years, this has been explicitly about my wife Traci having MS, but this year the team is sponsored by the Frater...
Posted by Suffering Bastard in Maine on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:04:00 PST

Verizon = Big Brother

What a load of crap.do a blog or news google of Verizon and NARAL and you will see quite a lot of background on this, but it boils down pretty simply.Verizon wants to control what you can say and hear...
Posted by Suffering Bastard in Maine on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:29:00 PST

The simplest solution to the concerns about illegal immigration...

Annex Mexico...jon
Posted by Suffering Bastard in Maine on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:15:00 PST

MORE Stupid stuff conservatives say

I really had a hard time believing someone wrote this...http://www.asmainegoes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3896 4" The great majority of children do not need health insurance."ORLY?...
Posted by Suffering Bastard in Maine on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:59:00 PST

Wicked Nasty Weathah!

Boy has it been nasty out today!It's wicked windy, heavy snow at times, ice pellets at other times and it just keeps coming.But the good news is that Traci didn't have to go to work and drive around i...
Posted by Suffering Bastard in Maine on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:39:00 PST

My Boss is Running for Congress

Well, I knew this was coming, but now it's official. My boss, Chellie Pingree is running for Congress. Well, not officially official I guess. She made a statement to the press about that she is leavin...
Posted by Suffering Bastard in Maine on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:15:00 PST

Festivus Airing of Grievances

I celebrate Festivus. The holiday for the rest of us.If you aren't familiar with Festivus, google it, dammit.Of course, one of the traditions of Festivus is the "Airing of Grievances" at which you ge...
Posted by Suffering Bastard in Maine on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:50:00 PST

The funniest thing I have heard a Republican say since the election

Yes it is true, a Republican said the following on a message board in Maine today:"Only a true Democrat can gloat about a victory that was achieved through lies, distortions, cheating, thievery and ch...
Posted by Suffering Bastard in Maine on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:13:00 PST

A good day

Election Day was a good day. :)It looks like the Maine legislature will stay in the hands of Democrats. TABOR was defeated. We did not have many problems with voting in Maine (although other states di...
Posted by Suffering Bastard in Maine on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:33:00 PST

Net Neutrality and Senator Susan Collins

Well, yesterday I coordinated a visit with Senator Susan Collins about net neutrality. It was a good meeting.Instead of rewriting everything about it that went on, I thought I would just link to the b...
Posted by Suffering Bastard in Maine on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 06:00:00 PST