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About Me

Born in San Francisco, CA, 1957. Dad owned a bar -- M&M Tavern at 5th & Howard Sts, SF. Mom raised 5 kids. Went to Serra High, San Mateo. Also Santa Clara U, UC San Diego, San Jose State. Working at National Semiconductor, electrical engineer. Grandparents from Ireland, came over early 1900s... McVeigh, Toohey, Phillips, and Roddy. Have a mess 'o great relatives that I know, and I bet plenty more that I don't know. Been married since 1998 to my best friend, Elsa.

My Interests

Guitar, soccer (but I'm getting too old for it!), golf, hiking, nature, music, restaurants.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone open and honest and non-soliciting.

Music:

Big spectrum. Slayer. Hot Tuna. System of a Down. The Prodigy. Blues. John Francis (google him...) Opsound.com

Movies:

Drama/adventure. Gritty stuff, like Blackhawk Down, City of God.

Television:

The Shield. Lost.

Books:

"Fisherman's Son" by Michael Koepf -- sort of a Jack London adventure. "Against All Enemies" by Richard Clarke. "Kindred" Octavia E. Butler. "The World Is Flat" Thomas L.Friedman. H.P.Lovecraft, Stephen King, and other horror genre. Also into fantasy: read Tolkien trilogy multiple times, Robert Jordan, George R.R.Martin, Terry Goodkind, L.E.Modesitt, Stephan R. Donaldson. Love adventure: Joseph Conrad, Patrick O'Brien, Jack London.

Heroes:

Richard A. Clarke. Jimi Hendrix. Bill Clinton. John McLaughlin (the musician/guitarist).

My Blog

New "friends" requests

This myspace site of mine, I've had it for a few months. It's free, and I post some blogs and let people know what my thoughts were. But all the requests I get for new "friends" are ...
Posted by Marty on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:46:00 PST

New Dogs, and Old

Well, the Greyhound adoption centers didn't approve us adopting one of their dogs. I wanted to keep the dog in the garage when my wife Elsa and I were at work. It's a nice, clean gar...
Posted by Marty on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:39:00 PST

Dogs

My wife and I are in the process of adopting a greyhound from a rescue organization. We're both pretty buzzed at the prospect of a new best friend in the house! Greyhounds seem to be just ...
Posted by Marty on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:39:00 PST

Growin' up in the 60s

Marty McVeigh's Blog Entry 9-7-2006I grew up in the 60's, just south of San Francisco (in South San Francisco, as a matter o' fact!) which, I guess, was a pretty cool place to be at the time, wi...
Posted by Marty on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:18:00 PST

anti-perspirants

Marty McVeigh...Re: Anti-perspirants ... not something that often comes up in conversation. Except in a context like "Jeez! Does that guy need some anti-perspirant or what! Phoo-weee...
Posted by Marty on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:23:00 PST