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Iconoclast

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About Me

Hope
The cause is also the ending,A fulcrum of swaying sentiments.A life, but brief lapses of oblivion,Glimmering in the expanse.
Without hell, heaven is eternal.A slate of thoughtless bliss.A release, a return to divine abyss.Infinite and comforting.
The creators of God pray for his passing.A gasping, hoary, diseased father,Senile in understanding and service,Suffering to live among verdant youth.
The ending is also the cause,A pivot to Reason’s purpose.A new grave, the seed of resolve, Enriching the eager soil.--October, 2007
I teach high school English classes and play bass for Praeter Caelestis, a black metal band. I support unrestricted thinking and the eradication of religious superstition.Past Bands: Winter Eternus, Pontius Pilate

My Interests

Bass Guitar, Reading (trash fiction, literature, and non-fiction), Weightlifting, Movies, Carnivorous Plants, Evolution, Atheism, Theology Eating Sushi and Sashimi, Writing.My Live JournalPraise Jesus!

I'd like to meet:

Intelligent, refreshingly iconoclastic, witty, or eccentric people. I like to meet people from whom I can learn something; by this, I mean "how to act", not "how not to act."Apostates, Brothers in Blasphemy, Sisters in Sin

Music:

Opeth, Orphaned Land, Amon Amarth, At The Gates, Camel, Metallica, Megadeth, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dawn, Cradle of Filth, Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, Kansas, Marvin Gaye, Mr. Bungle, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Arcturus, The Kovenant, Loreena Mckennit, Stevie Wonder, Coldplay, Suffucation, Morbid Angel, Beethoven, Weather Report,Oingo Boingo, Rotting Christ

Movies:

Pulp Fiction, Harry Potter movies, Jackie Brown, From Dusk Till Dawn, Most Comic book themed movies, Being John Malcovich, Groundhog Day, Interview With The Vampire, What About Bob?, the original Star Wars, Star Trek movies, Monty Python Movies, Pitch Black, Lost in Translation, Casino Royale, 12 Monkeys, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Zodiac

Television:

Seinfield, The Simpsons (old episodes), Beavis and Butthead (if I'm honest with myself), CSI, Crank Yankers, Dog-The Bounty Hunter, South Park, Star Trek TNG, Star Trek- Voyager, Web Junk, American Idol, Best Week Ever, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, The Office, Dirty Jobs, Survivorman, My Name is Earl, Man Versus the WildPlay Flying Spaghetti Monster

Books:

Anything Clive Barker; The work of Daniel Dennet, Richard Dawkins, and Sam Harris; Ben Franklin's autobiography;Steven King's Dark Tower Series, Wallace Steven's poetry, Thomas Paine, T.S. Eliot, Matt Ridley's books, The Brothers Karamazov, Atheism: The Case Against God, Uncle John's Bathroom books, Shakespeare, The Odyssey, Robert Frost's poetry; Stephen Covey's work, the only self help books really worth reading.

Heroes:

Cliff Burton, Ben Franklin, My Wife, Mr. Trumbell and Dr. Wenzl: two of my past English teachers, My Dad, Opeth, Big-foot, my cat, EVIL CLOWNS, the monkey cup pitcher plant.

My Blog

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I spent some time with my grandpa, who probably doesn't have too much time left; mentally he's quite sharp, but he's lost most of his eyesight and can't drive.  I drove him out to ...
Posted by Iconoclast on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:11:00 PST

Godless tomes

I just finished devouring the Richard Dawkin's book The God Delusion; I haven't read a book that quickly in a while.  It doesn't really give me any new reasons to be an Atheist (I alrea...
Posted by Iconoclast on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:06:00 PST

Current Events (or lack thereof)

I am officially on contract at my high school until June, teaching writing (my contracts have gone from semester to year).  I will also help put together the school play, again, despite the fact ...
Posted by Iconoclast on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:28:00 PST

Some strange thoughts

Studying for the single-subject GRE test.  Here's an excerpt from a poem by Marlowe; I like it. Tell zeal it wants devotion Tell love it is but lust Tell time it is but motion Tell flesh it is b...
Posted by Iconoclast on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:58:00 PST

The Latest

The latest in my life: A new tatoo on my forearm; consolation for failing the math section on the GRE test miserably (I take it again at the end of September)   Looking into new teaching jobs in ...
Posted by Iconoclast on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 05:14:00 PST

escapism

This is another period of slight disillusionment for me, a rut, especially with teaching.  I had to give a midterm exam to my writing students, and perhaps its my inexperience, perhaps ...
Posted by Iconoclast on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:48:00 PST

Las Vegas Trip

Las Vegas: Order of Events 1) The band arrives at club.   2) Even though I am covered with corpse paint, someone in the lounge attempts to sell me flowers. 3) After being informed by the ven...
Posted by Iconoclast on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 05:44:00 PST

Tattoo

I just got my tattoo done today!  fun. fun. fun.  I was telling people that I looked forward to the cathartic physical pain it would produce, especially after hours of  teaching Sa...
Posted by Iconoclast on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 07:04:00 PST

New term of high school...choices

I turn a whole quarter of a century old at the end of the week. I'm teaching a writing class at Santa Maria High.  Two of my classes are well-behaved students struggling to pass the exit exam, wh...
Posted by Iconoclast on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:24:00 PST

new years

I spent new year's at Sonora with my in-laws, which included Allison's mom, sister, and nephews.   It was green, peaceful and cold up there, and it rained constantly.  I broug...
Posted by Iconoclast on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:25:00 PST