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Tie Dye Ron

TIE-DYE RON

About Me

I am a large hippie

My Interests

I make tie dyes, jewelery, computers, digital art, stained leaded glass, and found object art. I am a scrabble fanatic, absolutly obsessed, and can be found most of the time on the Internet Scrabble Club ( http://www.isc.ro ). I also enjoy swimming any chance I get and fishing although I have these flashes where I connect with the fish and I feel his pain. Lucky for me I dont catch that many and I allways turn them loose.

I'd like to meet:

10,000 wonderful hippies, traveling to Hot Springs to dig crystals before the Rainbow gathering

Music:

I followed the Grateful Dead for several years so I love the Dead and especially love Jerry and all his music. Following the Dead also exposed me to lots of other music as did working in the music clubs in Austin, Texas years ago. I like jam bands, reggae, folk, funk, African, Latino, bluegrass, whatever. Some of my favorite bands and musicians are Jack Johnson, String Cheese Incident, Leftover Salmon, Tracy Chapman, John Hopper, Ben Harper, Jason Mraz, Wookiefoot, Bob Marley, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (together), gee there are so many. I don't listen to much rap, heavy metal, or country. MySpace Codes tiedyeron

Television:

Stargate, Stargate Atlantis, CSI, Battlestar Galactaca, Discovery channel, HBO, and I always watch CNN in the morning for an hour. (as background noise while I play Scrabble)

Books:

The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino, Illusions by Richard Bach, Be Here Now, Catch A Fire (about Bob Marley), Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Heroes:

Bob Marley, Ghandi, Bill Clinton was cool, and I loved what I read about Saddam Husain before they demonized him and the CIA removed all the favorable stuff from their website. Just before we decided to paint him as Satan they had all this cool stuff about how he brought about sexual equality, ran out all the religeous wingnuts, built schools, made it mandatory for kids to go to school, created a wonderful infristructure, the best doctors and hospitals anywhere in the hemisphere, welcomed cultrual and religeous diversity and was working hard on poverty. Weird how they describe him now. He is not my hero but I mention him here because he did do a lot of cool stuff before he was made into our evil arch enemy. I would trade George Bush for him in a heart beat. Naom Chomsky is great and Barrak Obama would make a dandy president.

My Blog

Our House is a very very very fine house

with two cats in the yard and a bunch more knocking shit off of my desk and forrageing for food in the kitchen trash.. I love it.
Posted by Tie Dye Ron on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:02:00 PST

Wooooooohooooooooooo I am a home owner!

Well although today started out scarry, it all came together this afternoon and I am now a genuine, happy hippie homeowner. I wanna roll a big spliff and pour some champaigne but instead I am smoking ...
Posted by Tie Dye Ron on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:33:00 PST

awww shit

Well I woke up to a bomb being dropped and I am now sitting in a big ass hole in the ground where it hit. The VA or the bank have managed to misplace a large check that was supposed to be deposited th...
Posted by Tie Dye Ron on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:26:00 PST

holee quacamolee today is the day

Well months of anxous nail biting and stress are about to come to a head today. In 12 hours we close on the house. My partner went to the bank today to make sure we had enough in there for the downpay...
Posted by Tie Dye Ron on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:11:00 PST

Lucky 13 Friday

Monday marked 6 weeks tobacco free so I celebrated by getting a pack of American Spirit Cigarettes. After 6 weeks I determined that quiting was not only gonna kill me just as fast, it was gonna cost a...
Posted by Tie Dye Ron on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:35:00 PST

No Smoke

I havent had a cigarette in 2 weeks now and last night someone smoked a cigarette in front of me and I didn't even notice it till he started looking for a place to put it out. Woohoo. My friends are ...
Posted by Tie Dye Ron on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:01:00 PST

another loss to the dark side

I think I have lost another good friend to the dark side. She has stopped staying here and she is hanging with folks who are allways on the shit. She say "they are like family to me" and "I feel safe ...
Posted by Tie Dye Ron on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:37:00 PST

4 days no tobacco and I am covered in patches

I have been sick this week. It may be a blessing in disguise as I have quit smoking. Everyone ask "you not gonna quit smoking weed, are you?" Well I am sure I will still smoke pot, but for right now n...
Posted by Tie Dye Ron on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:04:00 PST

another freeky weeky weekend

Thank goodness Monday has rolled around. My house is still buldgeing at the seams with humans and critters, but at least my room itself has thinned out some. I love everyone of my friends and I have s...
Posted by Tie Dye Ron on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:54:00 PST

Slow down universe! You are spinning too fast.

Well, I am ready for nuthing to do. I can allways get something done when there is nothing to do. While it is great I am loved and I do love my friends dearly, I am absolutly worthless when things are...
Posted by Tie Dye Ron on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:50:00 PST