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Thin and Wispy

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Agree

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None of the above

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Other

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These people aren't for real

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Few friends

About Me

I'd like to meet

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║ Barack Obama ● Tom Waits ● Howard Dean
║ Joe Trippi ● Rachel Maddow ● Jon Stewart
║
╟─────────────────── in another life ─
║
║ Stephan Jay Gould ● John Lennon
║ Albert Einstein ● Paul Newman
╚══════════════════════════════

Activities

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║ Reading ● Bike Riding ● Political Activism
║ Puzzles ● Cryptology ● Recreational Math
║ Computer Programming
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Interests

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║ Animal Behavior and Care ● Art, Photography
║ Recreational Mathematics ● History
║ Computer Animation
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Favorite Music

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║ Tom Waits ● John Lennon ● The Beatles
║ Elvis Costello ● Neil Young ● Leon Redbone
║ Sarah McLaughlin ● Alanis Morrisette
║ Peter Gabriel ● Talking Heads ● R.E.M.
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Favorite TV Shows

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║ Lost ● Northern Exposure ● Due South
║ Rockford Files ● Barney Miller
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Favorite Movies

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║ 2001: A Space Odyssey ● A Clockwork Orange
║ Down By Law (Tom Waits) ● Pulp Fiction
║ The Godfather Movies ● The Conversation
║ Fight Club ● Se7en ● Lawrence of Arabia
║ No Country for Old Men ● Fargo
║ O Brother, Where Art Thou
║ The Seven Samarai ● Yojimbo
║ Through a Glass Darkly ● Winter Light
║ The Silence ● The Seventh Seal
╟──────────────────────────────
║ countless others
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Favorite Books

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║ Dreams from My Father
║ The Audacity of Hope
║
╟─────────────────────› _{Barack Obama}
╟──────────────────────────────
║ Truman
║ John Adams
║ 1776
║ Mornings on Horseback
║ The Great Bridge
║
╟────────────────────› _{David McCullough}
╟──────────────────────────────
║ Guns, Germs and Steel
║ Collapse
║
╟─────────────────────› _{Jared Diamond}
╟──────────────────────────────
║ Arab and Jew
║ The Working Poor
║
╟─────────────────────› _{David K. Shipler}
╟──────────────────────────────
║ Mind of the Raven
║ Ravens in Winter
║
╟─────────────────────› _{Bernd Heinrich}
╟──────────────────────────────
║ Postwar
║ Reappraisals
║
╟────────────────────────› _{Tony Judt}
╟──────────────────────────────
║ The Rise of American Democracy
║
╟──────────────────────› _{Sean Wilentz}
╟──────────────────────────────
║ Tao Te Ching
║
╟─────────────────────────› _{Lao Tzu}
╟──────────────────────────────
║ The Puzzle Palace
║ Body of Secrets
║ A Pretext for War
║ The Shadow Factory
║
╟─────────────────────› _{James Bamford}
╟──────────────────────────────
║ Drawing of the Right Side of the Brain
║
╟──────────────────────› _{Betty Edwards}
╟──────────────────────────────
╟──────────────› _{Anything by Stephen Jay Gould}
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Favorite Quotes

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║ "It's like a Koala bear crapped a rainbow
║ in my brain"
║
║ https://www.youtube.com/watch...
║
╟─────────────────────› _{Captain Murphy}
╟──────────────────────────────
║ "I don't want to achieve immortality through
║ my work, I want to achieve it through not
║ dying"
║
║ "I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to
║ be there when it happens"
║
╟──────────────────────› _{Woody Allen}
╟──────────────────────────────
║ "Why do you have to be a nonconformist
║ like everybody else?"
║
║ "He who hesitates is sometimes saved"
║
╟─────────────────────› _{James Thurber}
╟──────────────────────────────
║ "The trouble with the world is that the
║ stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are
║ full of doubt"
║
║ "Democracy is the process by which people
║ choose the man who'll get the blame"
║
╟────────────────────› _{Bertrand Russell}
╟──────────────────────────────
║ "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts
║ people like me as members"
║
╟──────────────────────› _{Groucho Marx}
╟──────────────────────────────
║ “The great nations have always acted like
║ gangsters, and the small nations like
║ prostitutes.”
║
╟─────────────────────› _{Stanley Kubrick}
╟──────────────────────────────
║ "In questions of science, the authority of a
║ thousand is not worth the humble reasoning
║ of a single individual"
║
╟─────────────────────────› _Galileo
╟──────────────────────────────
║ "The world is a dangerous place, not
║ because of those who do evil, but because
║ of those who look on and do nothing"
║
╟─────────────────────› _{Albert Einstein}
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Favorite Heroes

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║ Albert Einstein ● John Lennon ● Barack Obama
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Keeping It Real 3 days ago

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Sissy 3 days ago

I went over to a thread you were on and found it taken down. It was "Hey Lefties".....it wasn't nasty, was it? lol

Have a great day.

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**StarzAbove** 7 days ago

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Juls 2013/05/13 15:14:10

Cheers!
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Keeping It Real 2013/05/13 14:16:32

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Juls 2013/05/09 12:04:35

Thanks--
Bubbles that appear to be bubbling up but upon close inspection... aren't. Haha!

Your profile page is awesome.
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Juls 2013/05/09 11:49:45

Always enjoy reading your posts! Have a great day!

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Sissy 2013/05/09 11:41:47

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Keeping It Real 2013/05/04 09:27:05

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**StarzAbove** 2013/05/02 20:51:47

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**StarzAbove** 2013/04/26 19:15:00

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Keeping It Real 2013/04/26 15:49:16

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Sissy 2013/04/26 10:38:01

I had to sit a minute and listen to your wonderful music, It is awesome and I don't remember ever hearing it before. Hate to admit it, but it makes me all "puddly"
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melly~thwarting Satan since... 2013/04/18 22:06:03

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remy 2013/04/17 01:13:03

My sweet friend, I like you so much; I love your personality and your beautiful spirit. ♥ I think once in a while it is good to hear or read that you are a fantastic person who makes a real difference in this world.You are important to people you love and care for, though maybe not always aware that you are so very dear to many others and appreciated... Please, paste this message on the wall of nine women or men who you consider fantastic! Hugs & kisses to you & I hope you get a lot back! You should send this message to nine friends, including me, (if you think I deserve it & if not you still deserve it) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Have a Blessed Day
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Sissy 2013/04/17 01:00:32

My sweet friend, I like you so much; I love your personality and your beautiful spirit. ♥ I think once in a while it is good to hear or read that you are a fantastic person who makes a real difference in this world.You are important to people you love and care for, though maybe not always aware that you are so very dear to many others and appreciated... Please, paste this message on the wall of nine women or men who you consider fantastic! Hugs & kisses to you & I hope you get a lot back! You should send this message to nine friends, including me, (if you think I deserve it & if not you still deserve it) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Have a Blessed Day

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C. C. Rider 2013/04/16 14:29:41

yabba dabba do

My sweet friend, I like you so much; I love your personality and your beautiful spirit. ♥ I think once in a while it is good to hear or read that you are a fantastic person who makes a real difference in this world.You are important to people you love and care for, though maybe not always aware that you are so very dear to many others and appreciated... Please, paste this message on the wall of nine women or men who you consider fantastic! Hugs & kisses to you & I hope you get a lot back! You should send this message to nine friends, including me, (if you think I deserve it & if not you still deserve it) ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Have a Blessed Day
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Keeping It Real 2013/04/12 23:31:19

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BlunderWoman ~ FTGOP~ BN 0 2013/04/09 01:03:59

As always, the raves were well deserved!
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**StarzAbove** 2013/04/06 00:14:50

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