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Marty a.k.a. cigarjunkie
| Main blog: | Dysnomia | | Birthday: | October 14th | | Gender: | Male | | Occupation: | Sales / Marketing | | Location: | Metro Detroit, USA | | Personality type: | Myers-Briggs INFP, which suggests that I am introverted, intuitive, feeling and perceiving. (Whatever.) |
| Height: | 5' 10" (178 cm) | | Eyes: | Blue Green | | Vision: | Glasses/Spectacles | | Hair Color: | Light Auburn | | Hair Style: | Straight - Short | | Facial Hair: | Goatee | | Skin Tone: | Fair | | Clothing Pref.: | Business - Casual | | Undies: | Briefs - Bikini | | Piercing Info: | Left ear. |
| Relationship Status: | Single - Divorced | | Family Info: | A daughter at the University of Michigan, and two high-school-aged sons who live with their mother | | Sexual Preference: | Straight/Heterosexual | | Astrological Sign: | Libra (Sept 23 - Oct 23) | | Smoking: | Cigars | | Liquor: | Gave it up | | Your Home: | Live alone | | Biography/About: | You don't want to know. | | Likes: | Recovery. | | Dislikes: | Addiction. | | Interests: | family activities, writing, reading, photography, theology, music, history, art, cigars, travel, driving on the Autobahn (yeah, baby!) | | Languages: | American English, High German, Koine Greek; some Japanese, Korean, Russian; and occasionally a smattering of British English (e.g., "Show us yeh tongues mates"), Canadian English (e.g., "Gimme a large double-double, eh, and like a whack of Timbits"), Bavarian German (e.g., "Des woas i ned"), Swabian German (e.g., "Mir gebet nix"); and just enough French to fake the hotel staff into thinking that I actually speak their language |
| Frequent traveler: | Sky Team (e.g., Northwest, KLM, Air France, Malev, et. al.); Star Alliance (e.g., Lufthansa, Air Canada, United, US Airways, British Midlands et. al.), British Airways, Ryan Air, Air Berlin, and of course -- Deutsche Bahn! |
| People/Heroes: | Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Martin Luther, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Jacques Louis David, J. S. Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, Arminius (Hermann), Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay | | Books: | There's simply not enough room to even begin to list them. I have nearly three thousand (not including softcover & bound periodicals) mostly in English and German, and not a one is fiction. | | Music Genres: | Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Swing / Big Band, Motown, Vintage Rock, Vintage Country Rock, Vintage Jazz, The Blues, perhaps some selected modern popular titles | | Bands/Artists: | Die Ärzte, Johann Sebastian Bach, Count Basie, The Beatles, Ludwig van Beethoven, Blondie, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, John Coltrane, Sheryl Crow, The Doors, Antonin Dvorak, Earth, Wind & Fire, Gloria Estefan, Maynard Ferguson, Georg Friedrich Handel, ink1, Joe Jackson, Jethro Tull, Stan Kenton, Kraftwerk, Diana Krall, k. d. lang, Michael McDonald, Gustav Mahler, Meat Loaf, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Xavier Naidoo, Roy Orbison, Pink Floyd, Michael Praetorius, Gioachino Rossini, Seal, Steppenwolf, Styx, Georg Philipp Telemann, Antonio Vivaldi, Richard Wagner, The Who, Kai Winding, ZZ Top | | Songs: | Nights in White Satin (The Moody Blues) | | TV Shows: | American Idol, Bauer sucht Frau, Mr Bean, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Bizarre Foods, The Bob Newhart Show, Cold Case Files, Comedy Central Presents, Deutschland Sucht den Superstar, Engineering an Empire, Everybody Loves Raymond, Family Guy, Forensic Files, Futureweapons, Galileo, Get Smart, House M.D., Keeping Up Appearances, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Naked Archaeologist, The Outer Limits, Police Squad, Reno 911, Seinfeld, Sledge Hammer, Star Trek TOS, Star Trek New Voyages, The Three Stooges, Twilight Zone, Wetten Dass?, What Not to Wear, Whose Line Is It Anyway? | | Movies: | 28 Days, 300, Mr Bean's Holiday, The Butterfly Effect, Casablanca, A Clockwork Orange, Contact, Crash, Femme Fatale, Hairspray, Johnny English, Lord of War, Master and Commander, Matchstick Men, Miss Congeniality, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Moulin Rouge, The Naked Gun trilogy, National Treasure, Only the Lonely, Pay It Forward, Phantom of the Opera, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Rear Window, Rent, The Ring, Rope, The Rose, The Secret, Sleepless in Seattle, Simon, the Alien movies, The Blues Brothers, the Dirty Harry movies, the even-numbered original-cast Star Trek movies, The Gods Must Be Crazy, the James Bond movies, The Matrix trilogy, The Passion of the Christ, What About Bob?, When Harry Met Sally | | Actors: | Sandra Bullock, Nicholas Cage | | Sports: | Frisbee | | Cars/Motorcyles: | BMW motorcycles, esp. up to the /7 series | | Season: | Stan Fields: "Miss Rhode Island, please describe your idea of a perfect date."
Cheryl, Miss Rhode Island: "That's a tough one. I would have to say April 25th, because it's not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket." (from Miss Congeniality) | | Food: | Sliders (but they don't like me) | | Drink: | Diet Dr. Pepper, Diet A&W Root Beer | | Quotes: | Love hurts. -- Roy Orbison |
Mea culpa
I must apologize publicly for thinking that somehow, since the two were hitting this blog at almost the same moment not just for a day but for a week straight, that Zoot was involved.
I was wrong. Zoot had absolutely nothing to do with this latest episode of flaming. In fact, it turns out that, contrary to all appearances, she had nothing to do with the previous flaming episode as well -- in fact, despite all those hits, she didn't even know it happened! So, for the record, and in the words of the real, sole flamer ...
Zoot "is innocent."
The real flamer had us all fooled. She's...
The "attention seeker" is off to a wine tasting ...
---edited---. At any rate, I've been invited to a wine tasting tonight, and I no longer will turn down opportunities to spend time with live human beings of the fairer sex who actually enjoy my company and would go out of their way to do so. So, doggone it, ---edited---, I am going. Have I got time for a shower?
For those who might desire to indulge in the time-honoured mystique of a wine-tasting, but haven't the opportunity to do so, I hereby give you Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie's take on the experience:
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Who wants to join me?
I can think of no more enticing vacation than a river / lake cruise through Europe where, while on board, the only language permitted to be spoken is Latin! Now THERE'S a cruise worth taking!!
Terentius Tunberg et Cælestis Eichenseer
One thing is for sure; if we were to go on this cruise, there is no doubt that haec olim meminisse iuvabit!
Why "Dysnomia?"
Lurker Kathe (weichei) writes, in part (and I translate):
. . . Why hast thou chosen the name Dysnomia? Art thou a criminal? Hast thou no regard for the law? This believe we not about thee. Hast thou perchance therefore the medical condition which prevents thee from remembering words? . . .(I just love translating German with its formality/informality totally intact ... <grin>)
First of all, I changed the name (several times) because two of my ex's had ganged up and were getting into needlessly nasty, extended arguments with nice, thoughtful people here, people who are true and...
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