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<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="105" bgcolor="#111111" text="#F7F7FF"> <div><img src="143a55400.jpg" border="0" width="85" height="64" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0"></div><br> <div><img src="126639310.gif" border="0" width="57" height="49" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0"></div><br> <br> </td> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#080000" background="079cb9a3.jpg"> <div> <b>Too Much Information</b> </div> <div></div> <div> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.2" src="stm31.js"></script> </div> <div> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.2">  </script> </div> <div></div><br> <div> <i><b><img src="13a695ea0.jpg" border="0" width="149" height="234" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0"></b></i> </div> <div> <i>Wenn das kind was das kind..</i> </div><br> <br> <div> <i><b>The Origin of "The Writing Buddha"</b></i> </div><br> <div> No, I'm not a Buddhist.  There's no place in Satan's kingdom for Zen. Joke.  It's taken from... </div><br> <div> <b>"The Brooklyn Bridge Blues"</b> (an excerpt) </div><br> <div> I'm too sick and tired </div> <div> of this world to drink in it </div> <div> --- if lustful <b></b>gluttony </div> <div> is my only blemishing sin </div> <div> maybe I oughta just </div> <div> <u>starve to death</u> </div> <div> --- I am <b>the</b> </div> <div> <b><u>Writing Buddha</u></b> <b></b>--- </div> <div> From these Blues we'll </div> <div> go to H Y M N S </div><br> <div> <a href="/music/Kerouac.wma" target="_top" title="https://thewritingbuddha.com/music/Ke"><u><b>Jack Kerouac</b></u></a> </div><br> <br> <br> <div> <b><img src="fee946f0.gif" border="0" width="148" height="111" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0"></b> </div> <div>  <a name="wonderful_life" id="wonderful_life"><img border="0" src="1x1.gif" height="1" align="bottom" width="1" hspace="0" vspace="0"></a> </div> <div> <p align="justify">I was born in a little shack just outside Bedford Falls. My parents were honest, hard working circus clowns. Cotton candy and Jack Daniels were all we had back then, so Ma and Pa did their best to raise a gifted child when they weren't "mixin' it up" in prison. I remember nights when Pappy would sit with me out on the porch. He'd stare for hours up into the midnight sky. "Make Believe Bastard Child", he'd say. "Make Believe Bastard Child, someday this big, wide world will all be yours". I can still feel the lump in my throat, the tears in my eyes. "Try not to fuck it up".</p> </div> <div> <p align="justify">I graduated from high school early; I was only 26 yrs old. I was the first member of my family to ever sit through all 12yrs of High School, let alone graduate. That was some party we threw that day! Ma and Pa took care of everything - spoons and needles for everyone! All 323 of my adopted Nigerian brothers and sisters were on hand. You'll forgive me if I get emotional. It was a little cramped in the trailer. Still, you can't contain love like that.</p> </div> <div> <p align="justify">I had scholarship offers from all the big schools: Southwest Louisiana State Junior College, Northwestern Maine Eye Institute, Harvard University and Cambridge School of Beauty Therapy (long story). Thing was, I had no time for college. The world was my crack pipe and I had to take my puff. I said goodbye to the folks. It was difficult, what with having to wait for visiting hours and Pappy not believing I was his boy, but we cried and cried.</p> </div> <div> <p align="justify">So... I may not have won that elusive anchor spot on the History Channel or developed a vaccine for the plague (well, you know.. the next one), but I'm confident that I have what it takes to succeed in life. In fact, Ma always said.. "Life is like a box of stale, used chocolates - yeah, you usually get screwed out of the damn cherry, but not always. Now go pour Mama a drink ". Uh, uh huh.</p> </div> <div> <hr align="center" size="2"> </div><br> <div> <i><b>Do-Re-Mi</b></i> </div><br> <div> Well, children.. let's see if I can make it easier.  A few of my favorite things.. </div><br> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800009900.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Films</b></i> .. <font size="2" color="#000000" face="Bodoni"> Cinema Paradiso, It's a Wonderful Life, Field of Dreams, Serendipity</font> </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Shows I Watch</b></i> .. Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Sopranos, The OC, Carnivale </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800009900.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Shows of the Past</b></i> <font size="2" color="#000000" face="Bodoni">.. Twlight Zone, Northern Exposure, Honeymooners, Fawlty Towers, The Prisoner</font> </div> <div> <font size="2" color="#111111" face="Bodoni"><i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c811111100.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Play</b></i></font> <i><b></b></i>.. All these years later, it's still...  Thornton Wilder's <a href="http://www.broadcast.com/broadband/listenpages/ou/401/" target="_top" title="http://www.broadcast.com/broadband/liste"><u>Our Town</u></a> </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800009900.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Poets</b></i> <font size="2" color="#000000" face="Bodoni">.. Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Anne Sexton, Charles Bukowski</font> </div> <div> <font size="2" color="#111111" face="Bodoni"><i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c811111100.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Poem</b></i></font> <i><b></b></i>.. Rimbaud's "A Season in Hell" </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800009900.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Authors</b></i> <font size="2" color="#000000" face="Bodoni">.. Roald Dahl, Toni Morrison and John Irving</font> </div> <div> <font size="2" color="#111111" face="Bodoni"><i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c811111100.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Novels</b></i></font> .. <u></u><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451527704/qid=1028231166/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-1263378-3967968" target="_top" title="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0"><u><u>An American Tragedy</u></u></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451527704/qid=1028231166/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-1263378-3967968" target="_top" title="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0"><u>,</u></a> <u></u><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060931418/qid=1028230999/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-1263378-3967968" target="_top" title="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0"><u><u>Their Eyes Were Watching God</u></u></a>, <u></u><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679723161/qid=1028231067/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-1263378-3967968" target="_top" title="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0"><u><u>Lolita</u></u></a> </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800009900.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Artists</b></i> <font size="2" color="#000000" face="Bodoni">.. Mark Rothko, Howard Hodgkin, Jackson Pollock</font> </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c811111100.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Art Genre</b></i> <font size="2" color="#000000" face="Bodoni">.. Abstract Expressionism</font> </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800009900.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Musicians</b></i> <font size="2" color="#000000" face="Bodoni">.. Amon Tobin, Beck, Modest Mouse, Yo La Tengo, Belle & Sebastian, Beth Orton</font> </div> <div> <font size="2" color="#111111" face="Bodoni"><i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c811111100.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Music Genre</b></i></font> .. <a href="/music/Traffic.wma" target="_top" title="https://thewritingbuddha.com/music/Tr"><u><b>Trance</b></u></a><a href="/music/Traffic.wma" target="_top" title="https://thewritingbuddha.com/music/Tr"><u>,</u></a> <b></b><a href="/music/oldjazz.wma" target="_top" title="https://thewritingbuddha.com/music/ol"><u><b>Jazz</b></u></a><b>,</b> <b></b><a href="/music/altrock.wma" target="_top" title="https://thewritingbuddha.com/music/al"><u><b>Alt. Rock</b></u></a><b>,</b> <a href="/music/brazil.wma" target="_top" title="https://thewritingbuddha.com/music/br"><u><b>Brazilian</b></u></a><b>,</b> <a href="/music/Frazier.wma" target="_top" title="https://thewritingbuddha.com/music/Fr"><u><b>70's Roots Reggae</b></u></a><b>,</b> <a href="/music/hiphop.wma" target="_top" title="https://thewritingbuddha.com/music/hi"><u><b>Hip Hop</b></u></a><b>,</b> <a href="/music/hindi.wma" target="_top" title="https://thewritingbuddha.com/music/hi"><u><b>Hindi</b></u></a> </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800009900.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Places</b></i> <font size="2" color="#FFCC66" face="Bodoni"></font><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Bodoni">.. New England, Carmel/Big Sur, Mendocino, Block Island</font> </div> <div> <font size="2" color="#111111" face="Bodoni"><i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c811111100.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">View</b></i></font> .. from <b></b><a href="http://www.nepenthebigsur.com/" target="_top" title="http://www.nepenthebigsur.com/"><u>Nepenthe</u></a> <b></b>- a restaurant in Big Sur (800ft above the crashing surf) </div> <div> <font size="2" color="#990000" face="Bodoni"><i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800009900.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Restaurants</b></i></font> .. </div><br> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Best Mexican</b></i> <i>..</i> <font size="2" color="#990000" face="Bodoni"><i>La Superica</i></font><i>, Santa Barbara (deliciously inexpensive gourmet tacos)</i> </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Best Cajun</b></i> <i>..</i> <font size="2" color="#990000" face="Bodoni"><i>Heaven on Seven</i></font><i>, Chicago (God I miss this place)</i> </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Best Italian</b></i> <i>..</i> <font size="2" color="#990000" face="Bodoni"><i>Rosebud on Rush</i></font><i>, Chicago (Great food; great date place)</i> </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Best Chinese</b></i> <i>..</i> <font size="2" color="#CC3366" face="Bodoni"><i></i></font><font size="2" color="#990000" face="Bodoni"><i>Chinez</i></font><i>, Irvine,</i> <font size="2" color="#990000" face="Bodoni"><i>Dave Wong's</i></font> <i>(Stockton),</i> <font size="2" color="#990000" face="Bodoni"><i>Zen</i></font> <i>(Bangalore, India)</i> </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Best Brats</b></i> <i>..</i> <font size="2" color="#FF0000" face="Bodoni"><i></i></font><font size="2" color="#990000" face="Bodoni"><i>Jody Maroni's</i></font><i>, Irvine (best grilled brats I've ever tasted)</i> </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Best Steak</b></i> <i>..</i> <font size="2" color="#990000" face="Bodoni"><i>The Flame</i></font><i>, Chicago (their Peppercorn Steak is unreal)</i> </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Best Ribs ..</b></i> <font size="2" color="#990000" face="Bodoni"><i>Wingnuts</i></font><i>, Costa Mesa (delicious babyback's drenched in a whisky bbq sauce)</i> </div> <div> <font size="2" color="#000000" face="Bodoni"><i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Best Pizza</b></i> <i>..</i></font> <i>Lou Malnati's</i> <i></i> <font size="2" color="#000000" face="Bodoni"><i>(Chicago),</i></font> <i>Ledo's</i> <i></i><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Bodoni"><i>(Chicago) and</i></font> <i>Sally's</i> <font size="2" color="#000000" face="Bodoni"><i>(New Haven, CT)</i></font> </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Best Burger</b></i> <i>..</i> <font size="2" color="#990000" face="Bodoni"><i>Portillo's</i></font><font size="2" color="#111111" face="Bodoni"><i>, Chicago,</i></font> <font size="2" color="#990000" face="Bodoni"><i>Tom's Place</i></font><font size="2" color="#111111" face="Bodoni"><i>, Anaheim</i></font> </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c811111100.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Best Tacos</b></i> <i>..</i> <font size="2" color="#990000" face="Bodoni"><i>Wahoo's Fish Tacos</i></font><i>,</i> <font size="2" color="#990000" face="Bodoni"><i>Chipotle Grill</i></font> <font size="2" color="#000000" face="Bodoni"><i></i></font> </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c811111100.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Best Hot Dog</b></i> <i>..  </i><font size="2" color="#990000" face="Bodoni"><i>Gold Coast Dogs</i></font><i>, Chicago</i> </div><br> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c833009900.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Bars</b></i> <font size="2" color="#000000" face="Bodoni">.. Nick's (Block Island), Iggy's (Chicago), Splashes (Laguna Beach)</font> </div> <div> <font size="2" color="#111111" face="Bodoni"><i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c811111100.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Inspirational Source</b></i></font> .. Emerson's essay on <a href="http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm" target="_top" title="http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfrelian"><u><b>Self Reliance</b></u></a> </div> <div> <font size="2" color="#990000" face="Bodoni"><i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800009900.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Cologne</b></i></font> <b></b>.. Issey Miyake </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c811111100.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Waste of Time</b></i> ..  XBox </div> <div> <font size="2" color="#990000" face="Bodoni"><i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800009900.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Vacation Memory</b></i></font> .. Staying at <a href="http://www.thebreakers.com/" target="_top" title="http://www.thebreakers.com/"><u><b>The Breakers</b></u></a> <b></b>in Palm Beach as a kid.. </div> <div> <font size="2" color="#111111" face="Bodoni"><i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c811111100.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Childhood Cartoon</b></i></font> .. <b></b><a href="http://www.speedracer.com/" target="_top" title="http://www.speedracer.com/"><u><b>Speed Racer</b></u></a>.  Damn I wanted the Mach 5.  Still do.. </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800009900.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Smells</b></i> <font size="2" color="#FF0000" face="Bodoni"><i><b> </b></i></font><font size="2" color="#111111" face="Bodoni">.. Tobacco shops, coconut/cocoa butter, hazelnut coffee, a roast on a Sunday</font> </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c811111100.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Quote</b></i> .. "I'm not an enigma.  I'm a contradiction" - from <b>"</b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005NYFS/qid=1055830893/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-0470621-1186454?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846" target="_top" title="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/det"><u><b>Croupier</b></u></a><b>"</b> </div> <div> <font size="2" color="#990000" face="Bodoni"><i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800009900.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">"This is What I Want from a Girl" Song</b></i></font> .. <a href="/music/Somebody.wma" target="_top" title="https://thewritingbuddha.com/music/So"><u><b>"Somebody"</b></u></a>, Depeche Mode </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c811111100.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Living Gods</b></i> .. <a href="id74.htm" target="_top" title="Witnesses"><u><b>Bruce Springsteen</b></u></a> and Tom Waits </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800009900.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Foreign Langauge to Hear Spoken During Sex</b></i> <font size="2" color="#111111" face="Bodoni">..  Spanish, of course ("Aye, Papi")</font> </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c811111100.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Grocery Store</b></i> .. Gelson's </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800009900.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Furniture</b></i> <font size="2" color="#111111" face="Bodoni">.. Room & Board, Crate & Barrel</font> </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c811111100.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Sites</b></i> .. <a href="http://www.digitallyimported.com" target="_blank" title="http://www.digitallyimported.com"><u><b>Digitally Imported</b></u></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25s" target="_blank" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25s"><u><b>Wikpedia</b></u></a>, <a href="http://www.espn.com" target="_blank" title="http://www.espn.com"><u><b>ESPN</b></u></a>, <a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com" target="_blank" title="http://www.rottentomatoes.com"><u><b>Rotten Tomatoes</b></u></a>, <a href="http://www.trance.nu" target="_blank" title="http://www.trance.nu"><u><b>Trance.nu</b></u></a> </div> <div> <font size="2" color="#990000" face="Bodoni"><i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800009900.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Cheese</b></i></font> <i></i>.. Blue Castello, Sharp Cheddar, Pepper Jack </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c811111100.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Fabric</b></i> .. Egyptian Cotton </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c800009900.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Season</b></i> <font size="2" color="#111111" face="Bodoni">.. Fall (if I'm in New England), Summer (if California), Winter (if Florida)</font> </div> <div> <i><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700c811111100.png" height="13" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Email Utility</b></i> .. <a href="http://gmail.google.com" target="_blank" title="http://gmail.google.com"><u><b>Gmail</b></u></a> (Google's approach to e-mail) </div><br> </td> </tr> </table> </body>