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Name: Eric
Country: United States
State: Ohio
Metro: Cleveland
Birthday: 9/14/1963
Gender: Male
Interests: Rollercoasters ; theater ; travel ; Disneyland/Disneyworld ; songwriting ; movies ; Ugly Betty ; Men In Trees ; Desperate Housewives ; Brothers & Sisters ; Amazing Race ; One LifeTo Live ; Lost ; Will & Grace ; Dead Like Me ; Wonderfalls ; Annie Lennox ; Linda Eder ; Anastacia ; Manhattan Transfer ; HEROES!!
Tuc Watkins!
Hugh Jackman!
Jason Statham!
Josh Turner!
Emma Kennedy and Suburban Shootout!!
Watching Britney implode!! YAY!!
Expertise: DEBATING RIGHT-WINGERS, ULTRA-CONSERVATIVES AND BIBLE-THUMPERS!!
Occupation: Computer related
Industry: Business
Message: message me
Member Since:
10/2/2004
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Please visit my Facebook page as well!
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Please visit my friend Adrea's webpage! Peruse her catalog! Buy something!
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Also visit my cousin Suzie's page - buy something - cool accessories made from "reclaimed" materials!
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My sister and her husband do a lot of painting in their spare time. Here is a link to photographer's page where she has posted some of my brother-in-law's paintings, available as prints:
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PLEASE CLICK HERE TO PROVIDE FOOD FOR ANIMALS IN SHELTERS! YOU CAN CLICK ONCE PER DAY!
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Following are my friend Nikki Hornsby's various pages. She was my landlady when I last lived in California. She is a fairly well known country singer and member of the Academy of Country Music. She's had #1 hits in Europe! Her music is country gospel style. First is her link page:
Next is Nikki's MySpace page. You can listen to her music here:
And finally, here's her Cafepress page where you can buy related Nikki merchandise!
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This is actress and author Emma Kennedy.
Following is the link to her website. She is a British actress whose website I discovered accidentally and she is very good about keeping in touch with her fans and keeping them up to date. She is also a writer and her blog entries are very funny!
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This is the website for the UK TV Show "Suburban Shootout", which is where I discovered Emma. Great show! But the site hasn't been updated since Series 2 was released. There has not been a Series 3.
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Pink Martini is a wonderful orchestra/big band. They are a bit hard to describe, so please visit their site and discover them like I did!
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One of my all time favorite TV shows. Only 4 episodes aired of the 13 episodes made. The whole series is available on DVD and definitely worth the rental or purchase!
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My new car!! She's mine now!! She looks just like the one in the stock photo below - gold with roof rails and sunroof! Click on the photo to see the models available. I got the LT2 with all the options I've ever wanted in a car - factory-ordered brand new - and I got her for $1,800 below invoice!!
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This is my favorite real estate company. They specialize in unique home and condo conversions, with things like churches, fire stations, and old warehouses that have been converted into homes:
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| Off to Lebowski-Fest!!See you in about 4 or 5 days, Dudes!
The Dude Abides!
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| Air conditioning in my bedroom = HeavenI finally have an air conditioner in my bedroom! Little itty bitty thing, but it only cost $99, uses 5,000 BTU and cooled my bedroom down fast. I get the last 3-4 hours of sunlight pounding into my bedroom and that little thing had it cooled down enough to have the windows open when I went to sleep. Otherwise, doesn't matter how much it cools down at night, my bedroom stays hot when the last several hours of heat hit it. Thank you Mike for doing a great job installing it!
Rented two movies last night that both came out on DVD yesterday, "Knowing" and "Push." "Knowing" - great idea that dissolved into stupidity at the end. I liked the premise, but it would have worked MUCH better if they hadn't tried to explain where they came up with the numbers and then skipped the stupid ending altogether. Would have been much more interesting to just have him figure out the numbers and then try to do things to stop it. Just... the last 30 minutes really did not work for me. However, the two disaster scenes before really sent chills through me. I cannot believe that movie is only rated PG-13. Should have been an R because I don't think kids 13-16 should be watching such horrific scenes.
"Push" was a much better movie, albeit at times confusing. There are people with some special powers. A little bit like X-Men, except that there are maybe 5-6 different special powers and there are quite a few people who have each of these various powers - but only one power each. If you're telekinetic, that's your only power. If you can see the future, that's your only power. The reason it got confusing is that the people who have these powers, or know about them, have weird nicknames for each of them. A pusher is someone who can push thoughts into your brain and make you think they're true. A watcher is a person who sees the future. And all of these nicknames got a little confusing at times and took a bit to understand, but it was a very cool movie. Dakota Fanning rocks. This kid is one of the most amazing actresses and to see her "all grown up" at about age 14 in this movie, she is just as good as ever. Good action flick.
One more day of work and then LEBOWSKI-FEST!!
Leave rather early tomorrow (Thursday) morning and won't be back until late Sunday night. Then have to jump right into the last two weeks of "Grease". Considering that night before last I had my first rehearsal in two weeks, not bad. I still have a few lyrics to straighten out, but I've already got my lines memorized and I don't have any choreography, just move here and there and that's about it. I'm just worried that I don't really have time to really nail down my lyrics between now and my next rehearsal on Monday night. Although I do have rehearsal tonight, so let's see how well I retained things!
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| 4th of July 2009Spent ALL day at the Whiskey Island Marina for Independence Day. Met up with Louie and Brian at Edgewater Park at 9am, moved things from their car to mine, then headed into the Marina with our parking pass. Met up with John, who owns a sailboat in the marina, Kevin and Al. Then Kevin surprised us with Amy and Brenda showing up to go out for the sail with us. Went out early for a couple hours on Lake Erie, then back to the marina for lunch, crazy people everywhere, band playing, napped, got a migraine (just perfect addition to a nice day) took my prescription meds twice before it finally went away, then dinner and watching the main Cleveland fireworks from the sailboat sitting in the marina for a much closer view.
As usual - click on any of these pics to see the largest version of the photo available!
Amy and Brenda as we leave the harbor downtown
Kevin and Brenda
Kevin and Brenda with the breakwater and lighthouse in the distance
Kevin, Brenda and Amy looking like this is an album cover
Downtown Cleveland in the morning light - it was a perfect day weather-wise!
Brian (Coletta took a lot of the following pictures)
Al "Bananas"
Me, wearing Al's sunglasses upside-down... because I'm so "whacky" like that.
Random hotness who happened to be in the background of a picture and so I just had to throw him in here
John
Readying the grill - sans lighter fluid!
Louie liked this little kid, so she got a couple pictures of him
An amazing sunset over Lake Erie
The sun broke through and the rays shot out in many directions - referred to by meteorologists as Crepuscular Rays
I switched the camera over to "movie" mode and got this shot of the horizon at sunset:
We went out onto John's sailboat moored in the marina for the best view of the fireworks. Coletta took all the fireworks shots
I love the delayed "night vision" for some really cool artsy shots!
I'd say, except for the migraine (and some drunken 20-something-year-old idiots on the dock next to John's boat) a very good day!
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| Caught in the monsoonWent to see Diana Krall live last night. I took the new "Health Line" special bus from work over to Playhouse Square, had dinner, then the concert. Great show! I had never seen her live. It's just her and three guys. She's on the piano, then she's got a guitar player, stand-up bass player and a drummer. Very jazzy. And unbelievable players all of them! Just incredible jazz licks and improv. She does all old standards and jazzes them up. Nat King Cole, Rosemary Clooney, Sergio Mendes, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin - just a great concert. It was done around 9:45, but I did not get home until midnight, which is why I'm dead tired now. People take forever to get out of the theatre at Playhouse Square, so I just sat in my seat. I missed the 10pm Health Line, waited for the 10:15pm. I still had to get back to work because I'd left my backpack there. It started to rain while waiting, then it turned to an all out monsoon, like someone had turned over a giant bucket in heaven. A "frogstrangler", as a former boss of mine who was from the South, would have called it. The problem was that normally, the Health Line loops all around Public Square and lets you out right in front of Tower City, which would have been perfect for me. But because the Cleveland Orchestra does this huge live free concert for Independence Day (I believe the concert is on July 2nd this year), they have a giant stage they're building in front of Tower City and the bus had to let us out a good two blocks away. The bus stops are covered, but I tried to wait it out. No such luck - it is non-stop pouring. Finally I made a run for it, trying to dodge under roof overhangs, but no such luck. Soaked to the skin. Walked through Tower City and to work, up to the 11th floor to get my backpack and I can see all the lights are on at Jacobs Field, so the game probably got rained out. Either that, or people are still waiting to see whether the game was going to be called due to the rain. But I figured that meant there'd be extra trains running because of the game. Got down to the Rapid Station at 10:31. My train left at 10:30. And no - no extra train because of the game, so the next train wasn't until 11pm. At least it was all indoors from Tower City to work and down to the trains, so I wasn't back out in the rain. Got home just before midnight. Into bed at 12:30am and up again at 5:30am.
I am one tired puppy.
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