Blake
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Law Enforcement or Security |
| Occupation | Security Officer |
| Location | Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada |
| Introduction | I'm a twentysomething Canadian (and damn proud of it, too!) who's still trying to figure out his desired career path. Living in a small town just outside of Ottawa (Canada's capital, for those of you who don't know that already). Cohabitating there with my dear mother (go ahead, make your jokes ;-) until I start making enough money to securely move out. Recent university grad (Bachelor of Arts - With Distinction - History, Minor in Political Science - Carleton University - Class of 2003) and aspiring casual intellectual. Unapologetic user of "big words" and other esoteric jargon. Occasional cynic and purveyor of dry wit. Renowned for my near-encyclopedic knowledge of obscure facts and trivia, as well as of Simpsons, Family Guy and Futurama references. Non-practicing Christian (nominally United - The United Church of Canada, that is) with a generally inclusive, pluralistic, relativistic, deist outlook. Chronically overweight, with the accompanying self-esteem/self-conscious and body image issues. And, oh yeah, compulsive and frequent user of brackets, the semicolon, the hyphen and other sentence-lengthening grammatical devices... :-) |
| Interests | history, politics, current events, international affairs, diplomacy, television, Internet, trivia |
| Favorite movies | The Shawshank Redemption, The Matrix trilogy, the Star Trek movies, Star Wars (all), Glory, Das Boot, Saving Private Ryan, Enemy At The Gates, Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Battle of Britain, The Great Escape, The Gathering Storm, Schindler's List, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc., The Incredibles, Dogma, the Blade trilogy, Porky's, The Hunt for Red October, Crimson Tide, Ghosts of Mississippi, Tea With Mussolini, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, K-19 The Widowmaker, 1984 |
| Favorite music | techno, industrial, classical, classic rock, alternative |
| Favorite books | 1984 (George Orwell), Animal Farm (George Orwell), Burmese Days (George Orwell), Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), The Stranger (Albert Camus), The Plague (Albert Camus), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William L. Shirer), King Leopold's Ghost (Adam Hochschild), anything by Harry Turtledove |
The children are waiting! Please tell them the story about the bald frog with the wig:
Once upon a time, a frog went bald. So he decided to wear a wig. Everybody lived happily ever after. THE END