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Bennie's Thoughts and Ramblings
In search of truth, and some pointy boots, and maybe a few snack crackers.
Created on 2002-10-03 16:37:48 (#727517), last updated 2009-02-09
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Basic Info| Name: | Bennie S. |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1967-06-25 |
| Location: | Richmond, Virginia, United States |
Bio“I will not at play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.” -- Shel Silverstein (with special thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
eight_cow_woman)
Short, official: 40, father of two wonderful small children and three cats. Currently working as a senior quality analyst and do side writing jobs about the collectable card game, Magic the Gathering. M dream is to be a screenwriter, and have been slowly, too slowly, working towards that goal in all my "spare" time.
Long, free-flowing:
I love movies, with or without company. In fact going alone is a guilty pleasure as I subsume myself in the celluloid reality, a spirit observer watching through the camera lens. I'm thrilled when a film makes me forget myself, and that's a power I hope to harness myself one day.
I love how having children redefines your universe, how it sets your place in the timestream of humanity. I marvel seeing bits of me and their mom manifest in them, alongside their own surprising uniqueness. Watching them experience things for the very first time is truly candy for the soul. Children are love letters to the future.
I love the smokey taste of bourbon swirling in my mouth, the alchohol bite softened by ginger ale. I love the aromas of vanilla and jasmine, evoking warm memories of scented baths and skin pressed to skin. I love fresh ground pepper and garlic. I love the Byrdsian rolling guitars and blurred vocals of old REM songs. I love the soft kiss of a woman's lips and the gentle tongueplay that sends electric shocks down my spine. I love searing kisses that make my scalp tingle and my hair stand on end. I love to feel the warm, soft, round curves of a woman's body beneath my hands. I love the thrill of working with your partner to win a hard-fought game of Spades. I love when someone is moved by something I wrote enough to tell me about it. I loved listening to Stone Roses and Mazzy Star while deeply buzzing on marijuana. I love the warm comfort of a heated house when you come in out of wet, freezing weather. I love it when I put on my jacket for the first time of the season and find a ten dollar bill in the pocket. I love the discoveries of making love to someone for the very first time. I love the buzzy vocals and marching sound of Squeeze's "Take Me I'm Yours." I love the stylized dialog of the Cohen Brother's Miller's Crossing. I get goofy grins when I see someone transformed on "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." I wish the characters of the President and staff from The West Wing were really our President and staff. I love toffee and mint candy. I love to ponder what Bill Murray said to Scarlett Johansson at the end of Lost in Translation.
Two books that dramatically changed the way I viewed my world were Generations : The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 by Neil Howe & William Strauss, and A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn. I once made a woman come just by kissing and massaging her toes and feet. Out In the Country by Three Dog Night evokes nostalgia so strong it brings me to tears and I have not idea why. I don't shortchange God's abilities by thinking evolution and creationism are mutually exclusive. I dig the quiet quirkiness of the film The Accidental Tourist. I appreciate the frank straightforwardness of deaf girls when it comes to dating, dancing and lovemaking. I'm still in awe by Mary Doria Russell's writing prowess in her first novel The Sparrow and her subsequent books. God Bless Spongebob Squarepants and Fairly Odd Parents on Nick at the end of a long day at work. I tend to side with women when they bitch about men. I used to mosh to Fishbone and Red Hot Chili Peppers in collegetown dives. I dream about one day owning a fabulous row house in the Fan District of Richmond, with hardwood floors, high ceilings, and a round room. Old lovers frequently cross my mind and I hope they're doing well, wonderful women all of them.
My Motto?
LOVE DEEPLY
BE KIND
DO GOOD
Bennie's LJ Greatest Hits - Life, Movies, & Politics
"We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason. If we dig deep into our history and our doctrine, we will remember we are not descended from fearful men. Not from men who dared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were for the moment unpopular." -- Edward R. Murrow
"If I ask you how you are, it's not rhetorical. And if I say I love you, it's not metaphorical. And if I give you something, know that it's for no other reason than that I want to give you a warm fuzzy feeling for a minute because it makes me happy to do so. And I'm not keeping a mental tally sheet on any of it." --melanie
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure
that just ain't so." -- Mark Twain
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between
the powerful and the powerless means to side
with the powerful, not to be neutral." --- Paulo Friere
"Yes, I know I went from FIGHT CLUB to BAMBI –
but that’s just the feng sui of my kung fu."
– Harry from Ain’t It Cool News.com
"It's not un-American to think that war --
except in self-defense -- is a failure
of moral imagination, political nerve,
and diplomacy."
-- Bill Moyers, in a fantastic speech that can be found here
"The rhetoric of complete destruction of
the other side‘s point of view is not helpful."
-- Chris Matthews, 9/1/2004 Hardball on MSNBC
Ask the Mystic Pig a Question
An ergonomic Pirate keyboard cracks me up...
Proud paying Premium subscriber to www.Salon.com, an “informative alternative to the stenographers of mainstream media.” Go here and sign up now.
---------------------------
My Writings about Magic: The Gathering (a collectible card game obsession):
My articles at StarCityGames.com
My articles at MagicTheGathering.com
THE FIX WIDGET
Do I want too much
Am I going overboard to want that touch
I shout it out to the night
"Give me what I deserve, 'cause it's my right"
Shouldn't I have this, shouldn't I
Shouldn't I have this, shouldn't I
Shouldn't I have all of this, and
Passionate kisses
eight_cow_woman)Short, official: 40, father of two wonderful small children and three cats. Currently working as a senior quality analyst and do side writing jobs about the collectable card game, Magic the Gathering. M dream is to be a screenwriter, and have been slowly, too slowly, working towards that goal in all my "spare" time.
Long, free-flowing:
I love movies, with or without company. In fact going alone is a guilty pleasure as I subsume myself in the celluloid reality, a spirit observer watching through the camera lens. I'm thrilled when a film makes me forget myself, and that's a power I hope to harness myself one day.
I love how having children redefines your universe, how it sets your place in the timestream of humanity. I marvel seeing bits of me and their mom manifest in them, alongside their own surprising uniqueness. Watching them experience things for the very first time is truly candy for the soul. Children are love letters to the future.
I love the smokey taste of bourbon swirling in my mouth, the alchohol bite softened by ginger ale. I love the aromas of vanilla and jasmine, evoking warm memories of scented baths and skin pressed to skin. I love fresh ground pepper and garlic. I love the Byrdsian rolling guitars and blurred vocals of old REM songs. I love the soft kiss of a woman's lips and the gentle tongueplay that sends electric shocks down my spine. I love searing kisses that make my scalp tingle and my hair stand on end. I love to feel the warm, soft, round curves of a woman's body beneath my hands. I love the thrill of working with your partner to win a hard-fought game of Spades. I love when someone is moved by something I wrote enough to tell me about it. I loved listening to Stone Roses and Mazzy Star while deeply buzzing on marijuana. I love the warm comfort of a heated house when you come in out of wet, freezing weather. I love it when I put on my jacket for the first time of the season and find a ten dollar bill in the pocket. I love the discoveries of making love to someone for the very first time. I love the buzzy vocals and marching sound of Squeeze's "Take Me I'm Yours." I love the stylized dialog of the Cohen Brother's Miller's Crossing. I get goofy grins when I see someone transformed on "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." I wish the characters of the President and staff from The West Wing were really our President and staff. I love toffee and mint candy. I love to ponder what Bill Murray said to Scarlett Johansson at the end of Lost in Translation.
Two books that dramatically changed the way I viewed my world were Generations : The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 by Neil Howe & William Strauss, and A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn. I once made a woman come just by kissing and massaging her toes and feet. Out In the Country by Three Dog Night evokes nostalgia so strong it brings me to tears and I have not idea why. I don't shortchange God's abilities by thinking evolution and creationism are mutually exclusive. I dig the quiet quirkiness of the film The Accidental Tourist. I appreciate the frank straightforwardness of deaf girls when it comes to dating, dancing and lovemaking. I'm still in awe by Mary Doria Russell's writing prowess in her first novel The Sparrow and her subsequent books. God Bless Spongebob Squarepants and Fairly Odd Parents on Nick at the end of a long day at work. I tend to side with women when they bitch about men. I used to mosh to Fishbone and Red Hot Chili Peppers in collegetown dives. I dream about one day owning a fabulous row house in the Fan District of Richmond, with hardwood floors, high ceilings, and a round room. Old lovers frequently cross my mind and I hope they're doing well, wonderful women all of them.
LOVE DEEPLY
BE KIND
DO GOOD
Bennie's LJ Greatest Hits - Life, Movies, & Politics
"We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason. If we dig deep into our history and our doctrine, we will remember we are not descended from fearful men. Not from men who dared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were for the moment unpopular." -- Edward R. Murrow
"If I ask you how you are, it's not rhetorical. And if I say I love you, it's not metaphorical. And if I give you something, know that it's for no other reason than that I want to give you a warm fuzzy feeling for a minute because it makes me happy to do so. And I'm not keeping a mental tally sheet on any of it." --
melanie"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure
that just ain't so." -- Mark Twain
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between
the powerful and the powerless means to side
with the powerful, not to be neutral." --- Paulo Friere
"Yes, I know I went from FIGHT CLUB to BAMBI –
but that’s just the feng sui of my kung fu."
– Harry from Ain’t It Cool News.com
"It's not un-American to think that war --
except in self-defense -- is a failure
of moral imagination, political nerve,
and diplomacy."
-- Bill Moyers, in a fantastic speech that can be found here
"The rhetoric of complete destruction of
the other side‘s point of view is not helpful."
-- Chris Matthews, 9/1/2004 Hardball on MSNBC
Ask the Mystic Pig a Question
An ergonomic Pirate keyboard cracks me up...
Proud paying Premium subscriber to www.Salon.com, an “informative alternative to the stenographers of mainstream media.” Go here and sign up now.
---------------------------
My Writings about Magic: The Gathering (a collectible card game obsession):
My articles at StarCityGames.com
My articles at MagicTheGathering.com
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Am I going overboard to want that touch
I shout it out to the night
"Give me what I deserve, 'cause it's my right"
Shouldn't I have this, shouldn't I
Shouldn't I have this, shouldn't I
Shouldn't I have all of this, and
Passionate kisses
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