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Interested In:
Friends
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Member Since:
May 2003
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Hometown:
New Jersey
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Company:
a publisher with the right idea
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Pete's URL:
http://profiles.friendster.com/pete
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Other education:
I've learned quite a lot just by watching, and a little more by asking a lot of questions.
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College/University:
University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Attended 1991 - 1996, Class of 1997, Bachelor's Degree, History
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Occupation:
biased observer
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Affiliations:
http://www.geocities.com/petesbrain/index.html
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What I enjoy doing:
Adventures, cooking, mischief, biking, supermarkets, baseball, vegetables, buildings, signs, Yuengling, wikipedia, running, stories, beaches, reference volumes, whiskey, live local music, PA's Lounge, land, the Spanish language, economics, signs, history, data.
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Favorite Books:
Within the Context of No Context, The New American Ghetto, New York 1960, The Lazlo Letters, The Meadowlands, Slaughterhouse-Five, On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Ralph W. Emerson
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Favorite Movies:
I'm not sure what the right things to say about movies are anymore.
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Favorite Music:
Of late: Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Roosevelt Franklin, The Band, Silver Jews, Electric Six, George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" (isn't it a pity?), Th' Faith Healers, Headband, Rye Coalition, Fiery Furnaces, The Lilys, Alan Lomax stuff, The Cannanes, Gustav Holst, Tigersaw... Always: Delgados, New Radiant Storm King, any banjo, The Who, mathrock, Stereolab, Glenn Miller, Lush, The Figgs, Pavement, Sebadoh, Sonic Youth, The Upper Crust, Lou Reed and/or the Velvet U., Blonde Redhead, first Frank Black album, WMBR, WFMU. Live is always better.
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Favorite TV Shows:
We all need to stop talking about the TV already.
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Zodiac Sign:
Virgo
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About Me:
Oh, I don't know. I just kind of hang around and run into people and say, "How've you been?" and have coffee and read the paper and go grocery shopping. I need to spend more time in libraries.
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Who I Want to Meet:
I'd like to meet Joe Frank, Phil Rizutto, William Shatner, others. But really, what do I have worth saying to any of them?
New parallel observers.
Someone who will go to Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord (click it) with me. My god, there's almost nowhere I want to go more.
Good people who like good people.
And I want to know what you would post at postsecret.
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praise for one another, and devote all
further praise to Zod. In return, you
will be allowed to live so long as it
suits me.
eloquent writer among babbling fools
and brings light into the darkness of
my windowless office. He's the most
proactive person I know, and proactive
is the new sexy.
or a sandwich." -- "Zippy the Pinhead" by Bill
Griffith
might want to read, but i'm not really
sure that i have the time or
commitment, i can just sit and listen
to pete for 45 minutes, novel under
belt. Particularly if it's something
bleak and philosophical like Kafka. He
also got me to change my friendster
profile after six months and stop being
a little smartass. Simply put,Pete
makes one want to be a better person..
reason? mystery. result? coolness.
addition good old inman. if only i was
able to anthropomorphize myself--i'd
throw some idiot out to make room for
pete. inman thinks pete is peachy keen.
everything. He is always welcome on
any trivia team.
Sometimes we'll see people with hair
kind of like Pete's and we'll say "aw,
I wish Pete were here."
did "advertising" and "promotions" for
concerts at umass. pete made t shirts
and i gave away free tickets. once i
saw the lead singer from radiohead try
to make out with tanya donnelly on what
i recall was pete's desk, thereby
tainting it forever in my mind. but
not pete, no, i still love him. just
can't stand the rock stars with the bad
attitudes who want REAL forks instead
of plastic ones. please. pete would
never do that. because pete is a good
guy.
tempered, and patient. stop it pete!
fight, it would be Sonny Liston V.
Floyd Paterson II...powerful jabs
balanced by devestating upper-cuts,
downing Paterson in the 1st.
Seriously...in about 2 years he's
going to be bending your silverware
without using his hands!