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  • oxcoug
    Dolphins Rape Hipsters
    • Dec 2009
    • 5309

    #1

    I, Oxcoug

    A scattered profile:

    I'm here because: (a) Triplet D is one persuasive mofo and (b) I have no reason not to stop in. Also (c) you all seem like such nice people.

    I'm not here because: I feel alienated or annoyed by Cougarboard.

    I'm listening to: the phones are on and am listening to my James-Smashing-Pumpkins-Wolf Parade channel on Pandora.

    I'm not listening to: The Foo Fighters - just gave another one of their songs the thumbs down on Pandora. I like them fine. I just think they're overrated and don't think they ever wld have got a record deal if it wasn't for the Nirvana link.

    I read: Every single day of my life I visit Slate.com, WSJ.com, telegraph.co.uk, hotair.com, thedailybeast.com, newser.com. I subscribe to two publications: The Economist and Monocle (the latter most people haven't heard of, costs too much and I love it but would never pay for it unless someone gave me the subscription as a gift).

    I rate: Jack White as the most compelling, innovative and influential artist of the last decade.

    I like: BYU football, good writing, good cinema, mountains, coasts, big cities, small town, solitude, family, Diet Dr Pepper, new places, old places, people that make me think.

    I recently watched and recommend: "In the Loop" with Peter Capaldi and James Gandolfini - bloody hysterical Brit parody.

    I eat: Most things that look delicious and don't have ground mystery meat.

    I really like to eat: Indian, Japanese, pizza, pierogis, peanut butter and honey on toast, chocolate chip cookies, blueberries.

    I hate: That stupid popular Black Eyed Peas song - don't they have a Jewish producer who could at least flag their retarded usage of "mazal tov"?

    I preach: catastrophic anthropogenic global warming is the greatest fraud in the history of science; there is no evidence that the humans have played a primary role in the warming that has occurred since 1850, no evidence that the warming that occurred was abnormal or problematic, and no evidence that if were problematic we could do anything about it will silly cap-trade legislation. If you want to fight me on this let's do it. You might be surprised to find out that the science is on my side.

    I vote: For who I want. Our political system never stops disappointing me with its failure to attract to people who will think and act independently. Both parties have disgusted me in my lifetime but there's no question that Democrats disgust me more frequently and on more issues.

    I work: for FORA.tv a company I co-founded four years ago with three other dudes in San Francisco (and I try to never end sentences with the words "with three other dudes in San Francisco").

    I laugh at: Richard Dawkins. Dude has become a caricature of himself. His variety of atheism is every bit as narrow and thoughtless as any southern evangelical's fundamentalism.

    I believe: God lives, the human soul is immortal, Jesus Christ is the Savior, the Book of Mormon is what it claims to be, and "there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

    I know: Most of the things I just said I believe.

    I realize: I sometimes come across as a jerk in public forums and try hard not to. Pretty much everyone that knows me thinks I'm really nice. Hopefully that will come through.
    Ute-ī sunt fīmī differtī

    It can't all be wedding cake.
  • Jeff Lebowski
    Corporate lackey for Jesus
    • Nov 2008
    • 69603

    #2
    Nice intro.

    Great to have you here. I hope you become a regular.
    "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
    "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
    "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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    • oxcoug
      Dolphins Rape Hipsters
      • Dec 2009
      • 5309

      #3
      Thanks man - I hope Texas loses - but then I hope Alabama loses so I'm kind of confused going in to tonight's game.
      Ute-ī sunt fīmī differtī

      It can't all be wedding cake.

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      • Art Vandelay
        Striving for mediocrity
        • Jul 2009
        • 10516

        #4
        Originally posted by oxcoug View Post
        I'm not listening to: The Foo Fighters - just gave another one of their songs the thumbs down on Pandora. I like them fine. I just think they're overrated and don't think they ever wld have got a record deal if it wasn't for the Nirvana link.
        Great intro and you are a great addition to our little community, which is being overrun with look at me narcissists. The Foo Fighters may be slightly overrated, only because many consider them to be one of the best bands of the past 15 years, but they are still very good. "All My Life" is one of favorite songs ever.

        Welcome Ox... and ps don't answer Wuap's question has has enough people he shall be great friends with already

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        • Coach McGuirk
          1
          • Nov 2008
          • 12109

          #5
          I enjoyed your interviews you posted and am glad to have you here. Welcome!

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          • beefytee
            Board eye candy
            • Mar 2009
            • 7542

            #6
            Originally posted by oxcoug View Post
            I read: Every single day of my life I visit Slate.com, WSJ.com, telegraph.co.uk, hotair.com, thedailybeast.com, newser.com. I subscribe to two publications: The Economist and Monocle (the latter most people haven't heard of, costs too much and I love it but would never pay for it unless someone gave me the subscription as a gift).
            {No New Yorker?}

            I really like to eat: Indian, Japanese, pizza, pierogis, peanut butter and honey on toast, chocolate chip cookies, blueberries.

            I laugh at: Richard Dawkins. Dude has become a caricature of himself. His variety of atheism is every bit as narrow and thoughtless as any southern evangelical's fundamentalism.

            I believe: God lives, the human soul is immortal, Jesus Christ is the Savior, the Book of Mormon is what it claims to be, and "there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

            I know: Most of the things I just said I believe.

            I realize: I sometimes come across as a jerk in public forums and try hard not to. Pretty much everyone that knows me thinks I'm really nice. Hopefully that will come through.

            You and SU shall be good friends!

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            • TripletDaddy
              sweet triple
              • Nov 2008
              • 58186

              #7
              Welcome, Ox. Glad to have you here and hopefully you find the time to stick around.

              Pierogi, The Economist, James on the radio, and more pierogi......where have you been all my life!
              Fitter. Happier. More Productive.

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              • oxcoug
                Dolphins Rape Hipsters
                • Dec 2009
                • 5309

                #8
                If I'm at a news stand and choosing bt the New Yorker and the Atlantic I'll go with the the Atlantic 9 out of 10 times - the 1 exception being if there's an article in the New Yorker I really want to read.
                Ute-ī sunt fīmī differtī

                It can't all be wedding cake.

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                • BigPiney
                  Huge Member
                  • Nov 2008
                  • 12354

                  #9
                  Welcome, and thanks for the walking tour of Oxford that you emailed a few years back. It was great.

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                  • Art Vandelay
                    Striving for mediocrity
                    • Jul 2009
                    • 10516

                    #10
                    Originally posted by oxcoug View Post
                    If I'm at a news stand and choosing bt the New Yorker and the Atlantic I'll go with the the Atlantic 9 out of 10 times - the 1 exception being if there's an article in the New Yorker I really want to read.
                    Goat often faces the same quandary when having to choose between Maxim or FHM, though I think he makes his choice for different reasons.

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                    • oxcoug
                      Dolphins Rape Hipsters
                      • Dec 2009
                      • 5309

                      #11
                      Hah TD - excuse my incorrect pluralization of Pierogi. I most often eat them with Jews who no longer speak their mother languages.

                      As for James - most underrated band of the last 20 years, in my opinion.
                      Ute-ī sunt fīmī differtī

                      It can't all be wedding cake.

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                      • YOhio
                        Hipster Mode
                        • Nov 2008
                        • 26165

                        #12
                        Welcome, welcome! Where in Oxnard did you grow up?

                        Your brother was one of my favorite profs at BYU.

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                        • oxcoug
                          Dolphins Rape Hipsters
                          • Dec 2009
                          • 5309

                          #13
                          Well Art - if it's a choice bt the Atlantic, the New Yorker AND Maxim there's really no telling. I didn't know Maxim was on the board.
                          Ute-ī sunt fīmī differtī

                          It can't all be wedding cake.

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                          • TripletDaddy
                            sweet triple
                            • Nov 2008
                            • 58186

                            #14
                            Originally posted by oxcoug View Post
                            Hah TD - excuse my incorrect pluralization of Pierogi. I most often eat them with Jews who no longer speak their mother languages.

                            As for James - most underrated band of the last 20 years, in my opinion.
                            I spent a decent chunk of time in Chicago....staying in the city, visiting client out in Warrenville. In the process, I ate more than my fair share of pierogi at various Polish places. Is there a more delicious snack?

                            I am waiting for a decent FARMS article that explores the possibility that the manna on the ground was actually pierogi covered in bacon bits. "What is THAT!!!"

                            My fave James: stutter, Laid, whiplash, 7, Strip-mine, gold mother, wah wah.

                            Havent spent as much time in their more "recent" stuff. Should I look into it?

                            I learned of James when reading an article in NME in high school. An interview with Morrissey....the Smiths had broken up recently after Strangeways and he said that the only band in the world left that mattered was James. I loved it from the first listen.

                            ps EPU, do you like James? I would be shocked if you did not.
                            Fitter. Happier. More Productive.

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                            • happyone
                              Board Bookworm
                              • Mar 2009
                              • 5394

                              #15
                              Welcome, and Irashiamasu.

                              I enjoyed your interviews.

                              Pellegrino will be disappointed you didn't use his approved template for your introduction though

                              I may be small, but I'm slow.

                              A veteran - whether active duty, retired, or national guard or reserve is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to, "The United States of America ", for an amount of "up to and including my life - it's an honor."

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