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Franklin

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  • Franklin

  • 38 / Male
  • Athens, Alabama, US
  • Last Login: 11/13/2009

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Interests

  • General

    reading, writing, coffee, pizza, sushi, road trips, history, philosophy, libertarianism, evolution, evolutionary psychology, science, economics, photography, journalism, mythology, used book stores, hiking, autumn

  • Music

    Ahn Trio, Allman Brothers Band, Dave Brubeck, Jeff Buckley, Johnny Cash, John Coltrane, Chick Corea, Daikaiju, Miles Davis, Dead Can Dance, Paul Desmond, Al Di Meola, Kent DuChaine, Enigma, Bill Evans, Melody Gardot, Gotan Project, Herbie Hancock, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, Robert Johnson, Yoko Kanno, Kaki King, Yo-Yo Ma, Bear McCreary, Magic Sam, Man or Astro-man, Clint Mansell, Brad Mehldau, Pat Metheny, Ennio Morricone, Andy Narell, Patrick O'Hearn, Amanda Palmer, Astor Piazzolla, Pogues, Jean-Luc Ponty, Django Reinhardt, Return to Forever, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Spyro Gyra, Tomasz Stanko, Steely Dan, Ali Farka Touré, Hiromi Uehara, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Tom Waits, Weather Report, John Williams

  • Movies

    2046, Adaptation, Addams Family Values, Amadeus, Amazon Women on the Moon, American Psycho, The Appointments of Dennis Jennings, Army of Darkness, Being John Malkovich, The Big Lebowski, Blue Velvet, Brazil, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Crash (1996), The Empire Strikes Back, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Excalibur, F for Fake, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, The Fountain, Hammer horror movies, Heathers, Highlander, His Girl Friday, Irma Vep, Iron Man, Kentucky Fried Movie, Kill Bill, Lake Consequence, Lost in Translation, Mario Bava movies, Monty Python movies, My Best Fiend, Oldboy, Once Upon a Time in the West, One Soldier, Other People's Money, The Princess Bride, Pulp Fiction, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rendez-vous, The Royal Tenenbaums, Secretary, Shaun of the Dead, Shaw Brothers movies, The Silence of the Lambs, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Suspiria, The Third Man, Tombs of the Blind Dead, UHF, Vincent Price movies, Young Frankenstein

  • Television

    Anthony Bourdain, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica (new), Blackadder, Boston Legal, Cowboy Bebop, CSI (Vegas), Dexter, Doctor Who, Firefly, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, House, Invader Zim, Iron Chef (Japan), Jonathan Creek, Justice League Unlimited, Monty Python, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mythbusters, Penn and Teller, The Prisoner, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Star Trek, The Venture Bros., The X-Files

  • Books

    Kim Addonizio, Ray Bradbury, Poppy Z. Brite, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, Robert Heinlein, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Milan Kundera, Joe R. Lansdale, H.P. Lovecraft, Haruki Murakami, Ayn Rand, Yevgeny Zamyatin, The Machinery of Freedom (David D. Friedman), Anarchy State and Utopia (Robert Nozick), The Fatal Conceit (F.A. Hayek), The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins), Tao Te Ching, Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans, Darwin, Hume, Spinoza

  • Heroes

Details

  • Status: Single
  • Here for: Networking, Friends
  • Hometown: Athens, Alabama
  • Orientation: Straight
  • Height: 5' 8"
  • Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
  • Children: I don't want kids
  • Smoke / Drink: Yes / Yes
  • Education: College graduate
  • Occupation: journalist/editor/writer

Schools

  • Auburn University Main Campus

    • Auburn University, ALABAMA
    • Graduated: 1993
    • Student status: Alumni
    • Degree: Bachelor's Degree
    • Major: Political science, economics
    • Minor: History
    • Clubs: The Auburn Circle (staff writer/editor), Pi Sigma Alpha (political science honor society)
    1990 to 1993

  • Athens High School

    • Athens, ALABAMA
    • Graduated: 1990
    • Student status: Alumni
    • Degree: High School Diploma
    • Clubs: National Honor Society, Beta Club, scholar's bowl, newspaper (Scan-It), yearbook, literary magazine (The Amulet), marching and concert band (freshman year), student council, sophomore class president
    1986 to 1990

Networking

Companies

  • The Decatur Daily

    • Decatur, Alabama US
    • Assistant Metro Editor
    October 1995 to present

  • Athens-Limestone Public Library

    • Athens, Alabama US
    • Library Assistant
    1994 to October 1995

Blurbs

About me:

Do you really want to know? Can your heart stand the shocking facts taken from the secret testimony of the poor souls who survived? Wait. Never mind. There were no survivors.

We are what we do. I write. Mostly, however, I stare at a computer screen and think about writing.

Personality type: INTJ. Scientist. Rational. Mastermind. Free-thinker. Crackpot. Easily mistaken for a psychopath.

I keep a LiveJournal. Most of the interesting stuff happens there. Also, most of the boring stuff happens there. My LJ is "friends only," so only about three people read it.

For about six years, I wrote a weekly newspaper column called Pulp Culture, dealing mostly with sci-fi, horror, and comic books. I now write a column called Culture Shock, which is a mix of politics and pop culture. And this is an article I wrote in 2005 for Reason magazine, one of the 50 Best Magazines in the nation.

My YouTube experiments.

Who I'd like to meet:

I have never met Napoleon, but I plan to find the time.

Legalese: The views expressed on this web site are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.

Comments

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    Oct 15 2009 7:44 AM

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  • Div For'eDiv For'e

    Oct 9 2009 7:31 AM

    Cheers, Franklin. Glad to meet you.

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    Jul 8 2009 7:07 PM

    The post-Michael Jackson industry begins .... I feel it coming like a slow-motion avalanche. For the next 10 years, there won't be a single corner of the internet not selling some post-MJ related product. Mega-cheese....
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    May 6 2009 9:11 PM

    Rock and roll, baby...

  • MaryMary Russell

    Feb 24 2009 5:49 AM

    Greetings from Sussex, and I thank you for adding my name to your list of "friends." Perhaps you will be interested to hear that my literary agent, Ms King, has cajoled me into participating in a program she is calling "Fifteen Weeks of Bees," which will tie together the fifteenth anniversary of our first collaboration, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, and the publication of our newest venture in May, The Language of Bees. Appropriately, "Fifteen Weeks" will join my efforts on MySpace with hers on her web site and blog. Please join us starting on February 1.
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    Feb 13 2009 7:10 AM

    lol! I will let you know if I ever win the lottery we can totally make this movie then!
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    Jan 21 2009 11:12 PM

    hope you are feelin better ... the pine hill haints are playing at Crossroads on Friday.
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    Jan 16 2009 11:46 PM

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    Jan 1 2009 12:06 AM

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  • Queen of the Underground

    Dec 28 2008 6:27 AM

    Soooo glad you could make it last night! Sorry we were all so over served by the time you got there!
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    Dec 25 2008 6:24 AM

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  • Queen of the Underground

    Dec 23 2008 1:08 AM

    F F F F FRANKLIN ... not sure when the shindig will be. i've got the ling funk.
    however, it is inevitable
  • mary

    Dec 18 2008 1:02 AM

    hmm ...

  • Queen of the Underground

    Dec 16 2008 1:48 AM

    she's a total megalomaniac... i heard she was a dick tease too.
    damn you, poppins!
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