Rah-Rah-Ri-Ra

I feel like I should follow that title up with "Ruh-ro Rahaggy" in my best Scooby-doo voice. Last night I worked till about 9 p.m. and then went downtown to a bar called Ri-Ra. Such a good time. There was a contingent of girls handing out New Castle beer paraphanelia. So after chatting with one of them for a while I recieved a free tshirt which cracked me up. "for bitter taste, drink with ex-girlfriend" was the tagline. So the girl who was handing out the stuff came up to me towards the end of the night and hands me a box. She says "I want to give you the grand prize for being the nicest guy in the bar". Now ladies, you should always announce what the prize is, we men have very fertile imaginations. haha. Turns out it was a Newcastle pen with a memory stick for your computer hiddin in the end of it! Not that I need this thing, but damn is that cool! A new gadget.

There was this great cover band playing. Just a guitarist and vocalist. I am going to attach three songs to songs of the day which they played. I am going to avoid the Charlie Daniels song (and forgive them for even going there) because it was just an assault on my auditory faculties. What is the name of that crap anyhow, you know, the one with the banjo player who fights the devil with his banjo playin' skills? Funny how you can hear songs so many times and then hear the lyrics, I mean, really HEAR the lyrics, for the first time. Such good times.

So after dancing witha grade school teacher, being asked if I would like to touch a waitresses ass (mind you she didn't work there, but at another bar. She just wanted to know if I wanted to touch her ass. I thought "well......yes" and poitely declined her generous offer) I drove home to my humble abode and thought that I had a pretty damn good day, but that I could not go to yoga today under any circumstances. (100 degree heat and a night of drinking does not mix well at all)

A question- Why is it that women would approach me when I am unshaven, in dirty clothes, tired from 12 hours at work and wearing sneakers, and not looking to pick anyone up or hook up in any way?

Songs of the night-
Blues Traveler-Runaround

Green Day- Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

Elton John-Tiny Dancer (So this one spurred on my thoughts about listening to a song for the first time the 100th time that you hear it. This woman asks me, when she notices that I am singing along word for word, what this song means. Now I may have been drunk, but without missing a beat I say, "it's about love that is good and calm, but not quite perfect and won't work out....um, I think". Anyone else have thoughts on what this one is about?)

The TSD Challenge

Here is a quiz I made last night. I invite you all to take the Tommy Sean Dowd Quiz

Have fun, can't wait to see your scores. I tried to give you a couple laughs in there also.

See Y'all later

Tom's top 70

I snatched this from Nikki's blog. I think I have done this before, but what the hell. I had little else to type.

70 Questions


1. First Name: Thomas
2. Were you named after anyone? Yeah, my dad. My middle name was a comprimise for my mom's sake.
3. Do you wish on stars? I look at them and dream. I don't know that I wish upon them.
4. Which finger is your favorite? I have an affinity for all of my didgets
5. When did you last cry? Men don't cry. (SHUT UP! ALL OF YOU!)
6. Do you like your handwriting? My print is nice. Script, sort of lacking.
7. What is your favorite lunch meat? Bolgna
8. Any bad habits? Nope (Shut up! again!)
9. What is your most embarrassing CD on the shelf? Oh dear god.It must be a cd single for Trixter's "Give it To Me Good" that Dave and I have been pssing back and forth for years
10. If you were another person, would YOU be friends w/you? Nope. Too arrogant, and way too good looking. haha.
11. Are you a daredevil?Not usually. I will take risks though. Usually with my health and safety...hmmm, maybe that is a daredevil. So yes.
12. Have you ever told a secret you swore not to tell?Maybe,nothing really important though.I know what to keep close to home.
13. Do looks matter? Yes
14. How do you release anger? Excercise, drinking, smoking, guitar, art work
15. Where is your second home? Aunt Carol's place
16. Do you trust others easily? No
17. What was your favorite toy as a child? 12 inch Boba Fett figure.
18. What class in school do you think is totally useless? Chemistry
19. Do you have a journal? Not at the moment, but I have.
20. Do you use sarcasm a lot? Yes. It's like a religion
21. Have you ever been in a mosh pit? I listened to Among the Living like a gospel.
22. What do you look for in a guy/girl? TCourteous, kind, clean, brave, thrifty, clean and reverent. lol. Nah...tall, good looking, in touch with themselves and good to others.
24. What are your nicknames?Tom, Tommy, Sean.I was called M.I.A. for a while by my buddies back home.
5. Would you bungee jump?Definately
26. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? Almost never.
27. Do you think that you are strong? Yes, and getting stronger.
28. What's your favorite ice cream flavor? Mint Chocolate Chip or Phish Food.
29. Shoe Size? Twelve or Thirteen. The higher up, the further out.
30. What are your favorite colors? Blue and Black
31. What is your least favorite thing?Meaness and emotional distress. One can often cause the other.
32. How many wisdom teeth do you have? All of them. What is that? Four?
33. How many people have a crush on you right now? Three, but I am not naming names.hahaha.
34. Who do you miss most right now? See number 33.
35. Do you want everyone you send this to Go ahead and post it on your blog.
36. What color pants are you wearing? Brown linen. Strange cause any other time I would be wearing blue.
37. What are you listening to right now? The Tantric Lounge
38. Last thing you ate? Pizza
39. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Blue
40. What is the weather like right now? 80's and awesome
41. Last person you talked to on the phone? Nicole
42. The first things you notice about the opposite sex? Eyes and breasts.
43. Do you like the person who sent you this? Grabbed it from sticky nikki
44. How are you today? I am feeling great. Having to hold back everything that I want to say though. I am not very good at that.
45. Favorite drink? Water.
46. Favorite Alcoholic Drink? Cabernet! It rules.
48. Your Hair Color? Blonde
49. Your Eye Color? Blue
50. Do you wear contacts? Nope
51. Siblings? Big Dave
52. Favorite Month? May for no particular reason
53. Favorite Food?Pizza by far.
54. Last movie that you watched? Sin City. Too gory and violent.
55. Favorite Day of the Year? Shit, I don't know. That is ridiculous.
57. Scary Movies or Happy Endings? Happy endings. "Dad, want to have a ctch?" *sniff*
58. Summer or Winter? Summer
59. Hugs or Kisses? man, I like both.
60. Relationships or One Night Stands? Relationships, though they can be tough.
61. Do you want your friends to write back? Always
64. Living Arrangements? Cool pad in Raleigh.
65. What Books are You Reading? The Sexual life of Catherine M
66. What’s on your mouse pad? Don't have one...optical mouse.
67. Favorite Board Game? Cranium!
68. What did you watch on TV last night? I haven't watched TV in three weeks.
69. Favorite Smells? hahaha. I'm going to say light perfume to this one.
70. What’s the first thing you think of when you wake up? Depends on the day. There is one constant though.

The heart of a Champion...a real champion!

Well, Dave and Nicole had both taken this test. Nic's seemed spot on and Daves seemed pretty damn good. I am not sure about my results, though I decided to post them anyway. So I am going to ask those of you who know me to take a look at this and tell me what you think about it. Does this describe me to a tee? Or does it come close, like so many horoscopes whcih say, you should go outside today or "financial decisions should be put off" and not really tell you anything? Thoughts people?

ENFP - The Champion You scored 63% I to E, 5% N to S, 19% F to T, and 94% J to P!

Your type is known as the Champion type, which is part of the larger group called idealists. Nothing occurs that does not have some deep and ethical significance in your eyes. You see life as an exciting drama. You are very charismatic, yet tend to be too harsh on yourself for not being as genuine as you think you should be. 3% of the population shares your type. As a romantic partner, you need to talk about what is going on in your life. You are a strong supporter for your partner's efforts to grow and change and be happy. You need to feel that same support from your partner. Expressive, optimistic, and curious, you are eager to enjoy new experiences with your partner, whom you wish to be your confidant and soul mate, as well as play mate. You are uncomfortable sharing negative emotion, though, and tend to withdraw from confrontation and process your feelings privately. You feel most loved when your partner appreciates your creativity, accepts your uniqueness, and sees you as the compassionate person you are. You need to hear your partner tell you how much you mean to them and would love if they did thoughtful spontaneous things to demonstrate it. Your group summary: idealists (NF) Your type summary: ENFP

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 72% on I to E You scored higher than 1% on N to S You scored higher than 11% on F to T You scored higher than 96% on J to P

Link: The LONG Scientific Personality Test written by unpretentious2 on Ok Cupid

Points to any of the geeks who can guess where the title of this post came from. God, I am such a dork. But I am a dork with very little body fat (more on that later) and a great haircut.

....and boy are my arms tired

So I went rock wall climbing today. I had forgotten what a workout it can be. My arms are like big wet noodles right now. Of course, instead of resting them, I have decided to blog about it.

So I find this place online and I get out there today. Since I am alone, I need to get one of the kids to belay for me. The belayer is the guy that holds the other end of the rope as you climb the wall. Basically, your life is in their hands. My belayer 16 year old "Holt" was a nice enough kid. Now, remember, my life is in this kids hands. I am hoping that the only thing he has in common with me at 16 is the long hair growing on his head, because under no circumstances should I ever have been responsible for anyone else's safety.

The Climbing itself was fine. Holt was helpful. My arms got really tired, really fast. I haven't done this in a couple years. Anyhow, Holt kept doing stuff that kind of annoyed me when all I wanted to do was rest my arms. "Dude, grab for that rock" to which I am thinking "what rock?" Give me a direction please Mr. I Need Zit Cream. Left, Right, up, down. These are all directions. Help me out here kid! And then, he kept wanting to "Show" me" How to scale a particularly difficult area. He would hop on the wall and then scale it with only his arms. The little fuck! Actually, he was a cool young guy and was very helpful.

When I was sixteen I was a brash, obnoxious long haired rock and roller who covered up his inherant geekiness with heavy metal t-shirts and leather jackets.

Songs of the day-
Learning to Fly-Tom Petty&The Heartbreakers (A truly great song)
Time to Move On-Tom Petty&The Heartbreakers
http://www.lyricsondemand.com/t/tompettyandtheheartbreakerslyrics/wildflowerslyrics.html-Tom Petty
http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/totalchaos/borntolose.html-Johnny Thunders&the Heartbreakers ( guess someone else covered this. Thunders version rules!)

Quote of the day- "You've got to constantly reinvest your enthusiasm for livin' large, marge, so large you need a barge!" -David Lee Roth (for Laura Lee)

See Y'all later

P.S. I'd like to invite everyone to check out The Holly Blog Dave's favorite lady has joined the fray.

My power is discombobulatingly devastating

So I heard this guy on the radio telling the story of how he met Mike Tyson. He told Mike that he was working on a book about another champ from Brooklyn who shocked the world. Mike said "Oh yeah? Who?" The reporter said "Bobby Fisher" Mike said "Yoooooo, that guy's crazy!' This made me crack up. This is coming from a guy who has tried to bite off someone else's ear, went to jail for rape and beat his ex-wife! So I found a page that had Mike's best quotes posted. I decided to share a few with y'all.

On Lennox Lewis

"Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!"


Thoughts: I love the Praise be to Allah! I think maybe he missed the point in his jail house Islam classes.

On His Childhood

"One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like a infantile retard."

Thoughts:I'm thinking maybe that is not such a jewel of a childhood memory. Is it just me or is there just a little bit of glee behind "infantile retard"? And isn't that an oxymoron?

On Boxing

" I could feel is muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm."

Thoughts:That is just scary.

And Finally.......

“[He] called me a ‘rapist’ and a ‘recluse.’ I’m not a recluse.”

that kind of reminded me of Han Solo's "Who's scruffy lookin?" line in ESB. Just missing the point Mike!

Well, that's all for now folks. Have any fun things to share? Share em'

BTW, the title of this post comes from a M.T. Quote.

I come to suck your blood

Check it out. I'm a vampire novel!

The Vampire Novel Hmm, very interesting! You scored 135!

People are addicted to you, as you make such entertaining and sexy reading material. You get people’s imaginations flowing and make for the type of book people want to read more than once. Cults have been inspired by the likes of you.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 34% on bookpoints

Link: The What Kind Of Book Are You Test written by saucygirl on Ok Cupid

Yankees Suck!

So last night in Chapel Hill, as I was getting out of my car, some guys rolled down the window of their pick up truck and shouted "Yankees suck!" It made me feel right at home, or like I was in Boston. This morning I thought "Did he mean the baseball team or all of us in genral?" While I readily admit that I do suck, I wonder if that was his intention. I am thinking that he was probably a chowder eating, Red Sock cheering, way to anglican with a bad attitude having Bostonian that has come to UNC to get a degree in how to be an asshole. Funny guy though. Chapel Hill is a really cool place. Ithink I will go again.

Also I would like to thank Dave and Lindsay for chatting with me today. I walked Linz through linking sites to her blog. Dave and I just shot the shit for a while. Both of them helped me through an otherwise tough day for me. Thanks guys.

Went to check out a blues jam tonight. It was cool as hell. I am really loving the live music scene down here.

Song fo the Day-
Born Under a Bad Sign-Various Artists
Sucide Solution-Ozzy Ozbourne
She Caught The Katy-Various Artists

Going to the Chapel and I'm.........

Gonna blog! I got home late from checking out Chapel Hill. Had a really fun time. Got home way too late and shouldn't be blogging. I am BWI. by that I don't mean Laura's airport either.

Funny thing about NC, they have a law that says that if a place does not serve food, then it must be a "member's only" club. So they charge addmisson (read:membership charge) Pretty weird.

So I am getting tired. Talk to y'all soon.

Fly like the wind Stevie, Fly like the wind

Whew. My looooongest day yet in Raleigh. We started
the store redesign today and I was on the go from
10:30 a.m. till about 8:00 p.m. . I was invited out
for dinner and drinks afterwards and of course took
advantage of it. Got home at about 10 till ten. Of
course That doesn't sound like a rough day. I have had
worse (see:Pearl inventory or Kate's paperie Christmas
time. All in all though it was a great one. I had
these great conversations and was really happy about
it.

First was someone telling me, having moved here
himself, that I won't be truly happy until I let go of
New York and move on. Embrace life here and forget who
I was there. Pretty cool eh? I know that part of me
has definatrely been hanging on to New York.

the second was all about the industry I work in. how
things are shaping up and what they esee as my future.
I can only hope thatt the future looks that bright.

The third was with Stevie. Somehow, once in a while I
get damn lucent (does that make sense? I've been out
drinking) and give some really sound advice. You need
to catch me when the moment is right, but tonight I
was a regular drunken Tony Robbins. hahaha. Cept
without the Chicklet teeth and I am only 6'5". not
many times you will hear "only" and 6'5" in the same
sentance. Highlights?

Life is a set of glass balls you are juggling, family,
love, freinds, health....these are all glass balls.
You can't afford to drop any of them. There is one
rubber ball however, that is employment. That ball can
be dropped and will bounce back up to you. Work is
there for those that want it.

"Yay............ the Great plenum!" (good advice,
think about it)

"Someone once told me that you never really know
yourself until you go somewhere you know nothing about
and do it one your own."

"Fly like the wind Stevie, fly like the wind. That
makes no sense, but fuck it....FLY....LIKE....THE
WIND!"

So that was my fun evening. I also wanted to mention
that I saw the most fabulous sunset today. Have you
ever just stopped and watched? The Sun setting over
the trees. A peach-coloerd hue to everything around
you. Golds, blues, violets, reds and pinks swarming
tosgether in the most beautiful ways. The sunbeams
peeking out through the clouds making it seem like
just a little bit of heaven has landed on earth for
you to watch. That's what I saw today folks on my way
out of the Holley Park shopping center and It was
fantastic. Made me wish I could rip down the buildings
and strip malls see it all untouched by human hands.

So I am being lazy on the spell check here. Though
errors on my blog are no surprise, hope you all
enjoyed yourself reading this.

See Y'all

Ciao

So I was checking out Dave's blog this morning and saw this quiz. A fun little one. Took me all of five minutes to find out that I am Italy.Unstable and formerly the epitomy of high culture.Godd stuff.

You're Italy!

You pretty much feel like you are the most long-standing bastion of
civilized humanity on the face of the earth.  While this is probably not true, you
do have a noted history of living the good life and spreading culture to those around you.
 More recently, however, things have started to slide and you're having a hard time
staying together and not getting beaten up.  People still like to ask you how it was
to be the center of high culture, but your days at the top are long past you.  Avoid
volcanoes, flooding, and unstable buildings wherever possible.
face="Times New Roman">Take the Country
Quiz at the Blue Pyramid

It's like swimming

I finally have internet access! Thanks god!. I have no furniture, no tables, chairs, couches, desks, but I have the most important thing and I can now blog.I am addicted to the internet I think. I've got a problem and need to start bloggers anonymous. "Hello my name is Tom and I have a blogging problem." "HI TOM!" I know that I have at least a few potential members out there. Now that I have the access though I feel all better. Like heroin hitting my bloodstream. "Ahhh. It's like swimming"

As you can all see I have been pretty damn prolific over the last couple weeks, months.It was killing me that I couldn't blog. haha. I've got problems. I now can effectively bore you all into a coma again. I've got a problem. I don't have any dishes, yet I was concerned about online access. Dave suggested that I start pencil writing my blog so I could go ahead and write it all in when I got online. So here it goes....The last three days.

My 8:45 flight was delayed till 12am. So, I arrived at RDU international at 2:00 a.m. . I Picked up my car at the preassigned location and got to my apartment at 3am. Now, I had figured that my landlord would have been long gone...Wrong! He, and his girlfriend (I assume) were on my living room floor sleeping when I walked in. The quickly left. hahaha. I scared the shit out of them.

Woke up, got back to work and started renovating the store.Went out that night and got a pizza. I immediately scaled my lip with hot cheese. I could hear a voice in my head saying "how can you eat that when it's so hot? Let it cool" So now I have an attractive scab on my lower lip.

Yesterday I hung out on my floor and didn't do much. Talked to my dad.

Today, I am beat. Dead tired. Chatted with Heather this afternoon.Moved the entire brsh section of the store and three gondolas ( for those of you who don't know a gondola is the type of shelving you see at most drugstores. Gray shelving and pegboard melded into a delightful retail symbyosis of function) Got a computer tech to fix my computer and now.....blogging.

It seems that Charles and One-eye, my movers have absconded with my things to parts unknown. I am told that they may arrive tomorrow or the next day.Not much help M-Fers! Nicole told me last night that she would be on the phone screaming about it. I just cannot do that. I don't think it would really help in this case anyhow.I just hope that they come quickly. I want to sit up and type this crap. This is like a yoga session laying there on the floor above the keyboard.I am like a weird cyber addicted yogi, bent up at the waist and typing.

So hope all is well with all of you. I expect that I will be available to receive visitors within a few weeks.

See Y'all later

Start spreading the news..........

This will be my final post from NYC for quite a while. Tonight I start my life in Raleigh in earnest. Apartment, job, kitchen. Everything in place and no more transient life style. I find myself ratfer sad, but also pretty hopeful for the future. I will miss this place and very many people. I am happy that I begin a new life today though.It's sad that my NYC run is over for the time being, but instead of feeling down thtat the end is here, I am going to try to be more like Erin Grey at the end of Dirty Dancing....running down the aisle and jumping into a swan pose. I just wanted a reason to put that image in all of your heads.

I would like to commend Pope John Paul II for a comendable job as the pontiff. I would also like to point out that in a time of hidh turnover rates and low job security, this man kept his job for 26 years! An amirable thing.

I hope to hear from all of you. Comment when you read, if you can. I know many of you are reading, you tell me. My apartment door is also open to anyone who wants to check out N.C.

See Y'all on the other side

Songs of the day
Time of My Life-Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes (haha, couldn't resist. I heard this as I was buying coffee this morning.)
New York, New York-Frank Sinatra
When Will I see You Again?-Three Degrees(this link has some plesant little nintendo sounding music)

It's just wrong

Poor Terri. How could they pull the plug when she was blogging to the last?!? She had so much to say. Check out Terri's blog. Check out my last post for an update on what's been going on, and check out Nic's blog for the abridged version.