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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on October 30, 2008, 08:39:02 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7656729
Oh my.
TomInTib (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-29-08 06:09 PM
Original message
I was just interviewed by the Marin Independent Journal (they found me on DU!)
While I have done quite a few interviews with the IJ, they were always on topics of which I have some expertise, experience and local credibilty (music, art, economic development, Tom Snyder, etc).
Just a few minutes ago, the phone rang and on the other end was a reporter from the IJ. He wanted to talk to me about the divisions wrought by the Presidential campaigns and wanted to know my opinions on same.
I asked him just why in the hell (I talk like that, you know) he was calling me, as I am not really very active, politically.
He said he found me on Democratic Underground and that, from what he saw, I had no shortage of opinions.
The IJ is the second-most read paper in the Bay Area and #1 in Marin County.
By the way, I have the IJ's permission to post this on DU.
You just never know, sometimes.
TomInTib (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-29-08 06:30 PM
Response to Reply #1
10. They asked me if I thought this divisiveness was an original intent...if I was seeing much of it in Tiburon, Marin, or Sonoma (I spend a lot of time locally, in the County, and in Sonoma, because that is where the free wine is).
I basically went stream-of-consciousness, because that is how I talk. I went on about Lee Atwater, Rove, Reagan, Bush, Palin, and on and on. By the time they edit the profanity, there won't be much left.
They asked if they could use my name, for attribution. I said, "Hell, yes".
They even went as far as to ask if I was concerned about repercussions from the Right (it would not be the first time for me).
I told them it was about time we started hitting back.
TomInTib (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-29-08 06:32 PM
Response to Reply #3
11. Like I said, they have done other interviews with me.
Believe it or not, I am pretty well known in Marin (as is our business).
I am easy to find.
TomInTib (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-29-08 06:44 PM
Response to Reply #4
19. I'll post it if it's worth a damn.
It will probably go out in the Sunday edition.
TomInTib (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-29-08 06:36 PM
Response to Reply #5
16. I went totally stream-of-consciousness.
I was just riffing away, same as I play blues on guitar.
It's just so easy, that way.
TomInTib (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-29-08 06:42 PM
Response to Reply #7
18. They have been pretty conventional, in the past.
But they have been moving in our direction, lately.
On their fron page, recently, they had a quote from Richard Dreyfus on playing Cheney in "W".
Something like, "How do you play a person who has no soul?". Said to get into character, he would imagine trying to become a malignant cancer.
TomInTib (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-29-08 06:39 PM
Response to Reply #14
17. You know, the reporter mentioned that incident.
Thanks for the complement, JSK.
I was flayed by some here for that. People saying shit like I deserved to go out of business, that sort of thing.
Right here on DU.
Goodness...
TomInTib (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-29-08 06:49 PM
Response to Reply #13
20. I will. You want to hear something funny?
I asked them if it was OK if I posted this on DU.
They told me that, evidently, the wimps at the "other" sites must use Linux or Lexus or whatever (I don't know shit about that stuff) and that every time they mention my name or put up a picture of me, the website is bombarded and they make money off each hit.
Isn't that effing hilarious? That "other" place is, at times, so obsessed with causing problems that the idiots end up making money for any publication or program that has the temerity to use any of us as a source.
I just love it.
I haven't had my coffee yet this morning; it's a small-to-medium-sized bonfire, and there's some Primitives of Prominence at it, but I was concentrating solely upon whatever the lying titty primitive's yapping about.
So I suggest if one is interested, he get out the boat and row over to Skins's island to watch the whole bonfire in its entirety, to see all that I missed.
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-29-08 06:09 PM
Original message
While I have done quite a few interviews with the IJ, they were always on topics of which I have some expertise, experience and local credibilty (music, art, economic development
:lmao: Yeah, right. You're on DU. You have no economic development experience.
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:lmao: Yeah, right. You're on DU. You have no economic development experience.
You give them interviews all the time, but you acted so suprised, and wanted to know where they found out about you?
Tom, just shut the **** up already.
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-29-08 06:39 PM
Response to Reply #14
17. You know, the reporter mentioned that incident.
Thanks for the complement, JSK.
I was flayed by some here for that. People saying shit like I deserved to go out of business, that sort of thing.
Right here on DU.
Goodness...
Google is your friend Tom.
http://www.marinij.com/fastsearchresults/ci_4389996
"I talked to a woman living in Belvedere for 60 years who had never visited here," said longtime resident Tom Wright, who works at Giftique of Tiburon at 76 Main St. on Ark Row.
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You give them interviews all the time, but you acted so suprised, and wanted to know where they found out about you?
Tom, just shut the **** up already.
:lmao:
:bow:
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-29-08 06:09 PM
Original message
I was just interviewed by the Marin Independent Journal (they found me on DU!)
While I have done quite a few interviews with the IJ, they were always on topics of which I have some expertise, experience and local credibilty (music, art, economic development, Tom Snyder, etc).
Soooooo, TiTty - may I call you TiTty? - how is ol' Tom Snyder in bed? Does he like to be the pitcher or catcher? Does he let you use Vaseline, or does he make you take it raw?
Enquiring minds don't really want to know, bee-otch....
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The IJ is the second-most read paper in the Bay Area and #1 in Marin County.
Ok, what do queers use newpapers for? I know it ain't to raise their intellect.
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Soooooo, TiTty - may I call you TiTty? - how is ol' Tom Snyder in bed? Does he like to be the pitcher or catcher? Does he let you use Vaseline, or does he make you take it raw?
Enquiring minds don't really want to know, bee-otch....
If Tom is to be believed, Snyder passed away some time ago.
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If Tom is to be believed, Snyder passed away some time ago.
So he's into necrophelia as well? :-)
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Oh my. The Pathetic One must be really needy this week.
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If McCain wins his response will be priceless.
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If McCain wins his response will be priceless.
We'll probably get some story about how Tom could have ended it all by pushing him off the fantail late one night, and almost did, but he was late to smoke weed with a certain Ensign Kerry.
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We'll probably get some story about how Tom could have ended it all by pushing him off the fantail late one night, and almost did, but he was late to smoke weed with a certain Ensign Kerry.
"It was around Christmas time in '68, I was piloting an aircraft carrier up the Mekong river on a top secret mission to Cambodia. The memories are seared, yes seared, in my brain.....John K. and I were smoking some good shit....."
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Google is your friend Tom.
http://www.marinij.com/fastsearchresults/ci_4389996
Furthermore,
http://www.tiburonchamber.org/shops.htm
Giftique of Tiburon 80d Main Street
Ark Row
Roxanne Horn, owner
(415) 435-6630
So Tom is really a woman? :o
On the other hand, maybe some people should contact Roxanne and inform her of how Tom likes to attack her customers. :uhsure:
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Furthermore,
http://www.tiburonchamber.org/shops.htm
So Tom is really a woman? :o
On the other hand, maybe some people should contact Roxanne and inform her of how Tom likes to attack her customers. :uhsure:
Tom has in the past subtly admitted that some woman (not his squeeze) owns the place, while of course leaving the impression that he completely runs it and makes all the decisions.
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Tom has in the past subtly admitted that some woman (not his squeeze) owns the place, while of course leaving the impression that he completely runs it and makes all the decisions.
Seconded.
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Reading the article, he's nothing more than a clerk.
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Furthermore,
http://www.tiburonchamber.org/shops.htm
So Tom is really a woman? :o
On the other hand, maybe some people should contact Roxanne and inform her of how Tom likes to attack her customers. :uhsure:
Wait a minute. Wait one damn minute. I thought TiT worked at some fancy-ass art store. The Opia Home and Garden Gallery.
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Known for our fantastic selection of greeting cards and fun, unusual gifts, we now also proudly carry Vera Bradley handbags and accessories
Well, if this is where he works, the Big Bad Super SEAL is a f'n glorified purse salesman. :lmao:
Hey Tom, is that a Vera Bradley strapped over your shoulder? It's ta die for. :gay:
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Wait a minute. Wait one damn minute. I thought TiT worked at some fancy-ass art store. The Opia Home and Garden Gallery.
I thought it was Opia too.
But remembering the First Rule ("DUmmies lie. All the time, DUmmies lie."), it is possible the lying titty primitive has worked, or works, at both places.
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He's a tough one to keep track of.
At the time of that article he apparently was selling Hallmark Keepsakes and Yankee Candles at Giftique.
Opia apparently changed their name to Gallery 108, which has the same logo as Opia formerly had and Tom's recent you-tube video matches the stuff that they sell better than the hallmark store.
My guess is that he's really the colorful town drunk and the stores have him run errands, sweep the sidewalk and other crap to try and keep him out of trouble.
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He's a tough one to keep track of.
At the time of that article he apparently was selling Hallmark Keepsakes and Yankee Candles at Giftique.
Opia apparently changed their name to Gallery 108, which has the same logo as Opia formerly had and Tom's recent you-tube video matches the stuff that they sell better than the hallmark store.
My guess is that he's really the colorful town drunk and the stores have him run errands, sweep the sidewalk and other crap to try and keep him out of trouble.
I think you're right, and I also think he may just be the town drunk/errand boy. :lmao:
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My guess is that he's really the colorful town drunk and the stores have him run errands, sweep the sidewalk and other crap to try and keep him out of trouble.
Yeah, kind of like Patrick, who hangs around a convenience store in the big city south of here.
He dumps the trash for a hot dog.
I buy him a 99-cent bag of Doritos if he tips his hat to me.
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Wait a minute. Wait one damn minute. I thought TiT worked at some fancy-ass art store. The Opia Home and Garden Gallery.
The trinket hut and the greeting card store are both in the same building (check the addresses).
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Update: Tommy tells his bowl story to the local paper, plugs the DUmp (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7716717)
Many Marin Republicans are secretive about political persuasion
http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_10878266?IADID=Sear&_requestid=16019277
Well, those assholes may be "secretive" (read - chickenshit), but I am not.
From article:
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In September, Tom Wright, a Democrat who manages an art gallery in Tiburon, proudly recounted a story on the Web site www.democraticunderground.com about how he refused to sell an expensive artifact to a woman because she was wearing a "Sarah in '08" pin and expressing her strong support for the Alaskan governor.
Wright said he has no regrets.
"Politics has turned into warfare, but they started it first," he said. "You start pushing someone on the playground, and when they punch you in the face, you can't really complain."
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warfare: A grown man playing with dolls and posting impotent, incoherent videos on YouTube abut "Freepers".
chickenshit: using somebody else's account do to it.
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I ****ing HATE this asshole. He should bring his dead ass here and defend all of his lies, but he won't because he's the biggest chickenshit of them all, on top of being an epic liar asshole.
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Someone should point that reporter to TiT's other little DU gems.
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Oh my.
I went to the link and read the whole article, which is a long one.
Most of it's about how Marin County Republicans are harrassed, abused, bullied, and their places vandalized by.....you-know-whos.
So much for the Democrats, liberals, and primitives being "tolerant" of other people, being "advocates" of "freedom of speech."
The lying titty primitive doesn't shine in it.
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On the other hand, maybe some people should contact Roxanne and inform her of how Tom likes to attack her customers.
Probably a waste of time. Anyone who would employ a psychotic alcoholic like TiTtyboy isn't likely to be any more sane than he is.
In California, that is apparently considered normal.
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Probably a waste of time. Anyone who would employ a psychotic alcoholic like TiTtyboy isn't likely to be any more sane than he is.
In California, that is apparently considered normal.
We're getting an influx of Californicators up here in North Idaho due to the housing extravaganza. They think this is still the wilderness. I guess compared to "slide off country", it is. Most think they want to be Daniel Boone's clone. Unfortunately they end up being closer to a Richard Simmons whiner!
It is asolutely amazing how these people think they should be waited on. In stores, in our resturaunts, etc. You would think this was Beverly Hills. They think we are like the morons that wait on them hand and foot, kissing their big, broad, over inflated butts and egos like they are some kind of movie star!
We got news for 'em. We look at them and think they are the prey! :-)
One good thing, most don't last more than one winter. It gets friggin' cold up here and most of these pussies leave after experiencing a good North Idaho north wind during Jan or Feb.
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Not to defend them but I wouldn't like it either. That's why I live in FL.
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I wonder if we should give that local weekly a tip, that the the 2nd most decorated enlisted man in Naval history, former SEAL and all around good guy is living in town there, for a "local hero" type of story....
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I wonder if we should give that local weekly a tip, that the the 2nd most decorated enlisted man in Naval history, former SEAL and all around good guy is living in town there, for a "local hero" type of story....
That would, admittedly, be fun.
But it's more fun watching an asshole hang himself with his own rope.
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Not to defend them but I wouldn't like it either. That's why I live in FL.
I know what ya mean! LOL
During the winter I usually take a trip down to the west coast of Mehico in order to warm my bones back up to room temp. :old:
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I know what ya mean! LOL
During the winter I usually take a trip down to the west coast of Mehico in order to warm my bones back up to room temp. :old:
Yeah, I've been cold. I didn't like it. Central MO is about as close to the Arctic as I really care to get.
:-)
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Yeah, I've been cold. I didn't like it. Central MO is about as close to the Arctic as I really care to get.
:-)
The good thing though, is it really does keep most of the enviro wackos, and the marry my dog folks, down in the warmer climates. :-)
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One good thing, most don't last more than one winter. It gets friggin' cold up here and most of these pussies leave after experiencing a good North Idaho north wind during Jan or Feb.
I seem to remember a good January blast up the St. Lawrence River valley being pretty effin' cold, too. I used to say that, at St. Lawrence University, my alma mater (and that of FNC's Martha MacCallum, a classmate of mine), I used to say that there were two seasons--"Winter" and "Winter Will Be Back In Five Minutes."