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The irony is not lost on me
2006-11-10 17:15:02
Well, I’ve found the funny again.  Unfortunately it’s not here.  So this will be my last post. I enjoyed my time away quite frankly and have done a lot of thinking about this site and blogging in general.  Looking for DB Cooper was fun but it’s become an inside joke that I just don’t find funny (or  fun) anymore.  Acting sophomoric and egotistical and outlandish was fun but I’ve grown tired of it as a steady diet. I learned a lot about myself and other people blogging here.  I learned it’s better (easier) to just be yourself than it is to be a character.  This was building in me long before last weekends mental melt-down.  No one is to blame for this site closing.  If anything last weekend just confirmed to me it was time to grow up and move on. I intend to continue blogging, as a matter of fact, I already have another site up and going where I’m blogging under my real name and identity about my life and the stuff that interests me.  I’...
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Remorse and a public apology
2006-11-07 05:09:01
flic, I owe you an apology. I did not pick up on all the hints you were leaving in the comments of A. You would like to be credited (rightfully so) for originating the alphabet post idea I used on A and B. Truthfully I had forgotten that I read it at your site, I visit a lot of sites. I was trying to come up with a post idea yesterday and this alphabet idea popped into my head. In hindsight it must have popped into my head because I saw it at your site I guess. I’m sorry for not giving you the proper credit you deserve. I am posting this apology publicly because I made the oversight publicly. The idea for my posts A and B originated with flic @ the American Center for Surreal and Paranoid Life on a post written October 31, 2006, entitled Art Act, Number 2 Pp. The American Center for Surreal and Paranoid Life is a wonderfully creative blog and flic is a top notch blogger. I highly recommend you pay both a visit. I owed you that apology and link and I meant ever word of...
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taking a blogging break
2006-11-07 05:09:01
I’m going offline for a few days. I just need some time to clear my head.  I need to go find the funny again.  I really need to find the funny again.  If I find it I’ll be back.
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B
2006-11-05 11:00:02
B - central to verbose Photo credit: Indy Charlie.

A
2006-11-04 22:57:02
A. That seems as good as any place to start. Seeing as how it’s the first letter of the alphabet and all. I ought to be able to build a post off an A wouldn’t you think? The problem is I have no idea where I’m going with this, I’m just typing. Words are going down on the page but so what, does it mean anything or is it going anywhere? So far it sure doesn’t look like it. Helen is afraid I’ve lost my damn mind. What do you think? This post isn’t helping alleviate those fears any is it? I don’t think I’ve lost my mind at all. Isn’t this supposed to be a release? Isn’t this site supposed to be all about the fun? Have fun damn you! I’m dancing as fast as I can and you ain’t laughing… and you sure as hell ain’t dancing. I wonder how many words this is? It’s hard to know without checking but I don’t want to stop typing to check because then I would lose my train of thought...

Fark U: I?m back in the closet!
2006-11-03 10:54:01
Just when you thought he was out… he’s back in again!  My closet has a revolving door. Bwahahaha!!!!!  You people are so fun to play with!  Mind games are the best games! Damn it Shaymus!  Why’d you have to go and out my outing?  Fark U… Fark U… Fark U… and especially you Helen!  :: smack ::  I’ve been on the run and hiding for almost 35 years now, you think I’m gonna out myself that easily?  People, people, people!  Tsk.  Tsk.  Tsk. Let’s see… who am I going to be today… Hmmm… Squishy squishy underpants on that you can depends.  Rule #1 @ Looking for DB Cooper… EVERYTHING is an illusion!  It’s ALL smoke and mirrors. Crank the satellite back up Helen and keep on looking for DB Cooper!
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I?m not gay but I?m out
2006-11-03 04:51:01
Hello. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Mark Cross aka DB Cooper. Welcome to my outing. The reason I’m outing myself is simple. Hopefully my explanation will be too. I have another WordPress site. I know I said I was gonna drop all my other sites except Looking for DB Cooper but I’m a naughty little monkey. I did get rid of the third site. Doesn’t that count for something with you people? Anyway… both sites are under the same account. I updated my account with my real name and picture since I use both on my other site. As a result my real name and picture were going to show up here anyway whenever I left a comment from now on so my outing was inevitable. Oh sure I could just log in and out of my account whenever I wanted to comment here but I’m far too lazy to do that. The comment section of WordPress sites are the only place where this change will be visible. Among my current readership that means only Howard, Helen, Thirdedgod ...

urban gargoyle
2006-11-03 04:51:01
I watch from my perch as you go scurrying by. busy, busy bees. I’m seldom noticed - Hands on lap, gazing forward - but I’m always there sitting high above your heads as you move about. An urban gargoyle. Photo credit:striatic.
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stare at the ceiling til I get back
2006-11-02 16:48:01
Photo by elston. Crazy busy IRL (in real life) yesterday and today.  Sorry I haven’t had a chance to get on and respond to everyone’s comments on yesterday’s post yet.  Wasn’t that a sweet one?  :)  Maybe I’ll get a chance later today but it may not be till tomorrow.  :(  Not much I can do about those pesky real life demands sometimes. Until I get back… stare at the ceiling… or talk amongst yourselves.  No sports!  And no pets!  They both smell up the place. 
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happy halloween haikus
2006-11-01 04:42:02
Photo by ducminh0904529910 I’m there as you sleep, Watching your chest rise and fall. I have come for you. You are a dream kill. The fear so thick and instant as your eyes open and I’m all you see. Wicked the smile I offer. Silent is your scream. And then the stillness. Broken only by my slurp and one faint gurgle. Happy Hall oween to all my readers and friends I hope you sleep well.
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Sleep is avoiding me like it owes me money
2006-10-30 10:33:01
Photo by welovethedark. Deep in the night, long after the witching hour, you’ll find me… plodding my way across the landscape of the Internet… reading, tinkering, writing. I am the undead. I am the shadow that has no name. I am the sleepless one. I am at my best after midnight, always have been. I used to have a job that required me to get up at 4:45 am. I did adjust to that schedule. Of course it’s pretty easy to do so when rising that early leaves you tired by 9 PM and usually asleep by 10. But I have a different job now and have once again found myself staying up later and later and sleeping less and less. Now 3, 4 and 5 AM are becoming my norm for bedtime and 3-4 hours sleep has pretty much become the standard. I don’t know how I do it. I don’t know why I do it. But I do it regularly and I do it well. And yet, I fear my soul is slipping from this realm of flesh and light. My jaw has slackened, my vision blurred, my gaze has fixed ...
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Sometimes life just isn?t what it seems
2006-10-29 22:30:02
Photo by ucumari. It?s all about perception isn?t it? I mean life that is. We say that this day is going to last forever when at most it?s gonna last 24 hours. We say that time is dragging when in reality time proceeds unencumbered by the events of our daily lives. We wonder if this day will ever end knowing full well they all do? eventually. I have a pair of sunglasses that, every time I put them on, makes everything I see look brighter and more vivid. The blue sky is bluer, the green grass is greener, etc. Sometimes while looking through those glasses I find myself thinking, ?Man, what a gorgeous day!? Only to pull them off and see that it?s really quite overcast & gloomy. Yea, perception changes everything. So does hitting the cow you didn’t see on the road because you were too busy pulling your sunglasses off and on looking at the blue sky, gray sky, blue sky, gray sky… I bet that cow thought she was gonna live forever… till the front end of my car chang...
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Sometimes you just gotta throw leaves!
2006-10-28 11:24:01
Photo by Craig Lindner. When I was a kid I loved this time of year. My two fonded memories of fall in the Midwest were the sights and sounds of Friday night football (I could see the field from my yard) and throwing leaves! Throw ing leaves is a lost art to we adults. Me and my best friend Andy would spend an entire Saturday afternoon racking leaves only to end up throwing them all over the yard again. We would rack up the biggest pile of leaves we possibly could and then dive in! We would roll and laugh and kick and flail and then, covered in leaves and leave shrapnel, we would grab handfuls and just start throwing them for all we were worth. Why? Well, sometimes you just gotta throw leaves because you’re a kid and that’s what kids do. Other times it’s because Andy wanted to go home early so you hit him in the face with a handful because you were pissed he was leaving early again and so he blasts you back which pissed you off even more so you grab two handfuls an...
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An afternoon with the elderly
2006-10-28 05:21:01
Photo by Shari DeAngelo. Mrs. C and I spent Tuesday afternoon with some of her elderly relatives who we hadn’t seen in over 10 years. We had completely lost touch with them and decided it was time we reconnect. So Monday evening she says to me, “Let’s go see G & W tomorrow afternoon.” Now normally I would roll my eyes and mentally pictures 2-3 hours of my life slipping away listening to the tales of cousins I don’t even know but for some unknown reason I said, “Sure. Sounds good.” Huh? But it just felt right so yea, let’s do this. We arrive and after the perfunctory greetings: “My, my, how long has it been?” and “You look just like your Mother!” we were given the requisite elder relative directive to “Come sit at the table. We’ll have some coffee and talk.” Talk being elder relative code for you’ll listen. And never mind that you don’t drink coffee, today you’re ...
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Happy Anniversary!
2006-10-27 11:15:01
Photo by sonson. Well Looking for DB Cooper is one moth old today! And what a month it’s been. Many, many changes. Much growth. LOTS of new faces! Wow! Actually, now that I think about it, I can’t believe it’s only been 30 days. It feels like I’ve been at this forever. This post is going to be a mixed bag of thoughts and ideas, in no particular order. So here we go… my three blogs I already alluded to this in the comments of yesterday’s post, I gotta find the balance, but I have made my choice. The other sites are going to have to go, as separate entities, because I have decided to blog here exclusively. Maintaining three separate sites just wasn’t working for me. This site will still remain largely insipid and silly but you may see (and actually already have seen) the occasional ‘thinking’ piece from time to time. my new custom header & theme. I designed the header myself. What do you think? Very sharp even...
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I gotta find the balance
2006-10-26 17:09:01
Photo by CORpicX. This whole blogging thing has been a real education and it continues to be an object lesson in time management. If it seems as if I don’t comment as actively as I used to or don’t get around to all your blogs as frequently as I used to it’s because I don’t.  I find myself stretched a bit too thin it seems because, in addition to putting a modicum of effort into maintaining a personal life, I now have three separate blogs going at the same time!  What was I thinking? The other two, thankfully, are really one blog at two separate blogging services.  In other words, one mirrors the other so I only have to write one post for both blogs but I have separate readers at each service.  That blog (or those two in one) is the complete opposite of Looking for DB Cooper.  I view DB Cooper as my right-brain (creative) blog and my other site(s) as my left-brain (logical) blog. I love both sites, or all three depending on how you look at it.  They feed bo...
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If ignorance is bliss then why do ignorant people make me an
2006-10-26 05:06:02
Photo by chewmyhoop. Do words really need to be spoken here? Look at their happy smiling faces! I guess the best way to warm up on a cold wintry day is to visualize other human beings burning in hell. Ah… I feel warmer already. I’m apolitical. I feel the same way about politics that I do about sports and spiritually I would consider myself agnostic but have no problem with folks who have and practice a faith. But hate in the name of God is unfathomable to me. It makes this little brain of mine go tilt. I could rant on and on here but as you look one last time at the happy smiling faces of these two young ladies ask yourself this one question, What God do they worship? It’s like if there is a God I imagine he must be thinking, “Jesus, will you shut the F*CK up! No. not you Jesus. Them Jesus.”
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You know I was thinking? I think.
2006-10-24 17:00:02
Originally uploaded by Charles The Rocket. I’m tired. Bone tired. Do you ever wonder where the words and phrases we use come from? Like bone tired. I wonder who first thought of combining these two words, ‘bone’ and ‘tired’. And do you ever wonder if maybe, down through the years, we’ve drifted so far from the original meaning that if the person who originally coined (there’s another one) the phrase were to hear it they would say, “That’s not what I meant at all?” Kind of like the game telephone where… As many players as possible line up such that they can whisper to their immediate neighbors but not hear any players farther away. The player at the beginning of the line thinks of a phrase, and whispers it as quietly as possible to her/his neighbor. The neighbor then passes on the message to the next player to the best of his or her ability. The passing continues in this fashion until it reaches the player at t...
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How would you like to be this guys PR firm?
2006-10-23 04:57:01
As if George Michael wasn’t a PR train wreck already he decides to smoke a fattie (pun intended) during a recent interview in Spain! I can just see the post interview debriefing with the PR firm. I imagine it went something like this… GM: So what did you think of the interview? PR: Goerge, what were you thinking? GM: Oh bloody hell! You’re always riding my ass! PR: This is not going to poll well. GM: Well maybe I should have just smoked the poll instead. PR: Seriously George… just sing. Sometimes good copy just writes itself. Other times you just need to give it a little spin.
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sports suck
2006-10-23 04:57:01
For my readers (I’m not naming names - you know who you are) who are such hard-core sports fans that you just won’t shut up about it I offer this link and this post. Since you insist on talking sports, in spite of the fact that I’ve been staring at the ceiling for at least 3 days waiting for you to stop, I decided to give you a post where you can talk all the sports you want without disturbing the paying customers reading the other posts with your completely unrelated (and equally uninteresting) sports talk! Think of this post as the public restrooms here @ Looking for DB Cooper and you will begin to grasp the magnitude with which I detest sports! Go ahead, try to convince me otherwise!
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problem with WP site theme in IE 6.0
2006-10-21 10:51:02
Pay no mind to the cycling site themes today. I’m over at a friend’s house looking at my site on IE 6.0 and noticed it was reaking havoc on the header of my black & white theme, pulling the about, first & blogroll down under the Looking for DB Cooper title instead of lining them up along side and to the right of the site title. I can switch back anytime, I just wanted to try some different themes on this computer to see what they looked like in IE6.0. The formatting looked fine on my firefox & safari browsers at home. Did any of you notice any formatting problems with the black & white theme on your browsers?
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five DB Cooper myths debunked
2006-10-21 10:51:02
1. DB Coop er is my real name. The initials were incorrectly attributed to me by a reporter and just stuck. My real name is Dan but I’m used to being called DB now so you can keep calling me that. 2. I died jumping out of the plane. That’s just silly. I’m writing this aren’t I? 3. I survived the jump and disappeared. Well I did survive the jump but I didn’t disappear. Nobody can disappear. I wasn’t caught but I did not disappear. If I had I couldn’t be writing this now could I? 4. None of the money I took was ever recovered. Not true. I lost a little over 5 grand on the exit. Some family found it several years later I heard. 5. I’m a criminal. I prefer American folk hero. I stuck it to the man and got away with it. Bonus round: 6. Mine was the only unsolved plane hijacking in American aviation history. Okay. That one is true. It’s good to win.
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Can I be funny in 250 words or less?
2006-10-20 16:48:02
I decided to do some online (google) research today on effective blog writing. My inspiration came from a comment by one of my readers recently and by my own knowledge that I can be rather verbose at times. One of the tips I picked up, the one I’m going to discuss, was to limit your post to 250 words or less. The reasoning was to give the maximum amount of information with the least amount of words. Time is finite and people are infinitely busy. A long post is easier to forget and harder to get into. A short post is the opposite. I can see the wisdom in that and agree with the premise completely. However, the challenge for me is… can I be funny in 250 words or less? I’m not sure. I don’t know but I’ve decided to give it a try. So I’m reading the post at Plan 4, the one where Chad talks about the comedic parachute. This is a brilliant idea! Here’s how it works, you’re telling someone a joke, story or writing a blog post and yo...
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daddy, what was life like before there were blogs?
2006-10-20 04:48:04
Mrs. C and I were chatting yesterday afternoon about Shaymus’ comment on the post randoms 3 where he described this site as a hello blog. In case you missed it here is his comment… “… these blogs (hello blogs) rule because they mimic life and because they have a generic appeal… the hello people always go back to check on comments that answer their comments and others.” I told Mrs. C I’d never heard the phrase, ‘hello blog,’ before and she said, “That sounds just like the old bulletin boards we used to visit.” Bulletin boards or BBS’s as we called them were the OG blog. They predated the Internet. Actually the Internet killed them. It’s kind of like Wal-Mart moving into a small town and driving out all the ‘mom & pop’ stores. BBS’s just couldn’t compete with the Internet and gradually closed their doors. But back in the day they were the shat! You hosted a BBS on your comp...
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what the wiki?
2006-10-18 16:42:02
Here is further proof one should never read wikipedia when one is suffering from severe sleep deprivation: The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type or create a particular chosen text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. Note that almost surely in this context is a mathematical term with a specific meaning, and that the “monkey” is not an actual monkey; rather, it is a vivid metaphor for an abstract device that produces a large, random sequence of letters. The theorem graphically illustrates the perils of reasoning about infinity by imagining a vast but finite number. If every atom in the visible universe were a monkey producing a billion keystrokes a second from the Big Bang until today, it is still very unlikely that any monkey would get as far as “slings and arrows” in Hamlet’s most famous soliloquy. Ah Ha! It’s unlikel...
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in case you haven?t noticed?
2006-10-18 16:42:02
The place has a new look! Clean. Simple. Personally, I love it but you tell me what YOU think. Here are just a few of the changes: For those who are curious what I look like I’ve added my picture to the top of the sidebar. It’s not recent but it’s the only one available. The titles of the widgets in the sidebar have changed in keeping with the new theme of the site, which I’m calling lookn4dbc. They’re still very self-explanatory, just themed and different. The email address I’m using on the site has changed. If you need to reach me the new email address is lookn4dbc@gmail.com. At the bottom of the page you’ll find the 10 most recent posts from the RSS feeds of 3 of the (many) sites I track. The featured sites will change periodically. My blogroll can now be found in the header at the top of the page under the label accomplices. And last, but certainly not least, I’m toying with the idea of changing the name of the s...
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the nietzsche family circus
2006-10-18 16:42:02
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. WTF? You know, Nietzsche could talk some crazy ass shit when he was tweakin’! I pinched this idea from Laurie’s site moments ago. You can create your own Nietzche Family Circus here.
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in search of my people
2006-10-18 16:42:02
I scare most of the bloggers I visit. I really do. I don’t think they quite know what to think of me or how to respond to my comments a lot of the time. I mean, I’ll admit, I leave some crazy ass, off-the-wall comments out there. Maybe they think I’m just a 12 year old acting stupid or something. I don’t know. I do say a lot of stupid, stupid stuff (that I find completely hilarious). What’s a blogger to do? Don’t get me wrong, I can and do tailor my comments to fit the feel of the blog I’m visiting. If it’s a serious blog I post serious comments. But if it’s at all silly or light-hearted I hit the ground running. Maybe I need to throttle it back a bit. Take it down a notch or two. Or maybe I just need to keep searching until I find my people out there. I mean I know they’re out there, they have to be. It’s the Internet for god sakes! The place is crawling with crazies! Thanks to some input from tjotjog ...
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if god?
2006-10-18 16:42:02
if god read my blog would he lurk or leave comments? if god had a chain saw would he ever lose a finger? if god hated chickens would we still have eggs? if god had Internet access would he be a blogger? if god heard me would he still ignore me? if god hated disco why is it coming back? if god went to your school what table would he sit at? if god worked with you when would he bring birthday donuts? if god were a woman would it matter? if god hates gays why are there so many of them? if god loves me why doesn’t he call? What ‘if god…‘ questions do you have?
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it?s saturday the 14th
2006-10-18 16:42:02
I hope you are not superstit… what? You’re kidding me? Yesterday? Are you sure? Well crap that sucks! This post wouldn’t make any sense then would it? You’re sure it was yesterday? Okay. Never mind.
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