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topcat -> a different cat- (7/1/2004 6:08:55 PM)
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My name is Lawrence, and that generally what people call me, except for the ones that call me Ramón or Kurt, for reasons I have failed to gather. "topcat" is in rememberance of a friend and mentor in the scene who in a drunken disscussion told me- "it's OK- you're a top sorta cat", which we fuond hysterical (ya hadda be there).
I smoke just about enough, and drink more coffee than I should. I read voraciously and spell terribly. I ride a motorcycle every day, cept when it snows (when I just stay home). I have vast and wildly unsubstantiated opinions on subjects that I am completely unaware of.
In my youth I traveled as a iterate Buddhist missionary among the peoples of the American south, in later years I traveled among the people of South America in the pay of shadowy figures obsessed with pre-Christian iconography. I have sunk ships, wrecked cars and broken hearts. I have screwed the inscrutable, and gleamed the sphere. I sing rather well, which surprises me. I can tie a cherry stem in a bowline with my tongue. I will play a Dylan or Tom Waits CD on repeat, day and night, till strangers come to my house and make me stop. I am disturbed by the resemblance my landlord has to a gummy bear. I work shirtless in the hot sun till my body gleams with sweat. I shoot a consistent three-inch group at ten meters with a pistol, and three hundred meters with a rifle. I am always the first to hear, and the last to know.
I drink big bright blue fruity margaritas (in a pint glass) and pull it off. (I'm the slightly bashed up guy in full leathers at the end of the bar with the girly drink- you gonna give ME a hard time<g>).
I served From 81-85 in the USMC [Sgt./ E-5] and was on the ground in Columbia, Norway, Beirut, and Granada.
I can generally teach a bird, Dog, Cat or Horse a new trick within two hours of having met it.
I have lived in NY, Nice, Marrakesh, Kyoto, SF, Galveston, and Panama.
I have ridden a motorcycle from NY to Key West, Caribou Maine, and San Diego (not all in the same day<g>) and from France to Morocco.
I'd like to take this moment to thank those who's participation here has enriched my life and broadened my horizons. Thank you.
Stay warm,
Lawrence
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