Jim OLeary
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Cult Icon/Chick Magnet/Owner of 2 NFL Teams/Cosmic Interloper/Sinister Tycoon/Curator of the Universal Mustard Museum/U.N. Translator for Outer Mongolia and merely a humble soul saving all salvation |
| Location | The hustle and bustle of Chicago and the meandering beauty of Lake Geneva, Somewhere within the outskirts of Will-inois, a radical new State formed to represent a bunch of us folks teetering back and forth between the illustrious landscapes of Illinois and Wisconsin, United States |
| Introduction | I am just your average, ordinary 45 year old who has a huge passion for writing. Sure, I am proud to be Irish, thru and thru, but that just comes with the territory of being naturally brewed from fine stock out of the South-Side of Chicago. Maybe you remember me as a Crusader or maybe as a Blue Demon or possibly just as the crazy kid hanging around from 86th Street. But I have had an amazing journey thru life that really remains somewhat of a mystery to most. In reality, a great number of people only know about 5% of what has transpired during my life...Here is your chance to catch up on the other 95% you would have never known... Enjoy, I guarantee ...You will not be disappointed. Oh yeah, there are plenty of surprises ahead, some good and some bad, but more importantly, you just may come away with a whole new perspective on life thru my life experiences and all of the people who were an amazing part of it all. |
| Interests | Turning on my Rancilio Silvia espresso machine and cranking out the best lattes known to mankind... Watching Sports in HD...(I'm usually always rooting for the underdog) but right now, I have got Bucks & Blackhawks fever, too...... Learning YOGA & meditation, which has been great. Yukking it up on the phone, with great friends. Chilling on the web about the Milwaukee Bucks & other stuff, with my cool cyber buds. Watching Family Guy & Modern Family on TV(hilarious). E-mailing friends & family, all kinds of radically funny stuff like the legend of Fuji Bobo. Fantasy Football, Fantasy Basketball. I've recently won a grand in golf pools winning 8 of the last 11 major PGA tournaments (an astonishing feat including recent Master & US Open & PGA Championship victories (one by Angel Cabrera on 4/12/09) and one by Lucas Glover (6/22/09) and Y.E. Yang on (8/16/09) I like to play the Powerball Lotto when it gets up around $100 million and over. I do have some crazy luck come my way every now and then so I enter alot of sweepstakes & contests for the heck of it. Currently, I just launched my own, ultra-cool, web site, on May 9th 2009, www.wobblybridge.net, which I am very excited about. I also, very much, enjoy soaking up the atmosphere as I stare out at beautiful Lake Geneva. It definitely has a healing & soothing spirit within its soul. I'm a fast food junkie whether it is pizza, gyros or KFC or Taco Bell or any kind of burger joint...Don't forget my obssession with coffee too... I mostly like Spring and Autumn. My ideal day is 60 to 75 degrees with clouds in and out...I love living in the sleepy little town of Williams Bay Wisconsin... ...and I hope for a happy & healthy future for everybody and wish everyone enjoys these blogs and memoirs and web site as much as I do--recalling all of the precious moments that might have just slipped away...and much, much, more |
| Favorite movies | The Sting, Scarface, Jaws, Shrek, The Dirty Dozen, The Quiet Man, Goodfellas, Animal House, Rollerball(70's), The French Connection, Any Marx Brothers flick, North by Northwest, I like the two Star Wars movies with Jabba the Hut, Clint Eastwood Westerns, The Deer Hunter, Yankee Doodle Dandy, It's A Wonderful Life, Planes&Trains&Automobiles, Baby Mama, Elf, Groundhog Day, Summer Rental, Spies Like Us, Funny Farm. Basically any Bill Murray movie except Scrooged, The Great Escape, On The Waterfront, Let's face it, I could easily name a bunch of movies(I feel like Siskel & Ebert now) that are totally awesome in my books...like Saving Private Ryan, Slapshot, The Roaring Twenties, Carrie, Halloween, Dumb and Dumber, Anger Management, One Flew Over/Cukoos Nest, Rio Bravo, Joe Versus The Volcano, The Sons of Katie Elder, The Passion of the Christ(a compelling masterpiece but I don't think I could ever see that again), The Great Race, The Posideon Adventure, Stalag 17, Mister Hobbs Takes a Vacation, all of the James Bond films and on and on and on!!!. I'd honestly have to say that I remember almost every single memorable piece of dialogue spoken in both---The Quiet Man starring John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara and The Great Race with Jack Lemmon/Peter Falk/Natilie Wood/Tony Curtis, which I realize is somewhat dubious & bizarre...but I think almost all of us have some of our own all-time favorite movies like that--where we can be totally be swept away--watching them over and over--again and again--hanging on to every word spoken...I guess when it all boils down to it, that's the mystery and magic of movies. |
| Favorite music | U2, The Who, The Clash, John Cougar Mellencamp, Kevin Wood (incredibly good), the whole New Age movement, Sheryl Crowe, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Tom Petty, 80's new wave stuff, Pretenders, Redwalls, Jimmy Buffet, Fridrik Karlsson, The Police, Pink Floyd, David Tasse'(jazz), very early R.E.M., Black Jack Rover, Newsboys, Coldplay, The Best of the Crater Boys(Hawaiian), Springsteen, early Van Halen, (Chicago Blues Legend)Eddie Clearwater, The Cars, Adrian Belew's Big Electric Cat, Doors, Bob Marley, Pure 70's, Grand Reaction, B.B. King, Don Ho, Talking Heads, AC/DC, Neil Young, Flight of the Valkaries(opera), Cranberries, Santana, David Bowie, Journey, Dire Straits, Dead Kennedys version of Viva Las Vegas, Supertramp, George Thoroughgood, Bob Segar, John Denver, INXS, John Fogarty, Enya, The Corrigan Brothers-There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama, Blue Oyster Cult, Gordon Lightfoot, Brittney Spears(only kidding), early Aerosmith, Eagles, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Estefan, Don McClean, UFO, Warren Zevon, Olde-time faves around Christmas including Bing Crosby, Andy Williams, Dean Martin & Boney M(Carribean) & Kenny G(mellow jazz) & The Makaha Sons(Hawaiian) & The Cazimero Brothers(Hawaiian) & Paddy Noonan's Christmas Time In Ireland, and finally, rocking out to the ultimate jam-fest--The Best of Jim O'Leary--Ultimate Wobbly Jams(only available in the U.K./Japan/Williams Bay), simply had to be added to the list... |
| Favorite books | Trinity, Hunt for Red October, Angela's Ashes, Joseph Campbell's Pathways to Bliss, The Contender (a great story about boxing I read back when I was 13), the wild & tragic John Belushi & Jim Morrison biographies...An amazing book about famous Arctic explorer-Knud Rassmussen- which remains one of my all-time best from years ago. The Russian Revolution of 1905-a historical look back in time-very fascinating. I did get about 15 pages into Harry Potter-recently. That was more than enough for me.....As you can tell-not exactly the most avid reader-lately...But who knows what lies on the horizon...I may just try to pick up that old James Joyce classic Ulysses and embark on an incoherent maze thru the early 1920's streets and pubs of Dublin...or even challenge my senses with the wondrous words of the mysterious Doctor Fuji Bobo who melds the mind into nub-less numbness... |
The wicked backspin caught you off guard. How will you play it off without losing your footing?
I don't know tennis, but hey, life is pretty much like a walk on a wobbly bridge. Sometimes you fall off & sometimes you hold on. You've gotta realize that each and every step is not only potentially brutal but also extremely precious-well worth the struggle & efforts. So, the only question here is-Why don't you take the next step forward, very slowly & very surely, on the wobbly, wobbly bridge?