Who Is DobraWorks?

DobraWorks is me, Jack Prague, a freelance writer, traveler, drinker, eater, reader, and occasional magician. I enjoy geeking out, senseless simile, and getting obsessive over minutia. I also dig on finding the cheap thrills in offbeat food, pulp entertainment, and other good works. In short, "I'm just this guy, you know?"


PRIME STATS

Gender: Male
Astrological Sign: Sagittarius
Occupation: Freelance Writer, Head Guy
Dislikes: Bullies, Natto, Mayonaise, Portishead
Location: Born and raised in greater Boston, MA. Currently residing in Venice, CA

INTERESTS

Chefery, Eating, Writing, Reading, Movies, Television, Travel, World Peace

FAVORITE MOVIES

Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Spaceballs, Dark Crystal, The Goonies, The Labyrinth, Spider-Man II, Superman II, Being John Malkovitch, American Beauty, Star Trek the Motion Picture, Star Trek IV, Star Trek II, Re-Animator, Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, The Empire Strikes Back, Tromeo and Juliet, Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Explorers, The Matrix, Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Mindwalk, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 2001, The Shining, Vertigo, Rear Window, When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, Grosse Pointe Blank, Groundhog Day, North By Northwest, It Happened One Night, The Corporation, Total Recall, Blade Runner, Good Will Hunting, The Room, Darkman, Shaun of the Dead ...

FAVORITE MUSIC

The Beatles, The Ramones, The Cars, Beck, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Bjork, Del the Funky Homosapien, Dave Brubeck, Daft Punk, The Rolling Stones, Bill Withers, William "Bill" Shatner, The Box Sets ...

FAVORITE BOOKS

Childhood's End, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Great Glass Elevator, Robinson Crusoe, My Side of the Mountain, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Time Traveler's Wife, Stories by O. Henry, Aesop's Fables, The Chronicles of Narnia, Einstein's Dreams ...

FAVORITE QUOTES

"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."
     - Joseph Heller (Catch 22, 1961)

"One kid said he had the key to all my books and he put it in a sentence. He said, 'Love may fail but courtesy will prevail.' Love does fail all the time, you know, and it makes people vicious."
     - Kurt Vonnegut

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
     - Albert Einstein

"When all else fails, there's always delusion."
     - Conan O'Brien

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."
     - Albert Einstein

"...but as they say, don't expect a different result from doing the same thing."
     - Bob Fleischer

"A man's past criple's him. His background turns into a swamp and invite's scrutiny."
     - Paulberer, Being There

(Looking in the mirror) “Now there’s a reliable disappointment…"
     - Harvey Pekar, American Splendor


Lisa Simpson: "Isn't there any way to change the future?"
Fortune Teller: "No. But try to look surprised!"
     - The Simpsons: "Lisa's Wedding"

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