Married for 14 years and living joyfully in sin for another five years before that, Beast (Tomás) and Bean (Christine) reside in Burbank, California (Toluca Lake if you wanna church it up a bit) with their gifted, bilingual cats Diego and Nigella and their newborn daughter, Greta. Tomás and Christine love movies, music, knitting, sewing, reading, screenwriting, board games and Tivo.
Big fans of hearty, drive-all-night road trips, together they have trekked from the shadows of the Oregon Vortex and it’s California cousin, the Mystery Spot, to the hillbilly splendor of Dollywood and Loretta Lynn’s Coal Miner’s Daughter Museum in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.
Whether they are watching awkwardly choreographed Revolutionary War reenactments in North Carolina, eating shrimp and grits in haunted, Civil War-era plantations in Charleston, South Carolina or pushing through the pearly gates of Graceland, Tomás, Christine and baby Greta always take time to enjoy the sites, smells and awesome local flavors of wherever it is they find themselves.
This is their often Tums-worthy story…
12 Comments
August 30, 2007 at 5:59 am
LOL! I couldn’t have described you better myself! I can’t wait to read more about what you make, see, eat and do. (Hey, I just got that!)
October 11, 2007 at 4:12 am
Wow! Have you really been together that long? 2007 – 17 years = 1990. I just did the math and it’s true. Next week will be 18 years since the ‘89 Quake. Seems like yesterday. PS Love the website. Keep it coming.
October 24, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Woah, you had a busy night! Five blog entries in one day. That’s a record!
January 3, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Dang dude, open the floodgates, why don’t you? What is this, 6 posts in a single night? You broke your record of five from last October!
March 21, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Hi Beast-
Crazy how I wound up here… I was checking out your Flickr pics of your trip to our beautiful Santa Fe and was enthralled by your pictures. They are awesome! I am re-designing our website http://www.dongaspar.com and was wondering if I could use a couple of your SF pics? Of course I will give you credit.
And by the way, how did you get any work done?? You guys were tourists like crazy!
Please let me know. Otherwise it was a joy to check out your Flickr stuff….
Tracey
May 29, 2008 at 11:03 am
Hello! I like your blog and i want to exchange links with you! Would you like exchange witn me?? I have movie blog too.
Sorry for posting here, i coudnt find your email on the site.
Waiting for answer.
June 8, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Love the new update to your blog with more comments showing up in the “Recent Comments” sidebar. Right on! Now I won’t feel totally out of the loop if I miss reading your blog for a day or two. (Yes, believe it or not, this does happen sometimes. I know…so sad for me….)
October 9, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Hello,
My name is Kelley and I am the marketing manager here at goldstar.com. I hope you are doing well. I recently discovered your blog and noticed that you have directed people to Goldstar for half price tickets in the past. Thanks very much for the mention! As I’m sure you already know the goal at Goldstar is to provide fun, affordable offers to live entertainment events that will get people to go out more often. We like to recognize sites like yours that are also improving the live entertainment experience for others.
We have a few prizes for you in honor of this recognition, please email me at your earliest convenience to find out more details.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Best regards,
Kelley
October 11, 2008 at 1:14 am
I never got a goldstar comment! grrrr
February 9, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Awesome blog! Added to my blogroll, especially because you guys like Radiohead :p
September 12, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Hi Tomas and Christine,
May I say that your site quote “The world just seems more alive at night, it’s like God ain’t looking..” is the best one Ive read to this date! Hilarious!
Anyhow, I thought I may interest you on a FREE Kelly Clarkson concert. I’m writing to you on behalf of Samsung Summer Krush concert series, an exclusive music tour featuring well-known musical acts, designed to provide attendees with private concerts and FREE tickets, is now down to it’s FINAL show.
Indie rock band, The Lives of Famous Men, and the winner of Samsung Opening Band Act, will perform followed by Samsung Summer Krush featured artist, Kelly Clarkson.
September 14th, 2009
6:00 PM
Central Courtyard
Hollywood & Highland
My goal in contacting you is to see if you’d like to let your readers know about this tour. We could also arrange a give-away for a pair of PRIORITY access tickets, for your readers, for the L.A. tour.
Your readers can register for FREE tickets here:
http://youcastcorp.com/samsung/go/
- Click on Los Angeles
- Enter email, phone, and use LA2 promo code
Let me know what you think!
Cheers,
Mary Ann
September 14, 2009 at 11:15 am
Hey Mary Ann!
Thanks so much for the head’s up! I don’t know about my readers, but my wife, daughter and I will do what we can to make the concert tonight!
If any of you locals wanna join us, give us a call!