* Last updated January 14th 2010 - Now that 2009 is done, it has been the ROUGHEST year of my life. Starting a business in the middle of a global recession is .... challenging to say the least. Mary Ellen and I survived... barely. Somehow we are still in business.

2009 was an abysmal year for reading. You can take a look at my paltry 2009 list. I guess all things considered it could have been worse, but compared to my 2008 list, it makes me sad.

CURRENT BOOK: "U is for Undertow" Almost done with this unique and fascinating new Kinsey Milhone story. Let us see if 2010 turns out better.

For anyone who wants to contact me, my email address is wayne*hazle5@aol.com {just remove the * . I really don't want to get added to any junk mail lists.}

Follow me on Twitter: waynehazle or on Facebook: waynehazle (or the business on Maaco North Hills Friends)

I can't believe that Maaco North Hills is in it's second year of operation!

 

 
Elain Elizabeth Hazle Memorial

it has now been 5 years since we lost Elain. It is still quite hard for us all. We can't wait till the day that we see Elain again in the resurrection promised by Jehovah God and Jesus Christ.


This section is a tribute to my sister Elain who passed away on August 8th 2004. As much as I love my travel pictures, this isthe most cherished and important part of my entire site.

I urge everyone to go to it.

From all of The Hazle Family
INDIANA JONES


So now Indy 5 is coming. I can only hope this one is a bit better...

WORLD TRAVEL


Travel has become a great passion of mine. Not going and sitting on a beach in some resort but exotic world travel. This probably comes from seeing each of the Indiana Jones movies at least fifty times. My new Indy Jones page will be up and running soon. My first trip abroad was in 1994. It was one of those marathon 3 week trips through Europe. I went with Cosmos Tours. We did London, Lucerne, Lugano, Venice, Pisa, Florence, Rome, Sorrento and Capri.

It was years later, June 2001, on the spur of the moment that wanderlust boiled in me, till I couldn't take it. I decided to go to Cambodia to see Angkor Wat and The Killing Fields. In April 2002 I went to Northern India. I went to Delhi, Varanasi, Agra, Ranthambhore and Jaipur. All I will say is the Taj Mahal is everything you could imagine and more!

In November/December 2003, my wife Mary Ellen and Iwent to the International Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses in Santiago, Chile. We also stopped in Peru to see Lima, Cuzco and Machu Picchu. In May 2004 we took a cruise to Alaska with the Princess Curise lines. In October 2005, we did the greatest adventure ever: as East African Safari!

May of 2007, we went to Spain, primarily the southern cities of Seville, Cordoba & Granda. Pictures and video coming soon

To read and see pictures, go to My Travel Page.

JAGUAR FILMS


I have been a screenwriter for years now. In 1998 I started my own production company, Jaguar Films. I wrote produced and directed a contemporary version of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart". It was one of five films chosen as part of the Showtime Black Filmmaker Showcase. Read about my project "The Pen". Check out the site: Jaguar Films.

My screenplay, "Vagabond" just won the Grand Prize of the Black Hollywood Education Resource Center Screenwriting Contest! Please ask me about it :)

 

MOTORCYLE

   

In 1999 I bought a Honda Valkyrie Interstate. Read how I got to this point and more on motorcycles. Valk Page (This page has not been updated since its creation in 2003.)

MARRIAGE

  

May 11th 2002 I joined the ranks of married men.. My Wedding Pictures Site contains the best pictures from that day.

May 11th 2009 made 7 years of marriage.

 

TV

12/30/2009 I have not made a TV page in a while but there are a lot of great shows happening now.

BOOKS - 2008 reading List

Meeting Sue Grafton Met Sue Grafton at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena 12/11/2007

2007 was a landmark year for reading. I fufilled a longtime goal from college to read a book a month for a year. In total I read 16 books in 2007! The highlights were the Sue Grafton books "S" & "T" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns", but everything I read was great. 2007Reading list.

2008 was also an amazing year. I read NINETEEN and 1/2 books (OK, I could not finish LA Noir) . 2008 Readling List. The highlight were probably Honeymoon With My Brother, the 2008 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses and the magnificent short stories in Unaccustomed Earth.

Check out many books I hae read over my lifetime on this great book sharing site, Shelfari . http://www.shelfari.com/o1516914664 is my profile.

email me at: wayne*hazle5@aol.com (remove the * )

Misc Bio:

Short bio: Born June 1, 1967 in Kingston Jamaica. Became a US citizen in the late 1990s). Grew up in Montclair NJ. Attended the Montclair High School, 1981- 1985. University of Pennsylvania majoring in Computer Science Engineering 1985 - 1989. Married Mary Ellen Pugh May of 2002.

Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, WA1989 - 1996. AOL in Newport Beach & irvine 1996 - 2003. Pioneer Digital Electronics 2003 - 2005. QA Manager at Sustain Technologies, a division of The Daily Journal, from 2005 to 2006. QA Manager at iFilm & then SpikeTV 2006 - 2008.

In April 2008 I left Spike and started work on opening my own Maaco franchise