Joel Rodgers
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Graduate Student |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Introduction | I am like an idea: practically useless, except in theory. In other words, I've doomed myself to becoming a graduate student in English literature. Why? Because I like talking to myself when I'm alone, and writing academic articles is pretty much the same thing. |
| Interests | Renaissance literature, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Charles Williams, science fiction, fantasy, politics and literature, ethics and moral philosophy, "Great Books", great television shows, academic writing and composition |
| Favorite movies | American Beauty, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, Zoolander, Casablanca, Thank you for Smoking, The Last Unicorn, eXistenZ, All About Eve |
| Favorite music | Sarah Slean, Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Snow Patrol, Sarah Harmer, Feist, Postal Service, Gonzales, Regina Spektor, Billie Myers |
| Favorite books | Dante's Commedia, Shakespeare's complete works, Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander, Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, George MacDonald's Lilith, Machiavelli's Prince, Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Charles Williams' All Hallows' Eve, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Plato's Republic, Plato's Symposium, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Fables comic books |
Your superpower is that you smell like dandelions whenever someone lies. How will you maintain your secret identity?
Obviously, I must establish myself as an employee in a department store garden centre, pushing daisies and dandelions.